by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Feb 23, 2021 | Marriage and Relationships
Here are 4 categories of people running away from themselves: People addicted to one thing or another – alcohol, drugs, gambling, porn, shopping, working exceptionally long hours, explosive anger/rages, cutting, purging, lying, or cheating. Schizophrenics,...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | May 4, 2012 | Mental Health
I can think of a bunch of magazines that would go out of business if we weren’t real curious about the lives of celebrities. Not to mention the TV and movie industries that thrive on it. The same goes for the ordinary gossip about the woman down the block. Why...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Mar 5, 2012 | Neuroscience
When depression hits, what do you do? When your Life Partner is not good enough to chase away the anxiety, what do you do? When past, black predictions by parents or others of your future failure, haunt your thoughts, what do you do? Well, of course, you blame your...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Dec 22, 2006 | Mental Health
REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION from the Florida Jewish News Look,” I said to Lawrence a week after he decided to quit drugs for good, “this is going to be really, really hard because eventually, you’re going to be in pain and you won’t wanna stay there. That’s when you...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Feb 18, 2004 | Mental Health
Step 4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. Never, ever kick yourself in the rear for your past. This is NOT how Steps 4-8 of the 12 Steps should be done. Looking at what you did–or were not able to do–admitting it, asking for help...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Feb 18, 2004 | Mental Health
Step 1.We admitted we were powerless over alcohol – that our lives had become unmanageable. Acknowledging weakness is very scary. It means letting go of the one thing that may have kept us alive–substances. These steps pertain also to any other addiction...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Dec 9, 2003 | Mental Health
Step 6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. Well, I’m going to be iconoclastic. I don’t think that the things we do that hurt others are necessarily defects of character. So, I might be parting ways with the terminology...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Dec 4, 2003 | Mental Health
Substance abuse and addictions do not occur in a vacuum. It is not merely the result of vulnerable kids becoming involved with the wrong crowd. If only it were that simple. In fact, substance abuse is more a symptom of the real problem than “the” problem....
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Dec 4, 2003 | Mental Health
Step 3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. If you thought this one would be simple and obvious, you have another guess coming. This step is about nothing less than the meaning of life: Why are we here? What is...
