The Ted Noffs Foundation Blog by Matt Noffs

• Addicted? excerpt 7: We're All Removed

  July 11, 2018 The Noffs Team Comments

  We’re All Removed 2014. North Carolina. Thump. Something has hit the floor. Eric Pickersgill is lying in bed. His eyes open to find his hand empty, but gripping the ghost of the phone that was there a second ago. He’s fallen asleep staring into the digital abyss. His ...

• Addicted? excerpt 5: Rendered Speechless

  June 27, 2018 The Noffs Team Comments

  Rendered Speechless I can still remember sitting with a particular client in a therapy session. It was relatively early in my psychology training, and this young woman had been coming in to work on a range of issues including drug dependency and anxiety problems. Over a number of sessions it ...

• Addicted? excerpt 4: The Aftermath of Fear

  June 20, 2018 The Noffs Team Comments

  The Aftermath of Fear Researchers like Dr Bessel van der Kolk, a world expert in the treatment of trauma, have discovered that the most effective way to allow cortisol to pass through our bodies is through movement. Cortisol helps us fight or flee from danger, so its basic function is ...

• Addicted? excerpt 3: Of The World But Removed

  June 13, 2018 The Noffs Team Comments

  Of The World But Removed Using heroin is like falling in love. It’s like that. Soft. It’s like something that wraps around you. Comforts you. Makes you feel calm, peaceful. Like everything about the world is right, you’re right. Everything is peaceful. ‘Such a relief! This is ...

• Addicted? excerpt 2: A Society Built on Addiction?

  June 01, 2018 The Noffs Team Comments

  A Society Built on Addiction Severe addiction frequently involves the removal of all other things in our life so that our focus is concentrated on one thing - one act - one substance - one piece of technology. As we’ve seen, this is happening to most of us, through the devices we ...

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