Debra Whittam

Mental Health Therapist, & #Author. Specializing in #Addiction, #Anxiety, #Depression,Grief & Loss.

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"Am I Going to be Okay" - Weathering the Storms of #MentalIllness, #Addiction and #Grief #Memoir by https://t.co/HYMEGP8eQS

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@HghrPriestess Yes!!! June 6 for me. About as Gemini as it gets. Yay us

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@travisakers Daddy!!!!!

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@AnnaPodolanczuk Love you

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@YRP Male

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Nothing interrupts and changes lives more than the birth of a baby. What the relationship between the parents was before is forever changed. No matter how the originating factors are for the couple, that relationship is forever changed.
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The Bowen Center for the Study of the Family states, “A triangle is a three person relationship system.” Being the first born, my first triangle was the quintessential mother, father and baby. https://t.co/Q1ALQsixKk

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Free from most of the guilt of being blamed for just being me, I find others in recovery, my work and my personal life who finding their own journey towards acceptance. It’s okay to feel the way we do, to be who we are and continue to seek more. https://t.co/MBjoloecKc

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Conflict between two people already in relationship has always been my way in. It is a very interesting way to take a look at how we connect with family and friends through this family system point of view. https://t.co/Q1ALQsixKk

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The most wonderful part of being in recovery is learning how to do life without resentment. There is no relief from our inner emotional pain if we are blaming someone for how we feel. https://t.co/MBjoloecKc

#recovery #addiction

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As a direct result of untreated mental illness on our mom’s part and untreated alcoholism on my dad’s there was a lot of tiptoeing around them and doing as much as we could so they wouldn’t be mad or overwhelmed.
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#addiction #anxiety

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I’ve learned through these past 13 years of being in Recovery, from alcoholism, that a lifetime of blaming others and myself was hardwired into me from the start
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#recovery #addiction

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Without blaming my parents for one second of my childhood and adolescence, I learned and am learning not all that happened back then was bad. There were great days and great kindnesses. https://t.co/MBjoloecKc

#recovery #addiction

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Let’s work toward establishing facilities that attend to the patients directly after their initial stay at substance abuse and mental health facilities.
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#addiction #recovery

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Teens are watching what the parents are doing…watching how they treat one another for the most part, and then, how the parents treat the teens. As a nation and as the entire world plummets toward an ever increasing opiate & alcohol epidemic.....read more https://t.co/QMjgUHxgse

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Once the children enter their teen years, there is only one choice that parents can make, stop attempting to control everyone and everything; get your own help. The teens are NOT listening to the long-winded lectures of what parents think is best for them. https://t.co/QMjgUHxgse

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Many different types of anxiety and depression exist, new study finds https://t.co/HAhZG9a3X6 via @medical_xpress

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The alcoholism/drug addiction is the outward sign of what is going on in the family unit that needs to be healed. https://t.co/QMjgUHxgse

#addiction #recovery

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Our need in society is NOT one more ‘harm reduction’ technique as in Suboxone, Methadone or Narcan. They don’t work and it is finally being acknowledged as such. Narcan does NOT save lives, it prevents death as has been discussed in previous blogs. https://t.co/QMjgUHxgse