Is My Boyfriend an Alcoholic?

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

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The unseen link between depression, anxiety and addiction.

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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Dual Diagnosis — Most alcoholics and addicts could come close to “finding a cure”

…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.

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Addicts or Depressives and Self-Destructive Thinking

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

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Depression, anxiety and addiction are leading to high suicide rates in the Military

Maj. Gen. Mark Graham speaks openly about ment...
Maj. Gen. Mark Graham speaks openly about mental health and his “family” of men and women in service. It is a start, but hardly enough to reverse what is really happening.

of men and women in (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 … Read More

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Nothing Making You Feel Better? You Could Have Endorphin Deficiency Syndrome (EDS) , a Deficiency of Natural Opiates in Your Brain

Suboxone tablet - both sides.
Suboxone is a tiny pill

You read this headline right. Your brain makes actual opiates that are almost identical to the pills and synthetic opiates made by the drug manufacturers. The syndrome in your brain — if you are LACKING in these natural opiates, would then produce a significant, prolonged, stubborn, unbroken depression that you’d get pretty tired of fast.It is called endogenous opioid deficiency. I have just finished reading about 100 posts from … Read More

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

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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