Monthly Archives: December 2009

i im a 18 year old male and i have been seeing help. I’ve been told that i dont have feelings because emotional repression, the guy helping me is a tool. all he says is that i have serious problems and does nothing about it. So my point here is that i have no feelings towards anyone except my brother because my brother and i know exactly what we both have gone through. i pick fights with people because of jealousy towards their silverplater lives.

My mother has a serious crack cocaine addiction that has brought her in and out of federal prison. She has sex for crack and made my brother and i fend for our selves for as long as i can remember. When i was nine i came home from school to find my father (who was never there during my childhood) dead with blood all over the wall. I was told he killed himself for owing someone to much money. My brother and myself were brought to foster homes. i went through a moment were i thought i was tough, so my foster parents kicked me out, leaving me homeless for 2 and a half years. After that ordeal was over (not going into to detail about that homeless ordeal) i went on welfare and live alone. i havent seen my brother in 4 years and have no idea where he is. i have serious problems with drugs that im getting help for now. I feel as though i cannot change and i need some advice from someone that has been through a similar situation. it would mean a lot to me

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Besides addiction which i know…
like how does the person feel after and while on it?
And is this bad?

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I’m 17 and I’m considering breaking up with my girlfriend Brooke. She is a drug addict and I’m sick of her drug use and lying about getting clean. She got pregnant and i was so excited and happy. She was in rehab and i got her out of rehab after she promised to never harm our baby with drugs. She later told me she had been using marijuana cocaine and heroin to calm down. She also told me how she felt unattractive. I told her she had to change for the baby and to quit using drugs and to stop lying to me. She promised she would and went back into to rehab. Yesterday she got an abortion without telling me. We had been arguing about an abortion she wanted one because she was afraid about no being a good mother because of the drugs. While i wanted her to keep the baby and to keeping rehabbing her addiction. She told me the baby was already damage and she made the right decision. I love her so much but I’m tried of the drugs and i am mad about the abortion and saddened by the loss of our baby. Should we break up or not?

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The National Financing News Pulse includes the week’s top national health care financing news related specifically to substance abuse and mental health.

Date Added: 12/15/09
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The State and Local Financing News Pulse includes the week’s top state and local health care financing news related specifically to substance abuse and mental health.

Date Added: 12/15/09
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The National Financing News Pulse includes the week’s top national health care financing news related specifically to substance abuse and mental health.

Date Added: 12/15/09
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New Study Highlights How National Mental Health Parity Law Can Benefit From California’s Experience (12/3)
SAMHSA Is Accepting Applications for the National Technical Assistance Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Cooperative Agreement (NTAC) (12/3)
Smokers Who Started Recently More Likely Than Longer-Term Smokers To Use Menthol Cigarettes, New National Study Finds (12/3)
Join Us in Facing AIDS for World AIDS Day 2009 (12/1)

Date Added: 12/15/09
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Nearly 7 percent of U.S. adults suffer from major depression each year. The impact of depression on work, school, quality of life, and overall health is enormous. In 2006, nearly $58 billion was spent on mental disorders, making it one of the five most costly conditions in the United States.

Date Added: 12/15/09
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