‘We are all addicts’: Gwyneth Paltrow calls on therapist to explain unhealthy obsessions with everything from phones to exercise in latest Goop Post is titled Why We Are All Addicts, written by therapist Dr. Stout explains how he believes we live in the age of addiction Says people become addicted to their job, working out…
Continue ReadingWhy are we all addicts? That’s the question Gwyneth Paltrow asks in a new post on GOOP. “Dr. Carder Stout, a therapist in Los Angeles, explains how we’re all essentially addicts, manifesting this shared reality through everything from our relationships with our tech to an obsession with exercise,” she writes. “Yes, addiction is inside you…
Continue Readingby DR. CARDER STOUT We live in the age of addiction. It is a time of unbridled desire and reckless overconsumption. Addicts seem to be everywhere. We point our fingers at the drunks stumbling down the street and recognize the drug-addled miscreants shuffling behind abandoned buildings in the bad sections of town. Addiction may have…
Continue ReadingIf you or someone close to you has ever been treated for addiction or been to Alcoholics Anonymous (or any of the Anonymouses), you know two things: first, how hard getting sober can be. And second, how hard staying sober can be. Sobriety is more than the initial period of detox; cravings, whether for a…
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