Hi Guys,
I want to post a link of a very nice website which provides the whole picture of the addiction. (the disease model, post-acute withdrawel, recovery and relapse prevention skills i.e..). I benefited from this site alot in early days of my recovery. It gave me quite some perspective of what i was really going through.
The link is;
http://www.addictionsandrecovery.org/index.html
Reading people's experiences definitely something very useful. But reading the literature about the science of addiction is also very very useful. There are thousands of experts working on this area for many many years and may be over millions of people. I think, we should make benefit of the findings of this whole culture.
I will try to post some links and articles time to time and I hope some people will benefit from these.
All the best to everyone,
Marijuana Addiction Forum
Wednesday 15 December 2010
Addiction Recovery Advice
Here I attach a pdf of a book which is written by 4 experts of the area. They introduce the Cognitive Behavioural Thearapy approach for the addiction recovery. It's a little old dated (1993) but still has lots of very useful information. To my very basic knowledge, cognitive therapy suppose that our every behavioral/emotional act (like going for a smoke) is always based on an underlying thought process (we may or may not be aware of the process). And what it propose is "we should change/recode the underlying thought process to change the behavior". So, it gives the main effort to recode/change the underlying thoughts instead of trying to change the behavior.
Recoding the brain really seems to the path to the success in my opinion. There shouldn't be any holes in our brains which will lead us to relapse. Because addiction is something too powerful that it will take root even from the unconcious thoughts which we are not aware of. And i believe that reading is the only way to recode our brains. Reading the same materials again and again, until it settles completely in our neurons. (and never completely settles actually, so it should be a continuing process). Recovering from addiction is really something requiring a continous study on ourselves. Because the core of the addiction is our brain and restructuring it is the only way to success.
I don't want to be pessimistic, but i'm just really very dissappointed by the success rates for recovering addicts. So, we must be the "chosen ones" to achieve complete recovery. Which means putting an ordinary effort will never give us what we want. I now realize that, staying sober is the hardest part but building a new life over it is the real challenge. Otherwise, if nothing changes in our lives, the reasons that put us on the lap of addiction can do the same again.
But it's also very exiting to be able to create a new life. We will be free and we can give any direction that we want to our lives. And when the cognitive abilities and the brain chemistry recovers, the feeling of being alive is worth everything. The clarity of the mind, the connection of the feelings to real world, looking to the future with hope are things that i never imagined that i would have again. But here they are and i wish everyone to have these again.
And what i also realize is my view of life is better than my oldself(nonaddicted oldself). Back then, i used to be very obsessive and anxious about very simple things. But after living through the hell of the addiction, now i don't mind anything in life. Whatever i live, feel, can be positive or negative, but it does not matter because i can "feel" and "live" now. I can live in the moment after so many years because i have the freedom to live it.
I was just going to attach a file but it happened to be a long post Please be very hopeful about the weed-free life. We can do it and we must do it to have our lives back. But we should put all our effort to achieve this. Best wishes to everyone..
http://www.2shared.com/document/jQCmUDsB/Cognitive_Therapy_of_Substance.htm
If you are having problems with cannabis addiction you may want to visit the Marijuana Addiction Forum.
Recoding the brain really seems to the path to the success in my opinion. There shouldn't be any holes in our brains which will lead us to relapse. Because addiction is something too powerful that it will take root even from the unconcious thoughts which we are not aware of. And i believe that reading is the only way to recode our brains. Reading the same materials again and again, until it settles completely in our neurons. (and never completely settles actually, so it should be a continuing process). Recovering from addiction is really something requiring a continous study on ourselves. Because the core of the addiction is our brain and restructuring it is the only way to success.
I don't want to be pessimistic, but i'm just really very dissappointed by the success rates for recovering addicts. So, we must be the "chosen ones" to achieve complete recovery. Which means putting an ordinary effort will never give us what we want. I now realize that, staying sober is the hardest part but building a new life over it is the real challenge. Otherwise, if nothing changes in our lives, the reasons that put us on the lap of addiction can do the same again.
But it's also very exiting to be able to create a new life. We will be free and we can give any direction that we want to our lives. And when the cognitive abilities and the brain chemistry recovers, the feeling of being alive is worth everything. The clarity of the mind, the connection of the feelings to real world, looking to the future with hope are things that i never imagined that i would have again. But here they are and i wish everyone to have these again.
And what i also realize is my view of life is better than my oldself(nonaddicted oldself). Back then, i used to be very obsessive and anxious about very simple things. But after living through the hell of the addiction, now i don't mind anything in life. Whatever i live, feel, can be positive or negative, but it does not matter because i can "feel" and "live" now. I can live in the moment after so many years because i have the freedom to live it.
I was just going to attach a file but it happened to be a long post Please be very hopeful about the weed-free life. We can do it and we must do it to have our lives back. But we should put all our effort to achieve this. Best wishes to everyone..
http://www.2shared.com/document/jQCmUDsB/Cognitive_Therapy_of_Substance.htm
If you are having problems with cannabis addiction you may want to visit the Marijuana Addiction Forum.
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