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Drinking to Medicate Mental IllnessTSM And that makes me wonder if you are actually an alcoholic or you were simply using alcohol to temporarily self-medicate especially when you started doing the EMDR [Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, a therapy for PTSD] and that brought up a lot of stuff for you ( Read more... )

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Counting the DaysSKL Yeah, well that’s the other thing that’s really curious to me, the whole idea that having one drink or even going out for the night and getting really plastered, according to the 12-steppers, that would be a relapse that would basically stop my sober time, and, I would get my 24-hour chip, no matter if I’ve been sober ( Read more... )

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God Can Take It From Here

TSM Yeah I think a lot of people have a big problem with the wording of that first step and also people that aren’t religious are like “so what am I supposed to do with all that God stuff?”SKL Oh right and I mean that’s a whole other thing…luckily I didn’t have problems with the idea of a God or a higher power, ( Read more... )

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Domestic Abusers Need Help, Not Forgiveness

Or why enabling isn't helping the Hollywood batterers. Really, Hollywood is the biggest enabler of all.

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By now everyone has heard about Charlie Sheen’s drunken drug-fueled rage over the weekend in a New York hotel room. Sheen was spending time with an escort and couldn’t find his wallet or ( Read more... )

My earliest experience with alcohol was watching the change that came over my stepfather, Homer Cook, when he drank. He turned from a basically nice guy to a raging asshole after a few beers. We went to taverns with him so I had many opportunities to watch this process and the arguments that resulted from it. I remember when he called my mom a 2- ( Read more... )