How To Stop Addictive Behavior
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024
- How to stop addictive behavior and avoid relapses for good! Identify irrational thinking patterns that can trigger relapse and contribute to ongoing addictive behaviors. You're beliefs, values, and fears are controlling your behaviors.
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Thank for all of you to come in today for your day today at my appointment with the doctor for a week of class so we are not sure yet what are they are you are not coming today or Sunday we will need a time and a
I am an addiction counselor and my groups love your videos. The videos are so helpful for them. Thank you for doing what you do!!
Awwww, thanks! That warms my heart 🥰🥰🥰Let me know if you ever have a special request topic!
I’ve spent several days watching and re-watching your videos. Getting honest with myself is a hurdle I can’t seem to get over. I don’t know how to get over this relapse. I know all the steps I need to do, but I don’t do them. WTF I’m going to try waiting 10 minutes for craving to pass
People get clean everyday in all kinds of conditions addiction is just a mindset we have to change
FACTS!
Amber, you are one smart lady and so easy to understand. I just love you. I have two grown sons who have put my nerves to the test. Thank you for videos ☺️
You are so welcome!
I am new here and i am 38 days clean this time. I have relapsed so so many times. I fell in love with you instantly!! Your amazing. I need you as a counselor for the rest of my life..
Awwwww, thanks Jay! 😊
Great video. One of the most important and practical facts/advice that I’ve heard has to do with intense cravings lasting only a short period of time (5-9 minutes)…if you don’t FUEL them. This last part is the key. Addicts usually fuel cravings because their brain literally cannot think of anything else and all behavior becomes focused on satisfying the craving (by using.)
The midbrain drives this obsessive thought, and it is in complete control for 3-5 minutes. Don’t ever let your DOC be within 3-5 minutes of acquisition. Best single piece of practical advice IMO.
Good advice, Bret!
I’m an addiction counselor at a treatment center. Thank you Amber for good information. I listen to you a lot!
Hi Melinda, Thank you for all the hard work you do! We need as many soldiers (fighting addiction) as we can get!
Thank you so much for posting these videos.
All the information you provide is priceless.
It's really hard to get an appointment with a professional like you during this pandemic. And not just a professional but someone that has experience dealing with people and family members with addiction. I am sure there are plenty of people who feel the same way about your content.
THANK YOU.
You're so sweet. Thank you, Brizie!
@@PutTheShovelDown in your professional opinion do you think that if a recovery addict who relapses at times but is taking saboxone do you think that person is in recovery or still an addict? Thank you!
@@utube0372 hi how you goin, Ive experienced the same with a loved one. Technically for me that would not be considered as an Addiction anymore given that he put his self into treatment to stop his addiction. The only problem i see with this is that the brain will just be confused find it hard to heal if he do not stop taking illicit drugs completely. Remember as per research- it will take about 1-2 years of Soberiety for a drug addict to feel normal depending on the gravity of there usage. If theres an underlying mental illness that needed to be addressed is when things become more complex as it they also use it to self medicate to overcome the mental health symptoms some of them are from the damage of addiction but it could also be from underlying Psychiatric disease. Hope that helps and God bless.
What do you think? @Put the Shovel Down ??
@@aldzbp I completely agree with you. Thank you so much for your response. And having them seek professional help to find out if they have a mental illness is another big challenge cuz sadly most of them are in denial and say I'm totalllllly fine.... 🙈
Amber, I couldn’t agree more about humility. As a Probation Officer, the people I see who make the greatest changes have it. It’s a really amazing thing to watch the transformation of those who have it, and especially those who acquire it along the way. ❤
It is wonderful getting to watch someone transform their life. 💓
@@PutTheShovelDown It’s the best! It’s totally why we do what we do, and apparently why I found myself in the personal situation I’m in as well.
Can you day what you learned by watching?
I often hear: if you really want..
True, But that works not with addiction, you hate it, really have the will to quit, but Next day the feelings are stronger
Great work ❤
@@susannaspitalsky7502 ❤️
Please make many more videos.i need all the good advice and help I can get from you .I am stuck in this relapsing limited beliefs so I am really going to listen to this.thank you Amber.i am really going to try to get clean and sober for my family.
Hey Paula, I'm not sure if you've seen this one, but I thought it might be helpful. It's about getting back on track after a relapse: ruclips.net/video/q98F9K0pDng/видео.html
Thank you so much! You really have such a caring personality, it's so cool of you to put these videos online to help people. It felt like you were describing me! I don't know why I'm surprised, it makes total sense that many people fall into the same mental patterns that I have... Making myself the party guy, the guy who throws the best parties, the rockstar type, always assuming that drugs will absolutely make the night better when they actually almost always make the night worse. Assuming that drugs are the only way to overcome anxiety in social situations. I've been believing all that without realising it. So cool that you've brought it to my conscious, with time I'm sure I can remember it in every situation
I love your insight and honesty, Perry!
There’s is one thing I do know staying away from drugs my life will be happy I have never really been happy anytime on the drugs it’s a living hell x
Amen sister!!!
Thank you!
I play your videos at our Women’s life change center in Sacramento. So simple to helpful and floods us with hope!
That’s so great. Thank you for being e spread the videos!
im watching this while detoxing herion thank you
Wow! I'm impressed you can watch anything while detoxing from heroin. You're obviously taking it seriously.
@@PutTheShovelDown when I wrote this I was in like the first 10, 15 hours. I ended up relasping but I just have to keep on trying, trying different techniques and method and take it one day at a time. I like to watch just about anything and everything to help keep my mind focus and concentrated on something other than the withdrawal symptoms cause if don't keep my mind concentrated on something I end up focusing on all the withdrawal symptoms which will raise my anxiety and it will make me feel like my withdrawal symptoms are worse than what they really are and ill end up just freaking out and relasping. I really like your videos alot and I plan on watching more to help give me different techniques or approach things in a different way to figure out what works best for me. I live inn area that is filled with addicts. Even if you go to a doctor to try to get help they don't care. I've been to quite a few and every single one of them just treats you like a junkie. I've been to multiple rehabs pretty much all of them are the same the last rehab I went to a rehab when the time came and I hit the peak of my withdrawal and really going though it I asked to talk to a councilor to help calm me down and they wouldn't let me talk to any of the councilors that were on site (and I was trying to be so strong, I was coping extremely well and I wasn't being disruptive at all I was doing was just walking up and down the hallway, taking hot showers and leaning on a wall and just curling up in a ball crying silently in the hallway and it was past bed time so there wasn't any other patients in the hall way and I made sure I was being extremely quiet and because I was at the peak of withdrawal and I was freaking out they wouldn't try to even help me or talk me through it. after the first 5 mins they threatened to kick me out if I didn't stop and just go to bed cause they didn't want to deal with me which were their exact words then after 10 mins I was kicked out and I was trying so extremely hard to get through it. I truly believe if they would have just talked me through it and just just let me continue to calm myself down I would have made it cause that's how strong I was being. Its sucks cause they are supposed to be a rehab to help people get though stuff like that. They didn't even Wanna deal with me and threw me out in the middle of the night. Every single doctor or rehab I've been to just doesn't care a treats you horrible like I'm nothing but a drug addict and ill never change so they don't even try. I've never been to one doctor or facility that tries to help you they are just there for the money not to help people. I've love watching your videos cause it makes me feel like there is actually someone out there wanting to help us addicts and watch us grow and blossom into sobriety. You have giving me some hope and some great advice and as we speak Ive been trying to using some of you technics to help get me through this. I wish I was luckIy enough to get someone as incredible as you who actually believe in addicts like myself. I wish there were more people out in the world like you, the world would definitely be be a better place!
@@kirstenmasten5367 wow, you’ve really been through the wringer! I’ve worked in a detox center before and I know what your taking about. I think the staff does it so long they get compassion fatigue. I bet you’d really benefit from seeing an addiction counselor (one on one). You clearly want to beat your addiction!
Thank you! Amazing advice that hits to the heart of the problem. I will set up an appt. on your website.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for your presence here ❤️
so glad my counselor showed us your video today! I will be back!
That's wonderful! I'm so glad too. Welcome to our little community. 💖
8/17/23
Hi Amber, do you see clients privately still?
I know you are very busy with the channel. You are amazing and I also have been treating clients for about 20 years.
keep going on you tube, you have the gift of insight and your funny… so needed to treat addicts and get family members to open up.
This is your calling , for sure! Congrats on your success…
Please let me know, I cant find anyone that is as good as you..
God bless,
Elisa Warren
NJ
Thank you🙂
Hi Elisa, I do still see some coaching clients. I have a strengths based coaching program that I love! Are you also a counselor 😍?
Thank you ❤️ Amazing Amber! I have heard Lisa you don’t understand you don’t walk in my shoes how would you know :(. But if he came back, I’d take him back and help him ... I still believe he can
I can tell that you see the good in him. 😊
I can tell that you see the good in him 😊
My problem i think is I'm not happy in my own skin. I use to cover up the feelings i don't like.
Just remember, Just because you have a feeling, doesn't mean it's true. Feelings are just chemical messengers designed to motivate you toward and/or away from certain things. Sometimes it's helpful to step back and analayze what the feeling is trying to tell you.
@@PutTheShovelDown I think I need restructure my life again. I know I can do it because im able to bounce back but only because I'm working a program. Before the programs i gave up easy. Thank you for always commenting back.
Thank you Amber for this video. My wife came back from alcoholism 15 years ago, and now she fell back into it. She gets furious at me every day when I bring up her drinking. Should I stop asking her about it and just ignore it?
John Thomas great question Thomas, you should stop asking, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do anything. She’s had recovery before so she knows there is an answer and a way out!
This is super helpful, Amber. Thank you so much!
I am happy I found your channel. So much useful information
I'm so glad!
Thank you a lot for this video. Your content is really valuable. I am in a process of recovery from a bad habit. I am experiencing muscle spasms and sleeplessness. Is this 'normal' in recovery ? My problem is that these symptoms worsen each time I go through a 'craving'. My doctor gave me a benzodiapine for relax before sleep, but I am reluctant to take addictive medication to overcome my sleeplessness
Thank you! I hear #5 all the time.
Thank you J!
This sounds so much like my husband 😓😓😓I’m loosing hope every minute
Thanks!
Wow! Thank you so very much❤️❤️
How do you know if someone’s addicted to prescription medication? My mother calls people addict and alcoholic, yet when her when her anxiety medications were lowered she obsesses about how bad she needs her medication
It's always hard to get people to see they're addicted if it's being prescribed. Does your mom run out of medicine early? Or get prescriptions from different doctors?
Thank you for your videos. I have a daughter who has been battling meth addiction for 15 yrs. As a parent I struggle with balancing the boundaries and empathy. I’ve been dx with stage 4 cancer and my daughter has relapsed a month ago.
So sorry to hear of your diagnosis. Please take care of yourself. Praying that she recovers and you as well. You are not alone
Wow sorry to hear that my wife also had stage 4 ovarian cancer and stress is not good for you I cut her off from some of her family because they were trying to give her more stress over some property we have best thing I could ever done I'll pray for you and your daughter
Very Good Advice thank you love ❤️🙏
So glad!
Thank you!!!.
Thank you for watching. Cometrx
Amazing video ♥️
Thank you so much 😀
Awesome I have my own RUclips channel called THE QUANTUM SIDE OF ADDICTION and I love your content.
Very well said
Thanks, Mickeycab1!
Thank you for this video, that makes so much sense!
Thanks for watching Tayler!
Yep yep yep!
My daughters r hooked on meth , my youngest daughter who lives with me and her 4 yr old son ,she went missing on Thanksgiving night ,she just comes home last night I had to let her in the house it was midnight and cold out ,how do I handle this and what type of rehab/counciling is good to treat her ?
Hi EG, Here's a link that will allow you to download a free copy of my Insiders Guide To Treatment Options. www.familyrecoveryacademy.online/motivational-interviewing-session-1
Can it be applied to love life? I have an addiction for my ex who is married… this addiction lasts for two years already and makes my life miserable every day… i hate mysef for my poor choices…. I need help🤦🏻♀️🥺
I have a video about that exact thing! ruclips.net/video/sILzL38Xlyg/видео.html
Do you know of any good addiction specialists and rehab centers in the Louisville, KY area?
Hi Betsy, I don't know personally about treatment centers in KY, but here's a website that helps families find good treatment centers. www.shatterproof.org/
What is the little white pills that helps block the endorphins from drinking
Is it naltrexone?
Is there even a point in asking them if they're having using thoughts when they say no and turn around and have needle marks in their arms? What if they don't want help? They think all rehabs are the same and it's all just a bunch of broken promises. He says there isn't much hope when someone started using opiods as a young teenager. I think there is and I joined smart recovery. I guess I'd prefer it for him to change if he's going to be living here, but I can't expect it or bring it up too much. I wanna encourage it. I'm still in early recovery for codependency myself.
Hi BAM BAM, there's probably not much point in asking if they have needle marks, but there are things you can do to move them toward change. Here's my playlist on motivating someone to take steps toward recovery: Hope this helps: ruclips.net/p/PLaaJWwIpP_zYtiUsXjYwB-GJEy2iJ24a4
Thank you
I feel like to be an addiction counsler you had to be an addict- This lady is as square as they get. She might know all the lingo, but doesnt understand the pain and trauma addict is going through.
Your addiction to cheeseburgers is visible to the naked eye! How much do you weigh 230 or more! Maybe you should walk the walk of your BS before you post! Good luck! Identify and let people know about your own addiction! Good luck! Don’t restrict yourself. Stop counting down to the next Big Mac!
Wow
What a rude person..wow
Your addiction to being an ugly, mean bully is visible to my eyes as I read this comment! You definitely need some therapy! Quit trying to put people down.
THANK YOU!🥹
My pleasure!
A million thanks for sharing your professional advice which is helping me enormously in my recovery! 🩷