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I Hate You – Don’t Leave Me! – Severing The Attachment To Addiction.

February 2, 2015 By Christine Askew BA, MA, MSc Leave a Comment

I Hate You – Don’t Leave Me! – Severing The Attachment To Addiction.You probably know this cycle well. You promise yourself that you are going to stop. You do well for a few days, a month or even longer then for some reason, you find yourself back in the pub, calling your dealer or getting a bottle of wine on the way home from work. The next morning, after a night of excess, you wake up to those excruciating feelings of shame, anxiety, self-loathing and remorse as you try to remember what you did and said or maybe you are acutely aware of what you did and are trying to work out how to execute damage control. Again you swear that this is it, you are definitely never going to drink or use again. Until the next time.

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