Alex M.
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I'm not famous, and you don't know me, but you may be familiar with my disease of alcoholism. I'm not a special alcoholic or a unique alcoholic, I'm just an average alcoholic. My life experiences are no better or worse than anyone else's, but they are unique to me. Those bits and pieces shaped who I was, how I changed and who I am today.
Alcohol saved my life before it ruled my life and ultimately destroyed my life. I couldn't walk the road to sobriety...
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Freedom From Bondage-One Day At A Time In A.A. is a personal journey in recovery through a series of reflections on Alcoholism and Addiction, The Alcoholic Mind, A.A. and the Program of Recovery, A.A. and God, the Meaning of a Spiritual Life, the Big Book stories and the Twelve Steps, Traditions & Concepts. We alcoholics have a common problem with a common solution to recover from a hopeless state of mind and body through the Twelve Step program and...
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Empathy is a widely used term, but it is also difficult to define. In recent years the field of cognitive neuroscience has made impressive strides in identifying neural networks in the brain related to or triggered by empathy. Still, what exactly do we mean when we say that someone has-or lacks-empathy? How is empathy distinguished from sympathy or pity? And is society truly suffering from an "empathy deficit," as some experts have charged? In Assessing...