One of the dominant ways of thinking about addiction is as a disease. While there is evidence for this approach, it often ...

Addiction is one of those things that shakes an entire family, not just the person going through it. When the one struggling is your sibling, the bond makes it even more personal. You want to protect ...

Dingle and colleagues explored the influence of addiction and addiction treatment on identity. They interviewed 21 people in a treatment community and found two distinct pathways, from pre-addiction ...

Sometimes, your autonomic nervous system becomes dysregulated, leaving you in a state of chronic stress with uncomfortably high cortisol levels. You may not even realize how stressed you are, but your ...

It can be challenging to love someone who has an addiction—painful to observe their loss of control and accruing harm, painful to experience the “disappearance” of the person you care about, and ...

Have you ever found yourself chasing tight deadlines, juggling multiple tasks, or feeling anxious even when there is nothing urgent? You might be caught in a cycle of stress addiction, which many ...

Many people think that masturbation is something not to worry about but in the real sense, it can be a bad addiction. Just like a drunkard who fools himself that he is not addicted to alcohol, people ...

Love comes in all shapes and sizes. Here’s how to spot the most maladaptive and debilitating form. Love addiction, also known as affective dependence, is a condition where an individual develops an ...

Claudia credits a nurse and counselor at Silberstein, Anthony Arpaia, as her guardian angel. With a desire to help others and have some direction in her life, she decided to become an EMT. Now an EMT ...