This is a cause and effect essay ! PLEASE READ ; is this correct ? should i add anything ? change anything ? — OPINIONS PLEASE !
i also need help writing a conclusion.
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A sis has gone through a breakup. The guy has been especially horrible. Despite that, she has gone through many breakups before and has always taken things extremely badly. This time it seems to the be the ultimate worst. She has always drank but this time she is drinking heavily to the point of incoherent. She went to a psychiatrist last week and he put her on Remeron (for depression?) and Klonopin (for anxiety and sleep?). She has been drinking for four straight days now and freaks out when I take away the klonopin out of fear for her life. She has not taken so many to be an overdose but I fear that the combination of that and MASSIVE amounts of alcohol will kill her. She is severely depressed and crying uncontrollably. I am told that forced hospitalization could do her more harm than good due to the conditions and treatment available in some of them. I do suspect that our hospitals are pretty bad. Can anyone give me advice?

I’m trying to stop drinking.. I have binged drank several times the past week.

Would it help to drink a little bit (shot or 2) and gradually ease off the alcohol over completely stopping and suffering the detox/withdrawal???

I’m very shakey, tired.. no headache though.

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The ETG alcohol test can find alcohol metabolites “up to 80 hours” after consumption. I heard that 80 hours is extreme, but I also heard it can be longer. If I drank about 8-10 shots Wednesday night at a party with family and need to be tested next Tuesday morning, will I be okay? I am not an alcoholic, and I have learned my lesson, I just want honest responses. I’m never drinking again I can’t handle the stress!

My fiancé is bipolar and might be ADD. I’m not sure how he is is because of bipolar or simply personality. For example, he can’t do things by his own; needs help. He can’t figure out simple stuff, takes much longer time than average. He is not patient person either; when he fails, he gives up and keeps complaining about it. If I say anything, he freaks out. He says I should help him cause it’s easier for me and it takes time for him. He picks up stress from nothing and get depressed. He asks me to support him when he is depressed, but it happens everyday. I get stress from him being depressed and talking negative all day. And honestly, it sometimes is his fault too. I can’t keep saying it’s ok cause it’s not. For example, few days ago he couldn’t make it to work cause he got lost on the way to work. (he has terrible sense of direction and usually asks me to take him to work but I didn’t do it) He just came home, didn’t even call his boss. He missed work. He hasn’t called his boss and hasn’t worked ever since. Now he lost job, which I think natural. It’s third time he lost job in the last 6 months (not all his fault), every time he loses his job, he goes into deeper depression; he needs full time attention. What makes matters worse is he is alcoholic too. Alcohol makes him even slower, I ask him to quit but he doesn’t. He calls it self medication, but it’s for short term; it’s actually depressant. Next day his condition gets worse and he needs more drink to cope with it. Everyday whatever happens, second thing he says is “I need to drink”. He doesn’t earn much money either. (about $1000/mon and social security) Now he isn’t working, hasn’t paid his share of rent this week yet, but went to buy beer with his card and drinking. He seems like resting on being mental disorder and not making any efforts. But he insists he is trying but it’s hard to change. I think I’m giving up. I wanna spend my time for myself too. What do you think? Any professional opinions really appreciated. And if anybody knows who we should talk to (marriage counselor, psychiatrist or whatever), that would be helpful.
My fiance is officially bipolar(type2).
I’m not saying he is bipolar because he has mood swing and sounds like bipolar. He IS siagnosised as a bipolar and he is on medication.
He does not function w/o medication. Only people who know bipolar people would understand what it means.
He has psychoatrist too.
I want you to understand just because you see someone who has severe mood swing doesn’t make him/her bipolar. Bipolar is more serious disorder.
That’s why I asked for “professional” opinion.
My fiance is officially bipolar(type2).
I’m not saying he is bipolar because he has mood swing and sounds like bipolar. He IS siagnosised as a bipolar and he is on medication.
He does not function w/o medication. Only people who know bipolar people would understand what it means.
He has psychoatrist too.
I want you to understand just because you see someone who has severe mood swing doesn’t make him/her bipolar. Bipolar is more serious disorder.
That’s why I asked for “professional” opinion.
My fiance is officially bipolar(type2).
I’m not saying he is bipolar because he has mood swing and sounds like bipolar. He IS siagnosised as a bipolar and he is on medication.
He does not function w/o medication. Only people who know bipolar people would understand what it means.
He has psychoatrist too.
I want you to understand just because you see someone who has severe mood swing doesn’t make him/her bipolar. Bipolar is more serious disorder.
That’s why I asked for “professional” opinion.

Recently everytime I go out I feel so guilty the next day for even going out. Theres no shame in dancing but the alcohol and drugs that surround the situation is what makes it bad.
Before I did this i did feel a connection with God and Christianity and now I feel completely disconnected with him hes so far away.

I definitly need to quit doing everything that makes me feel guilty but how can i reconnect..?

I don’t understand why just because someone maybe having fun going out, drinking and partying it is automatically deemed as some sort of illness. There are people who can control their behavior. Their alcohol intake, etc. Why is such a far fetched notion that someone could actually be “normal”? Is it because there are so many that aren’t? Or could the ones saying it’s not “normal” behavior are just envious that someone is normal? It upsets me that we are in a society that automatically judges others because they are not like them and assumes that there is something mentally wrong and they need meds and therapy. There isn’t a person in this world that can say they have had a perfect life without a tear one. Or never felt blue, or angry. I don’t think the world needs to be on meds and needs to see a therapist for the rest of their lives. We are too willing to medicate instead of treat the underlying issues. For the most part, people just need to get over the past, realize they can’t change it, learn from it and move on. Usually just talking about it with friends helps. There are the few who do have a chemical imbalance and if it can be helped with medication then more power to them. But before we just assume that is the cure all, realize that it could do more damage than good. It could actually cause a chemical imbalance. It takes some people years of trying different cocktails of meds before they get the right perscription together, then after the body becomes acclimated to it, it needs to be changed again. The Doctors don’t even know what really works. But we (especially on this site) are so quick to diagnose. Think about it, there was life and depression way before there was psychiatrists, therapists, and meds, and society wasn’t as violent or uncaring as they are now. Does it go hand in hand. Who knows.

Hi, I’m just wondering why women have to go through a pelvic exam in order to get birth control. I’m no doctor, but I am a 2nd year med school student. As far as I know, most forms of birth control have side effects related to strokes and blood clots. Both of these health risks can be reduced by taking a patients blood pressure and recommending changes in diet, alcohol consumption and nicotine reduction.

Also, why is there never any mention of the CSA blood test? Why are doctors insisting on using a 50 year old method of scraping away tissue riddled with false negative results when there is a proven (less invasive) blood test? It’s just absolutely beyond me why women feel as if they NEED to have this exam done. I’ve talked to women and have heard them say “if I don’t go, I’ll get cervical cancer”.

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I’m only 16 as well, but i have depression and I self-harm.
Recently this summer, every time I felt sad, irritated or upset and angry I would drink until I was drunk. When I was drinking I would get past that happy stage then if i didn’t laugh I knew i would break down crying.
Now I’m back at school, and I was really upset the other night and I just kept thinking to myself ‘I need a drink’. In the end I got some vodka from some boys. I’m not an alcoholic, its only been like 5 times, but every time I get upset/angry I just think of alcohol.

Help? I’m confused and scared. I’m already having counseling..not on medication.
Yehh I know its stupid…but i suppose I want to know what I should do. Lol
Thnx though.

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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