Texas Addiction Recovery Blog
Fear of Success
Recovery is an ongoing process. While rehab can be a great tool, it’s only the beginning. Many factors lead to people’s addictions and their entry into rehab. Rehab facilities help people identify and address these factors, but rehab isn’t magic. It’s not some magic...
Fearing Failure
Many of us have feared failure at one point or another in our lives. Although I deal with this fear, too, I always thought thought it was kind of strange. For one, fearing failure is fearing something that is intangible, an idea. It’s not something tangible, like a...
Substance Use Disorder and Hiding Fear
We talked recently about self-confidence and the idea that we should consider faking it (confidence) until we make it. Some people might worry that this is a sign of being fake, of being inauthentic. This fear seems to be a common concern. It also relates to other...
Fake It Until You Make It
“Fake it until you make it” is a phrase we often hear when we’re discussing mental health. While a lot of similar-sounding, rhyming phrases seem overly cutesy, this phrase can be useful. It can especially be useful when we’re treating mental health and substance use...
Focusing on the Present and the Future
We’ve been talking about how we often beat ourselves up for things we did or said in the past. This kind of criticism is counterproductive, because we all know that we can’t change the past. But we can change things in the present. In fact, changing some things in the...
Dealing with Imperfect Pasts
In this blog, we often talk about how our thoughts can influence our actions. This seems pretty common in cases of drug addiction and alcohol abuse. People sometimes abuse drugs or alcohol to try to block certain thoughts. They often try to blot out their pasts. This...
Mindset and Recovery
“Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical,” famed baseball player and manager Yogi Berra once supposedly said. While Berra’s math might be suspect, we see his point. Sports are both physical and mental. Substance use disorder is also both...
Ways to Boost Self-Confidence
Low self-confidence can contribute to substance use disorder, as people might use alcohol or drugs to try to forget their feelings of low self-confidence and other negative feelings. While rehab can do wonders in help addicted individuals, people need to continue to...
Being Confident
Confidence is an interesting thing. Having confidence in ourselves can help us in so many ways. On the other hand, if we don’t have self-confidence, this lack of confidence can have negative repercussions on so many areas of our lives. For example, low self-confidence...
Avoiding Dependency
When people complete rehab, they sometimes discover that they have to build new lives for themselves. These lives can involve building a new social circle. Recovering addicts might have to find new friends. The might have to separate themselves from relatives, old...
