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Question by Stealth: Where can I put my mom into a free rehab program?
Here’s the full story: My mother is an RN, very knowledgeable with prescription drugs and although she’s never had an addiction with anything drug related, she shows signs of hypochondria, somataform disorder and pretty darn close to Munchhausen syndrome. She recently just had a mental breakdown related to being “reborn” and saying she was “saved.” She was caring for my grandmother at the time who is nearing the end of her life and my family and I know that she can no longer care for her in the state that my mom is in because she is a danger to herself and my grandmother. She was baker acted because of her attack and taken to the hospital. After receiving medical care, they had her evaluated by a psychiatrist who believes that she is now normal. If she returns home, we fear that she may have another breakdown as she has always been anxious and a borderline schizophrenic. I love my mom and I don’t want to institutionalize her because she would probably turn suicidal. My mom is divorced, receives $ 350/week in alimony, is up to her eyeballs in debt (so we would like to have her declare bankruptcy) and she has no insurance. Where do we go from here if they let her out of the hospital without any treatment program? Our [extended] family does not have enough money to send her to any rehab center and the only one I found was a Salvation Army ARC in Jacksonville or Orlando, Fl. She is based in Ocala. Any immediate help is greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.    Read more...

Psychologist Discusses Facebook Addiction — Psychologist Dr. Martin Johnson discusses the signs of Facebook addiction and what can be done. (10.29.09)

MICHAELS: Oscar buzz-worthy '12 Years a Slave' is essential viewing
… films, to this point, have been stripped-down, simple and effective — 2008's “Hunger” focused on the debilitating psychological impact of Bobby Sands' 1981 starvation strike, whereas 2011's “Shame” was a clinical, cold examination of sex addiction.
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US officials finalize rules for equal coverage of mental health problems
In 2008, the federal government signed the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act in an effort to bolster mental health care across the country. Delays, largely due to challenges in determining how the law would be implemented, were finally …
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More How Is Addiction Psychological Information…

Question by Alice in Wonderland: what can you tell me about cocaine addiction?
I guess I grew up fairly sheltered because I know close to nothing about drug addiction. I know that drugs are bad and that they almost always destroy your life in one way or another if you don’t stop and get the right help. What I want to know are the signs and ways to tell if someone has done or is high on cocaine. Someone I really care about told me they do it. And that they want to stop. And that they do it cause they like it but almost immediately after doing it they feel horrible – depressed. Said they feel like they have no self-control over it.

Best answer:

Answer by Robert S
When someone has been using cocaine, there are going to be many different side effects. Cocaine interferes with the transmitters in the brain that regulate dopamine, and when this happens, a high occurs.    Read more...

Question by Munchkin’sMa-ma!: I feel like because I haven’t been through enough it makes me less deep and less happy?
Yes, I know it sounds ironic, but the thing is, I have lived a relatively “easy” (not pain free, definitely not). What I mean is, a lot of bad things haven’t “happened” to me. I always hear other people’s stories of their life and their horror stories, such as they were molested, a foster child, were raped, abused, got pregnant at a young age, came from a broken home, had a “dysfuntional” family, grew up in poverty, etc. But me, I’ve never been raped or molested, my parents have been married for 25 years, I’ve never battled addiction (I’m 24), didn’t get pregnant at a young age, never got in significant trouble with the law, my parents are not rich but we’ve always had at least “enough” maybe not a lot but we were never poor exactly, etc. I feel like because of this other people—including people who asupposedly or are supposed to care for me and love me and protect and worry about me—“devalidate” me as a person, or don’t take my problems seriously.
don’t get me wrong, people in my extended family have plenty of that drama, even my own brother struggles with alcohol during stressful times in his life, but I’m not around it enough.
And don’t get me wrong, I am very GRATEFUL that I haven’t been raped, molested, had divorced parents, a baby when I wasn’t ready (still don’t have any kids), or any serious health problems (actually I’ve never been hospitalized for a physical problem, come to think of it, only once at 17 I was put in a mental health center bc people thought I was “manic” which doctors later concluded I wasn’t).
But I think if something terrible did or does happen to me, like I am gang raped, or become ill, or get into a terrible accident, etc. but come out okay still, people would care for me more, meet my needs more. Sometimes I secretly wish something bad would happen to me and then people (mainly my boyfriend) wouldn’t take me for granted. What do you think?
captin obivous: reported. Feel free to answer any questions, but if you continue to go through life with your lack of compassion or your lack of effort in understanding others, you will surely not get very far.
captin obvious:thanx so much for your sarcasm. I really wanted someone like you to answer this question, you’re exactly the kind of answerer I was aiming this question at…yeah.    Read more...

Question by Seeker Of Painful Truths 2: What is the difference between “addiction” and “normal behavor”? Or…..?
…Or is it normal behavior to be addicted to many elements in life?

I ask because every time I read some info about what an “addiction” is, the more the experts explain away their points, the more it sounds like everything or most things is an addiction. That makes it difficult for me to narrow down what an addiction actually is. Just simply using drugs and alcohol and sex to explain it clouds the core of what an addiction is.

It almost seems as if people are so against certain things in life that they create a “scientific” belief system to quarentine those things from people doing them without actually having facts to prove their case.

For instance I read this alot,    Read more...

Question by eros_gary: What is addiction? and where can you get help in California?

Best answer:

Answer by mgaribay74
Summary
People who are addicted cannot control their need for alcohol or other drugs, even in the face of negative health, social or legal consequences.
The illness becomes harder to treat and the related health problems, such as organ disease, become worse.
Addiction is a chronic, but treatable, brain disorder. People who are addicted cannot control their need for alcohol or other drugs, even in the face of negative health, social or legal consequences. This lack of control is the result of alcohol- or drug-induced changes in the brain. Those changes, in turn, cause behavior changes.    Read more...