Addiction – Basic Steps Mental Health https://basicsteps.life Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:37:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 https://basicsteps.life/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/cropped-basic-steps-mental-health-siteicon-3-32x32.png Addiction – Basic Steps Mental Health https://basicsteps.life 32 32 156554076 Legal Assessments https://basicsteps.life/2026/04/legal-assessments/ https://basicsteps.life/2026/04/legal-assessments/#respond Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:24:42 +0000 https://basicsteps.life/?p=20226 In 2017, I opened Basic Steps Mental Health, a clinic that assists people with mental health issues and issues with substance addiction. What we offer are individual sessions, group sessions, family sessions, an intensive outpatient program, and a partial hospitalization program—which is temporarily on hold. It is a big undertaking offering six hours of treatment […]

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]]> https://basicsteps.life/2026/04/legal-assessments/feed/ 0 20226 An AI Intervention https://basicsteps.life/2026/04/an-ai-intervention/ https://basicsteps.life/2026/04/an-ai-intervention/#respond Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:50:21 +0000 https://basicsteps.life/?p=12996 Okay, so I am addicted. Do I have to claim that I am powerless and that a power greater than myself is going to restore me to sanity? Yeah, no. I’m not into that kind of language. However, for the past 10 days, I have been addicted to AI and just can’t stop. I have […]

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]]> https://basicsteps.life/2026/04/an-ai-intervention/feed/ 0 12996 Homeless for the Holidays https://basicsteps.life/2025/01/homeless-for-the-holidays/ https://basicsteps.life/2025/01/homeless-for-the-holidays/#respond Wed, 15 Jan 2025 13:00:48 +0000 https://basicsteps.life/?p=5595 I was setting up my office Christmas tree this past holiday and what flashed on me was how I was homeless this time of the year in 1981. Unfortunately, I was not alone.  Each year more and more people are homeless, familyless, or friendless. That storybook holiday so often packaged each year on TV and […]

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]]> https://basicsteps.life/2025/01/homeless-for-the-holidays/feed/ 0 5595 Can an Addiction be Good? https://basicsteps.life/2024/06/can-an-addiction-be-good/ https://basicsteps.life/2024/06/can-an-addiction-be-good/#respond Wed, 19 Jun 2024 15:02:29 +0000 https://basicsteps.life/?p=2653 What is an addiction? An addiction is something that you are compelled to do and find it almost impossible to stop. I know this isn’t the clinical definition, but this explanation is easy to understand in layman’s terms. It might be surprising to read that not all addictions are bad. Addiction to exercise, healthy diet, […]

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]]> https://basicsteps.life/2024/04/energetic-family/feed/ 0 4541 Managing Withdrawals https://basicsteps.life/2022/10/managing-withdrawals/ https://basicsteps.life/2022/10/managing-withdrawals/#respond Tue, 04 Oct 2022 17:07:13 +0000 https://basicsteps.life/?p=3471 After writing three books, back-to-back, I have to admit that I am going through withdrawals. It isn’t as severe as when I was coming off drugs in 1981, but still, they are withdrawal symptoms nonetheless. It struck me that I go through this same process when I am dieting. Is everything in life an addiction? […]

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]]> https://basicsteps.life/2022/10/managing-withdrawals/feed/ 0 3471 Book Writing 101 https://basicsteps.life/2022/02/book-writing-101/ https://basicsteps.life/2022/02/book-writing-101/#respond Tue, 01 Mar 2022 05:20:18 +0000 https://basicsteps.life/?p=3195 Okay, I admit it. I am an addict. Addicted to writing. In a recent intervention from family and friends, I had to admit that I was powerless over the pen. Writing has some deep roots with me. Ever since I was a teenager I lived across the street from Ray Bradbury, the science fiction writer. […]

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]]> https://basicsteps.life/2022/02/book-writing-101/feed/ 0 3195 Breaking an Addiction https://basicsteps.life/2021/08/breaking-an-addiction/ https://basicsteps.life/2021/08/breaking-an-addiction/#respond Wed, 18 Aug 2021 03:52:35 +0000 https://basicsteps.life/?p=2919 Beyond all the theoretical approaches, the social support networks, the medication, the paraprofessionals, friends, and family, the thing that will get you through addiction is your determination. Psychologists explain addiction as a hard-wired pattern that is hard to break. When a stimulus happens, for example the desire to use, it is hard-wired to respond by […]

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]]> https://basicsteps.life/2021/08/breaking-an-addiction/feed/ 0 2919 What is an Addiction? https://basicsteps.life/2021/04/what-is-an-addiction/ https://basicsteps.life/2021/04/what-is-an-addiction/#respond Tue, 27 Apr 2021 21:16:25 +0000 https://basicsteps.life/?p=2698 What is an addiction? An addiction is something that you are compelled to do and find it almost impossible to stop. I know this isn’t the clinical definition, but simply put this explains it. Not all addictions are bad. Addiction to exercise, a healthy diet, personal growth work, education, and helping out humanity are positive […]

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