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10 Ways Substance Addiction Can Change Your Personality

Gateway Foundation

Substance use disorder significantly impacts a person’s life, damaging health, relationships, careers, and finances. If you or someone you know struggles with addiction, you might notice personality and behavioral changes, such as withdrawing from loved ones, secrecy, or increased risk-taking.

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The monster will get us, be quiet

Stop Abuse Campaign

I still suffer from night paranoia. Looking at her was the beginning of my addiction. I have Bipolar 1 disorder and am on many medications to keep me stable. I have a sexual addiction that comforts me. I would play outside, yelling, to drown out the yelling from my drunk parents. She would always cry on Christmas night.

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Clinical Philosophy

The 8 chapters of section five look holistically at the different life worlds of persons with different conditions (schizophrenia, mood disorders, hysteria, BPD, addictions, autism, eating disorders). Section six entitled ‘Clinical Psychopathology’ contains 9 essays on different aspects of (mainly) psychotic experience.