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Embark on a profound and enlightening journey into the intricacies of human consciousness with 'Whispers from the Margins: Living with Schizotypal Sensibilities.' This thought-provoking exploration invites readers to delve into the nuanced world of schizotypal experiences, offering a compassionate glimpse into the lives of those navigating the margins of perception and reality.As the pages unfold, the author skillfully weaves personal narratives,...
2) Hijo, eres un adicto: Esta es la historia de una madre que lucha por entender qué le pasa a su hijo
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Nadie habla de las familias de los adictos. En los medios de comunicación, nos cansamos de escuchar testimonios de personas famosas que hablan de su experiencia con las drogas.
Son historias tremendas de mucho sufrimiento y, en el mejor de los casos, de superación.
Pero, ¿dónde están todas esas familias que viven el mismo horror mientras acompañan al adicto?
Esta es la historia de una madre valiente que lucha por entender qué le pasa a su hijo...
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Los raperos me llamaban «Abuelo».
Uno de ellos, al que llamaré «Nano», un chico bajito y delgado, con un deje macarra al hablar y voz endurecida por el tabaco, siempre andaba con algún porro escondido en la palma de la mano. A veces, coincidíamos en el parque de la Juventud, el lugar donde íbamos a parar punks, jevis, raperos y demás fauna. En aquel parque me cogía algunas cogorzas de vergüenza ajena en interminables botellones de litrona...
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Para los familiares, la adicción puede resultar frustrante, desgarradora, agotadora e interminable. Puede provocarles ataques de ira, dejarlos postrados en la cama, bloqueados por una tristeza y una depresión que no saben cómo superar. Muy pocas familias saben a dónde acudir en busca de apoyo y orientación cuando enferma un hijo, padre o cónyuge.
Blake escribió 'Yo te quiero más' para ofrecer un enfoque distinto a las familias. Así, combina...
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Throughout this workbook, we will use compassion as a lens to look at your recovery process.
Why Compassion?
After years of working in the field of addiction and recovery, the most significant contributor to continued drug and alcohol use or relapse that I've seen has been shame, guilt, regret, anger, or harshness towards self. Rarely do these painful emotions alone lead to long-term recovery. What I believe leads to long-term sobriety and...
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Depression is a secret pain at the core of many men's lives, and one that goes largely undiagnosed and untreated. The consequences of not treating male depression are extremely serious. Studies show that suicide is more common in men than women, and tha the male suicide rate is three times higher at midlife than at any other life stage. In Unmasking Male Depression, Dr. Archibald Hart explores the many forms of depression and gives tools for coping...
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Nobody has had an answer for why people with addictions continue to repeat them -- until now.
For more than twenty years, distinguished psychiatrist Dr. Lance Dodes has been successfully helping people master their addictions -- alcoholism, compulsive gambling, smoking, sexual addiction, and more with a radical approach. Dr. Dodes describes how all addictions have, at their heart, unrecognized emotional factors that explain:
• Why we feel the impulse
• Why...
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This book is about addictions of all kinds. Addictions to smartphones, sex, games, social media, gambling, money, but most of all to alcohol and drugs.
The words 'addict' and 'addiction' are loaded with baggage. Not just in Australia, but the world over, addicts are considered to be sub-human, if not alien. This book aims to reclaim their dignity. It aims to rescue the word 'addiction' from its kidnappers and restore its humanity. It offers personal...
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A compassionate & inspiring book with daily reads for sobriety. Make your day easier and honestly better with a short meditational text to encourage, strengthen and comfort your recovery journey. The book is created for all people who're struggling with addiction and want a simple, uplifting tool for daily support. Every page consist of one insightful message or quote to help you stay sober every day. If you want a powerful book to help you start...
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Christopher Kennedy Lawford's New York Times bestselling memoir, Symptoms of Withdrawal, offered readers a startling, first-hand look at his own addictions to drugs and alcohol, prompting People magazine to write, "Few have written so well about the joy of drugs, and few are as unsparing about their drug-driven selfishness." In his bestselling follow-up, Moments of Clarity, Lawford presents "Voices from the Front Lines of Addiction and Recovery."...
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Everyone is addicted-to some degree. We don't supply one addiction for another. This book delves inside and brings out our dynamic inner core and true self. In a short time, you will discover a way of living that will not only free yourself from your slavery but also amid your cravings and life's challenges in general.I will show you what is really going on and open you up in a gentle way to light up the darkness that has you depressed and confused...
12) Deconstruir las drogas: La historia completa sobre la reducción de daños y el futuro de la adicción
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«La obra de Maia Szalavitz pone en valor las vidas de los activistas que no solo crearon y desarrollaron la idea de la reducción de daños, sino que además la convirtieron en una fuerza social y política».
Este libro nos cuenta las historias en torno al activismo en reducción de daños. Desde un grupo de consumidores de drogas de clase obrera de Liverpool, quienes, ayudados por médicos y trabajadores de la sanidad pública, diseñaron los principios...
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Neil Josten es un joven que lleva toda la vida huyendo de su propio padre, el despiadado jefe de una organización criminal. Está acostumbrado a vivir con miedo y a fingir ser cualquiera salvo él mismo. Cuando asesinan a su madre, Neil toma una decisión a la desesperada: incorporarse al equipo de exy conocido como los Zorros. El exy es un deporte rápido y violento, una mezcla de lacrosse, rugby y hockey, lo único que hace que Neil se sienta real.
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Los Zorros son un equipo fragmentado, pero puede que Neil Josten sea el milagro que estaban esperando. La única persona que no está de acuerdo es Andrew, y el único capaz de penetrar las férreas barreras de Andrew es Neil. El problema es que Andrew no da nada a cambio de nada y a Neil le cuesta horrores confiar en nadie que no sea él mismo. Sin embargo, puede que no tengan demasiado tiempo; desde el equipo rival de los Cuervos, Riko Moriyama...
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The Twelve Steps Made Simple is just that - the steps are easy to read, follow and understand.Written in plain language with easy to follow instructions, examples and explanations. The book is aimed at youth aged of 13 to 28. All stories are from youth in that age bracket. The book was edited and curated by Redemption Ritchy. The content is 100% youth relevant because the book embodies youth experiences at school, home, in institutions, jobs and in...
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Break Free From Addiction, Starting Now! There are three things required for an addiction to take a hold of your life: Motivation;Means andOpportunityIn some cases, recovery involves being deprived of the means and opportunity to indulge your vices by checking into rehab. In others, you become a part of a community where you shift your motives in the hopes that you will self-regulate when the means and opportunity pop up. Vice Grip addresses all three...
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I had been in prison a few years, long enough to be transferred to a medium security prison. Two inmates had been at each other most of the day, back and forth, the larger woman taunting the smaller woman. I was housed in a dormitory setting, 40 women housed in one area watched over by one guard. No doors, no cells, those were in the past when I was in a Maximum security prison. The last count of the day was taken and the C.O. stepped out to wait...
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A myth-shattering look at drug abuse and addiction treatment, based on cutting-edge research
Addiction is a preventable, treatable disease, not a moral failing. As with other illnesses, the approaches most likely to work are based on science - not on faith, tradition, contrition, or wishful thinking. These facts are the foundation of Clean. The existing addiction treatments, including Twelve Step programs and rehabs, have helped some, but they have...
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A desperate girl. A devoted dog. A bond that can never be broken. Shannon O'Reilly's whole world is collapsing. Life was great before Mom died, before she ended up living in a car with her little dog Boone and her Aunt Junie. Now it's truck stop showers and soup kitchen meals and the crushing burden of keeping everything a secret. She's tried hard to be patient, but when a reckless act lands her aunt in jail and Boone is taken away, Shannon decides...
20) Trouble at Home
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The fourth book of the Charity Series deals with a family who seemingly had a perfect life on the outside, but on the inside trouble was brewing within. This book is intended to help bring awareness to abuse and its impact on young lives. My prayer is that this book will give children the courage to speak up and out against abuse in the home and that they will find comfort and strength to take action against it.
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