RAD--rethinking alcohol and drugs
'EFFECTS OF RAD:' http://www.villagebh.com/disorders/reactive-attachment/symptoms-signs-effects
QUOTE: The complications of reactive attachment disorder can continue into adolescence and into later adulthood, causing a number of long-term negative effects. Some of these effects may include:
Poor self-esteem
Delayed physical growth or learning
Challenges in scholastic environment that may lead a teen with RAD to drop out of school
Delinquent or antisocial behavior
Temper or anger problems
Relationship problems
Eating problems leading to malnutrition
Academic problems
Depression
Anxiety
Substance and alcohol addiction
Unemployment or frequent job changes
Inappropriate sexual behaviors
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The Link Between Adult Attachment Styles and Sex and Love Addiction
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On the other hand, if the mother is chronically dysregulated herself, meaning depressed or anxious, she will then impart those same patterns to her infant. This means that the infant will not have the brain or nervous system structures in place to regulate or self-soothe herself as an adult. When that happens, the depressed or anxious traits become insecure states and attachment patterns in the person. For example, we've all known people who are chronically depressed or constantly anxious. At the extremes, a highly dysregulated nervous system can lead to the making of an addict. Addicts, whether they're using drugs, alcohol, food, love, or sex to soothe themselves, are typically chronically dysregulated. They're seeking relief from underlying issues like depression or anxiety and can't get it. Because they didn't get the appropriate input and modeling for how to seek and receive comfort from the adults in their lives, they turn to substances or behaviors that will give them temporary relief from their own internal dysregulation. Over time, the habituated use of sex or obsessive love, become patterned behaviors that are difficult to stop.
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Is Reactive Attachment Disorder In Adults Real?
https://www.betterhelp.com/advice/family/is-reactive-attachment-disorder-in-adults-real/
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How Does RAD Manifest in Adults? RAD follows children into adulthood when it was not effectively treated during childhood. Adults with RAD have trouble being genuine in friendships and romantic relationships because they have difficulty showing empathy, remorse, trust, and compassion. It causes them to deny personal responsibility and continue the lying and manipulating behaviors they learned as children. They often feel that others blame them, which causes them to feel hopeless, helpless, stressed, depressed, isolated, and angry. This disorder leads some adults to addictive behaviors including substance abuse, alcoholism, sex addiction, or other addictions. Many of these behaviors may lead them into trouble with the law. END QUOTE
Attachment Styles of Adults and Their Effects on Relationships
http://www.attachmentdisorder.net/Adult_Attachment_Problems.htm
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Unresolved Adults Unresolved adults are those in a disorganized state. They do not have a consistent and organized approach to relationships. During their childhood, they had a history of neglect, abuse, cruelty, and loss. Their parents were either unresponsive, punitive, insensitive and inconsistent; or they grew up with no guidance from parents. As a result, they are afraid of genuine closeness. They are selfish, controlling and do always disregard the rules. They are very vulnerable to alcoholism, drug abuse and other forms of criminality including abusing their own children. Their children will also develop to become insecure, dysfunction and will most likely by similar with their parents.
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http://www.attachmentdisorder.net/
The Link Between Substance Abuse and Attachment Disorder
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There have been a number of studies suggesting that attachment styles can be correlated to one’s involvement in substance abuse, which can be in the form of alcohol abuse, illicit drugs, and/or prescription medication. Accordingly, those people with insecure attachment are the most vulnerable to substance abuse, which can be their outlet for releasing their insecurities and anxieties.
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Counter Intimacy
Thorberg and Lyvers (2006) stated that their “clients who were undergoing treatment for alcoholism, heroin addiction, or cannabis abuse” are having higher levels of insecure attachment which lead them to fear of intimacy. Insecure people do not want to engage in relationships. They make the “worst partners” as they tend to lack understanding and they are not expressive. As a result, they abuse their partners. To counter intimacy, they abuse substances as it extends or even betters their difficulties with developing intimacy and interpersonal functioning. One research suggested that alcohol, marijuana, amphetamines, cocaine, or heroin promote fear of intimacy.
The correlation between attachment styles and substance is multifaceted and is still being explored. More studies suggest that people with insecure attachment styles turn to drugs and alcohol to help them cope with stress and anxiety. As in the case with any substance addiction, the addiction needs to be dealt with first.
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"Addiction and Attachment Theory">
http://www.academia.edu/3491179/Addiction_and_Attachment_Theory
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Addiction and Attachment Theory
Addiction appears in a myriad of forms. From the more recognizable abuse of substances such as alcohol and drugs ... Blane and Leonard (1987) identify four traditional models for understanding alcoholism (tension reduction theory, ...) . . .
An approach to understanding and treating addiction that has produced a great deal of research in recent decades, and which shows great promise for effective treatment of those who suffer with addictions, has come from attachment theory. This paper attempts to articulate those aspects of attachment theory relevant to understanding addiction from its theoretical perspective, define addiction in terms of attachment, and understand how addiction is treated as an attachment disorder. . . .
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http://center4familydevelop.com/adults.htm
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Disorganized Adults
Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy for Adults and Couples
These individuals have a disorganized state of mind with respect to attachment. They do not have an organized approach to relationships. Often these adults exhibit behaviors that suggest a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder. They run very hot and cold and are quite mecurial As children they had histories of abuse, neglect, or severe loss. Their parents were unresponsive, inconsistent, punitive and insensitive. They learned to view others as unavailable, threatening and rejecting. They are afraid of genuine closeness and see themselves as unworthy of love and support. Disorganized adults show many antisocial behaviors such as lack of empathy and remorse. They are selfish, controlling, refuse personal responsibility for their actions, and disregard rules. Their experience of severe attachment trauma makes them much more vulnerable to a variety of emotional, social and moral problems. They are at high risk for alcohol and drug abuse, abusing their own children and other forms of criminality.
You are obviously so involved in RAD that you can’t or won’t here anything else
Look up the say alcoholics...true alcoholics....process alcohol
The fact that some folks with mental illness use alcohol to feel better is not what alcoholism is
Don’t bother responding any more. You merely show the ignorance of those who do not understand what alcoholism is