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Feeding The Beast
May 10, 2012
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May 3, 2012
What If This Present Were The World's Last Night?
April 26, 2012
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The Real Lesson from the Sinking of Costa Concordia
January 26, 2012
There are a multitude of lessons in retrospect from the sinking of the huge cruise liner off the coast of the Italian island,...
January 26, 2012
There are a multitude of lessons in retrospect from the sinking of the huge cruise liner off the coast of the Italian island,...
Chief of the Bullied
March 31, 2011
Bullying has been in the news a lot lately. Whether its apparent epidemic proportion in our day is simply an issue of modern...
March 31, 2011
Bullying has been in the news a lot lately. Whether its apparent epidemic proportion in our day is simply an issue of modern...
Signs and symptoms of Internet sexual addiction
November 11, 2009
National Council on Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity has defined sexual addiction as “engaging in persistent and escalating patterns of sexual behavior acted out despite increasing negative consequences to self and others”. Signs and Symptoms of Internet Sexual Addiction include: Frequent use of the Internet to visit sexually oriented sites Binging—hours spent surfing the net or engaged in online sexual activity Preoccupied with thoughts of "getting online", or of sexual behavior...
November 11, 2009
National Council on Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity has defined sexual addiction as “engaging in persistent and escalating patterns of sexual behavior acted out despite increasing negative consequences to self and others”. Signs and Symptoms of Internet Sexual Addiction include: Frequent use of the Internet to visit sexually oriented sites Binging—hours spent surfing the net or engaged in online sexual activity Preoccupied with thoughts of "getting online", or of sexual behavior...
Substance Abuse and Depression Among Teens
November 3, 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 of facing...
November 3, 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 of facing...
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...
What are the social challenges that parents will face when their teen is recovering from an addictive disease?
September 25, 2009
Part 2 of facing your teen’s addiction One of the indications of addiction is the extent to which one’s life becomes organized around using drugs or alcohol. For addicted teens, there is almost always a well-defined sub-culture of friends, associates, parties, and rituals that becomes the center of their social life. Healthy activities that used to capture their imagination such as sports and academics soon become secondary to the “party” culture.” Helping teens find a new, drug-free...
September 25, 2009
Part 2 of facing your teen’s addiction One of the indications of addiction is the extent to which one’s life becomes organized around using drugs or alcohol. For addicted teens, there is almost always a well-defined sub-culture of friends, associates, parties, and rituals that becomes the center of their social life. Healthy activities that used to capture their imagination such as sports and academics soon become secondary to the “party” culture.” Helping teens find a new, drug-free...
How Parents can take an active role in their teen’s recovery from addictive disease?
September 24, 2009
Part 1 of facing your teen’s addiction During illness, good parents instinctively attend to their children’s needs and provide an ample supply of love and comfort. As the child recovers, family life quickly returns to normal. Unfortunately, it’s not the same when a teen becomes addicted to drugs or alcohol. Drug and alcohol dependence are chronic, debilitating disorders where recovery is possible, but a cure is not. Some addicted teens require prolonged treatment or multiple stints in treatment...
September 24, 2009
Part 1 of facing your teen’s addiction During illness, good parents instinctively attend to their children’s needs and provide an ample supply of love and comfort. As the child recovers, family life quickly returns to normal. Unfortunately, it’s not the same when a teen becomes addicted to drugs or alcohol. Drug and alcohol dependence are chronic, debilitating disorders where recovery is possible, but a cure is not. Some addicted teens require prolonged treatment or multiple stints in treatment...
Protecting your child in a seductive world
August 21, 2009
Sexuality and the act of sex is a beautiful thing designed by the God who “knit us together in our mother’s womb.” (Psalm 139) But like all beautiful things God designed for us, they are beautiful in the form and shape, boundaries and plans of the author and creator. Just as a sculptor’s handiwork is fashioned from clumps of clay or marble chiseled from unformed matter, when the sculpture’s artistic shape and the boundaries that define its beauty is destroyed, the wonder and magnificence...
August 21, 2009
Sexuality and the act of sex is a beautiful thing designed by the God who “knit us together in our mother’s womb.” (Psalm 139) But like all beautiful things God designed for us, they are beautiful in the form and shape, boundaries and plans of the author and creator. Just as a sculptor’s handiwork is fashioned from clumps of clay or marble chiseled from unformed matter, when the sculpture’s artistic shape and the boundaries that define its beauty is destroyed, the wonder and magnificence...
I have a child who…appears to be suffering from depression
August 7, 2009
"I have a child who…appears to be suffering from depression.” Depression can be triggered initially by almost anything: break up with a girlfriend/boyfriend, guilt over doing wrong, feeling left out by friends, making bad grades. If gone untreated or unchecked, depression can become a very real physiological condition that may require medication. Depression may appear similar to apathy: depression is a chemical imbalance in the brain that produces very definite behavioral manifestations: changes...
August 7, 2009
"I have a child who…appears to be suffering from depression.” Depression can be triggered initially by almost anything: break up with a girlfriend/boyfriend, guilt over doing wrong, feeling left out by friends, making bad grades. If gone untreated or unchecked, depression can become a very real physiological condition that may require medication. Depression may appear similar to apathy: depression is a chemical imbalance in the brain that produces very definite behavioral manifestations: changes...