Take Off Your Emotional Boxing Gloves

I spent most of my younger life falling in and out of “love.” I would chase someone for months, charm them, date them, start a relationship, and then…right when everything should have been perfect, I would start to distance myself emotionally from them. Basically, the exact moment they started to search for the “real me”…

Don’t Feed The Beast

So often, as an addict, I fall into a pit of despair and tell myself that: I am not good enough nobody loves me the people who say that they love me don’t really love me anyone could do my job better than I do it I will never get better. At other times I…

Speaker Ryan + POTUS Have Strange Response to The Drug Problem (Again)

About a week ago Speaker Ryan talked about the importance of the border in preventing Heroin from entering the United States and today the President spoke, in his inaugural address, about inner-cities infected with the scourge of drugs. Both statements misunderstand the Drug Problem in out country at a fundamental level. Speaker Ryan, with due…

New Study Shows Benefits of CBT alone vs. SSRI’s or Combos

I am not a medical professional but I try to read as many relevant studies as I can in the areas of depression, anxiety, and addiction and recovery. As someone who suffers from panic disorder and addiction, many aspects of both afflictions seem co-productive to me. Anyway, a recent study has come out that suggests…

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Amen To Anthony Bourdain on Reddit Today

by Joshua Hoe Anthony Bourdain (Author, Chef, Traveler, and CNN Personality) said the following during a Reddit AMA today: I am Anthony Bourdain and I’m really good at finding cool shit. AMA.. “I think the pharmaceutical companies have to share some responsibility here, but I think it’s sort of the final evidence of the utter…

Cable & Satellite Corporations and The Porn Problem

by Joshua Hoe As a sex addict, I have learned to stay away from, or at least avoid most adult entertainment. After a discussion that I had with a friend of mine (who works with a local cable company and was talking about how profitable porn is for cable companies), I made the mistake of…

Moral Failure vs. Responsibility

by Josh Hoe Many people’s heads start to spin when they see me post articles that claim that “Addiction is not a Moral Failure.” I suspect that they think that I am giving absolution to people who commit terrible acts while ‘acting out’ on whatever their addictive substance or behavior is. First, I don’t have…

Learning to Listen With Empathy, Not Engage In Problem-Solving

by Joshua Hoe So, I want to tell you about a problem I used to have in relationships that I had no idea was a problem (until now). Responding to the emotions my partner’s shared with me with nothing but problem-solving. It would almost always go something like this: One of my romantic partners would…

Stop Calling Me A “Criminal”

by Joshua Hoe I am a formerly incarcerated person who is pro-gun control. But, I want to say this clearly and with no confusion. I am not a “Criminal.” Yes, you will inevitably post a definition in response that says a “criminal” is anyone who has committed a crime. In that case, virtually everyone in…