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Addiction is the act of compulsively consuming a substance or doing an action over and over to alleviate anxiety or stress.

Watching pain: How to deal with someone who can't/won't help themselves (addiction, bereavement)

05 Sep 2019

When someone in our lives is struggling, it causes within each of us a particular reaction. Some of us will seek to ‘save’, some w ...

Letting go of controlling behaviours

23 Jan 2019

Dieting, the consumption or overconsumption of food and restructured understanding of what food represents can enable some anxiety ...

Alcohol and your mental health

16 Mar 2017

St. Patrick’s Day, the day where everyone wears green and becomes a little bit Irish. Whether you call him St. Paddy, St. Pat or Lá ...

Sex addiction, symptoms, cause, effects

09 Aug 2016

Sex addiction can result in many complex and serious challenges, not only for the sufferer but for their partners and families. The ...

Substance addiction

03 Aug 2016

We might think that substance addiction is a sign of weakness or a lack of willpower, but this is not the case. Addiction can affec ...

Addiction

15 Sep 2015

“When an individual persists in use of alcohol or other drugs despite problems related to use of the substance, substance dependence ...


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