Monthly Archives: January 2021

Is There Hope of Preventing or Curing Addiction?

One of my graduate students says, “Please don’t ever set that assignment again.” I am surprised at the anger that my assignment has roused. The course was ‘Stress Management’ - aiming to give self-analysis, coping skills and particularly to acquaint and align students with stress models and encourage them to construct new stress models.

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The Worst Year of My Life

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2020 was in many ways challenging, but it pales in comparison to 2006 and the early part of 2007. In 2006, I was trapped in an increasingly destructive cycle of self-sabotage and increasing psychological dependence on alcohol, combined with acute anxiety, chronic depression,

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