Our self esteem, self image, is made up of what we think and feel about ourselves. Great music.
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Why do addicted people keep doing what they are doing? You may think that they know the consequences well enough. Many have seen their relationships break up, their children gone, their job prospects vanish, and have attended more funerals in a few years than most people attend in a lifetime. Why don’t they know that their [...] Mark Easton’s article regarding the “World Drugs Report 2009″ quotes the report’s author, Antonio Maria Costa. His argument sets up what some might argue is a bogus choice between total legalisation or tough criminal sanctions. But he makes it with conviction: “Why unleash a drug epidemic in the developing world for the sake of libertarian arguments made [...] Women are statistically at the same level as men in the abuse of cocaine, according to this Daily Mail article Understanding addiction has never been an exact science, especially to those who are in the front line trying to help people in their recovery. It can be argued that addiction is a chronic relapsing illness. Many in the world, who don’t understand this definition as applied to addiction, (and often the drug users themselves), think that perhaps addiction is just a matter of choice and making right decisions. We are what we think we are. But what if we don’t think much of who we are? How do we recognize self defeating thoughts? This article outlines the forms of self defeating thoughts. Denial, they say, is “not just a river in Egypt”. Denial is a strange beast. It is on the cycle of change (or, rather, just off it), as ‘pre-contemplation’. That time when you are not thinking about change because you don’t need to. You are a ‘happy user’. Other people are starting to suggest that you have a problem. Then denial raises it’s ugly head and starts to show its various faces. Are we playing the blame game with sex addiction? This report would suggest so. Addiction is no respecter of class or creed as this piece from the Saudi Gazeet online reports The Daily Telegraph reported that alcoholics will lose their benefits unless they sober up. |
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