Sexual addiction nearly killed me.  Because of the pain of childhood sexual abuse, I attached to the pleasure of masturbation.  It didn't take long for me to develop a pattern:  any feeling of pain triggered a compulsion to seek sexual pleasure.  This constant pre-occupation with sex brought a lot of shame.  The shame drove me to strive to prove to others that I was okay.  The perfect student, a competent worker, a self-righteous minister... these...

Young people do drugs for a number of reasons. Some are related to their own inner challenges, some are related to the messages they get from the culture we live in, others are related to the messages that they get from significant others in their lives, and last but not least, the environment that they live in can be a contributing factor. It can often be complicated unraveling the interaction of influences that send a young person down the path of abusing substances but the four...

With drug abuse so widespread, the choices for " target="_self" drug addiction treatment are overwhelming.  The key to successful drug rehab is finding the right program which focuses on the individual.  So many times, drug rehab programs take a “one size fits all” approach to treatment.  That’s simply not an effective way to start the journey to recovery and seldom results in continued sobriety.

There are several aspects that will determine the...

An addiction is like a heavy yoke placed on their shoulders. It takes away your happiness, love, steals your money and affects you personal development. Therefore, one way of effective living and improving your personal growth is to do away with any kind of addiction.

Drugs are not the only things you can be hook up on, but it ranges from things you cannot do without, either by watching, touching, doing or taking into your body. These things always end up affecting your living...

If the young people particularly teenager start drinking, then they have more chances to become addicted to alcohol at some point in their life. A research reveals that people who start drinking before the age of 15 have 40% more risk of becoming alcoholic. Young drinkers will eventually get the problem of alcoholism. A self test for teenage people to determine whether they have the problem of alcoholism or not is given below:

1. Have you lost your school time due to...

Have you ever wanted to change some parts about you but just can't seem to break the habit? For instance, you smoke, but you know it's bad for you. What about phobias? Do you have any - it could be fear of public speaking, making friends, spiders, heights...anything. There is always at least one situation we dread but we wished we didn't.

With Mind Zoom, you can start to change all these because the techniques used here is proven, effective, and scientific.

Basically, Mind...

Everybody knows the importance of giving up the habit of smoking.  There have been one too many campaigns and advertisements increasing human awareness of the harmful effects of smoking throughout the years.  There are more and more discoveries about the harmful effects of smoking.  Both directly and indirectly, smoking has been known to cause sickness and death in smokers and worse yet, it causes ailments and risks in the lives of the people that surround them.  In...

Sadly, the answer to this question is almost always ‘no’ because gamblers rarely admit to being able to stop gambling. So many gamblers are deeply addicted to online gambling and completely powerless to stop yet insist they are not addicted, claiming to have a healthy hobby which they enjoy and which they are able to control.

This is not the case and many online gamblers are deep in debt and unable to concentrate on work, family commitments or anything of importance...

When we think of the word addiction we usually think of the obvious ones like food, alcohol, drugs, gambling, TV, spending, work, sex, etc., but many people are not aware of the more subtle addictions. These addictions are often so covert and pervasive that they are invisible to us. Yet these subtle addictions may have a negative impact on us, sabotaging our professional and/or personal relationships as well as our lives on a daily basis. Many people are aware of the fact that...

Non-traditional alcoholism treatment methods have always recognized that 12 Step models work for some individuals but not for most, at least not for very long. The problem is that nothing else seems to either. Designing effective treatment for individuals turns out to be a complicated business that must take into account many variables in ways that don’t easily lend themselves to any particular model. As a result most programs offer little beyond "don’t drink, go to...