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This is absolutely one of the best articles I have read about a young woman’s thought process about possibly being an alcoholic because she is not a daily drinker. She is a binge drinker, not bottoming out yet, and completely confused about how awful rehab might be, and asking “should I go to rehab?” Especially enlightening are the comments people have made … Read More . . . → Read More: SHOULD I GO TO REHAB? At 27, a Binge Drinker Asks About the Prospect of Rehab
I have been preaching for years now that I believe most people who are alcoholics began drinking (or drugging) to help kill the pain of a mood disorder. For whatever reason until today I had not known that there was empirical scientific data backing this notion up. Nobody really knows if you can be an alcoholic first, and then that triggers a long-term depressive episode, or visa versa. If you have an alcohol or drug … Read More . . . → Read More: Gene Linked to Both Alcoholism and Depression
I have five rules I have developed over the years that help keep my depression at bay. If I break any one of the rules, I’m at risk of having a depressive episode — and for me there is nothing at all in life that is worse than one of these episodes or even compares to how low these put me on the mood scale. And, they have seemingly gotten deeper and more painful if … Read More . . . → Read More: Five Ways I Deal with Depression 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 . . . → Read More: Bipolar Disorder and Depression – Seek help as soon as you have any of these symptoms 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 . . . → Read More: “Rag” Magazines vs. Science: Are the Rat Population Studies True? I just watched a 12 minute motivational speech by a guy named Shawn Achors (and I usually can not bear those speeches a la Tony Robbins where people have been promised their whole miserable life can be fixed in 3 hours) but this guy was different. He posits that our society is basically broken because of the way we are raised to always compete and advance. Specifically he made up an example by saying what … Read More . . . → Read More: Have You Found That Maybe You Aren’t As Happy in Life as You Thought You Should Be?
I was adopted and later in life searched for my biological parents, who I eventually found. To my utter surprise, I found that my biological mother and father had had a “love fling” and I was the product of that, which occurred before they were married – forcing them to have me in secret and give me away. The really amazing part is they ended up getting married and having two more … Read More . . . → Read More: Down? Depressed? Amazing New Drug You Must Ask a Doctor About… 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
. . . → Read More: Is My Boyfriend an Alcoholic? 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 . . . → Read More: The unseen link between depression, anxiety and addiction. BACKGROUND Depression affects over 20 million people per year, or over 8% of the U.S. (defined as having at least 1 major depressive episode in the past year.) That is an unbelievable statistic in terms of it being almost 1 in 10 people. Out of the 44 million people a year affected by some mental illness, according to the National Institute of Mental Health, almost half the events involved depression. I could cite further facts, … Read More . . . → Read More: Depression creeps up on you. If you are not having fun – don’t let time fly by! |
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