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(NOTE: Please read the articles at the end of this entry) The other day on the radio I heard some shocking statistics about depression and suicide as it relates to the military. Personally, I don’t think there could be many… Read More . . . → Read More: Depression, anxiety and addiction are leading to high suicide rates in the Military …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. I… Read More . . . → Read More: Dual Diagnosis — Most alcoholics and addicts could come close to “finding a cure”
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… Read More . . . → Read More: Gene Linked to Both Alcoholism and Depression Suboxone is becoming a somewhat controversial treatment for anybody who is trying to kick an opiate addiction. It almost completely removes the awful pangs of withdrawal and powerful cravings from opiates (Vicodin, Oxycontin, Oxycodone, Heroin. etc). The controversy is arising over the fact that people are saying even though you do not experience the euphoria with Suboxone, you can get addicted to it. Worse, the withdrawals from Suboxone are supposedly harder to deal with than… Read More . . . → Read More: An attempt at answering why Suboxone has a street value When I look at the adopted kids I know or knew and look at the number of them that have died or had severe problems it is so out of balance with non-adopted people I know there has got to be another explanation. Well, if you were adopted and are having problems, maybe the following paper contains some answers. If you were adopted, this is meant to soothe your questions, not stir up more of… Read More . . . → Read More: The Surprising Correllation Between Adoption and Mood Disorders/Addiction I read this in an advertised Blogupp entry that started out as follows: Bi Polar Disorder Written by: Baby J on May 4, 2010.One day you wake up and everything is perfectly normal. You wake your kids, make breakfast and kiss your husband good day. All it takes is one incident. Something you’d never expect, yet the perfect trigger. In my case it was a liar. That
. . . → Read More: Are all Bipolar people “whack-jobs”? 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 . . . → Read More: Addicts or Depressives and Self-Destructive Thinking 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
. . . → Read More: Is My Boyfriend an Alcoholic? I never knew who Cory Haim was until I saw the A&E Special – The Two Coreys. It was themed on these two extreme once A-level teen stars, Corey Feldman and Corey Haim. Feldman was married to a fairly normal and nice girl who couldn’t stand the fact that Corey Haim had moved into their house. Haim was a slob, the Feldman’s were neat. Haim had no respect for Feldman’s wife — he lived in… Read More . . . → Read More: Corey Haim – Dead, likely of a drug overdose. The disease of addiction and 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.
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