The Recovery Show

How it is the Brain itself that causes Addictions... Learn how to hijack and Rescue your Recovery for longer sustained relapse prevention.

Learn how it is the brain that hijacks every addictive behaviour by doing what it does best. How and Why it is the Brain that cause Addictions... Master how you can learn how to hijack it and rescue yourself from repeat relapsing for longer sustained recovery.

This is Rice and Peas for the Soul challenge by an Addiction. How it is the Brain itself that causes Addiction... However, it can only do so if you initiate the Addictive process or behaviour with impulsivity, complusivity and your inability to delay your need for instant gratification for anything. This is my verdict and I am sticking to it.

Learn what are several measureable Tasks and Goals for each Stages of Behavioural Change. What are some specific tasks and goals for each Stages of Change to modify or reverse ineffective, maladaptive, or unwanted addiction, addictive, maladaptive and unwanted behaviors.

To consider, embrace, undertake, maintain, and sustain agreed to and commit to harm reduction, abstinence, and sobriety in structured and mindful #recovery and new lifestyle mindets and corresponding behaviors.

Everything thing that must come together in different degrees for each person that could result in or give rise to long-term deliberate INTENTIONAL behavioural CHANGE for Addiction recovery or Addictive and Loss of control in Substance Use disorders, Maladaptive behaviours or Process addictions (excessive gambling, gaming, shopping, lying or sex etc).

As the debate and research continue side by side over 100s years later, there is still no quick fixes or magical pill to abruptly arrest, address, treat or eliminate an addiction or addictive behaviours once an individual has started the process that often ends in or leads to a loss of one's ability for self-regulation regarding the behaviour or behaviours in question.

Does this mean then that an addiction is a lifelong illness and a disease or a learned behavioural disorder?

This episode of the recovery show explores this question with a three criterion definition that looks at a wider cross section of addictive behaviours and presentation other than that of substance use, abuse or misuse.

The latest edition of the "Frontiers in Psychiatry" cites more evidence against the DISEASE Model of Addiction or Substance Use Disorder. This is cited in this episode of the reintroduction of "The Recovery Show," in which the difference of sign of substance use disorder in teens, adults, and the elderly is discussed.

Overdoses differ according to the Substance of Choice with different signs and symptoms of a likely and potentially fatal outcome if the necessary immediate care and attention isn't given and received by the person in distress of overdosing.

To be able to know and manage a diagnose substance Induced disorder versus independent mood, psychiatric order or mental disorder.

Recovery from Substance Use Disorders as against Substance Induced Disorders? In addition to process addictions. What factors impact, and or plays a major role in the predisposition, causation or reduce a person's abilities to adaptative self-regulate and delay gratification of addictive behaviours.

How well do you know you? Okay, to be more specific your Personality, its many Traits, Characteristics and or possibilities disorder? Was it even taken into consideration during your treatment, Relapse Prevention planning and along with your efforts to stay in your Sobriety and Recovery. Cluster B - dealing with Antisocial, Histrionic, Narcissistic, and Borderline Personality Disorders.

How well do you know you? Okay, to be more specific your Personality, its many Traits, Characteristics and or possibilities disorder? Was it even taken into consideration during your treatment, Relapse Prevention planning and along with your efforts to stay in your Sobriety and Recovery. Cluster B - dealing with Antisocial, Histrionic, Narcissistic, and Borderline Personality Disorders.

How well do you know you? Okay, to be more specific your Personality, its many Traits, Characteristics and or possibilities disorder? Was it even taken into consideration during your treatment, Relapse Prevention planning and along with your efforts to stay in your Sobriety and Recovery.

Repeat Relapsing is an issue in Recovery due to the return to the number one issue that challenges most human being - the unwillingness to sit with opportunities for solving and grow spiritually or emotionally. In addition to enhance our capacity to truly forgive and accept ourselves, our life situation or circumstances readily to be empowered and have conscious choices to embrace change especially in Recovery. Why Repeat Relapsing is an issue in Recovery

It would be correct to say I did not hold the 12 approach to be best suited as more than an Aftercare community group support system. I now stand corrected and would liked to revise my known position. An example of what true and sincere practice of acceptance, forgiveness and the willingness to readily consider new information as a rule but more so in recovery. Knowing that the power of choice is always available to you to then verify and mindfully choose to accept or reject the new information to modify your old scripts and narratives about it.

Wrapped up in a Lapse and double layered in a bag full of guilt and shame if you have really gone through a thorough Change READINESS coaching and relapse prevention Planning. So this next #smahooBIT step and intervention is critical to your successfull Recovery relapseREScue.

Learn Shirvington Hannays signature 2nd smahooBIT Brief Intervention to RESCUE yourSELF from a RElapse.

Learn Shirvington Hannays signature 1st smahooBIT Brief Intervention to RESCUE yourSELF from a RElapse.

Looking at what are the predisposition factors that are use to position the Disease Model of Addiction.

From "like a Disease" to "Is a Disease", how did we get here? How did E. M. Jellinek's analogy for Alcoholism being like a "Disease" evolved into "Addiction is a Disease?" EPISODE 2.

From "like a Disease" to "Is a Disease", how did we get here? How did E. M. Jellinek's analogy for Alcoholism being like a "Disease" evolved into "Addiction is a Disease?" EPISODE 1.

This episode is an introduction to a 3 to 4 part mini series I will cover in exploring the Disease Model, Theory and Concept.

In this episode I take the position and present several arguments in support of my theory that addiction is not a Disease. However, that it can be argued that due to substance abuse and misuse, areas of the Brain becomes altered and as such its functioning in the affected areas are altered.

What can't a person with an Addiction just get their act together and just stop using the drug of choice or the behaviour they have lost control to. What then is the key to understand to have managed recovery.

This episode explores and looks at what happens in the body; the Brain more specifically after substances enters the body and gets to the place it usually has an effect at or on. Put another way, what the drugs or substance does to the body and what the body does to the substance or drug once it gets into the body.

Making the distinction between Substance Abuse against Addiction(s), and why it isn't a Brain disease.

Using the 11 criteria for Substance use disorders to explore the 4 grouping that indicates impairment and loss of ability to control one's use and or addictive behaviours.

This episode takes and gives an overview of Substance Use disorders or what is generally refers to as addiction. A distinction is make about Substance Use against Abuse or Misuse. Then wraps up with an overview of the 11 criteria used by Mental Health Professional to make a decision or diagnosis about a person's level or severity of a substance Use-related disorder.