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You may not know this about me, but like 90% of Americans, I was addicted to caffeine. As I am not a coffee drinker, I got my caffeine in the form of pop, primarily Mountain Dew. I had to have it, if I didn't get it, I would be cranky, tired, and get headaches. It was terrible, really. So, to avoid the negative side effects, I just made sure to have my pop every single day. Many days I'd find myself drinking 2 or 3 cans a day. Doesn't sound THAT bad, really, but aside from the addiction, it gets expensive.
I never really thought about it all that much, it was just something that I did, like eating--it had to happen every day. Then, I got sick. It was several days before I realized that I hadn't had any caffeine. I am sure I went through the withdrawal symptoms (typically lasting 1-5 days after forgoing caffeine) but they got rolled up into the sickness and I never really noticed them. After getting well, I realized I'd been free for about a week and decided that this would be a terrific time to curb the addiction. So I made a conscious decision and have not had any caffeine since. Total time: 12 days.
This might not be much to you, but to me, this is huge. Then it occurred to me, my two biggest addictions were smoking and caffeine, and I had been dependent on both for years and now I have given both of them up in my 30th year.
One of the things I am most excited about is that I found that caffeine produces more stomach acid and is a major contributor to gastric reflux disease. Many of you may not know that I have been suffering from this (aka acid reflux) for years and it is horrible. I am hoping that losing caffeine will help reduce this problem and it might actually become better for me! It is too soon to tell if there is any effect, but I have my fingers crossed.
In the meantime, three cheers for me, the girl who is quitting addiction. Well, except for tv and books, those I think I will keep.
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Dear Friend,
If you or someone close to you is suffering from Alcoholism or Drug Addiction this may be the most important letter you’ve ever read.
WARNING: What you are about to read may shock you, or even make you angry!
Some facts you’re about to learn about Addiction…and why you shouldn’t even think about stopping with rehab, therapy or medication, until you read every word of this letter!
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Almost everyone fails to stop their addictive behavior permanently with traditional methods. But there is a way, and sadly, it’s being intentionally kept from the public.
* Traditional techniques to treat or manage addiction will only treat symptoms and will keep you in a perpetual cycle of addiction.
* Addiction is not a disease. Addiction is a learned behavior that you can change!
People are not getting sober in treatment centers
If you are anything like me when I was looking for help with my addiction, you’re probably feeling a lot of frustration right now. That’s probably an understatement!
I know how you feel. No matter what stage of the process you are in I have been there. I have felt the powerlessness, the fear, the hopelessness, the exhaustion, the anger, and every emotion in between.
The treatment of addicts in America is a multi-billion dollar industry, and like jail, it is a revolving door.
There sure is a lot I wish I knew before I entered ‘the system’ for the first, second, or even the tenth time. And, so much my family wish they knew before wasting so many thousands of dollars on things that just didn’t work. We were really taken for a ride!
No one tells you that only 3 of every 100 people are getting sober. No one tells you that Treatment Doesn’t Work! They just gladly take your money.
But as they say, it’s better late then never.
Although, I have to wonder, if I had never gone to treatment would I have gotten sober sooner?
Studies done over the past 60 years have shown that people who attend Alcoholics Anonymous/Narcotics Anonymous actually decrease their chance of lasting sobriety.
97% of American ‘treatment’ centers are AA/NA based.
95-98% of people who attempt the traditional AA route to sobriety drop out within the first year, meaning that AA/NA has about a 3-5% retention rate (the relatively better statistics coming from AA.s own study);
of that 3-5% less than half make it to 5 years of sobriety
Those numbers are getting painfully small!
There is a way to get sober without mortgaging your house, leaving your family and friends, loosing your job, or attending meetings for the rest of your life.
And, you won’t have to pay an average of $20,000 to be told “just don’t pick up.”
Patterns found in addicts are typical models of destructive behavior. These behaviors can range from sex and drugs to nail biting and hair pulling. Does this sound like you?
1. Do you compulsively think about how to get and use your drink/drug of choice?
2. Do you feel a sharp increase in tension just before you score?
3. Do you feel an immediate rush of relief once you get the drug in your hand or body?
4. Are you experiencing extreme distress as a result of your compulsion to use?
If you answered ‘yes’ to the above questions, you have a behavioral problem. You do not have a disease. Great News!
You can be cured!
I am a real expert: someone who’s been there and back!
I have been to so many places that promised an answer that I lost count after maybe the tenth; among them some of the best “treatment centers” in the country (relative term that really means most expensive), detoxes, rehabs, AA, NA, T.C.s (Therapeutic Communities), and every alternative that exists.
I tried talk therapy, light therapy, acupuncture, staring at someone without blinking for two hours, having the negative entities that were hovering around me cleansed, programs that fit every trait of a cult, physical cleanses, churches, prayer, you name it!
Tired of failure after failure, one disappointment after another, tens of thousands of dollars, a broken heart, and a crushed spirit I realized that no person or institution was going to do for me what I needed to do for me.
They couldn’t tell me anything that could help me because they didn’t know!
I later realized that even if these “experts” did know how to help me, “you can’t hire someone to do your pushups for you.”
After 10 years of heroin and Oxycontin dependence I have discovered complete freedom, joy, and health; and now I want to show you how.
I am cured, chemically independent, and you can be too.
I can tell you exactly how I found permanent sobriety, or, rather, total independence from drugs, from the comfort of my own home.
I didn’t spend thousands of dollars or see a bunch of specialists. I didn’t go to meetings. I didn’t stress myself out, beat myself up, or somehow humiliate or break myself down to build myself back up. No way. I literally just changed my mind, and I have written up the method for you.
When it comes to addiction, nothing beats personal experience. Every addict knows that no one can read a few books and claim to understand what we go through.
No “expert,” doctor, or addiction counselor should be telling people that they will be sick the rest of their lives, that they are powerless over their addiction, or that this ‘disease’ is not curable.
NOTHING could be further from the truth!
“The fastest, least expensive, and most pleasant way to get sober.
Period.”
Everything that humans do is based on the desire to feel pleasure or avoid pain. To cure a behavioral problem you have to re-condition your mind. With a problem as potentially dangerous as addiction, a serious shift has to happen in the mind.
The great news is that you can actually return to normalcy! You may be able to have wine with dinner or take a pill if you need to, or even smoke a joint if you feel like it. Only you can know.
I know, I know. Some people are gonna be really mad at me for saying that. They are going to call me irresponsible. But, it’s the truth and I am living proof.
My urge to abuse drugs and alcohol left me as if by magic.
If you are offended, and about to click off this page let me at least give you a checklist, anyone who falls into one of these warnings is the one people should be mad at and call irresponsible:
DO NOT except being told that you have a progressive and fatal disease, you don’t, and you have to demand better than that for yourself.
DO NOT let anyone disempower you. Addiction is a learned behavior, it is a choice. The truth is that you are not powerless over any aspect of your life, believing otherwise has a heavy price to pay.
DO NOT let anyone condemn you to struggle.
If you choose traditional rehab, these are the things that I wish I knew to ask, learn from my mistakes:
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Are they 12 step based, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy based, a mix, an Alternative?
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What is their success rate?
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How is the success rate determined?
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How is their data collected?
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How long after the client leaves the facility is their progress tracked?
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What percentage of their clients are sober after 1 year? After 5 years?
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Does the staff include former addicts?
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Who decides the treatment plan? Is it one size fits all? Does the client have a say in their treatment plan?
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Is aftercare recommended? Does aftercare have any bearing on the success rate?
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Do they guarantee success?
WATCH OUT for very expensive treatment centers that have no verifiable success rate. Most times they don’t so be sure and ask how they know that their methods work.
This is not “a pill for every ill” type of mentality
Being non-dependant on a substance that once controlled your life takes some effort, but it is not the excruciating, years-long, in-need-of-professional-help task most people would have you believe.
It’s simple, and more importantly it’s fun! You don’t have to start saying no to anything before you have something better to say yes to. “Give up something good for something great”
All you need are some “Empowering Action Strategies.”
It really doesn’t matter why you do what you do. If you have read this far the fact is that you want to change your life.
Endlessly analyzing why you chose drugs or alcohol isn’t going to change your brain’s response. Only actively reprogramming your mind will change the way that you react to drugs or alcohol. Talking and pills will not bring relief, ever.
Now, let’s face it. When you were little you didn’t say “When I grow up I want to struggle one day at a time to be sober.”
You want to have fun, you want to be fun! I know I do- and it isn’t something I had to give up, fun is exactly what I’ve regained. The current treatment paradigm has us believing we can’t have a good time while treating addiction. It just isn’t true!
This isn’t a problem that you wanted. You had bigger dreams, dreams of a successful and happy life.
You can still have it!
Striving for sobriety alone is not a good enough goal to light a fire and warrant the consistent effort you’ll need to make a dramatic change.
What do you really want out of life?
“…The difference in my daughter is priceless! I don’t think I have heard her laugh in the past 8 years. That sound is magic to me, I can’t believe how long it had been since I’d heard it. I saw a difference as soon as she started practicing your formula for success. It’s like she has come back to life! She is off drugs and has a much brighter outlook on life in general…”
Maureen, CT
“This system got me sober, but more importantly I am actually happy. I had a completely different outlook on the whole process after reading your book. It has made a difference in all of the major areas of my life, from my job to my interactions with family, and of course I am “independent” now. After years of alcohol abuse my desire to drink just faded away about two weeks in. It’s like someone turned on the lights and cleaned up. I can’t thank you enough for writing this; it’s about time someone offered another way.”
Moe, Denver Colorado
“Wow, I thought something was really wrong with me. After going to rehab twice I seemed to be getting worse. I had no idea that was the norm. You saved me years of wasted time and a lot of money. It really hit me when you said that no one can do anything for me in this process and it makes no sense to pay someone as though they could. I am still working it out but I feel happier and empowered to do what I feel is right for me. Thanks.”
Becca, Miami
Obviously, this stuff works.
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That you are your own best expert
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Addiction is a learned behavior which can be replaced with a behavior that works for you, not against you.
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How you can decide the degree of moderation or sobriety that you deem appropriate for your life
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STOP! Just imagine, everything I tell you is true, imagine your life a few months from now, a few years from now after being exposed to this life altering paradigm shaking information.
Imagine you don’t have to struggle; you don’t have to hide anything from anyone. You no longer go through the endless cycles…
If you are anything like me you’ll be happier after you’re cured of your addiction than you were before you had the problem.
Or, imagine that you take no action -imagine your life a few weeks from now, a few months-
Does it look much different?
If you turn the wheel of your car even 2 degrees, over time, you will end up on a different coast, now imagine your life as that car, right now your headed to a place that can only bring pain, but what if you could just implement a few steps? If you can read a little, absorb a little you can find relief.
Can you afford to wait?
A 28 day stay in a treatment facility costs on average $20,000, that does not include your medications
Other home recovery books cost upwards of $100. Or, well known books like The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure, by Chris Prentiss, founder of Passages Malibu, cost less but suggest seeing numerous specialists.
Seeing all of these specialists will end up costing just under the price of a 28 day stay in treatment. But you still won’t have the answer!
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Addictions & Obsessions
Fridays are so pointless. Well, the lesson itself isn't, but the fact it's right in the middle of the day and I need to go into college for just one and a half hours seems relatively pointless. :(
Because I didn't have to get up until fairly late, I made up my lost hours of sleep that I used last night to play Pokémon Ranger: Shadows Of Almia instead. Yeah, I said I'd finished it in my older blogs - but then there's the matter of the epic amount of sidequests. Being the obsessive completionist that I am - they must ALL be finished. It's the law.
Mam drove me into college about 10 minutes before Film Studies and I hung about on the ground floor playing Solitaire and listening to Judas Priest. My current 'play-on-repeat' song is Electric Eye. I've learnt most of the words - I'll be able to do it on GH:GH vocals soon. :)
(I'm writing this in the LRC at college and I'd just like to say that THIS SPACE BAR IS A PILE OF WANK.)
Anyway. Film Studies was one of those handout lessons. Sarah gave us a wodge of sheets about Mise en Scene and we were to fill in the blanks on them. I shot through this - I didn't even need to use the word banks at the bottom of the sheets. Tee hee.
With all this free time I'd rendered myself, I wrote a few more coursework notes in the back of my notebook and wrote the lyrics to Electric Eye all over the front cover. :)
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On the way to the bus station, I stopped off at Home Bargains and landed myself a bag of tasty junk food items for £1.01.
Two bags of crisps, two Reisen bars and a can of Coke.
These were promptly taken home and enjoyed during my Super Paper Mario marathon. :)
I'm currently at chapter 7-2. It shan't be long now...
How do we handle the uncovering of someone's secret addiction? Shock, disbelief, denial? Acceptance, absorption, assistance? I am still in amazement about Diane Schuler, the mother who was driving on the Taconic Pkwy last week responsible for the deaths of 7 innocent people. I just cannot understand how a mother could do what she did. Her husband, who should be grieving, seems to be in complete denial about the conclusions from the autopsy. I cannot imagine how the other families involved feel. He wants his wife's body exhumed for an independent autopsy? C'mon guy, let it go. Admit your wife did wrong. Your wife killed 7 people. Put your head down and grieve for those other people instead of trying to save your wife's reputation.
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Videos, Moths & MATERIA COMBINATIONS
I think I've found a way out of this shitty depression laspe, at last.
Fair enough, I still feel shitty inside - but I don't feel anywhere near as bad as I have done the last week.
Shelly and I discussed what she thinks caused me to start feeling depressed in the first place - and then I discussed it with Adam.
Actually having a possible answer alone made me feel slightly better.
But thanks to the combination of yesterday and today - I've spent two pretty decent days in a row with my friends. Shelly yesterday and Adam today - and of course, I'll be seeing Ash on Saturday. Next week I'll be seeing Adam again, and there's even a possibility I might get to see Lewis. :D
Today's been another strange day where the time just seemed to vanish.
Adam and I can sit around for hours upon end just talking and/or listening to music together - and before we know it, like three hours have passed.
I've been addicted to Final Fantasy VII today.
It's a good thing Adam likes it too - because I wouldn't even agree to turn it off and play a different game with him.
Of course, I wasn't ignoring him - we were still talking and watching videos on YouTube together. At times, he sat on my bed with me, or he sat at the computer.
I did turn it off at one point to play Resident Evil: Code Veronica X.
Though, this proved something Adam said last time he was round.
"Murr, you and Resident Evil, you die and you get pissed off - then you proper turn it off and don't want to play it."
Or words to that effect anyway.
It's true though - I got killed by the shitty poisonous moths - then got MEGA pissed off.
Fine, if I got killed by fucking tyrant or bandersnatches - BUT NOOOO. FUCKING MOTHS.
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[WARNING: Approaching FF7 RANT]
Over the course of today though, I've gotten both Yuffie, Barret and Cid up to level 99.
All that's left now are Red XIII and Vincent - Vincent being my most hated character, due to how useless he is.
I'm planning on kitting them all out with Master Magic and Master Command materias.
Along with these, they'll have [Counter Attack], [Final Attack-Revive], [Added Effect-Contain], [HP Plus], [MP Plus], [Double Cut] - and my four favourite characters (Cloud, Tifa, Yuffie and Cait Sith) will have [Enemy Skill].
I'll distribute [All-Barrier] and [All-Restore] between those characters I don't often use too.
That way, if I ever feel the need to fight with a different party combination (I think you do for the final boss anyway), they'll all be ready to kick some arse.
Naturally, there needs to be some random [KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND] somewhere amongst them all. :D
When I've sorted my levels and materia out - I have Ruby and Emerald WEAPON.
After those - it's only the final boss and I shall have completed my favourite game, that I've spent over 500 hours of my life playing. (All on different saves of course. My current save is only 60 hours.)
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I watched 2 Girls, 1 Cyst today.
Adam told me about it - and the forum it was posted on, everyone made out that it was way worse than 2 Girls 1 Cup.
Seriously, I didn't even flinch.
Fair enough, it's not PLEASANT - but it's not vomit-inducing either.
Alright, don't watch it if you don't like blood, gore, pus, mucous or exploding fatty tissue.
I personally, wasn't disturbed or even disgusted by it.
I didn't ENJOY watching it - but I don't need to reach for the eyeball-bleach. :)
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I felt bad for Adam when his fucking mother decided to turn up.
I didn't even want to listen to them arguing on the doorstep, so I closed my door over and put my iPod in my ears.
I've noticed that when I feel uncomortable - I get under things. Usually my duvet or cushions.
I tried to console him - but it seems that some things just don't change.
The fucking slag. :(
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