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Teens in Early Recovery: Ten Common Triggers for Relapse
Teens in early recovery are extremely vulnerable to relapse. It can be hard to understand why a teenager would work so hard to achieve sobriety only to fall back into drug use−but that’s the power of addiction. Studies suggest that between 50 percent and 90 percent of addicts relapse at least once in the first four years of sobriety, and most relapse many times. Triggers for relapse can be as mundane as hearing a certain song ...
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Addressing Body Image in Eating Disorder Treatment
The majority of American women are dissatisfied with their bodies. One study found that 86 percent of women want to lose weight, and in another study, 63 percent of female participants identified weight as the key factor in determining how they felt about themselves — even more important than family, school, or career. For some, the result of this dissatisfaction is the development of an eating disorder. One cause of eating disorders, experts argue, is the ...
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Beating The Holiday Blues
Author: Lori Enomoto Date: 12/7/2009 The holidays are here. It's the happiest time of the year, right? For some, the answer is a resounding "yes." For others, the holidays bring into sharp focus how desperately unhappy they feel. Depression isn't just about feeling sad. It's a clinical disorder that warrants medical attention and can affect physical health. Without help, it's like a car getting stuck in the mud, spinning its wheels to get out, and instead, only getting ...
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A Sober and Fun New Year’s Eve
Author: Lori Enomoto Date: 12/29/2009 Traditionally a celebration of the past year and the year to come, New Year’s Eve is the perfect time to reflect upon the changes we’d like to see in our lives. If you think you could improve your life (and who doesn’t?), it’s an opportunity to start fresh and break the patterns that have held you back in the past year. To start off right, it’s a good idea to give some ...
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Understanding Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is most commonly associated with military combat veterans, but it can affect anyone who has gone through a life-threatening traumatic event. People with PTSD generally have a difficult time trying to return to a normal life after they have gone through something traumatic, and they also have a hard time connecting, or reconnecting, to other people. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder can occur not only in the people who actually experience a traumatic event, ...
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SUWS Teen Wilderness Program Celebrates 30 Years of Service to Teens & Their Families
Author: Staff Writer Date: 5/2/2011 CRC Health Group is proud to acknowledge a momentous accomplishment by one of our therapeutic wilderness programs for teens. SUWS Wilderness Programs, which first opened in ...
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Understanding Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is most commonly associated with military combat veterans, but it can affect anyone who has gone through a life-threatening traumatic event. People with PTSD generally have a difficult time trying to return to a normal life after they have gone through something traumatic, and they also have a hard time connecting, or reconnecting, to other people. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder can occur not only in the people who actually experience a traumatic event, ...
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Electronic Cigarettes
Electronic Cigarettes: The Not So Safe Alternative to SmokingSure, electronic cigarettes are appealing. They are odorless, there is no butt to toss and they won’t stain your teeth. But they are still addictive, and one puff of an electronic cigarette can cause you to inhale more than twice the mount of nicotine of a conventional cigarette.What are E-CigarettesElectronic cigarettes (or e-cigarettes) are battery-operated devices designed ...
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Doing the Holidays Without Overindulging
For many people, the holidays are something to "get through," rather than enjoy. People backslide on their commitments to a healthy lifestyle by overindulging in eating, drinking and spending. New Year's goes hand-in-glove with New Year's resolutions, as people try to stop the downhill slide that happens over the holidays. There are a few key factors that make holiday time a time for overindulgence: People's routines are disrupted People are off work and relatives are in town. Your ...
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Depression, Obesity, Alcohol Abuse Linked in Young Women
Depression, obesity and alcohol abuse are often treated as discrete disorders. But a new study shows that, for women under the age of 30, those three conditions may be interrelated — meaning treating all three may be key to overcoming any of them. Researchers at the University of Washington (UW) found that almost half of the 776 adults they tracked during the study met the criteria for one of those conditions at each of the observed ages ...