Tag: addiction
group name: survivorsforum
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March 31, 2006 05:17 AM EST --
5:00
Calm
Trauma takes a rest
Cocaine gives way
To alcohol's sedation
He is trying to sleep
Regretting
Rightly so
He
With so much to lose
Coked up
Woke his sister
Chaos in the house
Violence
Aggression . . . more
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January 06, 2008 11:10 AM EST --
I was posting a comment to an article I wrote as a follow-up of sorts, and as I'm doing so I'm putting a DVD into my friend's notebook (I'm apartment sitting for him this weekend and he's . . . more
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November 14, 2007 04:45 PM EST --
We face one another picking apart our chicken cutlet parmesans. While my mother complains about the thieving coked-up whores in her diner, I assemble piles of mozzarella cheese -- eyes transfixed on . . . more
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May 01, 2006 11:23 AM EDT --
Sometimes I wonder "what if?" What if I had waited to get married? What if I had pursued a career rather than be a full-time homemaker for most of my younger years? What if . . . more
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October 27, 2006 11:07 PM EDT --
In The Best Way to Ease Your Troubled Life, (/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976825514) , Bill Allin brings out the point that by helping others we can forget our own troubles. . . . more
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May 24, 2006 10:12 PM EDT --
Republish to Disability Forum
It was 3:15 a.m. according to the glow of the digital clock next to my bed. I had been up and to the bathroom twice since I had turned out my light five hours . . . more
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November 14, 2007 04:47 PM EST --
My first foray into the kitchen was a disaster of epic proportion. Think gastronomic Chernobyl. Julia Child would have fallen into a fit of palpitations; Martha Stewart would have surmised that Felicia . . . more
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July 21, 2007 03:10 PM EDT --
"Mom! ", i called my mother sobbing, really calling her "Ima" (Hebrew for mom)
"They have ruined the t.v., AND the computer!"
"I don't think i can take another . . . more
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January 28, 2007 12:53 AM EST --
This is a very personal story that I am about to share and one that is close to my heart. Everyday I hear about children who are abducted and sexually or physically abused. Some . . . more
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January 04, 2008 10:24 AM EST --
When I quit using cocaine, cold, in 2002 I was nervous. I couldn't sit still; I paced about my office, refilled water bottles - I did anything to keep moving, to keep busy, to keep my mind off using. . . . more
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July 13, 2006 12:56 PM EDT --
I finally left my job after I had the week from hell. I had one patient
cut himself and come into my office with blood streaming down his arm.
Hold wound with face cloth. Check. . . . more
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October 07, 2006 02:43 PM EDT --
Little girl heart,
woman's body,
magnet for those
with lustful eyes;
Hands that grope
object of pleasure;
tears rain down
amidst the lies.
Shame on you!
What did you do
to stop the . . . more
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May 13, 2006 12:43 PM EDT --
lovely Sarah holding a can of cheap local beer
and asking me if she could join me in the morning walk
in the woods.
I say sure and so we talk and walk and talk
and all the time she is holding . . . more
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June 05, 2007 08:01 AM EDT --
My husband--let's call him Mike--works every day in rehab counseling addicts. He's an amazing therapist, he loves what he does, and he's in recovery himself. There are days when it's hard . . . more
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July 04, 2006 06:46 AM EDT --
Addiction & Subtraction
for Mateo and Jannala
Trap
wrapped layers
prepared
packaged
Soft escape
No landings
continuing . . . more
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May 20, 2006 05:08 AM EDT --
We do not need birth control. What we need is a miracle.
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April 08, 2006 04:01 PM EDT --
Introduction: Several years ago I had an online friend who was bipolar and had suffered an absolutely horrendous childhood. She also suffered from panic attacks, brought on by stress and the . . . more
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April 12, 2006 04:35 AM EDT --
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five
I was done being the good southern wife. I would put on a show until tomorrow morning when Clayton and the kids left for the airport. But . . . more
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October 04, 2006 09:08 PM EDT --
For years we used to laugh at all those leading an alternative lifestyle.
How could they survive without a t.v.?
When the DVD player came into our lives i knew we finally got the substitute to the drug . . . more
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May 20, 2006 05:52 AM EDT --
If only they could crack open my brain and find the answers.
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