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SMOKING cigarette, DRINKING beer, I am 56 years old, high blood pressure, help !!!?

  • Posted on April 11, 2011 at 6:20 am

What can I do, I am a workaholic, have a daughter who is using meth, a son who does not have a rewarding job.
I have a good husband, make good money, but I smoke, drink, and my blood pressure is up. I tried Chantix, but it made my blood pressure even worse. What do I do…..I feel like I am dying…..my coping mechanism is shot…………….how do I get help…..does anyone have any answers for me. I just feel like I have no control. I can’t quit smoking, I love drinking beer. I am a walking time bomb. Will religion help me, meditation, maybe some counseling, maybe religion……..I am lost … and I cannot find my way………is there anyone out there that can help me, please………I have always helped others……don’t like to ask for help, but I feel like I am at the end of the road….any understand people with knowledge of what I should do out there. If your out there….please help me, I really, really, really need lots of help……God bless……
Thank you for your answers……I will really think about getting some therapy….I guess I didn’t want to think that I may need help…….and maybe AA … thanks …
I feel like crying right now. i can’t believe the response I’ve gotten from all of you, and you don’t even know me. Thank you so much……..

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Help, my mom won’t stop drinking…?

  • Posted on April 10, 2011 at 1:21 am

My mom has been drinking for as long as I can remember. She gets drunk. Then the next morning she starts to drink again as soon as she wakes up. It usually lasts a week. I don’t live with her anymore because honestly I don’t want my daughters to see that.

She works for my sister’s husband selling water softens. She is the best in the country and she makes about ten thousand dollars a month. Then she takes that money and goes MIA.

The last couple of years it has gotten real bad. This is happening more and more often, and this time, it has been a 15 days. She missed my daughter’s fifth birthday, thanks giving, and her own birthday. I am getting really scared.

I studied alcoholism in a history class, a drug class, and I wrote 4 research papers on the physical and mental long term effects of binge drinking. Alcohol is a central nervous system depressant. When a person drinks non-stop for a long time, like my mom, their brain tries to counter act the depression by over stimulating it. When the alcohol is suddenly taken away (when she decides to stop, or runs out of money) the central nervous system becomes over stimulated.

The withdrawals from alcohol are called delirium-tremens. It is more deadly then heroin withdrawals. It starts with a really bad hang over. Any person’s hang over is withdrawals from the drug (Alcohol is a drug), that’s why drinking a small amount of alcohol helps the symptoms so much.

After, or during that stage, the person begins to shake. They can’t stop their hands, head and other extremities from shaking. Kinda like boxers who have been hit in the head too many times.

The next step is tingling sensations. It is described as spiders crawling on your skin, and can progress to the feeling of snake bites. These sensations make the next stage even more frightening, hallucinations (delirium). These hallucinations are almost always terrifying.

Once a person reaches the delirium stage, they need to go to the hospital so that a doctor can give them a barbiturate. Barbiturates work because they are and alternative depressant drug, but the doctor is able to regulate this drug better then alcohol and slowly wean the patient off. It the alcoholic dose not receive medical attention, the final stage is grand-mal seizures (tremens). This is often followed by death. Every time a person survives these withdrawals, the symptoms become more and more sever every time.

There are many other ways alcohol can kill you. In the short term, car accidents, falling, etc. ( those thing have happen to my mom) Long term, a person can get a fatty liver that leads to cirrhosis of the liver and death. If they don’t die from it, they will probably loss their mind. Binge drinking has detestation effects on a person’s short term memory, problem solving ability, emotions, and personality. Basically, in the long run, it’s like taking a sledgehammer to the forehead and permanently damaging your cerebral cortex (the part of your brain that makes you who your are).

Most people don’t know about delirium-tremens, or these other horrible consequences. I certainly didn’t know when I was younger. Looking back, I saw some of these terrible symptoms in my mom. Her personality has changed and she repeats the same sentence a lot. The most terrifying, though, is that I have seen her shake, and heard her scream for seemingly no reason when she is coming down from a binge. She blacks out for days when this happens. She wakes up with no almost no memory of this happening, and acts like every thing is fine, but I know she realizes what she did. How can she deny loosing a week on the calendar?

When I’m done writing I’m going to go to her apartment. She might not let me in, but I will get in anyway. Honestly, it has taken me this long to check on her because I am really afraid I will see her dead. I love my mom.

My mom had my sister take her to the hospital last time this happened. They admitted her into the psyc ward. My mom didn’t like that very much. They couldn’t hold, for some reason and let her go. Now she is avoiding my sister and I.

My sister called the cops on her and told them she was suicidal. They couldn’t do anything because my mom wouldn’t admit it. Also, she was in her a apartment, so they couldn’t take her in for public intoxication. What a f*cked up country. The police can arrest a pot smoker who is not hurting themselves or anyone else. But they can’t help my mom who is killing herself, and might try to drive and kill some innocent person.

I really don’t know what to do anymore.

Please, if anyone out there has an idea of a way to get her help against her own will. If I don’t find a way she might die. If she survives this time, it will happen again. She won’t stop until she dead.

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Help, my mom won’t stop drinking…?

  • Posted on April 2, 2011 at 5:21 pm

My mom has been drinking for as long as I can remember. She gets drunk. Then the next morning she starts to drink again as soon as she wakes up. It usually lasts a week. I don’t live with her anymore because honestly I don’t want my daughters to see that.

She works for my sister’s husband selling water softens. She is the best in the country and she makes about ten thousand dollars a month. Then she takes that money and goes MIA.

The last couple of years it has gotten real bad. This is happening more and more often, and this time, it has been a 15 days. She missed my daughter’s fifth birthday, thanks giving, and her own birthday. I am getting really scared.

I studied alcoholism in a history class, a drug class, and I wrote 4 research papers on the physical and mental long term effects of binge drinking. Alcohol is a central nervous system depressant. When a person drinks non-stop for a long time, like my mom, their brain tries to counter act the depression by over stimulating it. When the alcohol is suddenly taken away (when she decides to stop, or runs out of money) the central nervous system becomes over stimulated.

The withdrawals from alcohol are called delirium-tremens. It is more deadly then heroin withdrawals. It starts with a really bad hang over. Any person’s hang over is withdrawals from the drug (Alcohol is a drug), that’s why drinking a small amount of alcohol helps the symptoms so much.

After, or during that stage, the person begins to shake. They can’t stop their hands, head and other extremities from shaking. Kinda like boxers who have been hit in the head too many times.

The next step is tingling sensations. It is described as spiders crawling on your skin, and can progress to the feeling of snake bites. These sensations make the next stage even more frightening, hallucinations (delirium). These hallucinations are almost always terrifying.

Once a person reaches the delirium stage, they need to go to the hospital so that a doctor can give them a barbiturate. Barbiturates work because they are and alternative depressant drug, but the doctor is able to regulate this drug better then alcohol and slowly wean the patient off. It the alcoholic dose not receive medical attention, the final stage is grand-mal seizures (tremens). This is often followed by death. Every time a person survives these withdrawals, the symptoms become more and more sever every time.

There are many other ways alcohol can kill you. In the short term, car accidents, falling, etc. ( those thing have happen to my mom) Long term, a person can get a fatty liver that leads to cirrhosis of the liver and death. If they don’t die from it, they will probably loss their mind. Binge drinking has detestation effects on a person’s short term memory, problem solving ability, emotions, and personality. Basically, in the long run, it’s like taking a sledgehammer to the forehead and permanently damaging your cerebral cortex (the part of your brain that makes you who your are).

Most people don’t know about delirium-tremens, or these other horrible consequences. I certainly didn’t know when I was younger. Looking back, I saw some of these terrible symptoms in my mom. Her personality has changed and she repeats the same sentence a lot. The most terrifying, though, is that I have seen her shake, and heard her scream for seemingly no reason when she is coming down from a binge. She blacks out for days when this happens. She wakes up with no almost no memory of this happening, and acts like every thing is fine, but I know she realizes what she did. How can she deny loosing a week on the calendar?

When I’m done writing I’m going to go to her apartment. She might not let me in, but I will get in anyway. Honestly, it has taken me this long to check on her because I am really afraid I will see her dead. I love my mom.

My mom had my sister take her to the hospital last time this happened. They admitted her into the psyc ward. My mom didn’t like that very much. They couldn’t hold, for some reason and let her go. Now she is avoiding my sister and I.

My sister called the cops on her and told them she was suicidal. They couldn’t do anything because my mom wouldn’t admit it. Also, she was in her a apartment, so they couldn’t take her in for public intoxication. What a f*cked up country. The police can arrest a pot smoker who is not hurting themselves or anyone else. But they can’t help my mom who is killing herself, and might try to drive and kill some innocent person.

I really don’t know what to do anymore.

Please, if anyone out there has an idea of a way to get her help against her own will. If I don’t find a way she might die. If she survives this time, it will happen again. She won’t stop until she dead.

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Help, my mom won’t stop drinking…?

  • Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:21 pm

My mom has been drinking for as long as I can remember. She gets drunk. Then the next morning she starts to drink again as soon as she wakes up. It usually lasts a week. I don’t live with her anymore because honestly I don’t want my daughters to see that.

She works for my sister’s husband selling water softens. She is the best in the country and she makes about ten thousand dollars a month. Then she takes that money and goes MIA.

The last couple of years it has gotten real bad. This is happening more and more often, and this time, it has been a 15 days. She missed my daughter’s fifth birthday, thanks giving, and her own birthday. I am getting really scared.

I studied alcoholism in a history class, a drug class, and I wrote 4 research papers on the physical and mental long term effects of binge drinking. Alcohol is a central nervous system depressant. When a person drinks non-stop for a long time, like my mom, their brain tries to counter act the depression by over stimulating it. When the alcohol is suddenly taken away (when she decides to stop, or runs out of money) the central nervous system becomes over stimulated.

The withdrawals from alcohol are called delirium-tremens. It is more deadly then heroin withdrawals. It starts with a really bad hang over. Any person’s hang over is withdrawals from the drug (Alcohol is a drug), that’s why drinking a small amount of alcohol helps the symptoms so much.

After, or during that stage, the person begins to shake. They can’t stop their hands, head and other extremities from shaking. Kinda like boxers who have been hit in the head too many times.

The next step is tingling sensations. It is described as spiders crawling on your skin, and can progress to the feeling of snake bites. These sensations make the next stage even more frightening, hallucinations (delirium). These hallucinations are almost always terrifying.

Once a person reaches the delirium stage, they need to go to the hospital so that a doctor can give them a barbiturate. Barbiturates work because they are and alternative depressant drug, but the doctor is able to regulate this drug better then alcohol and slowly wean the patient off. It the alcoholic dose not receive medical attention, the final stage is grand-mal seizures (tremens). This is often followed by death. Every time a person survives these withdrawals, the symptoms become more and more sever every time.

There are many other ways alcohol can kill you. In the short term, car accidents, falling, etc. ( those thing have happen to my mom) Long term, a person can get a fatty liver that leads to cirrhosis of the liver and death. If they don’t die from it, they will probably loss their mind. Binge drinking has detestation effects on a person’s short term memory, problem solving ability, emotions, and personality. Basically, in the long run, it’s like taking a sledgehammer to the forehead and permanently damaging your cerebral cortex (the part of your brain that makes you who your are).

Most people don’t know about delirium-tremens, or these other horrible consequences. I certainly didn’t know when I was younger. Looking back, I saw some of these terrible symptoms in my mom. Her personality has changed and she repeats the same sentence a lot. The most terrifying, though, is that I have seen her shake, and heard her scream for seemingly no reason when she is coming down from a binge. She blacks out for days when this happens. She wakes up with no almost no memory of this happening, and acts like every thing is fine, but I know she realizes what she did. How can she deny loosing a week on the calendar?

When I’m done writing I’m going to go to her apartment. She might not let me in, but I will get in anyway. Honestly, it has taken me this long to check on her because I am really afraid I will see her dead. I love my mom.

My mom had my sister take her to the hospital last time this happened. They admitted her into the psyc ward. My mom didn’t like that very much. They couldn’t hold, for some reason and let her go. Now she is avoiding my sister and I.

My sister called the cops on her and told them she was suicidal. They couldn’t do anything because my mom wouldn’t admit it. Also, she was in her a apartment, so they couldn’t take her in for public intoxication. What a f*cked up country. The police can arrest a pot smoker who is not hurting themselves or anyone else. But they can’t help my mom who is killing herself, and might try to drive and kill some innocent person.

I really don’t know what to do anymore.

Please, if anyone out there has an idea of a way to get her help against her own will. If I don’t find a way she might die. If she survives this time, it will happen again. She won’t stop until she dead.

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Help, my mom won’t stop drinking…?

  • Posted on March 24, 2011 at 1:20 pm

My mom has been drinking for as long as I can remember. She gets drunk. Then the next morning she starts to drink again as soon as she wakes up. It usually lasts a week. I don’t live with her anymore because honestly I don’t want my daughters to see that.

She works for my sister’s husband selling water softens. She is the best in the country and she makes about ten thousand dollars a month. Then she takes that money and goes MIA.

The last couple of years it has gotten real bad. This is happening more and more often, and this time, it has been a 15 days. She missed my daughter’s fifth birthday, thanks giving, and her own birthday. I am getting really scared.

I studied alcoholism in a history class, a drug class, and I wrote 4 research papers on the physical and mental long term effects of binge drinking. Alcohol is a central nervous system depressant. When a person drinks non-stop for a long time, like my mom, their brain tries to counter act the depression by over stimulating it. When the alcohol is suddenly taken away (when she decides to stop, or runs out of money) the central nervous system becomes over stimulated.

The withdrawals from alcohol are called delirium-tremens. It is more deadly then heroin withdrawals. It starts with a really bad hang over. Any person’s hang over is withdrawals from the drug (Alcohol is a drug), that’s why drinking a small amount of alcohol helps the symptoms so much.

After, or during that stage, the person begins to shake. They can’t stop their hands, head and other extremities from shaking. Kinda like boxers who have been hit in the head too many times.

The next step is tingling sensations. It is described as spiders crawling on your skin, and can progress to the feeling of snake bites. These sensations make the next stage even more frightening, hallucinations (delirium). These hallucinations are almost always terrifying.

Once a person reaches the delirium stage, they need to go to the hospital so that a doctor can give them a barbiturate. Barbiturates work because they are and alternative depressant drug, but the doctor is able to regulate this drug better then alcohol and slowly wean the patient off. It the alcoholic dose not receive medical attention, the final stage is grand-mal seizures (tremens). This is often followed by death. Every time a person survives these withdrawals, the symptoms become more and more sever every time.

There are many other ways alcohol can kill you. In the short term, car accidents, falling, etc. ( those thing have happen to my mom) Long term, a person can get a fatty liver that leads to cirrhosis of the liver and death. If they don’t die from it, they will probably loss their mind. Binge drinking has detestation effects on a person’s short term memory, problem solving ability, emotions, and personality. Basically, in the long run, it’s like taking a sledgehammer to the forehead and permanently damaging your cerebral cortex (the part of your brain that makes you who your are).

Most people don’t know about delirium-tremens, or these other horrible consequences. I certainly didn’t know when I was younger. Looking back, I saw some of these terrible symptoms in my mom. Her personality has changed and she repeats the same sentence a lot. The most terrifying, though, is that I have seen her shake, and heard her scream for seemingly no reason when she is coming down from a binge. She blacks out for days when this happens. She wakes up with no almost no memory of this happening, and acts like every thing is fine, but I know she realizes what she did. How can she deny loosing a week on the calendar?

When I’m done writing I’m going to go to her apartment. She might not let me in, but I will get in anyway. Honestly, it has taken me this long to check on her because I am really afraid I will see her dead. I love my mom.

My mom had my sister take her to the hospital last time this happened. They admitted her into the psyc ward. My mom didn’t like that very much. They couldn’t hold, for some reason and let her go. Now she is avoiding my sister and I.

My sister called the cops on her and told them she was suicidal. They couldn’t do anything because my mom wouldn’t admit it. Also, she was in her a apartment, so they couldn’t take her in for public intoxication. What a f*cked up country. The police can arrest a pot smoker who is not hurting themselves or anyone else. But they can’t help my mom who is killing herself, and might try to drive and kill some innocent person.

I really don’t know what to do anymore.

Please, if anyone out there has an idea of a way to get her help against her own will. If I don’t find a way she might die. If she survives this time, it will happen again. She won’t stop until she dead.

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Help, my mom won’t stop drinking…?

  • Posted on March 23, 2011 at 3:20 pm

My mom has been drinking for as long as I can remember. She gets drunk. Then the next morning she starts to drink again as soon as she wakes up. It usually lasts a week. I don’t live with her anymore because honestly I don’t want my daughters to see that.

She works for my sister’s husband selling water softens. She is the best in the country and she makes about ten thousand dollars a month. Then she takes that money and goes MIA.

The last couple of years it has gotten real bad. This is happening more and more often, and this time, it has been a 15 days. She missed my daughter’s fifth birthday, thanks giving, and her own birthday. I am getting really scared.

I studied alcoholism in a history class, a drug class, and I wrote 4 research papers on the physical and mental long term effects of binge drinking. Alcohol is a central nervous system depressant. When a person drinks non-stop for a long time, like my mom, their brain tries to counter act the depression by over stimulating it. When the alcohol is suddenly taken away (when she decides to stop, or runs out of money) the central nervous system becomes over stimulated.

The withdrawals from alcohol are called delirium-tremens. It is more deadly then heroin withdrawals. It starts with a really bad hang over. Any person’s hang over is withdrawals from the drug (Alcohol is a drug), that’s why drinking a small amount of alcohol helps the symptoms so much.

After, or during that stage, the person begins to shake. They can’t stop their hands, head and other extremities from shaking. Kinda like boxers who have been hit in the head too many times.

The next step is tingling sensations. It is described as spiders crawling on your skin, and can progress to the feeling of snake bites. These sensations make the next stage even more frightening, hallucinations (delirium). These hallucinations are almost always terrifying.

Once a person reaches the delirium stage, they need to go to the hospital so that a doctor can give them a barbiturate. Barbiturates work because they are and alternative depressant drug, but the doctor is able to regulate this drug better then alcohol and slowly wean the patient off. It the alcoholic dose not receive medical attention, the final stage is grand-mal seizures (tremens). This is often followed by death. Every time a person survives these withdrawals, the symptoms become more and more sever every time.

There are many other ways alcohol can kill you. In the short term, car accidents, falling, etc. ( those thing have happen to my mom) Long term, a person can get a fatty liver that leads to cirrhosis of the liver and death. If they don’t die from it, they will probably loss their mind. Binge drinking has detestation effects on a person’s short term memory, problem solving ability, emotions, and personality. Basically, in the long run, it’s like taking a sledgehammer to the forehead and permanently damaging your cerebral cortex (the part of your brain that makes you who your are).

Most people don’t know about delirium-tremens, or these other horrible consequences. I certainly didn’t know when I was younger. Looking back, I saw some of these terrible symptoms in my mom. Her personality has changed and she repeats the same sentence a lot. The most terrifying, though, is that I have seen her shake, and heard her scream for seemingly no reason when she is coming down from a binge. She blacks out for days when this happens. She wakes up with no almost no memory of this happening, and acts like every thing is fine, but I know she realizes what she did. How can she deny loosing a week on the calendar?

When I’m done writing I’m going to go to her apartment. She might not let me in, but I will get in anyway. Honestly, it has taken me this long to check on her because I am really afraid I will see her dead. I love my mom.

My mom had my sister take her to the hospital last time this happened. They admitted her into the psyc ward. My mom didn’t like that very much. They couldn’t hold, for some reason and let her go. Now she is avoiding my sister and I.

My sister called the cops on her and told them she was suicidal. They couldn’t do anything because my mom wouldn’t admit it. Also, she was in her a apartment, so they couldn’t take her in for public intoxication. What a f*cked up country. The police can arrest a pot smoker who is not hurting themselves or anyone else. But they can’t help my mom who is killing herself, and might try to drive and kill some innocent person.

I really don’t know what to do anymore.

Please, if anyone out there has an idea of a way to get her help against her own will. If I don’t find a way she might die. If she survives this time, it will happen again. She won’t stop until she dead.

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When does a child usually stop drinking off of the bottle as their primary feeding method?

  • Posted on March 11, 2011 at 5:23 pm

My daughter is 12 months but her mother is taking her off of the bottle already and this is driving me NUTS because to me she should still be drinking out of the bottle most of the time.

Help me understand what is the average age please.

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If you had proof that a former bosses underage child was driving stoned and drinking, would you tell?

  • Posted on February 25, 2011 at 1:23 am

I stumbled across my former boss’s 16 year old daughter’s myspace page. She states on her profile that she spends her time smoking weed, and there are several pictures of her smoking a pipe, drinking beer, and behind the wheel stoned and laughing about it. Should I tell her dad, or should I just mind my own business?
My old boss and I aren’t “talk every day” kind of friends, but I left on excellent terms, and we have a cordial relationship.
Okay, so I sent him an email, and he replied “I checked it out, and didn’t see anything that bad. Get ready, it happens. She’s graduating a year early at the top of her class”….

I tried…

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What is the punishment for underage drinking across state lines – Maryland and Pennsylvania.?

  • Posted on February 7, 2011 at 3:23 pm

My daughter, age 19, was cited for underage drinking in Pennsylvania. She has a Maryland driver’s license (home ).Can she lose her Maryland driver’s license as per Pennsylvania law? She was not driving but was a passenger in a car pulled over for a suspended registration. Because there were two 16 year olds in the car – and it was past curfew – the officer made all vehicle occupants take a breathalyzer (can they do this?) She blew .029.

Thanks.

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So because women are drinking more and DUI’s are up its because they have a “bigger burden”?

  • Posted on February 6, 2011 at 5:24 pm

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090807/ap_on_re_us/us_wrong_way_crash_women_drinkers

“Our society has taught us that women have an extra burden to be the perfect mothers and perfect wives and perfect daughters and perfect everything,” Levounis said. “They tend to go to great lengths to keep everything intact from an external viewpoint while internally, they are in ruins.”

In the current recession, women’s incomes have become more important because so many men have lost their jobs, experts say. Men are helping out more at home, but working mothers still have the bulk of the child rearing responsibilities.

“Because of that, they have a bigger burden then most men do,” said clinical psychologist Carol Goldman. “We have to look at the pressures on women these days. They have to be the supermom.”

And just becoming a parent doesn’t mean people will stop using drugs or alcohol, Ducharme said: “If you have a real addictive personality, just having a child isn’t going to make the difference.”
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I’m sorry but this sounds like a load of victimhood crap. Do we attempt to justify why images of men dominate the DUI landscape because of their “gender role” burdens? Nope..we generally depict them as morons incapable of rational thought when they get behind the wheel.

Are these supposed experts using femininity as a crutch in this instance to promote compassionate double standards for female offenders? So NOW they need to dilligantly look into the pressures of female alcoholics…..all the while…men’s suicide rate is sky high compared to women….do we attest that to…a “bigger burden” too? *rolleyes*

I’d like to think that if you get behind the wheel while intoxicated you are a moron regardless of gender.

/end rant
OK lipgloss I agree to a degree….when you see couple decades worth of demonizing the act of DUI mostly by men hence…

“There’s the impression out there that drunk driving is strictly a male issue, and it is certainly not the case,”

does not mean we need to suddenly need to now humanize it simply because women are on the rise as offenders. Sorry but still sounds like an excuse to justify the external locus of control mentality. Nobody forces them to put the bottle into their mouths…why even use the gender role as talking point if not to bridge compassion when it was never there to begin with for male offenders? Sorry but the double standard is blatantly obvious.

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