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Children of Addicts

How to Talk to a Child About a Parent's Addiction

David Sack, M.D. | Posted 04.02.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Children and Trauma, Dysfunctional Families, Coping With Addiction, Family Counseling, Children of Addicts, Addiction and Recovery, Children of Alcoholics, Children Mental Health, Healthy Living News
David Sack, M.D.

In this impossible situation, what can parents, caretakers or other adults say to their children? How do they explain the wreckage of addiction to someone who, at a young age, has already been overexposed to some of the darkest potentialities of life?

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Bobbi Kristina and the Children of Addiction

Michael W. Waters | Posted 04.15.2012 | Black Voices
Read More: Drug Addiction, Whitney Houston, Children of Addicts, Alcholism, Bobbi Kristina, Bv-Life, Bv-Pop-Culture-Entertainment, Black Voices News
Michael W. Waters

Being counted among the children of addiction is an impossible hardship. From an early age, they are taught, even forced, in many cases, to veil their parent's addiction from the public eye.

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Advice for Loving an Addict and Healing Yourself

Melanie Gorman | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Addiction, Addiction & Recovery, Addict Parents, Drug Addict Parent, Addict, Addict Parent, Alcoholic Parent, Children of Addicts, Child of Addict, Healthy Living News
Melanie Gorman

It's the same one that every child of an addict has: we're in love with a person who is incapable of being in a healthy, adult relationship with us.

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Narcissism In A Bottle: The Self-Centeredness Of Addiction

Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Addiction, Acoas, Narcissism, Children of Addicts, Codependency, Home News
Dr. Tian Dayton

Both the narcissist and the addict are first and foremost self absorbed. They come first.

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