by Dr. Howard C. Samuels | Jul 22, 2021 | Addiction Treatment, Psychotherapy
If you’re dealing with love addiction recovery, then you should know that self-care is important. However, if you’re like many love addicts, self-care might feel like a foreign concept. That’s because love addicts have a very hard time practicing... 
by Dr. Howard C. Samuels | Jul 20, 2021 | Addiction Treatment, Psychotherapy
Love addiction—which is also called pathological love—is a type of behavioral addiction where the person becomes addicted to falling in love with someone. This process of falling in love gives the person a dopamine hit that they seek to repeat. Like any other... 
by Dr. Howard C. Samuels | Jul 13, 2021 | Addiction Treatment, Psychotherapy
Love addiction is a type of behavioral addiction where the addict becomes addicted to the feeling of being in love. It’s important to realize that love addiction is not simply a nice way to refer to sex addiction, but that it’s actually an addiction in and... 
by Dr. Howard C. Samuels | Jun 22, 2021 | Addiction Treatment
When someone is called a high-functioning alcoholic, it usually means that they’re able to cope with and carry out their daily lives despite technically having an alcohol use disorder. One of the primary traits associated with alcoholics is that they lose interest in... 
by Dr. Howard C. Samuels | Jun 14, 2021 | Couples Counseling
Are you stuck in a codependency triangle? You might be in one and not even know it. Codependency is a popular term in current psychology circles and many relationship experts help clients recognize it. The codependency triangle has several different names, but they... 
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