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April 28, 2011
What do you do when your guilt is too heavy to bear, your soul is so miserable you can find no relief, you are embarrassed...
April 28, 2011
What do you do when your guilt is too heavy to bear, your soul is so miserable you can find no relief, you are embarrassed...
Substance Abuse and Depression Among Teens
October 8, 2009
Most addicted teens don’t consciously intend to kill themselves. But many become so depressed that they just don’t care one way or the other. I had been smoking marijuana for 2 years but pot wasn’t doing it for me anymore. II was failing school, lost all my real friends--I hated everything. So one night I got 5 Vicodin and was drinking vodka. I remember thinking that if I do this, I may never wake up. It was funny, the thought of never waking up didn’t scare me as much as the thought...
October 8, 2009
Most addicted teens don’t consciously intend to kill themselves. But many become so depressed that they just don’t care one way or the other. I had been smoking marijuana for 2 years but pot wasn’t doing it for me anymore. II was failing school, lost all my real friends--I hated everything. So one night I got 5 Vicodin and was drinking vodka. I remember thinking that if I do this, I may never wake up. It was funny, the thought of never waking up didn’t scare me as much as the thought...
Do you know what is affecting your children? Trends Youth Are Facing
September 9, 2009
A long time ago, I was a stockbroker. In those days, I constantly paid attention to various fundamentals and influences on the market. Why…because it was critical to my ability to invest my clients’ assets into the proper investments and answer questions that they might have. Beyond that, I recognized there were a lot of influences on the market and to do a good job, I had to know what was going on to meet my clients’ varying needs. Is it possible to stay ahead of trends youth today...
September 9, 2009
A long time ago, I was a stockbroker. In those days, I constantly paid attention to various fundamentals and influences on the market. Why…because it was critical to my ability to invest my clients’ assets into the proper investments and answer questions that they might have. Beyond that, I recognized there were a lot of influences on the market and to do a good job, I had to know what was going on to meet my clients’ varying needs. Is it possible to stay ahead of trends youth today...
Depression in teens
July 11, 2009
Nathan was changing. He was becoming increasingly irritable, bored, sad, and just plain angry. When his mother would ask what was wrong, he'd snap, "I'm just having a bad day." For a few months Nathan's mother assumed that the pressures of school and just being a young teen were the cause of her son's moods swings. The school counselor told her that many teens experience stress and that being 16 is an awkward age. "Just give him time," she said. So Nathan's mother did, until one day when Nathan...
July 11, 2009
Nathan was changing. He was becoming increasingly irritable, bored, sad, and just plain angry. When his mother would ask what was wrong, he'd snap, "I'm just having a bad day." For a few months Nathan's mother assumed that the pressures of school and just being a young teen were the cause of her son's moods swings. The school counselor told her that many teens experience stress and that being 16 is an awkward age. "Just give him time," she said. So Nathan's mother did, until one day when Nathan...
Teach your Children to Be Prepared for Tragedy
April 25, 2007
We as a nation have recently experienced another tragedy in the horrible murder of 32 students and faculty on the Virginia Tech campus. Not long ago we were horrified by the heinous killing of the young Amish school girls. The fifth anniversary of the massacre at Columbine High School has just passed. These and others are tragedies to the nation or community because of the large number of people affected in a location where killing is never expected. Death in a war such as Iraq and Afghanistan is not unexpected...
April 25, 2007
We as a nation have recently experienced another tragedy in the horrible murder of 32 students and faculty on the Virginia Tech campus. Not long ago we were horrified by the heinous killing of the young Amish school girls. The fifth anniversary of the massacre at Columbine High School has just passed. These and others are tragedies to the nation or community because of the large number of people affected in a location where killing is never expected. Death in a war such as Iraq and Afghanistan is not unexpected...