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Aerosmith: My drinking, my depression and my hopes for Steven Tyler

Monday, November 9th, 2009

Please tell me that Steven Tyler's relapse last year was not the cause of his splitting from Aerosmith this week. Tyler got clean in 1986 - when the band was in a drug and alcohol ...

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Doctors, Lawyers and drugs for the dual diagnosed

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

A three-week court hearing about the roles of two doctors in the death of Anna Nicole Smith ended last week with a judge ordering the doctors and Smith's long-time companion to stand trial on charges ...

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Depression and my “drunk dreams”

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

I had another "drunk dream" last night. After eleven years of sobriety I do not have them as often but I do still have them and probably always will. "Drunk dreams" are the dreams of ...

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Dual diagnosis: “Many of them do recover if they have the capacity to be honest”

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

There are those, too, who suffer from grave emotional and mental disorders, but many of them do recover if they have the capacity to be honest. Chapter 5, ...

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Dual-diagnosis: Remembering to remember how bad it was

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

I have an illness that tells me I do not have an illness. I am an alcoholic. It is one of three mental illnesses that I have - along with depression and bipolar. I have ...

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Dual diagnosis: Race and recovery

Sunday, October 11th, 2009

My name is Christine, and I am mentally ill. I have depression, bipolar and alcoholism. I am also white (actually I am kind of a pasty beige with age spots freckles but race ...

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House and Dexter: How recovery works and won’t work

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

In the last 24 hours I have watched two television programs depict recovery. I am pretty sensitive to portrayals of mental illness on television - from Quiznos commercials to the emmy award winning program Intervention. I ...

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Rant-o-rama: The sheriff vs common sense

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Last week our local sheriff - reacting to a demand to cut $3 million from his proposed $480 budget - threatened to cut a successful substance-abuse treatment program before cutting deputies. In other words, if ...

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My triplets: Depression, Bipolar, Alcoholism

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

I hit the mental illness trifecta. I have depression, bipolar AND alcoholism. I think of them as my wiley little triplets. If one wants to take a nap, the other two won't have it. They ...

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Rant-o-Rama: Another Irresponsible Doctor

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

So, looks like we have ANOTHER doctor accused of prescribing drugs that killed a celeb. This time it's Michael Jackson's doctor. Apparently, Jackson's doctor injected propofol - a powerful anesthetic- to Jackson the night he ...

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