Topic: enabling and provoking
Am I Being Supportive? Or Enabling?
Where real support is the result of caring, enabling usually springs from guilt, fear, or a misplaced sense of responsibility for someone else.
Topics: enabling and provoking
Why Enabling?
A primary enabler is someone whose well-established pattern of enabling permits the alcoholic or addict to continue drinking or drug use.
Topics: barriers to recovery, co dependency, enabling and provoking, What Keeps Alcoholics and Addicts From Getting Help
What Keeps Alcoholic and Addicted People From Getting Help
We can’t control the alcoholic/ addict, but we’re not powerless. Some things we can do (and stop doing) to help them listen to something besides the addiction…
Topics: barriers to recovery, consequences, defense mechanisms, enabling and provoking, getting help, stigma, What Keeps Alcoholics and Addicts From Getting Help
The Bullying Game
Pretty soon we’re having a big argument which ends with me feeling miserable and him gone to the pub.
Topics: communication, enabling and provoking, family dysfunction, getting help, toxic relationships
