One of the best-proven paths to recovery is the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, but adapted to a particular sexual addiction. The 12-step program helps members restore their network of human relationships, especially in their family. Members are taught how...

Being dependent on another person for your emotional well-being isn't a healthy way to live.

If someone in your family has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, then you know that it impacts each member of the family! This is especially true if the person with the diagnosis lives with you.

Having a parent or loved one with schizophrenia or other mental illnesses presents unique challenges.

It is not as portrayed in entertainment media, here is a look at the real story.

There is help for those suffering with bipolar disorder.

An overview of the process to get diagnosed and the help that is needed.

Although at this point schizophrenia cannot be diagnosed in younger years, promising research is being done.

In my journey along the road to recovery from a crazy childhood, I learned about an interesting idea called "re-parenting ourselves." What that means is that those of us who had less than ideal family situations when we were children...

Today autism is the biggest and fastest-growing mental disorder in the world. In the last decade, the U.S. population has increased by 13 percent. Autism alone in the last decade has increased 173 percent. Such a dramatic increase makes it...

I have been battling what I thought was a weight problem for a long, long time. I've finally come to realize it's a spiritual, thinking and acting problem.

Addictions are powerful forces that imbed deeply into one's brain and psyche.

That probably sounds ridiculous, even ludicrous. And it is. But having had anorexia nervosa, my "best friend" was once the scale. The numbers on the scale don't rule all my thoughts as they once did, but I could probably still...

July 18, 1988: "I have to do something about myself and quick. It's getting very hard to breathe. I have no energy. I hate myself. I always feel sick, and I'm so skinny that my stomach sinks in and I...

This is a question that I have meditated on for a long time. Of course, I know throughout our converted lives we ask why God called us. We understand that He calls the weak and the base of this world...

When struggling with any addiction, including overeating, God is there to help you overcome.

Alcoholism results in the deaths of over 100,000 people a year in the United States alone. Alcohol is also involved in 30 percent of suicides, 55 percent of auto fatalities, 65 percent of deaths by drowning and a staggering 85...

Jeff Foxworthy has a routine that goes, "If your porch falls down and kills four of your five dogs, you might be a redneck."

In the previous article the topic of alcoholism was introduced by showing the need for learning more about this widespread problem. Let us now seek to understand the nature of alcoholism and how it differs from alcohol abuse.

Alcohol abuse doesn't affect just the abuser.