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Love addiction in patient help

  • 13-05-2016 9:30am
    #1
    unemployed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7 ✭


    Before anyone laughs, it's a very real affliction and has nearly ruined my life.

    It's gotten to the point where I really want to change my life. But a weekly session with a therapist is just not going to cut it. I need help and I need it now. I don't think I will survive this.

    Does anyone know of a in-patient treatment facility that will treat this condition?


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  • #2
    Sapphire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 390 ✭✭Sapphire


    Do you mean an unrequited crush like limerence OP? You might find the link helpful.


  • #3
    SteoL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,545 ✭✭✭SteoL


    Have you tried SLAA? A friend of mine goes to meetings, and finds them helpful. 12 step program similar to AA.


  • #4
    santana75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭santana75


    unemployed wrote: »
    Before anyone laughs, it's a very real affliction and has nearly ruined my life.

    It's gotten to the point where I really want to change my life. But a weekly session with a therapist is just not going to cut it. I need help and I need it now. I don't think I will survive this.

    Does anyone know of a in-patient treatment facility that will treat this condition?

    Definitely wont laugh, it is a serious issue. Talk therapy will only go so deep, and to be honest, not deep enough. I read a book called the body keeps the score, which is about childhood trauma, and in it he tells the story about this girl who would literally cling to the legs of her boyfriends and beg them not to leave her. Through EMDR she was able to access a memory from her childhood where her parents had seemed to abandon her. They hadnt of course but to her childs brain she beleived they have, and that experience stayed in her body until she was able to confront it and release it.
    So i'd forget about something as drastic as in-patient treatment, take a look at EMDR. Family constellations would help aswell I think.


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