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Re: Soap Operas
5/19/2007 5:05:38 AM sunshine
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I agree I love my soaps but they are not something that actually drives my life. I don't think its something that you can actually become addicted to
Tolkien Community
5/19/2007 5:08:00 AM sunshine
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In the UK near Oxford there is a Tolkien community, where all of the members who live there are totally immmersed in the world of Tolkien, dress, language, affilliation and the, is this addiction or is it 'just something your really into'?
Keeping the house clean
5/19/2007 5:10:00 AM sunshine
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I guess its a disorder not an addiction and by no means my principal hang up, but I can't bear to see things lying around the house, as soon as its put down I pick it up to put it away
Re: Main cause for a relapse
5/19/2007 5:11:51 AM sunshine
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There are many reasons for a relapse considering you have conquered your addiction is th ebiggest reason I would suspect for a relapse
edit a post
5/19/2007 5:14:00 AM sunshine
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How do I edit a post please? I just created a reply and posted it up, realized I had made a mistake but could not figure out how to edit and correct my reply



thankyou
Re: Extra Cash
5/19/2007 5:16:10 AM sunshine
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I think that is the case with lots of addictions that you find yourself so much better off once you have broken the cycle
Re: edit a post
5/20/2007 7:54:22 AM sunshine
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Thanks for that admin I guess I will have to be a lot more careful in the future, is this a functionality that you think will be available in the future or is it a limitation of the software
Re: Frightened to eat.
5/20/2007 7:58:08 AM sunshine
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poor little angel.

Has she been to see her doctor? If not its important that she does so, when you say underweight is this something that has been ongoing for a while, does she have cravings for odd things like for example chalk?
Re: Posting Rules and Policies
5/20/2007 8:00:30 AM sunshine
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This is a great idea for helping those who need help when it may not be readily available elsewhere, I wish you all the best in waht you are trying to achieve
Internet Gaming - WOW
5/20/2007 8:06:00 AM sunshine
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I saw the concept for this in another thread and thought that World of Warcraft deserved its own thread, its a highy compelling class-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) that has over 7 million subscribers worldwide - There are stories of youths in south east asia literally playing until they die - this surely has to be an addiction! possible as yet un-defined
Re: Lost in addiction.
5/21/2007 3:27:06 AM sunshine
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Thats beatuiful Cymru it really is full of meaning and so full of hurt I would love to have to a way with words like that, my heart goes out to you
Re: What's the best way to say to a Gambling addict?
5/21/2007 3:30:13 AM sunshine
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Hi Kheyanne,

The first thing you need to do is to find a gamblers support group in your area and have a chat with them to find out the best way to start to help your cousin
Re: All I see is...
5/21/2007 3:33:36 AM sunshine
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Thats a great observation Deevah, you are so right a celebritys are in and out of rehab for what quite often appears very minor thing and its now becoming almost acceptable in the press, its like 'oh Britney has bought a new pair of shoes' the real issues and the real pains are being lost in the mist of journalism
Re: What is this thread all about?
5/21/2007 3:35:53 AM sunshine
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A recovering christian I beleive is someone who has lost faith for wahtever reason and now wishes to return to the fold, at least that is how it appears to be in my mind
Recovering Christians
5/21/2007 3:38:00 AM sunshine
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Do you not think this is a bit innappropriate - you are seeking out a world audiance but are highlighting christianity - should not the forum be Recovering faith, so all faiths can take part?
Re: Keeping the house clean
5/21/2007 3:40:20 AM sunshine
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Thats interesting that you have said that, my concern also is not for me but the possibility of guests, so some common cause, does your extend to exterior also, gardens and the like?
Re: thisRe: kicking your porn addiction in the butt!!!
5/21/2007 3:43:52 AM sunshine
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so true you cannot work in isolation every need sthe support of others but to explain you have a problem with pornography would be very hard to come clean about to frineds and family
Does society help?
5/21/2007 3:46:00 AM sunshine
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We see threads here with people who are struggling with addiction to television and on the other hand the mobile phone services are working flat out to give us TV on our mobile devices - does society help

(This example of course could be spread across a hundred an one other addictions)
Re: Last week
5/25/2007 1:57:19 AM sunshine
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Well done Maxine I'm really pleased for you but I'm sure you are more pleased for yourself and so you should be, keep up the good work, we are thinking of you
Re: Internet Junkie.
5/25/2007 2:01:07 AM sunshine
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I don't know if its addiction or not, in days gone past people would spend whole evening writing letters to friends or relatives or reading books - I would not have called them addicts, I would have siad they were relaxing


Re: Extra Cash
5/25/2007 2:04:59 AM sunshine
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The figures are astronomial if you extrapolate them over 25 years, a 20 a day smoker will have smoked 118,000 cigarettes, can you imagine seeing a pile of butts that size, costing $60,000 dollars
Re: Two in one day
5/25/2007 2:07:24 AM sunshine
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It would be a good idea, and gives your users a chance to discuss other things which are important to them or just to gossip with each other
Re: Frightened to eat.
5/25/2007 2:11:52 AM sunshine
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Cymru Am Byth wrote
She doesn't eat chalk bet she does eat alot of potatoes and paste. These seem to be the only things that do not upset her. Although she is under weight and scared to eat her stomach seems distended. I told her mam to see the doctor as she may be becoming malnurished. What do you think?




Hmmm, If her tummy is distended and she is loosing weight, I wonder if she has a severe wheat intolerence or manybe coeliac disease, a frined of mines child has this a basically eating wheat casuses bad stomach aches and unpleaseant stools, she was losing weight and had a permantly bloated stomach. Take her to the doctor but in the meantime try and cut all wheat out from her diet - try rice instead of pasta or buy corn pasta if she has to have it
Re: DO the casinos set up addiction?
6/3/2007 11:40:47 AM sunshine
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Great post Phaedrus, spot on. The casino is not responsible for addiction but they sure as heck do not those who have the personality type
Re: Smoking ban for the UK
6/3/2007 11:44:04 AM sunshine
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kheyanne wrote
More like a good motivation not to start, if you're asking for my opinion. Quitting smoking is very hard, even if you can go to prison if you continue doing so. Anyway, what you have is good news. Finally one government had withstood the pressures imposed by the tobacco company.




Here, here. It goes beyond the threat of prison my grandpa had a lung removed due to cancer and still continued to smoke 80 a day and pipe he died of course with cancer in his other lung.... I'm delighted the start of the beginning of the end for smoking is starting worldwide
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