Yeah but most people who are addicted to porn are so into it that they can't even have a healthy relationship or even date because they have an addiction.  For some people, this is a way of life, its at their work, at their home, they think/crave it 24/7.  And it can make a girl feel really self-conscious if her guy is off looking at porn all of the time, she may not always want to do the whoopie all the time because of that...?

    In The Village, Ok. a 4-year-old was taken from an elementary school after teachers reported that she was acting strangely and had an alcohol smell on her breath.  She was taken from paramedics and was said to be in good condition.  The deputy in charge said its believed the girl got the alcohol before she got to school.  Investigators are still trying to determine where she got the alcohol. 
    I think this story is almost as bad as the little girl that took an Ecstasy tablet with her family.  How can people be so neglectful to children, I can't understand this!

    Okay so I got the rest of the story, apparently the mom, Christine Aaron was arrested for child neglect charges and bailed fromt he Oklahoma County Jail the next day.  She had apparently left an open beer can within reach of her daughter before falling asleep.  The girl then drank about 8 oz of beer, or about two thirds of a 12 oz can~ enough to get her drunk, according to authorities.  Aaron had reportedly realized her daughter had taken a drink from the can.  She scolded the girl but still dropped her off at school.  The child has been taken into the care of the Department of Human Services while the incident is investigated.  Aaron does not have a criminal background, police said, although they believe her daughter has had access to alcohol before. 

    As of right now, I have 9 close friends from high school that are in the Marines.  Almost all of them have substance abuse issues and I fear how it will affect them in the service. I figure it can only get better or worse.  Whenever they're back in town, all they do is party nonstop.  And I figure on the weekends and in their spare time, they must be drinking on the base too. 
    When they go over to Iraq, they need to be in their best state of mind, capable of using all of their senses because it could mean life or death.  If their judgment is impaired, they are more likely to have a costly mistake and get themselves or someone else killed.  I'm worried for all of them, each time one of them leaves, I'm torn inside.  All I can do is cheer them on and hope for the best, but expect the worse.  I'm praying that all 9 of them can return safely, but I'm constantly worried. 

I like these...

Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.

No fate is worse than a life without a love.
   

At my college, they just started this Stop Smoking class.  It's funny, the only prerequesite is to be a smoker, but it's really legit.  They breathelize you before you come in, because you're not allowed to smoke before class..

    "It started with WW2 games on the comuter.  He would spend hours fighting jets, fighting the Germans.  And his interests changed.  I'd wake up in the middle of the night and he'd be on the computer looking at women's pictures.  It was very lonely for both of us."
    For some, pornography is their whole world, and for others, it's the very thing that ruined their marriage.  This story is far too similar to so many people.  The sad thing is when children are involved.  Sex addiction ruined my grandparents marriage, which had a profound affect on my mom.  In turn, it affected me also, because she could never trust my dad.  Sex addiction has many roots, but in order to cure it, you have to pull that root to remove the dirty, rotten weeds it produces.
    One of the main factors that can contribute to a sex addiction is the easy access: computers at work and at home.  Second, its often free. And finally, there is a perception that it can be done anonymously, without the fear of running into someone who knows you at an x-rated video store or singles bar.
    Cybersex is different than regular courtship.  Flirtations and innuendo, long the staples of leisurly seduction, rapidly escalate into frank sexual discussions and proposals on the Internet.  The speed, magnitude and endless possibilities are unprecedent.  In many cases, online involvement leads to real-world behavior: meeting up with someone from the online world or going to sex or strip clubs.  Often, it leads to spouses feeling less than adequate, compared to all that is available online. 
    While in couples counseling, I head a woman talking about her husband's obsession with porn.  At first she said it didnt' bug her.  She knew he loved her, but thought she understod that he just wanted the variety of all the fantasy women.  But soon after there was an emptiness to the marriage.  She described it as if he were under the influence of a drug.
    She had no idea that her husband was essentially leading a double life, until she found a few photos of himself that he had deleted.  The photos showed him naked, in sexy poses.  She assumed he must be having an affair, and confronted him, but he denied it.  Eventually, she searched online for his screen name and found advertisements he had created, trying to attract prostitutes and "swinging couples."  When she learned he had brought women and couples to their home when she was away, the marriage was over.
    I could hardly understand the pain and humiliation this woman had gone through.   When you're in a marriage, it's forever and even if you think you may become addicted to sex/porn, you should save your partner the grief, while you still can, right?

I think it worked out pretty well, it was a full class... It was on the news and everything.  But I think it's for people that are really serious about quitting.  Because also at my college, they have trash cans specifically for cigarettes and areas for smoking, which I think is ridiculous.  Just like high schools and middle schools they shouldn't allow cigarettes on campus.... but that's my opinion!

I'm convinced because these young stars realize that their CD sucks and their movie flopped and they can still get a lot of media attention if they go to bars and clubs and get all drunk and stupid.  But they don't realize that they're actually ruining their careers by acting like that, not to mention their image and reputations.

Just check your email and then spend 5 minutes doing something fun and then unplug it!  You can't obsess over something that's not there!  You'll find that you're enjoying your time much better... hopefully that helps!

    Do you save up your Weight Watchers points, living all day on chewing gum,
cucumber and Ryvita, so you can blow them all on a bottle of wine at night?
Are you the sort who knows that after two glasses of wine, you won’t feel
like eating dinner, so why bother cooking it? Do you avoid drinking because
it makes you eat “bad” foods, then find yourself getting drunk and eating
every complex carb in Christendom?

    If any of these apply to you, then you might want to address the fact that you
have a zeitgeisty confluence of drinking too much and disordered eating. In
short, you might well be a drunkorexic.

    Drunkorexia is a silly word that started out as a spiteful joke. It first
gained popularity two years ago, when some bitchy website used it to
describe the antics of the celebutante skinnies who appeared to live on
alcohol and hot air – cruel close-up photographs highlighting fag- and
party-induced premature ageing and a bit of bloat were posted alongside the
word “drunkorexic”. Yet a couple of years on, it has captured the public’s
imagination.

    “It’s socially acceptable to be drunk, but it’s not okay to be fat,” says Ian
Marber, a nutritionist who sees signs of a drunkorexic lifestyle among his
smart female clients. “If your natural bent is to be a fatty, but you want
to be skinny, whatever you do to stay thin is good by you, even if it’s
nutritional insanity.” Among his clients, the most common type of
drunkorexic is a woman who punctuates her day, apparently sensibly, with an
appetite-suppressing and relaxing glass of wine or champagne. “They say,
‘Oh, I only ever have one glass of champagne at lunch, and one with my
husband when he gets in, and one at dinner, and one when I’m putting the
kids to bed.’ If they do eat, it’s low-calorie, low-fat, nutritionally empty
foods such as Snack A Jacks.”

Exactly and they don't realize that their brains are still developing and they're at the most risk of becoming addicted.  This is how I was, I thought it'd be fun to smoke weed once in a while and take a Vicodin once in a while but then after a short time, it started becoming who I was.  Now it's like I struggle with it, but I felt like I had to change who I was in order to get over my cravings. 

There is a whole new emergence of alcoholic beverages specifically marketed to adolescents that parents are not aware of.  The problem arises when alcohol is mixed with caffiene and other stimulants.  One can act as an upper, and the other a downer, often resulting in cardiovascular failure.  The perception is that the two don't cause impairment, then the kid gets behind the wheel of a car.  Each year about 5,000 people under the age of 21 die as a result of underage drinking, which includes about 1,900 deaths from motor vehicle accidents.  Parents need to know their kid's friends as well as they know their own kids.  And they need to reinforce the point that it could happen to anyone. 

A friend of mine is exactly this way, we go to the gym three times a week but she's a very emotional person and uses food to ease her pain because she's a very sensitive, self-conscious person.  We'll go eat at Burger King once in a while, and if she doesn't finish her cheeseburger, she'll stick it in her purse to warm it up when she gets home.  I saw her a few days ago, and she's actually getting a lot better though, she's finally starting to see results and she's building her confidence.  But it's a sad way to go about eating. 

I've been 18 for about 6 months now and my parents still treat me like I'm 17 and it's soo ridiculous!  I can't stand having a curfew and checking in every hour.  Don't you think it's reasonable that I'm an adult now, and even though I still live at home I should be able to make my own rules?  I've talked to a few people and most people are agreeing with my parents!

Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don't they realize that it's gross? I understand it's an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends do it!

When I was an addict, I just used my body to tell the whole world that something is wrong with me.

Lonliness is similar to depression, it's easy to feel depressed when you have every reason to be happy.  I always thought it was something I would grow out of, I was always trying to run away from it and I felt so incredibly vulnerable.  But I am different now, I pray a lot and I call people when no one is home.  My loneliness has improved, but I let things get to me, even other's pain and I feel it as my own.

    The Deutsche Welle's online service cited that 200,000 to 290,000 Germans regularly play poker on the Internet, and spent around 1 million Euros gambling online in 2007, even though gambling online is a grey area of German law.  An article explained that in Germany, it's only legal to gamble for money in casinos, leaving the booming Internet market ina  grey area.  If it involves money, online gambling is against the law, but so far no one has been charged with a crime.  Germany's tax authorities have a monopoly on the gambling business and pocket more than half of the industry's earnings as corporate tax.  Online gambling, however, remains unregulated and profits circumvent state coffers. 
    I swear, online gambling is the worst; there's no social monitoring anymore.  Beginners can get themselves in serious debt by overestimating their abilities and mistaking skill for luck. 

It could also be a good way to convince someone that they need treatment, to actually show them their score.  A lot of people deny that they have a problem and say that their problem isn't that bad. 

Does anyone know a friend or family member that was or is currently addicted to meth?  My brother was addicted to meth for 1 1/2 years and it changed him completely.  We were always a two parent household, two dogs, two kids, two cars, and we even went to church every single Sunday.  And all of a sudden everything changed, my brother started getting so skinny, his face changed, his friends changed, his grades slipped.  Now, after completing 3 rehab programs, it's finally sticking with him.  I believe he's done with that life, but in the past, it was so terrible.  Crystal meth has battery acid in it and the acid was trying to get out of his skin, so it was just bumps everywhere.  I'm so lucky to have him still. 

I took everything to extremes, I would over react, drop 20 pounds like that, I would drink my ass off, if I got mad I would pull my hair as hard as I could. and I would steal even when I had a 100$ bill in my pocket.  I did it all for attention because of how much pain I had inside.  I wanted to scream at everyone I met, but instead I remained miserable living in my own addicted world.

                                                      Fake Love Don't Make Love.
                                                            Get Your Own Life.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don't have brains enough to be honest. 

These could apply to anything, but addiction for us ;)

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

Don’t waste time calculating your chances of success and failure. Just fix your aim and begin.

To change one’s life;
Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
No exceptions.

It does not matter how slowly you go up, so long as you don’t stop.

Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.