Are you struggling with an addiction? Is one of your family members struggling with the difficult process of an addiction? While addiction has the most detrimental effects directly on the user, it may shock you to realize that addiction can also have very serious negative side effects to the family members of someone ... Read More
Help For Loved Ones
When your loved one begins exhibiting signs of substance abuse or increasing mental health issues it can leave you feeling helpless and desperate. These feelings are not uncommon and we’ve seen them all as we’ve treated thousands of patients and their families. The articles found here focus on tips and advice on supporting a loved one who is struggling with a disorder or has begun treatment and needs support.
Finding Recovery as a Family
Encouraging An Addict: How to Actively Support Your Loved one Through Addiction Recovery in Florida
Sometimes it’s hard to know what to say to a friend who has been struggling with an addiction of some kind. It can feel like no matter what you do or what you say it won’t be enough, or could even make the person feel worse than they likely already do. The most important thing to remember however, in spite of how ... Read More
Gambling Addiction – How to Have Compassion and Help Your Loved Ones
Someone struggling with an addiction to drugs or alcohol experiences side effects of their disease very inwardly. Certain side effects can sometimes be more obvious on the outside like with skin sores on someone who is struggling with a chemical dependence on methamphetamine, but most of the time the person struggles ... Read More
How to Know if Your Loved One Uses Meth
Methamphetamine is a potent illicit stimulant drug that can be very dangerous to addicts and to those surrounding them. When someone is addicted to meth it can change who they are and that affects their entire community. The drug effects the addict’s central nervous system, their dopamine and serotonin receptors. With ... Read More
How to Talk to Your Loved one About Eating Disorders and Substance Abuse
It can be hard when you suspect that someone you care about has an eating disorder, especially if you think they may also be dealing with some kind of drug or alcohol addiction. The two disorders not only present and act in very similar ways, but they are also frequently co-occurring. If these two disorders occur ... Read More
Family Solutions and Addiction Recovery
While some of the stigma of recovery has been reduced in recent years, television and movies often show a very individualistic form of treatment that is not always the case. The image of the lifestyle of people addicted and how they recover may be perfectly accurate for some and very different from others. This ... Read More
Send A Friend Some Love
Make a Care Package or Write a Letter and Send It To a Friend Maybe it seems counterintuitive but when you get back from intensive inpatient treatment and you’re feeling nervous about reconnecting with the outside world, and the people you love, an easy way to ease back into it is to start by picking someone you love ... Read More
Addicted with an Unsupportive Family
There are all kinds of families out there. As society gets more comfortable with gender and sexuality stereotypes bending and breaking, we see many different ways to define “family”. It’s great because there are so many people out there who have been abandoned by family, or whose relationships have deteriorated with ... Read More