Drug Addiction
The Trauma-Addiction Nexus
The addiction specialist, doctor and author Gabor Mate says learning how to deal with past trauma is the key to tackling …
mental health
Recovery
Beware Your Sobriety Count
Writer and recovering addict Doran Lamb on why counting your sober days may not be as helpful as you think I …
Drug Addiction
Alcoholism
My Husband is an Alcoholic
The writer of this piece wishes to remain anonymous My husband is an alcoholic. Well, we would disagree with that …
Recovery
The Window of Life
I got to pick my kid up from school yesterday, walk him home, cook him dinner, play a video game which …
Mental Health
The Serenity Pulpit
‘Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.’ The Buddha If raised in conversation today, the matter of mindfulness …
Mental Health
An Unexpected Diagnosis
The roiling psychodrama that is my life was presented recently with a new conundrum, namely a diagnosis of bipolar disorder. I’m …
Mental Health
My Monster is Me
Nikki Madan writes movingly about her struggle with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder My Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) manifested at what everyone …
Mental Health
Andrew Eborn – Latest Interview with Nick Jordan
In a follow-up to Andrew Eborn’s original interview, Deep Sober publisher Nick Jordan talks about how he coped with his recent …
Recovery
The Opposite of Addiction
Watch British journalist Johann Hari’s brilliant TED Talk on the nature of, and possible cure for, addiction.