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Alcohol Recovery Tip – What Do You Really Want?

admin — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 07:39:34 +0000

www.HighsteadAlcoholTreatment.com Couple of quick tips from Alcohol Rehab and Treatment Specialist Michael Highstead. Focus on what you want, not on what you don’t want. For more great alcohol rehab and treatment videos visit www.HighsteadAlcoholTreatment.com
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A late-maturing alcoholic young man describes his progression in his late teens from too much beer to hard liquor and how he is now, in his early 20′s, and following rehabilitation care at Brighton Hospital (Michigan) and ongoing 12 step work, finally coming to grips with who he is, what his recovery means to him, and what he needs to do in terms of daily 12 step work to sustain his growth in sobriety.
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Recovery | You really don’t care that there may be altenatives to recovery

admin — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 07:38:48 +0000

This is a video response to some comments that I received on sobercircle. I am not bashing the site, it is a great place for people seeking recovery. It is a bit dominated by 12 step for my taste. Anyway – Enjoy the video
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Recovery | You really don’t care that there may be altenatives to recovery

admin — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 07:38:22 +0000

Top 10 Reasons We Should NEVER Call Addiction A ‘Disease’ 1-It sets the alcoholic & addict up for pure failure. 2-It stigmatizes alcohol & drug dependent people for life. 3-It shifts the responsibility from alcoholics/addicts to taxpayers. 4-It presents the alcoholic/addict as a victim or someone to emulate(76). 5-It leads the alcoholic/addict to believe they can’t recover on their own. 6-It traps the alcoholic/addict in a world inhabited by fellow disease sufferers. 7-It brutalizes and brainwashes the young and those who aren’t truly addicted. 8-It excludes all other approaches, many of which have been proven far more successful. 9-It ignores the rest of the alcoholics/addicts problems in favor of blaming them all on the disease. 10-It promotes false beliefs and inappropriate attitudes, as well as harmful, wasteful, and ineffective social policies. -How can those promoting an incurable disease possibly say they’re helping people with such a destructive belief?
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What is really going on between us?

admin — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 08:07:01 +0000

We have been friends for 8 months. We started off just being like causual friends, and then we went to breaks together and then started going to lunch together. He is the first person in my life that I could ever open up to, he knows my secrets, my fears, and everything that goes on with me. And he has opened up with me. At the time of our friendship he was engaged to a girl he had been dating for 5 years. But they broke up when she went into rehab and he made it clear he wanted nothing to do with her. We started getting closer in March and we exchanged numbers and started texting each other. We both told each other we liked one another and we both decided to date. The entire time we were dating everything was good, he even told me he was falling for me. Everything was fine for about 5 days and then he told me one day that his ex was on her way to our work because he had told her he was falling for me and he said he would be right there beside me. When she got there everything ended.
We decided not to be friends and he told me to understand that he was still in love with her. I told him I couldn’t understand when he told me he had fallen for me. I came back to work two days later and explained my life would be better with him as a friend then nothing at all. We decided to go to lunch to talk everything through. We started to talk and he kept staring at me. He said his heart was with her but his mind was with something else, and i asked him what was on his mind and he said he wanted to kiss me and he did. That was the start of everything. From that day on we have been friends with benefits and we talk and text everyday. Him and her are no longer even togther, he doesnt want anything with her. I even lost my virginity to him a few months ago. But here’s the tricky thing. He knows I am in love with him but he doesn’t want a relationship. And he says he doesn’t love me but I am his best friend and promised not to hurt me when I know he has feelings. Why is he lying?
I am still friends with benefits with him and we talk everyday. He is my best friend and I am his. He has three kids. But I know he has feelings and he is too scared to admit it.
Not to mention he has told me after everything that he likes me and cares as much for me as he did about her.

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My mother claims she is/was an alcoholic, but she’s really just being dramatic?

admin — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:08:07 +0000

You see, it’s her religion. She thinks enjoying drunkeness every once and awhile is alcoholism. Fine, great, so she never drinks, but she gets on my nerves. I don’t tell her I drink. I’m an adult and it’s none of her business, but the preaching and the drama like she’s some victim of an ‘addictive personality’ and a father with alcoholism is really annoying when it comes up. What should I do? I don’t feel I should have to live my adult life hiding the fact that I enjoy a drink now and then, but what?

The whole Jesus made wine and archeological evidence that the alcoholic beverages back then were not just grape juice with an insignificant amount of alcohol (like she claims) aka reason doesn’t work. What can I do so if I want a little rum in my coke I can? My father is the same way. He even supports her in her so called alcoholism!

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I don’t really know.?

admin — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:08:07 +0000

I’m not going to brag about it, and i’m not going to milk it for all I think it’s worth, but my life has never been simple and it’s never been easy. My Dad is an alcoholic ex professional cyclist. He cheated on my Mum more times then I can remember but I do know that one time he made me meet one of these women and keep it a secret from Mum. When Mum found out I caught him trying to drink some oil and all I can remember from then on is me screaming and running down the stairs like a mad child.
Last year Mum and Dad finally split up, however Dad tried to kill himself and then I came home from school one day and found a suicide letter from Mum. The police found her before she could do anything and she swore to me that she hadn’t planned to try anything but later on that day in Dads car he put a voicemail from her on the bluetooth and it was her saying goodbye to him.
I’ve never told Mum I heard that voicemail and i’ve never thought about it enough to understand how I feel about the whole thing.

One year on and my Grandad’s died of cancer, my Dad has found a new woman at his local AA and did a runner out of rehab because he couldn’t hack it.

Now i’m following in his footsteps and have taken up cycling, its a great way to get out my anger and I love reading Dads old training diaries and looking at newsclippings of him. I was involved in a hit and run earlier this winter and hit my head pretty rough.

But I don’t know how i’m feeling, I like to be alone alot and my obsession over my eating is unbelievably powerful right now.
Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to get knocked off and die, I wonder who would turn up at my funeral and I wonder what people would say.
I bargin with god and tell him to give me cancer and spare my Mother and everyone else I know.
I tell myself I can ride however the hell I like because it’s not like I’ve got anything to live for.
I turn my friends down because I like to be on my own.

WHAT IS WRONG.

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Is it really the right time for us to have a baby?

admin — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:53:33 +0000

My husband and I are married for 3 years now. I’ve been wanting so bad since the very first day of our marriage to get pregnant and have a healthy baby. We tried so hard and nothing seemed to work. the whole process of trying every month seemed like and endless roller coaster to me. I cried allot every time I got my period. and felt more and more devastated and depressed. It hurts so bad. every time I see a pregnant woman or hear that a friend or a relative is pregnant or even see parent with their children I cry and feel burnt from the inside. I became isolated. This thing got me so depressed. My husband and I finally decided to go for IVF. I sold my car so that we can pay for the IVF treatment and started with the protocol. and just when I did I found out that my husband is a heroin addict. It was like spilling acid on an unhealed wound. I felt like the whole world’s doors are shut away from me. I grieved but decided to postpone the IVF treatment and stop the medications. My husband promised to stop but never did. I begged him to get into a rehab center but he refused saying that he can quit when he wants to without the need of a rehab. I tried everything with him but nothing seemed to work with him. I just don’t know what to do. Some say that maybe if I do get pregnant and have a kid then he will change and feel more responsible but I dont know if that would work? I want a child so bad though and I just sit everyday crying for hours just wishing I had a child.. Should I listen to my instincts and proceed with IVF or should I wait until my husband sobers up? Has anyone been through this or know anyone who’s veen through the same thing? could it be that the joy of a having a baby will make my husband be a more responsible person and takes a whole new step into changing himself into a better person?? not that he’s a bad person now, he’s a very loving husband and treats me so well but I really dont know why he go himself into what he’s in in the first place?

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both of us been tested for all STD’s and STI’s after all its an IVF protocol to be tested befor going for IVF. My husband does not use needles he just smokes and snorts heroin

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Why are the liberals such hateful hypocrites inre the Palin family, are they really that scared of Sarah?

admin — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:53:23 +0000

The Left’s tolerance knows no bounds. Practiced in the art of understanding and forgiving human foibles, and averse to the “judgment” they find so intolerable in those who think there are actually values such as right and wrong, good and bad, virtue and evil, liberals demonstrate every day how morally evolved they are. No matter how egregious or even illegal the behavior, they say it’s either a “private matter” or “irrelevant.” For instance:

* President Bill Clinton’s serial philandering, years-long Oval-office affair with a White House intern, and conviction and disbarment for perjury.
* Presidential candidate John Edwards’ cheating on his cancer-ridden wife and fathering a child with his girlfriend.
* Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt becoming the parents of six children but not getting around to marrying.

* Jodie Foster, Jessica Alba, Nicole Richie, and other Hollywood denizens “choosing” to have babies without getting married, including teenagers Jamie Lynn Spears, Keisha Castle Hughes, Solange Knowles, et al. – which Hollywood celebrates in movies like “Juno.” Uncountable celebrities and politicians’ “acting out” with driving-under-the-Influence and drug arrests, stints in rehab, relapses.

“It’s none of anyone’s business,” the understanding liberals intone. “It’s not related to the job they do!”

Except, that is, when these moral arbiters decide that it’s everyone’s business and highly relevant to the “public’s right to know.”

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Men would you stay in a relationship with the mother of your child or be with the person you really love?

admin — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 07:07:49 +0000

I’m almost 9 months pregnant by my boyfriend of 14 months. I have 2 other children by two different men. My boyfriend lives with me and my two kids. He was financially responsible for all of us until he got laid off several months ago. We really didn’t get a chance to get to know each other. Since we’ve been together we have broken at least 6 or more times. He once told me that we get along better as friends. Anyway, I found out through his family that he was originally in love with another young lady before he met me . They said he was crazy about her and that she brought out the best in him. I found hidden pictures of them together in his computer files. I must admit she is very beautiful. She kinda looks like a cross between Kim Kardashian and Cassie. (she’s mixed with black and arab). Long story short she dumped him because he wouldn’t get help for his alcoholism, which really crushed him. So I guess I was the rebound girl. Anyway, 7 months into our relationship I noticed he started not coming home, start arguments with me, and fixing himself up more. Then I broke into his email and found out that he started seeing his ex again!! He emails her love letters and tells her how much he misses her. But he told her he is confused because he doesn’t know if he should leave me for her or be obligated to stay with the mother of his child. I’m so hurt.

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My friend cries/get hostile when shes gets really drunk. Does this mean anything?

admin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:06:59 +0000

The other night, one of my best friends had a date with Cuervo… She wound up bawling her eyes out, telling me how sad she was about everything. I have known her for years and have never see her like this! I used to do the same thing, but instead I tended a little more aggressive.

I heard these kinds of behavior are signs that you’re really depressed, and hiding it. I have heard so many people say that your true, inner-self cannot be masked when you’re hammered. They say that for people who are depressed, and hiding how they feel inside to other people and/or denying something to themselves….it can be unleashed by alcohol, (or other drugs) I also heard these are common symptoms from people who have family members w/ alcoholism.

I agree, somewhat. In my opinion….alcohol is a depressant and that is what it can do to people, depress their feelings! But i don’t exactly think that means that you’re a depressed maniac inside.

Why are some ppl more prone to act like this?
PS….. The next day my friend said she it was just the booze talking. She gave me that line, of “anything she said she didn’t mean.” I am worried about her because I think that her bf is emotionally abusive. She can be an extremely open person, but she is also very good at masking her feelings. That night, She said a few things about him that worry me as I was already afraid of him before… But she told me the next day that nothing she said was true and not to worry about it.

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