Since 2016 I have worked with long-term treatment of addiction as a chronic disease.
I am an odd bird in this context as I have never had a sugar addiction myself.
However, I have experience of several different addiction outlets through clinical work, education, and close relationships earlier in life. I experience this as positive – that with an understanding of addiction, I can also bring in perspectives from the “outside”. I can sometimes tab in – now it’s the ”addiction that speaks” – or – a ”normie” doesn’t see this.
It’s important to have an understanding of incomprehension — being able to see and show respect for ”the thinking on the other side” — no matter what that side is.
Although I don’t have a food addiction, I also have a personal history including food – and it’s based on 40 years of constant struggle with IBS, where the cause of my problems was based on sensitivity to starch, and thus a dietary solution similar to that of sugar addiction. However, I have the luxury that my brain is not kidnapped, only my body takes the beating.
Published books:
Learn to Live Sugar-Free, Self-Help Book for Sugar Addiction (in Swedish). Cookbook – tasty recipes, sugar-free, gluten-free (in Swedish).
Alcohol and drug therapist
SUGAR®-certified and licensed
Author
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