Category: Sober living

However, feeling uncontrollable, maladaptive, or otherwise inappropriate anger can signal an underlying problem, particularly when you also have symptoms of depression. More knowledge about optimal treatments for co-occurring AUD and depressive disorders is needed. Although medication and behavioral therapy have both shown promise, response rates have been somewhat modest. Efforts to enhance treatment outcomes would benefit from investigation into the characteristics of people who do not respond to existing treatments. A better understanding of the heterogeneity within this population will…

Until you address the centrality of your relationship to overworking, little else is likely to change. It’s important to look beneath compulsive working and gain insight into what causes you to seek a sanctuary from the uncertainties of living a fully present life with all its textures and disappointments. Here, Nikki shares the diary entries—some poetic, some scatterbrained, some bizarre—of those dark times. Being Sober It’s a thirty-day period when we take time to recognize and advocate for people in…

This scale was developed specifically to assess learning burnout among college students and has been widely used in China [53]. The LBUS includes 20 items, with a total score ranging from 20 to 100 and a cut-off point of 60 indicating learning burnout [54]. After recovery, some people with AUD may need support from friends and family. You can help by offering unconditional support, including abstaining from drinking yourself. When someone with AUD lives in your household, the rest of…