What is the Future Path of Recovery for Excessive Psychic Hotline Callers?
| Autor: | Robin-Marie Shepherd, Michael Vacaru |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Harm reduction Psychotherapist Hotline media_common.quotation_subject 030508 substance abuse Context (language use) Abstinence humanities Psychic 03 medical and health sciences Psychiatry and Mental health Health psychology 0302 clinical medicine Phone medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Meditation 0305 other medical science Psychiatry Psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. 14:1039-1046 |
| ISSN: | 1557-1882 1557-1874 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11469-016-9683-1 |
| Popis: | This study aims to explore recovery for those who ring psychic hotlines excessively. Participants were self-selected and were predominantly female, educated, employed and single. The cohort is retrieved from the Psychic Junkie website, which is the only online support place for these people recovering from ringing psychics excessively. Recovery was defined as attempts to stop or to cut down ringing psychics. Recovery included abstinence or harm reduction strategies to control the amount of spending on psychics. A popular attempt to remain abstinence from psychic hotline ringing was within a spiritual context, which included strategies such as prayer, meditation, and attending 12 step groups. Other strategies included blocking psychic hotlines on their phone, cutting up credit cards, counselling, and medication. Harm reduction strategies included setting a budget to decrease the time spent talking to psychics. These attempts resonated with similar recovery strategies for other excessive behaviours. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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