People get off drugs, or alcohol without God. People defeat cancer, depression, overcome sexual abuse without God.

What I’m trying to say is, it might not be God that cured you, or helped you through a tough time, it just might be you (and/or doctors, friends and family). So be proud of yourself for overcoming any of life’s struggles. Prayers aren’t always answered, but positivity can do wonderful things.

But first, please read this, and then respond…i wanna know what you think!

I smoke pot about everyday and always wonder why marijuana is illegal and why alcohol is legal. You always hear about people who die from drinking and driving, an innocent person died because of a drunk driver, or because of alcohol poisoning. People become aggressive and their thinking becomes impaired.
But how many times have you heard of a person overdosing on marijuana? It‘s impossible to die from smoking too much pot and you can‘t get addicted to it like you can with nicotine and alcohol.-but u can become an alcoholic and potentially die if you drink too much. I know there’s been some deaths from driving high because of delayed reaction, but who would you trust,
1. a raging drunk swerving all over the place, or
2. a stoner driving the exact speed limit, or a bit slower, trying to stay in between the white lines?

The government knows very well that marijuana isn’t as evil as it’s portrayed, they know the benefits it can cause. They know how dangerous alcohol is and how there’s more and more people dying everyday because of a drunk driver.

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Abusers may have a_______sense of entitlement to using and denial of actual abuse.
a) weak
b) non-existent
c) strong
d) none of the above.

A family history of substance abuse/dependence has a significant impact on the functioning of individuals with substance dependence.
a) true
b) false

Characteristics of abuse of Narcotics include ______.
a) drowsiness
b) nodding
c) drunken behavior
d) all of the above.

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I believe i have been suffering from depression for some time due to early teen use of marijuana and alcohol. I read that this causes the brain to have trouble producing dopamine or seratonin. Because of this I have lost more and more the ability to get excited or happy about anything and I cant remember the last time I laughed. I have no energy or reaction to things around me like im lost in my own world. I really want to feel better I want my energy levels to be much higher and I want to have a sense of well-being but I am not into prescription medications or Therapy. I believe there are natural cures for what the body lacks so if anyone knows about natural medecines to help the brain produce seratonin or dopamine and that give an energy boost I would be so grateful to hear it Thanks!
Just needed to mention I have tried prayer I have asked God to help me get through this and give me strength and patience and to forgive me for certain sins but i still feel terrible and at the end of the day lately i have this headache that feels like a migrane from all the racing thoughts
WOW! I just have to say thank you so much to all of you for your great suggestions! I especially love the one from Fergus (who doesnt allow e-mail so ill say it here)about the epsom salts because i am a big believer in natural medecine and internal cleanse but i had no idea it could help depression….a friend of mine once told me that an enema is good but taking the salts orally sounds more appealing to me Thanks! I will definitley try it asap!!!

The shape of a woman’s belly button can indicate how fertile she is

Women with bigger chin’s are more prone to cheating

Taking a bath or shower makes you less judgemental

Alcohol in mouthwashes have been linked to cancer

The smell of lavender combined with pumpkin pie drives men wild

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Nicole Richie.. what a piece of art she is.. On David Letterman she states she is afraid to go to Jail.. She was driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs, She volunteered the info on smoking pot and taking vicodin, but she had none in her possession so she makes the “famous” statement, “I am willing to accept the consequences for my actions, I take full responsibility for what I did” and then the ding bat pleads NOT GUILTY????? how is this taking responsibility for her own actions??? What great upstanding role models some of our children are looking up too.. such a shame.. Anyone agree that her statements contradict themself? These “poor” little rich girls need to wake up and realize they are no better than anyone else walking on this earth..
Im sorry Joyce I DO wish them luck with recovery, if in fact they are even wanting to “recover” but I doubt that any program recovery will help either Nicole or Paris at this point because I doubt either one is really ready for help, they have not been allowed to sink low enough to want to crawl their way out of the destruction they are putting themselves into.. but I think you are wrong Joyce about their parents being like us, well Im not sure about Richies but Paris’ parents think they can buy away all the bad things that Paris does, they indeed think they are better than those of us who are not rich and famous, if they were anything like me as a parent they would want their daughter to recover and do everything in their power to help her instead of enable her all the time. Its a good parent that wants their child to learn from their mistakes, not pay their way out of it and then watch their child go down the paths of destruction.. no I dont believe they are much like me at ALL..

My wife of 5 years and I have 1 child together. Our son is 3 years old. Shortly after his birth my wife began to drink often. About a year ago she became what I considered an alcoholic. She drank most every day and drank a lot. She was always drunk but when at work. She works evenings so she got drunk before work but not wasted and wasted when she got home.

After some big problems eg. driving drunk with our son and passing out when she was supposed to be watching him, I was at the end of my rope. I had a professional intervention done and put her into rehab for her health and for how she was behaving with our son and how she was treating me.

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Okay, so my ex-boyfriend and I kept breaking up and getting back together with each other, arguing, losing trust, and it was getting so irritatingly obvious that this wasn’t working. It lasted 9 months until I decided to leave him. He’d come in to see me at work, hung over with a girl by his side (one he had said he’d ‘do’ if we broke up- I realise now this was true). I told him he smelt bad (meaning of alcohol, but left out that detail) so he ignored me for over a day. That’s when we broke off. AFTER I broke up with him, I found out that he had already been ‘seeing’ girls at parties behind my back and seemed ‘VERY CLOSE’ with them. And the day after I broke up with him, he started going out with this girl I referred to earlier. He made feel awful for the break up saying I was ‘jealous, obsessive, spiteful, deceitful, angry, and bitter’ and then said he still ‘loved’ me. It’s been a week since then. Should I feel guilty or wrong for breaking up with him? And how do I get over this??