Comments on: The Psycho Sign http://discoveringalcoholic.com/alcoholism/the-psycho-sign The Discovering Alcoholic is a top rated recovery blog covering alcoholism, substance abuse, treatment and recovery issues. Sun, 20 May 2012 23:01:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: lisaf-breakingthecycles http://discoveringalcoholic.com/alcoholism/the-psycho-sign#comment-1375 lisaf-breakingthecycles Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://discoveringalcoholic.com/?p=1614#comment-1375 I have decades of experience on the codependent side of this family disease fence, and the way you've described it is perfect. I chuckled when I read "the only thing I ever accomplished was the perverted solace that things could be worse." That was certainly true for me! It took a loved one going into a residential treatment program for alcoholism about five years ago -- a program that had a strong "help the family" component -- to finally get me to recognize I had a problem ["the psycho sign'] and thus started on my own road/journey to recovery. I have decades of experience on the codependent side of this family disease fence, and the way you’ve described it is perfect. I chuckled when I read “the only thing I ever accomplished was the perverted solace that things could be worse.” That was certainly true for me! It took a loved one going into a residential treatment program for alcoholism about five years ago — a program that had a strong “help the family” component — to finally get me to recognize I had a problem ["the psycho sign'] and thus started on my own road/journey to recovery.

]]> By: The Discovering Alcoholic http://discoveringalcoholic.com/alcoholism/the-psycho-sign#comment-1376 The Discovering Alcoholic Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://discoveringalcoholic.com/?p=1614#comment-1376 belittling the family portion of my rehab as overboard and "touchy-feely" nonsense. I was wrong, just wish it wouldn't have taken me so long to figure that one out. belittling the family portion of my rehab as overboard and “touchy-feely” nonsense. I was wrong, just wish it wouldn’t have taken me so long to figure that one out.

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