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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Treatment – How to Find the “Right” Center

Tom Rees — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 04:45:11 +0000

The key to long term success in recovery is beginning with a solid treatment program. It is critical that you develop a solid foundation from which you can start working to get better, and proper treatment is the only way to build that foundation. Simply detoxing to break the addiction cycle cannot substitute for a longer term treatment plan, and by just detoxing and then installing yourself in a sober living you are putting … Read More

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Adoption and My First Anxiety Attack

Tom Rees — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:42:47 +0000

My response to a group invitation; Nov., 2009

My name is Tom Rees and I have been invited to introduce myself to the group. All of life’s other “stuff” you can find on my Linked page; I joined you all because I was adopted at birth and thought it would be interesting to share with other adoptees or people in the field.

I was 6 years old when I understood what adoption meant. My … Read More

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We Must End the Stigma of Mental Illness

Tom Rees — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:12:38 +0000

: This is EXACTLY how I feel today. There is not a single thing I want to change about my life. that’s a pretty cool place to get to, if you are able to treat your problems. Have faith, friend.

Those of you who have been following my blog — and those of you who may just have arrived– should know that my biggest theory about what is happening to us as a society in the … Read More

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Bipolar Disorder and Depression – Seek help as soon as you have any of these symptoms

Tom Rees — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:25:13 +0000

Bipolar Disorder tops the list in terms of the number of diagnoses made each year by doctors, mainly because most depression today is diagnosed as bipolar depression. Regardless of how prevalent these two diagnoses are individually ( The national Institute of Medical health estimates depression alone affects 20,000,000 Americans every year), there are stigmas attached to these disorders. Don’t allow a stigma to stop you from seeing the reality of the disorder — you or … Read More

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Mood Disorders and Adoption Can Be a Sure-fire Combination to Equal Addiction

Tom Rees — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 15:34:12 +0000

: I support and encourage open adoptions

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This site will bring you some very real insight into anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder and adoption first-hand from someone who has a lifetime of experience dealing with all four conditions – me. I realize the title is a mouthful, and I also recognize – acutely – that one of the four “conditions” in the title may surprise or even offend some people, and that is adoption. Anxiety, … Read More

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“Rag” Magazines vs. Science: Are the Rat Population Studies True?

Tom Rees — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:23:14 +0000

One need only look at the racks stuffed full of “rag magazines” at the head of most market checkout lanes to know they are there because they sell. They sell the surprise and shock of a headline that announces somebody who is or was “on top” of their game has shaved all their hair off, married a mooch, or gotten busted for a whole bunch of drugs that were discovered when their car was searched … Read More

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Are all Bipolar people truly crazy “whack-jobs”? The answer is a definite “No – not Bipolar 2′s, Anyhow”

Tom Rees — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 08:14:06 +0000

I read this in an advertised Blogupp entry that started out as follows:

Bi Polar Disorder Written by: Baby J on May 4, 2010.

The following excerpt is from someone who is evidently Bipolar1 (more severe than Bipolar 2) and she is on drugs, as most people with mental disorders can be. People with disorders as you will see, however, can be more affected by drugs than a “normal” person on drugs. She writes “One … Read More

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Best Way to Beat Bipolar Illness — Don’t Try and Do It Alone.

Tom Rees — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 07:15:31 +0000

: Winston Churchill was famously bipolar, as was Abe Lincoln, Ted Turner and scores of other successful people in many professions. THE SINGLE BIGGEST CHALLENGE that must be overcome in the US is the STIGMA that the illness carries. That alone keeps most people, myself included, from wanting to face, then treat, then FIGHT the problem.

I am lucky enough to have a best friend from childhood — let’s call him Steve — who is also

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The unseen link between depression, anxiety and addiction.

Tom Rees — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 04:20:58 +0000

Just as a “normal person” — if there is such a person — might have come home after work that day and said “Honey, I just had a rough day”, or told a buddy that Friday “Man, I had a rough week”, there was a day I was saying to whomever I could find who would listen, albeit tongue in cheek, “Man, I’ve had a rough eight years”. But I meant it. Still hospitalized, I … Read More

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A Brilliant Writer Describes Depression in Such a Way it is a “Must Read”.

Tom Rees — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 09:05:04 +0000

I just read several of the most inspiring posts by another writer yet since having been introduced to this whole blogging thing. The blog is called “Drunk in Cardiff”, authored by “The Drinker”, and subtitled “The long walk to recovery from alcoholism and depression”. Just the subtitle makes one who has been through this whole journey want to jump on his work, I believe. So at the risk of losing the 3 people who may … Read More

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