Mind
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Coping with anxiety: Self-help or get help?
Is self-help for anxiety possible? Yes. Learn to know the difference between normal anxiety and problem anxiety. More on when to seek treatment for anxiety here.
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Why do people shoplift? Top 10 reasons
Impulse control, drug and alcohol use, stress, and financial problems can all cause people to shoplift. A review of the compulsive nature of shoplifting and why people shoplift here.
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Addictive Personality – Do I have one
Are some people more likely to become addicts than others? Can you predict addiction based on personality traits? More on the addictive personality here.
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Can counseling alone for addiction treatment cure addicts?
Can we classify addiction as an illness of the mind? Has modern psychology developed a way to use counseling to cure addiction? Do medication, electroshock, psychotherapy, and other addiction treatments work on their own to cure addiction? Your feedback is needed on this topic.
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Addiction professionals & creativity: How addiction counselors use art to heal
Deborah Feller is a psychotherapist who takes feelings she encounters in therapy sessions and transforms these into drawings and paintings. A highly gifted artist, she talks with us here about her work in addiction therapy and how the process of creation can help addiction professionals working with clients.
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Video game addiction: the basics
We review the symptoms, intervention and treatments possible for video game addicts, or parents of children and teens who suspect gaming addiction in their kids.
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Do sex addicts hate women?
Sex addicts can be men or women and can identity as being gay, lesbian, straight, bisexual, or transgender. But do heterosexual men who are sex addicts have particular attitudes towards women? We explore here.
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Male masturbation addiction – How much is too much?
Masturbation is a healthy part of human sexual expression. But how much is too much? We explore male masturbation here and provide you with some questions to ask yourself so that you can assess possible masturbation addiction. Self-tests and more here.
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Twelve steps for sex addicts – Are we protecting sex offenders?
One founding principle of twelve steps groups is anonymity. But what do groups like Sex Addicts Anonymous (SAA), Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous (SLAA) or Sexual Recovery Anonymous (SRA) do when a member self-reports about sexual assault? Or what should members do? More here.
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Sex addicts anonymous twelve step program – What is abstinence?
Sex is a natural part of human life. But do sex addicts need to abstain totally from sex in order to recover from sexual addiction? We review what twelve step groups believe in terms of abstinence for sex addiction here.
