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In this article, I ask the question: "Are You Addicted and Not Even Know It"?

We cover the following topics:

1. You could be addicted to the addict himself and not know it until you have to look at it and begin to see your addiction as the cause of your pain.
2. Those who love an addict/alcoholic are just as powerless over their loved one's addiction as is the addict himself.
3. Co-dependency is revealed and amplified in families who have an addict in their midst, and it results in much irrational behaviour. Co-dependency shows up as obsessive thinking and controlling behaviour.
4. All driven by the illusion that if we obsess and manipulate "effectively", the addict will change his ways. The cruel fact is that he just wants to get high, today, every day. Sabotaging his life in a vain attempt to escape life's inevitable reality.
5. Although there are other ways of dealing with the presence of addiction in our lives, I can only speak to the sanity-saving power that comes with practicing the principals of the Al-Anon program.
6. AA is found at www.aa.org Al-Anon is found at www.al-anon.org and we are at www.safehouserehab.com