All news on the topic: Dear Deidre on Addiction

DEAR DEIDRE: MY 13-year-old daughter is drinking heavily with her mother, and I’m so worried.I’m in my forties and split from my wife last year be

DEAR DEIDRE: Since the love of my life unexpectedly dumped me, I’ve become reliant on hardcore drugs.I’m 30 and my ex is 29 and she was unlike any

DEAR DEIDRE: I feel like giving up on my daughter. Her addiction to alcohol has become so damaging that I’m seriously thinking about walking away.

DEAR DEIDRE: I have a shopping addiction and I hate myself for lying to my husband about it.My mother knows and she’s making it worse by telling me

DEAR DEIDRE: Since I discovered that my husband pleasures himself while watching porn, I have felt so unattractive.He does it whenever he gets the cha

DEAR DEIDRE: After escaping an abusive marriage, I finally found what I thought was my perfect woman. But she’s an alcoholic.I’m totally in love w

A 34-year-old man has described how a porn addiction left him at the “bottom of a pit” before his wife discovered his secret.The man said he’d w

I’m addicted to painkillers and it’s ruining my marriage.No matter what I do I can’t get a handle on it, and my wife is at the end of her tether

DEAR DEIDRE: There's no denying my alcohol problem has become serious.I’m working from home and have my first drink around noon then by the afternoo

DEAR DEIDRE: WHEN I broke up with my troubled ex-girlfriend I thought I’d feel like a weight was lifted off of my shoulders, but months later I stil

DEAR DEIDRE: AFTER five years I’ve finally managed to get clean from my drug addiction, but I now spend every day worried I’m going to fall back i

DEAR DEIDRE: I’M addicted to masturbating and I don’t know how to get it under control.At this point, I do it as many as four to five times a day

DEAR DEIDRE: I’M worried I will lose my son because of his drinking and self-destructive tendencies.He is 39 and suffers from depression. He has one

DEAR DEIDRE: I have a long-term gorgeous girlfriend, two little daughters and a job I love – people think I’ve got it all.But I harbour a shameful

DEAR DEIDRE: MY partner is addicted to codeine but she denies she has a problem.She injured her back in an accident two years ago and, even though she

DEAR DEIDRE: Now that I’m ready to settle down with a woman, I need to kick my porn addiction.I can’t watch it for hours every day, like I do now.

DEAR DEIDRE: My sister is spending the money she receives to care for our disabled brother on alcohol and cigarettes.Unfortunately my brother won’t

DEAR DEIDRE: I’ve noticed small amounts of money going out of our bank account.I thought it was a scam but it turns out it was my husband. He’s go

DEAR DEIDRE: Porn has taken over my life and I have a choice to make: My marriage or my obsession with watching others have extreme sex.I started watc

ALTHOUGH I don’t like the taste of it, I have become addicted to wine.I have tried everything to combat this, including CBT and counselling.But I ca

DEAR DEIDRE: It's a pretty poor deal when you don’t even like yourself.I was addicted to porn and had been paying escorts for sex for years.Addictio

I have tried to break my porn addiction, but even going for a five-mile run doesn’t curb my cravings.Knowing I can’t get through a single day with

A FORMER Playboy model and actress said she downed so much vodka that her urine turned to acid and started eating away at her skin.Jessica Landon, 37,

DEAR DEIDRE: MY binge-drinking habits are out of control and I don’t know how to cut down.I’m a 22-year-old woman and I love to go out boozing wit

DEAR DEIDRE: MY second marriage has imploded because I couldn’t trust my husband.Now I drink a bottle of wine alone every night mulling over whether