Kategoria BISAC: Self-Help >> Substance Abuse & Addictions - Alcohol

He spent twenty-eight years in the Special Forces, embarking on unique and dangerous missions throughout the world. But for Sergeant Major Barry Lloyd Grissom of the Green Berets, the most difficult battles to overcome have been the ones inside his own mind.

Through crippling bipolar disorder, childhood traumas, and a growing addiction to alcohol, there were times it seemed as if he survived on divine intervention alone. Now retired, Grissom is here to tell his story-and he has a valuable message to share.

In Is It Easier to Kill or Write a Poem?, the Special Forces...

We live in a time of more physical freedom than ever before in history and yet so many of us are limited by our lack of inner freedom - the freedom to create and believe that we can have the lives we want to live. Alena Chapman has explored her own self-imposed prison and journey to freedom. She shares the tools, insights and lessons she has learned so that others may experience the life changing power of loving life again. The Prison Effect offers the tools, insights, truths to crash through any of our obstacles and walk out of our prisons to freedom.

This is a notebook to be used by people in recovery or clinicians who are looking for interesting topics to discuss as recovery group leaders. Carrying this affirmation notebook physically or electronically will allow users to maintain vigilance over their recovery and to memorialize their struggles and accomplishments throughout the journey. Sharing thoughts with others via social media and blogs will serve as a remote and mobile support group wherever one's busy life may take them.

People can and do recover from alcoholism and drug addiction. A combination of research and interviews were used to compile Still Standing: Inspiration from People with Long-Term Abstinence from Alcohol and Drugs. These stories of individuals with over 20 and 30 years of sobriety identify factors that lead to long-term abstinence. The stories tell what it was like for individuals prior to their recovery and what they felt contributed to their achievement of long-term sobriety.

Alcoholism got in the way of who I was supposed to be. Recovery made me the person I was supposed to be....

Death Wish dives into addiction, death and suicide. Steve Chandler tells stories he has never told and tells the truth he's hidden inside himself. Chandler shares his own experience, strength and hope with those who are still confused and depressed by these forces. It gives inner freedom to the parents of children caught up in the tsunami of addictive pleasure and pain. ...and all people who are scaring themselves to death and using addiction (the death wish) to escape their unbearable thinking.

This really is about a true death wish. And. . . how to have that wish disappear.

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

More people than ever before see themselves as addicted to, or recovering from, addiction, whether it be alcohol or drugs, prescription meds, sex, gambling, porn, or the internet. But despite the unprecedented attention, our understanding of addiction is trapped in unfounded 20th century ideas, addiction as a crime or as brain disease, and in equally outdated treatment.

Challenging both the idea of the addict's "broken brain" and the notion of a simple "addictive personality," Unbroken Brain offers a radical and groundbreaking new...