Blog Entries tagged 'Childhood roles'

Enablers for alcoholic women

kenandjody@comcast.net — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:22:47 +0100

For alcoholic women there is usually one primary enabler. This is typically a high functioning husband, a wealthy father, or a boss who spreads the work the alcoholic doesn't do among many other workers. In time these dysfunctional enablers are sucked into the alcoholism vortex because alcoholism is a disease that is progressive. It creeps into systems slowly overmany years. As the alcoholic gradually declines in functional capacity others, in terribly subtle ways, take [...]

Healthy relationships, how to.

kenandjody@comcast.net — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 06:52:10 +0100

One key measure used by health professionals to determine how well a person "works" as a human being is to determine how well that person has succeeded in forming and maintaining long-term healthy loving relationships with other people.

The primary determinant for this ability lies in the quality of the relationships formed and maintained by your parents in your family of origin, so if you were raised in a dysfunctional family rife with addictions, then you are starting this p [...]

Childhood Roles in Addiction

kenandjody@comcast.net — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:55:33 +0100

I will flesh out my description of the disease process as it relates to childhood with some concepts long accepted now among program people about the roles typically played by children in alcoholic homes. This section is to describe predictable roles of children in addictive homes, and I include it here with the certainty that many readers will have that "...been there, donethat" experience!

The roles are:

The class clown draws atten [...]