I have recently read your book, Breaking Addiction. I have also read your blog posts on Psychology Today. I find your writings to be incredibly kind , insightful, and empathetic, more so than anything else I have read on the subject of addiction. For that, I thank you. It is my firm belief that no one is more critical of an addict than the addict herself. The issue that I cannot overcome is deppression and its role in addiction. Despite my efforts, it seems to me that deppression stymies my progress. I have tried several medications, and have reached the conclusion that deppression will always be with me. Medications, statistically, do not help very many people with mental illness or addiction, but I also do not have much faith in cognitive behavioral therapy. I hate to be negative, but what is left for me? Time, perhaps.
I have recently read your book, Breaking Addiction. I have also read your blog posts on Psychology Today. I find your writings to be incredibly kind , insightful, and empathetic, more so than anything else I have read on the subject of addiction. For that, I thank you. It is my firm belief that no one is more critical of an addict than the addict herself.
The issue that I cannot overcome is deppression and its role in addiction. Despite my efforts, it seems to me that deppression stymies my progress. I have tried several medications, and have reached the conclusion that deppression will always be with me. Medications, statistically, do not help very many people with mental illness or addiction, but I also do not have much faith in cognitive behavioral therapy. I hate to be negative, but what is left for me? Time, perhaps.