About this episode

The episode discusses how involvement with alcoholics or drug addicts can lead to personal unraveling in toxic relationships.

Send us Fan Mail There is a saying in Al-Anon, we become sicker than they are. What that means is that often when dealing with an alcoholic and/or drug addict we can become so involved in their life, taking care of them, watching over them, enabling them, that before we know it our own lives have begun to unravel. This scenario does not just have to pertain to alcoholics or drug addicts, but toxic relationships in general. To an alcoholic or drug addict substance is their obsession and compul...

People in this episode

Host: James Stein

Topics covered

• toxic relationships
• mental health
• addiction
• self-care
• enabling behavior

Keywords

• addiction
• mental health
• toxic relationships
• self-care
• enabling

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Al-Anon

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