Anxiety and Addiction
What is happening in the brain is the building of receptors that have to be filled with alcohol or drugs to achieve a calm state. So tolerance develops and one needs more and more alcohol or benzodiazepines or nicotine to calm the individual. As more and more receptors build in the brain, more drugs, alcohol and nicotine is needed to bring the person to a state of calm.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 14, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Joseph Troncale, M.D. Tags: Addiction Anxiety Neuroscience Resilience Source Type: news
NIH Study: Addicts are Lower in Mindfulness
Studies have shown the benefit of mindfulness training added to substance abuse treatment. Now a study from the National Institutes of Health shows that lack of mindfulness may be one of the causes of substance abuse, in the first place.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 14, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Richard Taite Tags: Addiction Health Integrative Medicine Self-Help addiction treatment cause addiction cliffside malibu constance scharff mindfulness mindfulness addiction mindfulness substance abuse national institutes health addiction richard taite Source Type: news
Healer, Teacher, Hero, Villain from Mork to the Angriest Man
Robin Williams played healers, teachers, heroes, and villains. Did he play so many doctors and educators because he wanted to heal and teach, because he yearned for healing and learning, or because we wanted him to help himself and others grow better? Because of his very humanity, because of how he conveyed his humor and his pain, he appealed to the misfit in us all.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 14, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Travis Langley, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Creativity Law and Crime Media aladdin alien awakenings Batman Christopher Nolan Dead Again Dead Poets Society doctors Flubber genie Good Morning Vietnam good will hunting healers hook Jakob the Liar Jumanji Source Type: news
Remembering Robin Williams and Why Clowns Cry
The problem with fame is people think they know you, without having met you.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 13, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Billi Gordon, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Creativity Depression Media hollywood celebrities robin williams Robin Williams death suicide Source Type: news
College Binge Drinking for Social Satisfaction
"Students, who are considered more socially powerful, drink more. Binge drinking then becomes associated with high status and the ‘cool’ students on campus."read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 13, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Constance Scharff, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Happiness Health Self-Help alcoholism alcoholism science binge drinking binge drinking study college binge drinking hapiness binge drinking Source Type: news
It’s Not Your Fault, Robin Williams
The only voice Robin Williams could hear, above all of those that love him, was his own telling him louder and stronger than anyone else’s that he is worthless, that he doesn’t deserve, that he can't be here anymore. read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 13, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Suzanne Lachmann, Psy.D. Tags: Addiction Creativity Depression Resilience robin williams Robin Williams death robin williams depression robin williams depression addiction Robin Williams self image robin williams suicide Source Type: news
Robin Williams Was Treated/In Recovery and Killed Himself
Robin Williams' suicide, we are told, is the best possible evidence that seeking treatment for depression and entering recovery for drinking--both of which Williams did--are unquestionably necessary and beneficial.
I don't get it.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 13, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Stanton Peele Tags: Addiction Depression Psychiatry Source Type: news
Stock Tales
Back in the 1980s, psychologists were typically interested in studying only three forms of gambling activity (i.e., gaming, betting and lotteries). Although a few academics accepted 'speculation' as a true form of gambling, the majority of researchers in the gambling studies field did not. Has this view changed? Is stock market speculation a legitimate form of gambling?read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 13, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Mark D. Griffiths, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Work betting Blackjack Financial trading Gambling fraud gaming poker speculation Spread betting Stock market gambling Stock market speculation. Source Type: news
Robin Williams–The Giver
5 things you may not know about bipolar disorderread more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 12, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Colleen Long, Psy.D. Tags: Addiction Depression Happiness Psychiatry Self-Help Stress bipolar colleen long hypomania manias manic robin williams suicide the giver Source Type: news
Robin Williams - The Giver
Five Things You May Not Know About Bipolar Disorderread more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 12, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Colleen Long, Psy.D. Tags: Addiction Depression Happiness Psychiatry Self-Help Stress bipolar colleen long hypomania manias manic robin williams suicide the giver Source Type: news
Robin Williams: A Devastating Loss
In Patch Adams, he made me cry. In Mork and Mindy, he made me laugh. In Good Will Hunting, he made me believe. In absolutely everything he ever did, Robin Williams was a wizard and a trickster and about four steps ahead and beyond everyone else on the screen.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 12, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Richard Taite Tags: Addiction Depression Health Media addiction treatment robin williams Robin Williams death robin williams suicide suicide addiction Source Type: news
Can’t We Learn From The Death of Robin Williams?
Instead of all the glowing tributes, let's talk about what his death can teach us about addiction, alcoholism, recovery and mental illness.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 12, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Anna B. David Tags: Addiction Depression medication recovery robin williams treatment Source Type: news
Police Suspect Suicide in Death of Comedian Robin Williams
Oscar-winning actor and comedian who rose to fame playing an alien outsider, has died in what police call an apparent suicide. Robin Williams, 63, who has suffered bouts of depression and drug abuse throughout his lifetime, recently entered an addiction rehabilitation program again. He had returned to television in The Crazy Ones, which CBS cancelled after a single season.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 11, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Travis Langley, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Creativity Depression Media Stress 12-Step Program Academy Award apparently suicide bangarang best supporting actor cartoon comedian Disney ' s Aladdin drug abuse drug addiction Flubber genie Good Morning Vi Source Type: news
Marijuana Revisited
The more you use and the younger you start, the more the effect of the drug. And the effect of the drug is very simply to make you unmotivated and emotionally flat.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 11, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Joseph Troncale, M.D. Tags: Addiction Cognition Neuroscience Self-Help Source Type: news
Can Computers Help You Quit?
We use computers and smartphones to stay in touch with each other, buy things and conduct serious business. Can they also help us with drug and alcohol problems?read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 8, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Sean X. Luo, M.D., Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Behavioral Economics Psychiatry Therapy Source Type: news
