Author’s note: More Vietnam Vets have died from suicide than died in the whole Vietnam war because help was not available to many of them and Post Traumatic Stress took them down. Now we are losing 5 boys a day returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, not because help isn’t available, but because many of them have prided themselves on being tough. Needing a psychiatrist is seen as a weakness they are too proud to go
I just read an article on alcohol, drugs, and crime and I find myself stunned at the numbers, when you consider that of the people in jail, about 89% of them perpetrated their crime while on drugs or alcohol. I believe there is a much MORE stunning number behind the drug and alcohol problem that the medical world has not totally cracked open, however.
This is evidenced by the large number of … Read More
I would like to make this post an extremely short one (for once) and encourage you to simply comment on the questions. I will then blog on the answers and reveal and comment on what people tend to think. Pick a question or 2 or 3 and comment.
What do you think when you see an alcoholic hanging out in front of 7-11 begging. Does it bother you?
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
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
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
What follows is a letter to a lady friend who described her boyfriend’s habit of drinking quite a bit 4 times a week or so. Also she thought his mood was generally low, but overall she had adjusted to the situation and was not overly concerned, and had a good relationship.
Dear Lola:
I can appreciate your dilemma — and unfortunately my dear, it is a dilemma. So you might not like exactly what I … Read More
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
…if they bought into the notion below. I am developing sites to help people find good halfway houses and sober livings if they are coming out of treatment. On the home page I found myself writing the following paragraph, which sums up what I am about. For people who can’t toil through my longer stories in this blog — here it is in a nutshell, off the site The Halfway House Guide.
The famous inspirational business writer Napoleon Hill wrote 16 lessons about how to succeed in business. One of them focused on how you THINK as a person. He was so convinced you could “think” yourself to any degree of success he wrote a second book called “Think and Grow Rich”.
If somebody wrote a book about addicts and how they think, the title might be something depressing like “Think and You Will Discover You Have … Read More
