Posts Tagged ‘addiction’
When grief, dissociation, keeping busy, addiction and a farewell collide
Dissociation serves a logical purpose, in that it allows me to separate myself and disconnect from the world, escape, and float away. However, I don’t really understand why this happens, apart from the need to detach from reality or situation in..
One Family: Learning from the Substance Use Disorder Community
I would not be alive today if I hadn’t found peer support for both my eating disorder as well as PTSD. – Jenni Schaefer Light from a bonfire broke through the dark of night. Thunder loomed in the distance as a..
Treating the trifecta – trauma, eating disorders and substance use disorder
By Terry Fassihi WARNING: This post is about three things none of us really like to think about _ the trifecta of trauma, eating disorders and substance use disorder. Why refer to this as a trifecta? Because they so commonly..