Compulsive exercising is a substitute addiction. Psychotherapy will help with the stress, anxiety, and depression behind all addictions, which are coping techniques. There are more effective ways...
Compulsive exercising is a substitute addiction. Psychotherapy will help with the stress, anxiety, and depression behind all addictions, which are coping techniques. There are more effective ways to cope.
I hope this doesn't come across as rude, but I don't think I saw the significance touched on on the article. @split-olive-evil-tips turned a light bulb on in my head. Is there a pervasive...
I hope this doesn't come across as rude, but I don't think I saw the significance touched on on the article. @split-olive-evil-tips turned a light bulb on in my head.
Is there a pervasive misconception that women just don't have these problems? Her story seems pretty standard to me for a worse case of alcoholism.
I ask because while I'm fighting (and winning) my own battle here I guess I haven't thought about the bigger picture or even gendered misconceptions. I guess women "having it more together" can tie into myths one tells them self, or even others tell them, about their alcoholism.
On a re-read, the issue is also that women's alcohol-related deaths increased 2% faster than men's which, for potentially bad (for me) reasons I was surprised by.
Increased awareness is always a good thing and could be that nudge somebody needs to make a change. I guess I was thinking through this in a comment.
As an older woman, I don't know what it is like today for women, but in my generation women were more likely to hide their alcoholism and be more harshly judged for alcoholic displays, especially...
As an older woman, I don't know what it is like today for women, but in my generation women were more likely to hide their alcoholism and be more harshly judged for alcoholic displays, especially if they were mothers and/or wives. So I don't know if there were as many of us as there were of men, but it could just be we hid it from society. Women older than myself that I have spoken to talk about being put on all types of pills to deal with the behavior they exhibited from alcoholism without anyone pointing at alcohol as being the problem.
Erica C. Barnett, an independent journalist here in Seattle (you can read her work at Publicola) wrote a book along similar lines: Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery from an...
Erica C. Barnett, an independent journalist here in Seattle (you can read her work at Publicola) wrote a book along similar lines:
This is a story of so many people, and so many women in particular who are sloppy and messy and difficult and do things they are not proud of. We are taught to believe that women aren't messy the way that we are, don't do things that are embarrassing. By reclaiming that, I'm also saying: You have permission to be a screw up. You have permission to not be perfect.
Compulsive exercising is a substitute addiction. Psychotherapy will help with the stress, anxiety, and depression behind all addictions, which are coping techniques. There are more effective ways to cope.
I hope this doesn't come across as rude, but I don't think I saw the significance touched on on the article. @split-olive-evil-tips turned a light bulb on in my head.
Is there a pervasive misconception that women just don't have these problems? Her story seems pretty standard to me for a worse case of alcoholism.
I ask because while I'm fighting (and winning) my own battle here I guess I haven't thought about the bigger picture or even gendered misconceptions. I guess women "having it more together" can tie into myths one tells them self, or even others tell them, about their alcoholism.
On a re-read, the issue is also that women's alcohol-related deaths increased 2% faster than men's which, for potentially bad (for me) reasons I was surprised by.
Increased awareness is always a good thing and could be that nudge somebody needs to make a change. I guess I was thinking through this in a comment.
As an older woman, I don't know what it is like today for women, but in my generation women were more likely to hide their alcoholism and be more harshly judged for alcoholic displays, especially if they were mothers and/or wives. So I don't know if there were as many of us as there were of men, but it could just be we hid it from society. Women older than myself that I have spoken to talk about being put on all types of pills to deal with the behavior they exhibited from alcoholism without anyone pointing at alcohol as being the problem.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/01/opinions/women-alcohol-related-deaths-filipovic/index.html#:~:text=According%20to%20this%20research%2C%20from,a%205.2%25%20increase%20among%20men.
https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohols-effects-health/alcohol-topics/alcohol-facts-and-statistics/alcohol-related-emergencies-and-deaths-united-states#:~:text=It%20is%20estimated%20that%20more,physical%20inactivity%2C%20and%20illegal%20drugs.
Erica C. Barnett, an independent journalist here in Seattle (you can read her work at Publicola) wrote a book along similar lines:
Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery
from an interview with her about it: