Sentences with phrase «other addictions to»

I also have experience working with other addictions to include gambling, sex, porn, food, and shopping.

The clinical indications of these addiction patterns were evident many years ago, and the most effective approach in dealing with addiction for my patients — and me — was simple: Eliminate the sugar addiction first, then any and all other addictions to drugs or other issues would more easily be eliminated.

It's not uncommon for people recovering from alcoholism or other addictions to report a ravenous sweet tooth.

«Addictions» to the chemicals used in food, including artificial colours, artificial flavours and other additives like MSG, just like other addictions to caffeine, nicotine, alcohol and other drugs, can create a craving in the body that can only be quelled by consuming more of the offending substance.

Sure, there are many other addictions to be formed at this bakery in posh Pacific Heights, but you may never get to them.

Not exact matches

Each time the BCRA has been modified to meet moderates» demands — say, by adding far more money to tackle the opioid addiction crisis, as the latest draft does — some other provision upsets the right - wing (such as the investment income taxes which affect the wealthy that are now being kept in the bill).

Other pain points included drug pricing and how approving more generics may affect costs (Gottlieb parried that question by noting the FDA doesn't have the authority to negotiate prices or consider pricing when approving a drug) and his alleged softness on opioid drug makers due the aforementioned financial ties and pro-industry ideology (the nominee noted that he considers opioid addiction and overdoses a public health crisis «on the order of Ebola and Zika»).

And just as major food corporations sell processed foods that are loaded with added sugar and chemicals meant to keep people eating, Turkle and other addiction experts say big tech companies have been repeatedly accused of designing their apps to maximize the time people spend on them.

The startup says there is a $ 10 billion market for people trying to quit smoking, and wants to expand to alcohol and other addictions.

Ah, good analogy there, giving people a break that others won't get in order to help them feed their addiction.

Pastors who have bravely and honestly disclosed their struggle with addiction advise others to do the same.

There is a confidence — from those who have been delivered from drug addiction to those who grew up in the county with our proverbial silver spoons — that the present reality and its attendant despair will not always define our neighborhood, and that as we trust in Christ individually, that transformation radiates outwards in service and love to others.

Looking at addiction as «sin» hasn't done mankind very much good for almost two thousand years; treating addiction — and other mental illnesses — as sickness rather than as moral failings or demonic possession has a much better track record, and it took less than 150 years to get there.

We need God to set us free from addictions, to help not to do things that hurts others.

They use Christian teaching and other therapeutic programmes as well as taking part in work around the house they stay in to help residents break free from their addictions.

African Americans are killing each other, going to prison, and succumbing to an assortment of addictions in record numbers.

A growing concern about addiction and the effect of gambling on families has led the Navajos and other tribes to reject gambling.

Unfortunately, in combating this false understanding of addiction, Hitchens errs to the other extreme by implying that the will remains untouched by addiction and asserting that if addicts are held merely accountable for their actions and blamed for the outcome of those actions, then «huge numbers of people will give up a bad habit even if it is difficult.»

It also means helping family members and other people within church communities to understand the right way to confront and help their loved ones dealing with addiction — even if it feels uncomfortable.

If the church is mending marriages, healing financial woes, helping people get over addictions, etc., then it seems to me that the church tends to blend in to society and all the other self - help type stuff.

She first excavates the roots of our corporate heartlessness» in our culture's disordered desires — what she describes as our culture's «addiction to consumerism,» its «idolatry of money» and its «massive failure of compassion» for other creatures and the earth.

But its validity was suggested as early as 1969, when a Gallup Poll revealed that 58 percent of all Americans had never finished reading a book other than a textbook or the Bible, and only 26 percent had read a book in the previous month.24 One reason for this near - illiteracy is America's addiction to television.

For our purposes, the medical and psychiatric therapies may be divided into three categories according to their purpose: (1) those therapies that aid in the physical rehabilitation of the person suffering from the effects of an acute binge and / or prolonged excessive drinking over many years; (2) those that help to keep the addictive cycle broken and thus maintain sobriety for sufficient time to allow other therapies to take effect; (3) those that aim at lessening the alcoholic's personality problems — both those that contributed to the causation of his addiction and those resulting from the interpersonal chaos of progressive alcoholism.

One of the things repeated in articles chronicling Lovato's battle against addiction is her desire to help others by opening the dialogue about recovery.

Is it an addiction to alcohol specifically for you, or is it an addictive personality that now shows up in other ways?

It is not a «cure» for alcoholism, but it does provide a biochemical fence which holds back the addiction while other therapies have an opportunity to help the person learn to live without alcohol.

Knowing that it can lead on to an addiction, in other words to a loss of self - control, why do many people take up drinking?

Unlike other addictions, this one is often invisible to the world and most people continue to function in their day - today lives.

Lolli writes: «A realistic understanding of the pleasurable connotations of addiction to alcohol will help the therapist to alleviate his own emotional problems relating to «pleasurable» experiences in other human beings and thus make his work with the alcoholic more effective.»

A lot of people in the street do not automatically have problems with alcohol or other addictions and are smart enough to spend their money wisely.

Others said that prayer shouldn't be viewed as a panaceafor any addiction, but that religion, prayer and a church community can serve to comfort addicts as they try various additional techniques to get sober.

If your sin involved other human beings, or if you believe you need their help in keeping free of this sin, or you need their counsel, advice, or accountability, you should also confess this sin to another person you trust, or to a group of such people, who will love you no matter what and will help you through the temptations and addictions of this particular sin.

In fact, the epiphany that came to me on the day over six years ago when I chose to quit drinking was that all my crying to God to help me quit wasn't going to work — because in that moment I was confronted by the awareness that I had to choose whether to quit or not, that there was no heavenly big daddy waiting in the wings to help me do so, that my choice to not drink would not change the fact that I have come from a family of alcoholics and other addictions that may have a genetic component.

Humans, because of their addiction to drama, suffering and conflict must realize they are all swimming in a limitless soup of energy and all are worthy of this, all humans must work to get rid of their addiction to drama, suffering and conflict and love and respect each other and help each other achieve happiness and live in peace.»

It declares itself a liberator of humanity — exactly as if enslavement to sensualism, materialism, convenience, and other modern addictions weren't commonplaces.

Education for chastity, on the other hand, can teach boys to grow to be «real men», offer them a noble understanding of their own masculine sexual identity, and give them a chance to avoid falling into the cycle of sexual addiction offered by pornography on their camera phones and computers.

My pain is so unbearable that you must pass me on to others through control, perfectionism, contempt, criticism, blame, envy, judgment, power, and rage My pain is so intense You must cover me up with addictions, rigid roles, reenactment, and unconscious ego defenses.

We differ in energy, ambition, intelligence, emotional intensity, relational sensitivity, imagination, creativity, addiction to evil and other forms of destructiveness, and the capacity to love.

There are many other writers who have taken a crack at definitions — often with an apparent attempt to attack religion, Christianity, Alcoholics Anonymous, the «recovery industry,» addiction medicine, treatment programs, certain scholars, certain historians, and many other kinds of targets.

Then, in an extremely useful review of «sin, sickness, alcoholism, and drug addictions,» Clinebell mentions several of a «confusing variety of usages,» applied, as he says, now and again to alcoholism and other substance addictions — several of which are not mutually exclusive: 1.

«Alcoholism and other addictions involve original sin» [«There often seems to be a certain recalcitrance at the very center of human beings that tends to inhibit doing what we know to be good for ourselves and others.

Recovery asks for a willingness to acknowledge that some power other than ourselves (the one who messed us up), whether that power is — Jesus Christ, Jehovah, Buddha, Nature, Mighty Mouse, or a nameless personal belief that there is a higher power that guides us (Philip Kavanaugh, M.D., Magnificent Addiction [Santa Rosa, CA: Aslan Publishing, 1992], p. 132; bold faced added).

Chemical dependency and other forms of addiction frequently result from maladaptive attempts to find the solace that comes only from a spiritual relationship with the God who is there.

On the other hand, if you do find her attractive, I'm sure there are treatments for porn addiction, coupled with more attention to your good wife, who must be an incredible, beautiful woman....

Just as well - meaning individuals who «cover» for an alcoholic's absences from work unintentionally enable the alcoholic's addiction and often delay the seeking of help by the alcoholic, individuals who «cover» for an abuser often delay the abuser's seeking help and unintentionally allow either the abuse to continue or others to be victimized.

The goal is to break my addiction to my own opinions, to redefine self - expression as something other than a need.

By attacking addiction in others, we can feel good about ourselves without coming to any insight about our own addictions.

But Americans are curiously unwilling to learn from Europe, even though almost all member - states of the European Union have better policies and lower rates of addiction than the U.S.. On other points, Massing is in agreement with the harm - reduction approach: he favors free needles, methadone treatment, decriminalization of marijuana and repeal of mandatory sentencing.

Am I not supposed to hate it when a man abuses his child, or when a person is overcome by addiction, or when believers tear each other down?

Of course this still leaves the question of what to do with disappointing human behaviour — the «abuse, «war and addictions... [and that] innocents suffer from the sins of others» as you have put it.