The Addict’s Family Needs as Much Help as the Addict Even if you’ve never done anything addictive in your life, if you love a person with an addiction, addiction is your problem, too. When an addiction takes over a person, it takes over a relationship. The people in the relationship disappear and the needs ofContinue reading “The Addict’s Family Needs as Much Help as the Addict”
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The Road to Reconciliation: Get out of the middle of the picture
Let’s say you are deeply disappointed in your mother, who never was the mother you needed her to be when you were a child. You want to get past this because, after all, you’re not a child anymore, right? The story, as you tell it, goes like this: My mother divorced my father when IContinue reading “The Road to Reconciliation: Get out of the middle of the picture”
The Shrink’s Links: Poetry Genius
Bringing you the best of mental health and relationship articles on the internet. Today’s link from the shrink is: Poetry Genius A great site if you love poetry, don’t understand it, or can’t resist telling everyone what your interpretation is. See the annotations that people leave. In this link is the poem by Philip Larkin Continue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Poetry Genius”