Sligo Seventh-day Adventist Church

7700 Carroll Avenue, Takoma Park, MD 20912
   phone: 301-270-6777 | fax: 301-270-3518 | e-mail: sligo@sligochurch.org | emergency line: 301-980-1009

Copyright © 2007 Sligo Seventh-day Adventist Church

 

Regeneration

SDAxA (Seventh-day Adventist for the extinction of addiction)

Why We Are Here?

Addictive agents are these persons or things on which we form an excessive dependency. The catalog of addictive agents includes:

1.   Alcohol or drugs
2.   Work, achievement, and success
3.   Money addictions, such as overspending, gambling, hoarding
4.   Control addictions, especially if they surface in personal, sexual,
      family and business relations
5.   Food addictions
6.   Sexual addictions
7.   Approval dependency (the need to please people)
8.   Rescuing patterns toward other persons
9.   Dependency on toxic relationships (relationships that are
      damaging and hurtful)
10. Physical illness (hypochondria)
11. Exercise and physical conditioning
12. Cosmetics, clothes, cosmetic surgery, trying to look good on the
      outside
13. Academic pursuits and excessive intellectualizing
14. Religiosity or religious legalism (preoccupation with the form and
      the rules and regulations of religions, rather than benefiting from
      the real spiritual message)
15. General perfectionism
16. Cleaning and avoiding contamination and other obsessive-
      compulsive symptoms
17. Organizing, structuring (the need always to have everything
      in its place)
18. Materialism

Codependency is a type of dysfunctional behavior prevalent in society as a whole, as well as in Christian families. There are four basic dysfunctional situations which may cause a person to exhibit codependent behavior:
      1.  Persons who are currently in a close relationship with an
           addict or alcoholic
      2.  Persons with and addictive parent or grandparent. This
           includes addictive disorders such as chemical dependency,
           workaholism, compulsive overspending, sexaholism, and
           child abuse
      3.  Persons suffering significant childhood loss due to reasons
           other than addiction, death, divorce, physical or mental
           deprivation
      4.  Persons from an emotionally out of touch or extremely
           repressive family background

Codependency, like chemical dependency is a disease that it chronic, progressive and fatal.

Where should I go ?

 

A weekly 12-Step Christ Centered
Support Group Ministry

 

We welcome anyone:

• who has a desire to stay clean and sober

• who has a hope to rise above the pain and turmoil engendered by the addiction of a love one

• who wishes to break the bondage of compulsive behavior

1. We have our strength, hope, and experience in a safe place.

2. We are dedicated to the principles of anonymity and confidentiality.