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Batman Is As Real As Jesus Christ – A Filthy Orphan By Nevs Coleman
Everyone is nuts now. Go forth and moan about Green Lantern or Avengers Arena or whatever. We've managed to influence everyone into reacting to fiction like petulant children. Good job. Slow Handclap.” That was going to be it, except for a chat with …
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Six Lies People Tell You About Being Single
But when we were single, this attitude made us nuts— "Are you sure? Why not just go on one more date?" …. What if you stopped defining yourself as someone with a bad-boy addiction or low self-esteem? What if you instead saw yourself as a flawed but …
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Question by Pillar: I kind of feel like the OTHER sibling in the Prodigal Son parable. How do I cope [CHRISTIAN]?
I feel like the other one, the one who never left, was jealous when the prodigal son came back after wasting his life and then got a big party after wasting everything and living in sin and all that.

Well I never left so I never got that “welcome home” and almost makes me want to leave and come back just to experience that. Obviously that’s not a good thing to do, and if I were, then there is no saying if I ever would actually come back, and even so it wouldn’t be the same.    Read more...

Question by trish m: “Recovery” Just looking for others opinions on “drug addiction”?
how many of you believe that 12 step programs work? and how many of you know someone who has given up everything that matters for their drug of choice? Just sincere answers please…
You have pointed out one of the main things that needs to be there “willingness” good job!
I’m an addict in recovery (5yrs) and I know each person is different. some just quit,others use AA/NA, and then some need a combo of the AA and therapy… One thing that all addicts lack is the ability to cope with life on life’s terms. If an addict doesn’t learn to cope then they tend to just switch addictions… from drugs to others i.e. eating, gambleing, workaholic, thank you guys for your answers and I’ll give this question till the end of the day..

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Question by Kitty: Depression with hallucinations?
Hi everybody, I have some question about depression and hallucinations that occur occasionally.
My closest friend has been diagnosed with depression (mild), she’s 19 years old, has been to both a psychiatrist and a psychologist, talked with both and they prescribed her antidepressants and a medicine for panic attacks because she suffers those too. However, since we’re so close and she tells me everything, she told she has had hallucinations several times now – she hears voices. This doesn’t happen as often (and since she’s been taking her pills, the panic attacks have decreased) but when it does, she completely loses herself. She told me she is barely able to stay aware that the voices are not real and that she doesn’t know for how long she’ll be able to stay aware of that. The voices do not speak to her, she only hears them laugh (and they are laughing at her), at first it was for a few seconds but the last time it was over a minute (and she ran outside just to make sure no one was there but the laughter continued and she didn’t know what to do).
I’ve been reading a lot about this, as far as I’ve realized, this is called “major depression with psychotic features” or “psychotic depression”, it can vary from mild to extreme depression and hallucinations are “normal” for that. And I’ve also read that the treatment, mostly, are antidepressants and anti-psychotics and in some cases individual and group therapy, but that’s when a person is admitted in a psychiatric ward.
The questions I have are these:
How can I help her in the best way to cope with that? (I am available 24/7 to her, to call me, text me, email me and if I am able to, I’ll come or if she just needs to talk; I always listen and I would never tell her to “stop staying stupid things, that’s not happening” or anything like that, I believe her every word and try to console her, listen and keep her on the bright side – and she often tells me I am the only one who keeps her going so I think I’m doing a pretty good job, but I wanna do better, she is like a sister to me).
Also, what are some alternative ways of treating this? And by alternative, I mean other than common medicine? I am against antidepressants and well, mostly against all kinds of medication, I only take pain killers and that only when I’m in extreme pain, I believe they cause great addiction, are very dangerous for your brain and your whole organism. But that’s not important now, I support her and I’ve never told her not to drink them, I’ve just told her to be cautious with the pills she takes for her panic attacks. By alternative I mean anything you can think of that is proven to be helpful – homeopathy would be great since I know a lot about it and I’ve had previous and very successful encounters with it. Also, any other natural way.    Read more...

Addiction Rehab: Betty Ford to get Calif. memorial, Mich. burial
Before she is laid to rest, Betty Ford will be memorialized in the Southern California desert region she and her rehab center made world famous by treating a stream of spiraling Hollywood stars.
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Addiction Rehab: Ben – A Teen Challenge Grad

Ben shares about how an addiction to cocaine cost him a good job, his family and ultimately led him to jail – and how he found freedom from addiction through a relationship with God and the Teen Challenge program.
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Addiction Rehab: Home of Betty Ford’s rehab center absorbs loss
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) — Rancho Mirage was just a dot in a desert valley east of Los Angeles until Betty Ford put it on the map with a rehab center that treated a stream of Hollywood high-rollers and spiraling stars that spanned generations, from Elizabeth Taylor to Lindsay Lohan.
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Question by Puzzled: I NEED Help… Help me get it?
Hi everyone, so if you have seen any of my other questions – you will know that I’m a fourteen (almost 15) year old girl struggling with depression, an adjustment disorder and self harm. I am trying to convince my mother to let me go to this place, its about a days drive away, but takes people with similar issues to myself and has an extremely high success rate with recovery. I want to get better, I really do. I have told my mum I self harm, but she doesnt know how or how often (I cut, and its almost every night) it has become an addiction, its always somewhere in my mind. I want this help, but she is weary about sending me to a “rehab”, maybe she doesnt think its serious enough. Things ARE getting worse, sometimes cutting isnt enough. What can I say to my mum to help convince her?    Read more...