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Somehow, your brain has interpreted this as a present threat and released anxiety chemicals into your system.

Good sleep patterns are an antidote for depression, and research shows that better sleep directly improves your mood.

If we want to see any progress, we’ll have to figure out a way to break this apparent impasse.

At its root, treatment is primarily a work relationship– with goals that need to be accomplished, and outcomes that must be kept in mind.

Ambivalence isn’t just a matter of figuring out what we want to do. It’s very much about the ability to make good decisions and feel confident about them.

Really resistant clients are already planning to continue using alcohol or drugs throughout treatment, possibly in secret.

Even when the patient has concluded that continued substance use is no longer the best option, he or she still harbors a number of important doubts about the ability to change.

Most addicts and alcoholics wind up in treatment because they’re experiencing difficulties due to substance use– ranging from the pain of withdrawal to troubles with the law, to threatened loss of job or family.

I take great care in finding the right practitioner. He or she will likely be more important than the technique itself.

Ultimately, you are the only one that makes decisions about your life.