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Confessions of a Kleptomaniac

By Dylan Lavene — 2012

I became a drug addict only years after I'd discovered my first true love: Compulsive thieving.

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His Family Found the Way to Cope

"I knew how progressive the disease was. I knew each time I used, I fell faster and faster. I knew when I went out that day I was a dead man. I didn't go out to do drugs. I went out to die."

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Patricia Guthrie
1998
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Picking Addiction Help (Part 2)

Addiction is now recognized to be a chronic illness that lurks indefinitely within an addict in recovery.

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Jane E. Brody
2013
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Transformance—What Can Happen When Shame Lifts

Sheila Rubin writes about transformance, a term used to describe “the force in the psyche that’s moving towards growth and expansion and transformation,” and the idea that healing is “not just an outcome but a process that exists within each person that emerges in conditions of safety.”

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Sheila Rubin
2018
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How to Transform Shame Over the Holidays

There’s an expectation of what is supposed to happen during the holidays: images of a family gathered around a tree, presents, food, love and connection as people smile at each other. But if your family is different, there sometimes can be shame.

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Sheila Rubin
2017
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