Addiction — a Disease with Privileges?
If addiction is a disease, does a person still have a choice? A reflection on craving, consequences, responsibility, and how families may unintentionally weaken the link between actions and their cost.
Gambling Addiction
Articles about gambling addiction, its signs, causes, consequences, treatment, and recovery.
After a Relapse, You Want to Disappear: How Shame Makes It Harder to Ask for Help Again
After a gambling relapse, shame can make a person hide what happened, avoid loved ones, and stop seeking help. Why isolation increases the risk of continued gambling and what matters after a relapse.
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Recovery — What Is It? Stages of the Journey from Addiction to Sobriety
Addiction recovery is more than simply stopping substance use. This article explains the main stages of recovery, from recognizing the problem and detox to rehabilitation, resocialization, and long-term remission.
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Why Addiction Often Returns Just When Life Has Started to Get Better
Why gambling addiction can return even after months of stability, how the memory of past consequences fades, and which changes in thinking may appear before relapse. Many people think that relapse happens mainly during difficult periods of life: after conflict, severe stress, financial problems, loneliness, or emotional turmoil. Sometimes that is indeed the case. But
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Gambling Addiction and the Risk of Other Addictions: What You Need to Know
Why gambling addiction can sometimes coexist with alcohol, drug, or other addictions, what role family patterns may play, and which signs can indicate that gambling is becoming a serious problem developing other addictions as well. This also applies to gambling addiction. Some people who experience problems with gambling may also struggle with alcohol or drug
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Why Ordinary Life Can Feel Boring After Giving Up an Addiction
Why recovery can feel emotionally empty at first and how to rebuild a fuller life without addiction One of the most difficult tasks for a person in recovery is not simply to stop gambling, drinking alcohol, or engaging in another addictive behavior, but to rebuild their emotional life. Life after addiction can initially feel unusually
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