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.
Hrachya Badalyan
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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Cargo Cult: When Form Replaces Substance
How cargo-cult thinking appears in modern life: copying the symbols of success without understanding the habits, skills, and responsibility that actually create it.
Why We Want to Get Rid of Unpleasant Feelings Immediately
Why unpleasant emotions create an urge to act immediately, how quick relief can reinforce avoidance, and what helps build a greater capacity to tolerate difficult feelings.
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Why Control Temporarily Calms a Loved One — and Then Increases Anxiety
Why checking can briefly calm a loved one affected by addiction, but over time increase anxiety and make uncertainty harder to tolerate.
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I’m Feeling Better. Why Continue Therapy?
Why people often want to stop therapy after the first improvements, how relief differs from lasting change, and how to know whether you are ready to continue on your own.
When Children Live in the Shadow of Addiction
Children in families with addiction often become overly responsible, vigilant, and focused on the needs of adults. This article explains why children should not become rescuers or controllers.
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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Codependency: When a Person with an Addiction Begins to Recover
Codependency can continue even when recovery has already begun. This article explores why loved ones may struggle to let go of control, rescuing, and responsibility for another adult’s life.
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