Year: 2015

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Year: 2015

Top Apps for Addiction and Recovery

Recovery

It seems there truly is an app for everything, including those designed just for people struggling with addiction. Whether you are trying to moderate your drinking, overcome a food addiction,…

Alexithymia Further Diminishes Lives of People With Alcoholism

Articles>Early Recovery

The presence of alexithymia (a poor ability to identify emotions or tell the difference between various emotional states) may help predict a reduced quality of life in people affected by…

Eating Disorders Can Disguise Themselves as Healthy Weight Loss

Articles>Eating Disorders

We now understand that people suffering from eating disorders do not have to fit the severely underweight stereotype associated with anorexia nervosa. Unfortunately, this means that it can be even…

Don’t Worry About Whether Sex Addiction Is ‘Real’—Just Get Help

Articles>Mental Health

There is a debate raging about whether sexual addiction is a “real” addiction. Skeptics say that there is little peer-reviewed scientific evidence in support of sex addiction and that some…

Study Finds Link between Eating Disorders and Adult-Onset Diabetes

Articles>Addiction Research

A new study has uncovered a link between eating disorders and the development of adult-onset diabetes, providing evidence that impulse control issues and depression may lead to an increased likelihood…

Bipolar Disorder: Struggling with Aggression

Articles>Mental Health

Bipolar disorder is a serious mood disorder that can make a person feel like they are on an emotional roller-coaster ride. The illness is treatable with a combination of medication,…

Mindfulness Can Help Treat Sex Addiction

Articles>Sex Addiction

Mindfulness is the widely accepted term for a meditative practice designed to increase moment-to-moment awareness and thereby generate an increased sense of well-being. Numerous studies support the usefulness of this…

How to Have a Sober St. Patrick’s Day

Recovery

St. Patrick’s Day is supposed to be a holiday to celebrate the saint who, they say, drove the snakes from Ireland. It has long been a day of particularly rowdy…

Gambling Addicts Motivated by Big Financial Rewards

Articles>Addiction Research

People diagnosed with gambling disorder are much more likely to prefer gambling situations that provide large financial rewards in return for a heightened level of risk, a new study has…

Quitting Smoking Boon to People in Alcohol Treatment

Articles>Addiction Research

Many alcohol treatment programs avoid addressing smoking-related issues for fear of interrupting their primary treatment goals. But in a study published in September 2014 in the journal Psychological Medicine, researchers…

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Year: 2015

Year: 2015

Top Apps for Addiction and Recovery

Alexithymia Further Diminishes Lives of People With Alcoholism

Eating Disorders Can Disguise Themselves as Healthy Weight Loss

Don’t Worry About Whether Sex Addiction Is ‘Real’—Just Get Help

Study Finds Link between Eating Disorders and Adult-Onset Diabetes

Bipolar Disorder: Struggling with Aggression

Mindfulness Can Help Treat Sex Addiction

How to Have a Sober St. Patrick’s Day

Gambling Addicts Motivated by Big Financial Rewards

Quitting Smoking Boon to People in Alcohol Treatment

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Year: 2015

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Connect with The Ranch Tennessee

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