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GLBT Addiction and Recovery

An interesting conundrum is that a lot of social service agencies, whether they’re community centers or AIDS advocacy organizations or whatnot, they can be fueled by alcohol-related donations. So Absolut Vodka could sponsor an AIDS fundraiser, and a lot of the men and women attending that fundraiser are impacted by alcohol or some other form of addiction. In that sense, it can be tricky to talk openly about addiction and recovery. Plus, there is absolutely a fair amount of exactly what you said – people thinking, We have been squashed down for so long, and we weren’t able to be who we wanted to be, and now we’re free to do as we please, so don’t you dare rain on our parade. We want to have a good time. Again, it can be a delicate balancing act to talk to those folks about addiction and the problems it causes.

Defeating Depression with a Pill

There was literally a time when patients suffering from depression used to talk about their problems. But times have changed and now talk therapy is becoming a rarer form of treatment in favor of psychotropic drugs. A pair of studies, which ran from 1998 to 2007, tracked the use of antidepressants versus psychotherapy to treat depression among inpatients. Both were a followup of sorts to similar research done a decade earlier which saw a doubling in the amount of outpatients treated with antidepressants for this population. From 1987 to 1997, the percentage of patients prescribed antidepressant medication rose from 37.3 percent to 74.5 percent. One of the more recent studies, put together by a team from the University of Pennsylvania, found the trend toward antidepressants continued. Researchers collected data from what is known as the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), which tracks depression diagnoses as well as means of treatment. The University of Pennsylvania study concluded that antidepressant use among outpatients remained relatively the same (73.8 percent in 1998 versus 75.3 percent in 2007). The use of psychotherapy as a treatment option declined from 53.6 percent in 1998 to 43.1 percent in 2007. Steven Corey Marcus, one of the study authors, noted that a similar study found the number of Americans using antidepressants jumped from five percent to 10 percent from 1996 to 2005. “(That’s) much faster than the rate of depression treatment rose,” Marcus said in a 2010 blog on Discovery Magazine’s web site. “In other words, the decade must have seen antidepressants increasingly being used to treat stuff other than depression. SSRIs are popular in everything from anxiety and OCD to premature ejaculation.”

 

BREAKING the Candy Crush habit.It Could Be Destroying Your Life

You sure have seen and heard of this game, even when you are fortunate enough to have avoided falling prey to this monster. While the brains behind this phenomenon continue to make millions, we present to you a list of reasons why you should not be playing this game. 1. It is simple. What do you have to do actually? Just arrange some candies in a row, right? Why would you want to spend your valuable time doing that? 2. It is destructive. Even if you don't pity your watches that you bought with your hard-earned money, and continue wasting your time playing a game, shouldn't your be playing something constructive? What's with the fetish to destroy things? 3. It is addictive. Yes, that 'only one more level' phase never seems to end. Ask yourself. 4. You can't anyway play it whenever you wish. Remember the 30-minute wait that never seems to end? High time you decide, who is the boss of your life? 5. You are most likely to spend some money when you are just about to complete a level, and are out of lives or moves or charms or whatever fancy words you can use. 6. You are most probably turned into a spammer. Yes, the repeated notifications in your friends' Facebook profiles and the continued Can you please give me a ticket face that you make when you meet your friends is not good for your reputation. 7. You can never complete it. Yes, even when you spend precious hours of your life hitting the keyboard or swiping the screen of your cell, you can never finish it because the last level is always under construction. Well, I hope that I have made my point clear and you would gather the courage to uninstall the game from your cell, system, and life. Happy quitting!