i also suffer from a shopping problem. buying anything just makes me feel so much better. and i cant go a day without spending more than 50$. im in debt right now and would be in bankruptsy if my parents hadn't bailed me out last year. but they'd never pay my debts again so im on my own now. i know i should stop spending as much but i just cant seem to stop.

wow 3 times a day. i dont think thats normal, i think you may have an addiction.

i think totally bliss is right, your going to need to start making friends who arent addicted to these things because in the end they will end up getting hurt, maybe by dying or just their health and your suffer from it also. try making better friendes, we cant change the fact that you lost all those friends but thats fate. people die everyday. the best thing to do is to try to move on in life and accept that god chose this fate for them. its really good that you are sober now and i really hope you stay that way. keep fighting for it and i wish you the best =)

musky

aasismygamegame.. i dont get the whoole allergy to alcohol? could you explain please. i think that what you should do meanmachine is try AA.. if that doesn't work try a treatment center. just do whatever it takes to stop because being sober is the greatest feeling and leads you to greatest places.

dippy i think totallybliss is right. i've been in a position like you before, maybe not exactly but pretty close. and i know what its like to blame everything that is gong wrong on people and not want to listen to anyone, but honestly if i could go back in time i wish i would have listened to the people who were trying to guide me in the right direction. stop thinking about all the bad things and think of all the goods. be positive, even if your doing something right now that u really hate, look ahead to things you like later on.just make sure your always doing the right thing and your positive about things then your new life and great oppurtunities will come along. give it time and think positive. also if you can try watching this movie called "the secret" it helps you to think positive and how that will help you in life alot. its a great inspiration, and very enjoyable.

i noticed this too... but i guess its fixed now

Kathy Asta says, “it’s an addiction”. The “it” isn’t drugs,
alcohol, gambling or anything you can be arrested for. Its shoes! Asta had more
than 100. But she isn’t the only woman with a shoe addiction, about 20 women
wander around Saks Fifth Avenue between tables of Manolo, Blahniks, and Jimmy
Choos. They range in age from mid 20’s up to their late 60’s, but all have an
unabashed love of shoes. There is even a social and networking group for shoe
lovers called Hello Stiletto, started out with only 70 members. It started out
in Boston but opened up three other chapters, in Chicago, Atlanta and Naples.

In Saks Fifth Avenue in New York has its 8^th
floor completely devoted to shoes. They stock more than 100,000 pairs and have
even been given its own ZIP code by the U.S. Postal Service: 10022-SHOE. For
the members of Hello Stiletto, shoes are more than
an accessory. In platform wedges, pointy-toed stilettos or leopard print flats,
the women can express who they really are or craft who they dream of being. It
doesn’t matter if they’ve had a bad week or if they’ve gained 10 pounds; it
doesn’t matter that they won’t buy the $650 Dior sandals or the $800 Jimmy
Choos that they’re trying on at Saks. For the moment the shoes are on their
feet, they feel sexy, strong and glamorous. Their shoes transform them.

Hello Stiletto now has 1,400 members. One of the members
confessed she bought 6 pairs of shoes in one weekend, but instead of being
shocked she was excited. She said she has over 200 pairs of shoes, and would
rather not share how much she spends on her shoes in a year. She jokes she has
been a show lover since birth. She said she had to hire a mover specifically
because of all the shoes.

Members say it’s kind of like a book club, except you don’t
have to do anything except show up in your favorite shoes. It’s free to join but there is one risk, and
it’s how much they spend on shoes a year.

Three
council workers have already lost their jobs for spending too long on eBay. One
of them was fired, and two resigned after managers found that some staff was
spending up to two hours a day on the website. But some people blamed their
bosses by putting temptation in their way by allowing internet access.



Over an 18 month period, Union officials said up to six council staff
had lost their jobs. The council said it’s
“an unacceptable level of usage of shopping, entertainment”. Employees can use
the internet on their own time but not during council time, at the end of the
day they are employed to do a job of work not be shopping online. The council
has security software in place to prevent access to inappropriate websites such
as porn; however it does not block eBay sites.