addict
My wife told me that she lost the entire mortgage gambling. She has a gambling addiction — and that night, it came to a head.
Read...The sad reality is that many of us lose ourselves in addiction, and not enough make it out. In honor of National Recovery Month, I'm telling my story.
Read...We don’t have the luxury of personal choice in our use of language when we are talking about the highly stigmatized condition of addiction.
Read...About six months ago my partner dropped a major bomb on me. He told me he's a gambling addict and has been gambling in secret for the past year or two.
Read...I don’t know what “normal” is — that is to be not in crisis — because I never knew normal, to begin with. I am the crisis friend.
Read...Biologically speaking, I do have a "mother." There is a woman somewhere who gave birth to me. But that's not a mom and I really wish I had a mother!
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