Publisher's Synopsis
Addiction: The only disease that will convince you that you don't have it! Thawing Addiction, The Tip of The Iceberg systematically answers questions like, "Why don't they see what they're doing and just stop (drinking, drugging, sexing, gambling, etc.)?" The book dives even deeper into...
- The causes and conditions underlying addiction
- Why addiction is called the Family disease and the Feelings disease
- The self-sustaining nature of addiction
- How to prevent falling prey to chronic relapse syndrome.
- Why the payoffs of recovery must be more valuable than the elusive payoffs of addiction
- Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome
- Moving from Homeostasis (Steady State) of Addiction to a Neo-Homeostasis (New Steady State) of Recovery
- The surprising parallels between the Recovery Process and the Grief Process
- Relationship Dysfunction, Enabling, and Other Compatible Features that Lock Addicts and Codependents together in a seemingly unbreakable bond
- How the Stages and Symptoms of Addiction and the Stages and Symptoms of Codependency are Identical
