If you want to start a new life with new opportunities, then do it! Most poeple that were born with great opportunity, never take advantage of it because they don't have the motivation.
~If you have the right motivation and you're ambitious, get out there and make something of yourself! I mean, I hear poeple complain all the time like "Oh, you don't know where I grew up, you don't know what i've seen" there's no way I can make somehting of myself, "I'm too far gone" or "I'm just a fuck up"!
~Hello! We live in America, i think if a person really wants to and they're willing, anything is possible!

Try to be a little more positive, i'm sure you have so much ahead of you, you might not even realize it yet! I wish you all the best dippy! Keep ballin to the top!

Well, I think eventually you have to accept the fact that you've lost many people in your life. But I think you need to take the time to deal with your loss and it's okay to miss someone and not cry. I think in order to start getting your life on track, it's best to do it with a sober mind. I've dealt with a lot of friends who have addictions and when you're really addicted, it helps to give yourself boundaries, set your morals, and find people that will support you through your recovery. Having friends that are into the same stuff you are, isn't healthy for you when you're trying to quit. Nearness is likeness and no one knows that better than addicts. It takes time to make new friends, but once you find your best friend, it's the best feeling in the world.

O wow my friends laugh at me when I say diet lol I'm the worst with carbs like bagels n cheesecake omg! Whenever I work out I feel like i can deserve a nice treat, but it's so hard to moderate on a diet, I think working out and drinking a ton of water is the best diet plan...but you have to stick to it tha'ts the catch lol

I think the best way to approach the situation of offering help to a friend with an addiction would be to do it when they're sober, and with your best honestly. Explain why exactly you feel they have a problem and why they should quit, and make sobriety seem totally desirable, make sure to explain everything in their best interest, because you care about them. Offer them support and an open ear during their recovery because having someone to talk to about addiction is really important and can help in a lot of ways!

I think it depends on each individual, depending on how they deal with their addiction. It's best to go through recovery with a positive attitude and a lot of hope, but some people have it a lot harder than others and not necessarily depressed people, just poeple who've lost a lot of their hope and need a little extra support.

Hey! Hope you like this forum, i love it! There's so many categories, hope you find one that you enjoy

I agree with HardWorkingMom, computer addiction is just like any addiction, it is real and may have altering affects on anyone. Thirteen-yr-olds should be hanging out witht their friends and playing sports, not cooped up on a computer all day. When you're older, you'll understand that there is so much more to life than just computer games. Maybe there are other hobbies you're interested in, try finding other things that keep you happy!

I can't understand why everyone in my family is on my back constantly about partying too much, I mean I'm a teenager, duh it's all I'm going to do, it's fun! But I drink every weekend, not everyday so I have self control I know it. Whenever I don't go out on the weekend, I feel like I'm missing out on everything and it makes me sad I just wanna have a crazy life when I"m young but my parents make a huge deal about going out and coming home late but I'm almost an adult. I swear ever since I got a DUI I've heard nothing but nonsense about everything I do wrong but I work and I'm in school so how can I just get my family off my back about wanting to have fun??

Many women suffer from post partum depression, but there's many treatment options for it like medication or special therapy. Brooke Shields, the actress, went on Oprah talking about her experience with extreme post partum depression and how it took her a long time to recover, and in her case she may have never recovered without treatment.

When I was in high school, my friend's mom was a total alcoholic and she would let my friend drink and have boys spend the night but then she would try to make her go to school in the morning. I always thought it was pretty crazy like how can you expect your kid to go to school hung over when you're the one who let them drink???

You just need to pick one side or the other, hopefully you pick sobriety but you have to want it, that's how you ignore the addict inside of you. You need to hate your addiction, know that eventually you will lose everything over it and it will probably eventually kill you.

Wow that's so awesome Vaminos! Well, you'll probably have some extra money now that you're not spending so much on weed, so maybe you could pick up a new hobby. When my best friend quit smoking weed, he would get sort of depressed and extreme boredom. So it'd be cool if you could get yourself around a support group if you feel like using, sort of like the ppl on this site!

That makes sense, I mean your environment determines how you act also.  Nearness is likeness and depending where you are most of your time could mean giving up on your recovery altogether or saying Well I can have one drink.  It's probably not a good idea if you're just starting out in recovery, maybe in a few years but not right away.

Gailie that's soo amazing, I have so much respect for people who can give up drinking.  My dad also used to be an alcoholic, well he still is but one day he decided to get drunk and ever since then it's taken over every day of his life.  But your story is so helpful to those struggling.  When I used to drink, I couldn't imagine never having a drink again, or even smoking pot it's like you need it to be complete.  But now that I've been sober for three months, every day I'm learning what it's like to be self-reliant and happy without all that stuff. 

    I saw an episode of True Life on Mtv about binge drinkers and I was absolutely glued to the tv because I had no idea how big of a problem drinking is for some people.  It was mainly about a girl named Kasey, she's 21 and recently moved to Las Vegas.  Suposedly she had her first drink when she was 14 and somewhere along the way, she got crazy about alcohol and now she wants it all the time.  She's been fired from all of her jobs and just sort of goes through friends and mooches off them until they get sick of her drinking and borrowing money.  One of her friends let her move in to their apartment and all she did the whole time was drink and cry about how unhappy she was.  One night she was drinking with some random people that she invited over and someone accidently spilled her bottle of blue vodka.  Kasey started screaming and everyone was like its okay, we'll get the stain out.  And she was like noo I don't even care about that, we just wasted like 5 gulps!  My mouth dropped at this point because I couldn't believe how obsessed she was over five gulps of alcohol. The next day she was drinking and decided to use her last $27 on alcohol.  She just basically lives on favors off of friends and credit cards and because of her drinking, she has no home, no job and no real life.  Her parents offered to send her to rehab but she insists her problem 'isn't that bad.'
    Her story opened my eyes up to how addiction can take over every aspect of your life.  Addicts can't even be the person they truly are inside, like they're lost inside themselves.