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Do You Need Addiction Treatment? Consider Whether Your Lifestyle Matches Your Values? If It Doesn’t…Maybe You Do
Overcoming ambivalence: How does the ‘ideal you’ compare with the ‘current you’? Not sure? Well, take a few minutes to complete the following exercise and find out how far you’ve strayed from the life you’d love to have. If your lifestyle strays too far from your goals and values, you may want to consider serious action to get back on track.
Should You Go to Rehab? Use a Decisional Balancing Exercise to Decide
Think you need rehab or some form of addiction treatment but struggling with ambivalence and indecision? Take 10 minutes to try this cognitive behavioral technique called decisional balancing and you might find it easier to evaluate the pros and cons and to choose the best course of action.
Should You Quit Drinking or Drugs? Find Out with 4 Easy Exercises
Should you or shouldn’t you quit drinking or drugs? Ambivalence is normal, but you’ll feel better once you make a firm decision, one way or the other. Here are 4 easy exercises to help you.
Going to Rehab is Scary - Learn How to Get Past Your Fears
It is normal for addicts to have fears about going to inpatient treatment. With a little change of perspective, you can turn your fears into reasons to go instead.
Should You Quit Marijuana and Alcohol? How to Evaluate Your Situation
If you drink or smoke marijuana make sure it's a conscious and examined choice - one you've made after looking carefully at the pros and cons of your decisions. You’ve only got one life to live so make it a conscious one and make it count – and if alcohol and marijuana pull you down, have the resolve to make some changes.
Quitting Benzodiazepines – Weighing the Pros and Cons
Thinking about quitting but not sure if you’re ready? Want to quit but worried about the withdrawal symptoms and your pre-medication anxiety? To stop or not…how to make up your mind!?! Well, read on to find a list of common quitting pros and cons, and then make your own list – and then make a decision, once and for all.
Are You Ready to Quit Drinking? Overcoming Ambivalence to Change
Few people make a decision to quit alcohol for good before resolving feelings of ambivalence about drinking – after all, if there wasn’t something we enjoyed about alcohol then why would anyone ever develop a problem?! Read on to answer a few quick questions that should help you to clarify what is that you like and don’t like about drinking and what it is you’d like and not like about quitting – so that you’ll develop a better idea about whether you are ready to quit for good!
When Partying Gets Boring: Growing Up and Overcoming Ambivalence to Change
There comes a time for each of us when we reflect on our lifestyle and see that it's time for a change. The New Year is the most popular time of year to do this. Start out 2014 by considering whether partying still matches the life you want today.