addiction

The realities of addition; the truth about living under, above and beyond the influence of drugs and alcohol.

Dead Man
24/7 Diner When I roll through the back door into the kitchen, I know that everybody knows. I can feel myself reeling as I shrug off my backpack and throw it on the rack where all the line cooks and dishwashers keep their street clothes. I kick off my sneakers, wrestle on my nonslip shoes and head for the dish area. I need to see Carlito before I clock in, before I do anything at all.
By Tom Spittel5 years ago in Psyche
The Marble
When discussing habit and addiction in the human mind, it can be helpful to think of one’s entire brain as a marble course. Your mind is the marble, rolling down an endless expanse of possibility. Where will the object go? The object will always go where it is easiest to go. Sometimes this changes when new variables are added into the equation, and sometimes it remains the same. Think of a marble rolling down a course; if there is a downward slope, eventually gravity will draw the marble in that direction. But the added variable of a plastic blockade, or a finger exerting force in the opposite direction; well these are liable to change things, most importantly the decision at the end of the day that all of these calculations attempt to count toward: where is it easiest to go?
By Miles Rafael Bairley-Ujueta5 years ago in Psyche
Being Homeless
There was a sense of mystery for me in terms of what was that final straw that broke the camel's back when speaking of my homelessness. Leading up to the issue was without doubt- directly in relation to my years long drinking problem. I am indeed an alcoholic, now in recovery some 6+ years this was tantamount to how I became homeless.
By Joseph Willson5 years ago in Psyche
What Society Problems in the Modern World?
With the development of mankind and under the influence of the latest technologies, new problems appear that people did not even think about before. Everyone has heard about the world's problems of modern society, such as the depletion of minerals, the greenhouse effect, overpopulation and the deterioration of the ecological state of our planet. In addition to global difficulties, any citizen can be affected, or are already affected, by social, moral, economic and political problems.
By Tina Royl6 years ago in Psyche
Ode to Amber
He wrote this for me. My love. We met through an app called Tinder. In fact, we haven’t even met in person. Yet, we fell in love. The song below is when I fell in love with him.
By Amber Ryan6 years ago in Psyche
Problem Gamblers Report High Rates Of Gambling Legally As Children
140,000 children aged 11 to 16 who have, or risk having, gambling problem Of the 140,000 total, a shocking 55,000 of them have a gambling addiction
By Ashish Prabhu6 years ago in Psyche
The County Fair
I release you to your addiction, and I willingly replace my love with silence. I’m not an expert on abuse, so I can’t tell you that one form of it is any worse than another. I only know my experience with you, and the one that came before you.
By IamStoneDancer6 years ago in Psyche
Beating Addiction
After Addiction Road to Happiness First off everyone is addicted to something or you wouldn't be alive. Weather you addicted to steal, drugs, gambling, women, this part is unimportant. All addiction is, is our routines negatively influenced by the people around us.
By Paul Crozb6 years ago in Psyche
How to Stop Bad Habits and Replace Them With Good Ones
The Roman poet Publilius Syrus has said many wise things, but the truth of his famous saying about habit affects us all every day anew.
By René Junge6 years ago in Psyche
Safehouse Wellness Guiding Alcohol and Drug Addicts Towards a New Beginning in Life
Mrs Narayan, who runs her own tourism company in Noida, admits that her job profile kept her away from her children for long periods. As there were few people to look after them, her elder daughter, now a post-grad student found herself in the clutches of alcohol and drug abuse at the end of her graduation. She remembers that her daughter hadn’t yet completed the 2nd year of her graduate course when she got into a bad company and became a regular consumer of alcohol and different kinds of drugs.
By Alisha Hill6 years ago in Psyche
The Mental War on Klonopin
If you are struggling with Klonopin and withdrawals from it, or you know someone that is, this is for you. The first day I met her she was sitting in her kitchen chair holding her knees to her chest and rocking back and forth. I remember her eyes being completely black and she looked scared and lost, like she was literally in Hell.
By DeVel Madrid6 years ago in Psyche
Raw & Uncut The Truth about Addiction
I am just going to jump in! I hate addiction but I recognize it, I know that it's a nasty mental health disease that is wiping out our current generation. The disease that has kids growing up without one or both parents, kids witnessing things they should never have to see, children torn from their homes, and parent burying their children and raking in their grandchildren. Addiction was something I felt so lucky to have escaped, or at least for awhile I thought I did. I was the one who didn't care to drink or go to house parties, but I loved smoking my weed and being home. Even at 17 and 18. As I got a little older I experimented with acid once, ecstasy a few times and when it was my clubing years I got into cocaine. All of which I could take or leave it and it didn't control my life. Year's go by and I'm diagnosed with some medical conditions that land me on and off pain meds for 10 years, I formed a dependence. Fortunately I escaped using heroin and anything more then a 10 mg percocet. It's been 5 years since my last one.
By Emily Organ6 years ago in Psyche