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  • Drug Abuse Center Could Save Society - A drug abuse center could prove very helpful for people who need them. Drugs have been a very big problem in our society for a long time.
  • Why Women Become Addicted To Substances - Women become addicted to drugs and alcohol for reasons that are different from men.
  • Are You Guilty of Credit Card Abuse? - Credit card abuse isn't something to be taken lightly. It's put more than a few families into financial ruin.
  • Signs Of Emotional Verbal Abuse: Friend Or Foe? - Did you know the signs of emotional verbal abuse are your friends if you recognize them for what they are? An adult survivor of severe childhood abuse by her natural father plotted with her sister (also abused) to kill their parents in cold blood. The mother, who watched the children being abuse, took the first bullet and the abusive father the second. As I'm watching this Law in Order story, I'm reminded of the mother's dilemma. Love, or leave 'em? Each of these options can be equally ugly.
  • Recognizing Abusive Relationships: The Subtle Communication Patterns of Emotional Verbal Abuse - How do you help someone who is abused to see the light? In screening thousands of people for domestic abuse, I'm convinced that showing the subtle communication patterns of abusive relationships helps someone being abused to awaken to their circumstances. Further, identifying these subtle, and often unconscious, interaction patterns helps the abused partner recognize what keeps the abuse dynamic going and, from here, what stops it.
  • Why Answer The Question, "Am I In An Abusive Relationship?" - Warning! This article will either turn you upside down or be the angel that keeps you on your feet, or both. Each time I go into a chat room on the Internet, in which the topic is abusive relationships, I hear the question: "My boyfriend pushes me to the wall and braces me there. Is this cause to end it?" "My partner’s verbal and emotional abuse are debilitating and I don’t know how to process it." "How do you know when it has gone too far?" When you are in this situation, these are the most important questions to your future. Because once answered, you are in control and better able to protect yourself. So how do you know if you are in a dangerous relationship?
  • What You Must Know When Seeking Help For Domestic Abuse - The Battered Women’s Movement and Clinical Psychology are as far apart as the North and South Pole. Yet, many people outside of these circles/disciplines believe domestic abuse treatment—and advocacy—are sub-specialties of the practice of psychology. Not at all so! After I fled from the danger I lived in Chicago, I retreated into a life of solace and wrote All But My Soul: Abuse Beyond Control. Creating that publication was the most amazing experience of my life—right up there with the birth of a child. It was my fourth child.
  • Healing from Emotional Abuse and the Physical Injuries of Domestic Violence - Each time I encounter the body's ability to heal itself, I'm in awe. And to witness the role of intention in this is even more mind-boggling. As domestic violence survivors, you know the scars and wounds of battering. Did you know you can have a very active role in healing these injuries? I'm going to insert an earlier writing of mine in which I'm reflecting on a milestone in my own process dating back to 1988, because it says it from that battered place common to domestic abuse survivors. This piece is entitled "The Silver Lining, Laced with Gold." Allow me.
  • Understanding What Alcohol Abuse Is And How To Recognise It - The consumption of alcoholic beverages dates back to the beginning of time. Unfortunately some of us are affected by the excessive consumption of alcohol in a very negative way. Hence the problem of alcohol abuse which has disrupted lives, societies and civilizations over the generations.. In today’s society consuming alcohol has become the norm and when consumed in moderation, it can be a relaxing tonic. Many people come home from a hard day of work and unwind with a drink. How do you know, though, when that relaxing drink has taken over your life?

  • Why Is Marital Therapy Ineffective Treatment For Domestic Abuse - We assume that a problem affecting two people in a relationship is material for marital or couples therapy. However, when the problem is intimate partner violence, this is absolutely not so! I longed for my children's father, my ex-husband, to stop his violent outbursts toward our family. The psychologist/doctor/family peacemaker in me said, “We just need to find the 'right' person or method to help fix this problem,” as though he had some physical aliment. This may sound familiar to those of you who have been there.
  • What Abused Women Must Know When Seeking Help For Domestic Abuse - The last thing an abused woman needs to hear while seeking safety from domestic violence is that she’s crazy. Unfortunately, however, this may be one of first things she learns from the evaluating mental health professional. The Battered Women’s Movement and Clinical Psychology are as far apart as the North and South Pole. Yet, many people outside of these circles/disciplines believe domestic abuse treatment and advocacy are sub-specialties of the practice of psychology. Not at all so! After I fled from the danger I lived in Chicago, I retreated into a life of solace and wrote All But My Soul: Abuse Beyond Control.
  • Affluent Spousal Abuse - Battered Queens: When the Rich Are Entangled in Abusive Relationships - Common thinking is that domestic violence is a misfortune that befalls the lower class. We hear about them more, we see more of them, we have public services to care for their needs...but that doesn't make them in the majority when it comes to domestic abuse. I would venture to say that we are looking at a relative representation of the population; not a socio-economic indicator of domestic abuse. Would you know a battered queen if you saw one? Moreover, would you recognize yourself as one if that were indeed the case? Who Are the Battered Queens? Battered queens come in all shapes and sizes. They can be doctors, lawyers, movie stars, financial experts....
  • Steroid Abuse - The society of today necessitates great risks to be taken by the people to enhance their performance in jobs or to excel in sports. This explains the ever increasing popularity of steroid abuse and other performance enhancing drugs including anabolic steroids and the related substitute products. Steroids are basically used by athletes, body builders, and fitness buffs, under the pretext that steroids give some sort of competitive advantage to them thereby improving their physical performance. Reports suggest that steroid abuse can induce strength and aggressiveness and increase lean body mass. The dose selection by steroid abusers again depends to a great extent on the particular objectives and also depends on the sporting event.
  • Alcohol Abuse - If you or someone you love is struggling with drug or alcohol addiction, you understand all too well how difficult it is to deal with it on your own. In most cases, it’s nearly impossible to get well without some kind of help.
  • Healing from Domestic Violence - The Rapture and Remedy of Writing for Domestic Abuse Survivors - I notice that when people are told to write as a) a way to keep records of the ongoing abuse episodes and domestic altercations, or b) for the healing effect, they recoil. If I didn't know better I'd think they felt as though they were getting an assignment right out of grade school. And since we know the authority issues in their lives make this rather undesirable, it is understandable why one would not want to journal. However... Here is why this is doing oneself a disservice. If you recoil when given the assignment of journaling, you miss the rapture and healing remedy of writing. Healing Writing: How and to Whom?
  • The Effects Of Alcohol Abuse Can Be Dramatic And If Left Unchecked Life Shattering - The pressures of life presents us all with trials and tribulations that we need to overcome.. Unfortunately too many of us are now turning to what is perceived to be an instant relief that is found in consuming copious quantities of alcohol.
  • Why Womens Only Recovery Programs Are Effective For Women Addicts In Recovery - Research clearly indicates that women's only recovery programs are far more effective for women than treatment programs that include both, men and women, and this is more so in the early stages of recovery.
  • Abusive Relationship Healing - 5 Tips for Lifting Depression after Your Abusive Relationship - It is common knowledge that when one is beaten down, they feel beaten down. So it's no wonder that domestic abuse survivors frequently suffer from depression. We see this in individuals living in an abusive relationship, and in those having left their abuser. What is it that makes it possible for these people to heal their depression? The following actions to avoid, and steps to take, are essential to the resolution of depression for domestic abuse survivors.
  • Abusive Relationships - How to Recognize and Cope with the Isolation in an Abusive Relationship - Isolation is one of the mechanisms used to create and maintain domination of one person over another. Evolution of Isolation in Abusive Relationships It often evolves so gradually that you don't realize it's happening until you wake-up one day and notice you have no friends and your contact with your own family has vanished. Now the funny thing is that as your icy isolation is being groomed, you're conditioned to believe that it is "good for you." (There's that conditioning, again.) You're told things like this person is not worthy of your company, that person is undesirable to your partner, another poses a threat to your relationship.
  • Why Do People Abuse Steroids? - Abuse of anabolic steroids typically starts in adolescence and is driven by the desire to improve performance and physical appearance. This is unlike abuse of other illicit substances such as heroin, cocaine and marijuana that are taken for the euphoric feelings that accompany them. Anabolic steroids are mainly taken by professional bodybuilders in order to increase muscle mass and size and by other professional athletes who wish to enhance their athletic performance and reduce body fat. These physical and performance enhancing effects of steroid boost strength and confidence, leading abusers to ignore the potential long-term and often fatal damage that these substances can cause. Teenagers typically start taking anabolic steroids in an attempt to emulate professional athletes whom they idolize.
  • After the Abusive Relationship - Long-Term Aid for Domestic Abuse Survivors - Do what you're called to do and the universe will support you. You've probably heard this, but may be scratching your head thinking about your bills, responsibilities and all of the what ifs...
  • Learning To Read Drug Addiction Symptoms - The best way to determine if someone about whom you care is involved in drug abuse is to familiarize yourself with the drug addiction symptoms which will give that person away. Once you know what the signs of drug abuse are, you will be able to distinguish them from ordinary emotional ups and downs which everyone experiences from time to time.
  • Drug Abuse And Drug Addiction Facts - Drug abuse is a very serious problem in many places in the world, particularly the United States. What starts out as a simple curiosity or use that is considered social may result in a serious addiction.
  • Substance Abuse and Its Relation to Traumatic Brain Injuries - Doctors have consistently affirmed that substance abuse has a roll in many cases where patients are being treated from brain injuries.
  • After Abuse: The Challenging Work Of Forging Healthy Relationships - Many people have done the tough work of recovery from sexual abuse, whether with help in therapy or on one’s own. It challenges us to the core, but it also frees us, and gives life and possibility where we once felt that we might never get through it. For some, getting into a relationship, or continuing with one we’ve been in, after abuse recovery is a fairly smooth process. For others, the challenge holds a range of feelings, such as the longing to be loved, mixed with uncertainty, anxiety, fear, even panic. It often comes with a deep sense of undeserving, or the belief, "I am unlovable." Some people will go through a long period of celibacy, even after sexual abuse counseling. Others might try dating, but find themselves repeating patterns that occurred in abusive relationships, with their new partners.
  • Abusive Relationship Healing - 7 Secrets for Greater Well-being after an Abusive Relationship - Adversity is part of life. It comes in all shapes and sizes. It's not what happens to you; it's what you do about it that matters most. Battered women also come in all shapes and sizes. And I'm convinced that what they choose to do with their circumstances, after the fact, is far more important to the bigger picture of their lives than anything else. Here are some things that will increase your well-being after an abusive relationship. 1) Keep yourself in a place of pure positive energy Certain things we do and think elevate our feelings, our energy state. That is the state at which we vibrate. Please now take a deep cleansing breath and come with me out of the boxing ring of the social legal crime back to your mind, body and soul.
  • The Health Consequences Of Steroid Abuse - Young adolescents typically start taking anabolic steroids either in an attempt to improve their athletic performance or increase their muscle mass and decrease body fat. Though the initial effects of steroids helps boost their strength and confidence, long-term steroid abuse has the potential to cause serious long-term damage, some of which is irreversible. Steroid abuse has been associated with a host of adverse physical and physiological side effects ranging from mild to severe and life-threatening.
  • Child Abuse and Hidden Spy Cams: How to Avert One by Using the Other - Around 11,000 babies are born daily in the United States. Each and every one of them is at risk of child abuse. Lest you think that your child will not be one of them, remember that child abuse also happens outside the protective shelter of your home. It can happen in schools, in malls, in day care centers, in offices, and even in a venue as sacred as a church itself. Child Abuse Defined To make any allegations of child abuse stick, the age of the abused must be firmly established to be less than 18 years.
  • Systemic Abuse: The Challenge Facing Domestic Abuse Survivors - Far too often, domestic abuse survivors go from the frying pan to the fire on their way out of an abusive relationship. And they wonder how this can happen. While it doesn’t always happen, it’s more common than most people realize. I lived systemic abuse; I write about it, I know it from the core of my being. But, I never understood it so thoroughly until I was asked to explain it to someone whose life was altered dramatically by it. What is “systemic abuse?
  • Codependency, Emotional Violence & Domestic Abuse - If you find that being needed is more important to you than being loved, if you’ve been exposing yourself or others to emotional violence, if you are the victim (or the perpetrator) of domestic abuse – it’s time for your suffering to end. Issues with codependency, emotional violence, and domestic abuse are often produced early in life when a child’s upbringing includes influences that hindered their personal development.
  • How You Can Stop Phone Abuse with Reverse Phone Detective - Abusive phone calls can take many forms. Types of phone abuse or harassment can include constant prank phone calls from the same number, harassing or threatening calls from someone you know or even someone you don't know, or unwanted calls from aggressive telemarketers. A different type of phone abuse can come in the form of calls from collection agencies. Should you be experiencing any of these types of phone abuse problems, you are able to begin solving the problem by using a reverse phone lookup service. Reverse phone lookup services operate via a website that will allow you to research any phone number for a small fee. You can obtain the name of the owner of the phone number, together with their address, and even more useful information. This information can be very helpful in stopping phone abuse or harassing phone calls.
  • Take Care of your Elder Loved Ones-Avoid Elder Abuse - When you first started working with your elderly mom or dad in helping them settle into their retired lifestyle, you exposed yourself to all kinds of services that can help take care of senior citizens.
  • How to Identify Financial Abuse - Anna Quindlen wrote a gripping novel a few years ago about a woman who tries to escape from her husband who is abusing her. Because her husband is a cop, she fears he will find her with the same techniques he uses in his detective work. The case of Drew Peterson, a policeman in Bollingbrook, Illinois, is still under investigation in the disappearance of his fourth wife Stacy. The body of his third wife, exhumed for further investigation, shows visible evidence of homicide. Relatives of his previous wives tell police he abused them. Peterson says he loves his wife and pleads with her to return. Authorities have never located Stacy's body. No one has heard from her. One of the earliest signs of future abusive behavior is financial control.
  • Daughter in Abusive Relationship: How to Help Your Daughter in an Abusive Relationship - Often it is the person closest to the abused individual that becomes vocal about the existence of an abusive relationship. This may be mother, father, sister, brother or best friend. What becomes most difficult for these bystanders is helping their loved one acknowledge the abuse as they see it. How do you help your daughter, sister or friend awaken to their abusive relationship?
  • Domestic Violence Divorce - Lost Mothers, Lied to Children and the Legal Abuse Syndrome - "Where is your Mom?" asked a little boy to another. The little boy replied, "I don't know." From his point of view, she was lost. She was gone. She left him. She abandoned him. ...And the conclusions go on and on, each one with more and more potential to fracture a young psyche. Eventually, it can. That's what you can expect when you have children with an abuser. Many people think that when they reach a point where they can no longer live with the abuser, they will just get a divorce and the system will protect them and their children. Not necessarily so! That's a drastic assumption.
  • Drug Rehabilitation - A Path To Recovery - If you or someone you love is suffering from a drug addiction, know that there are solutions. Checking into a drug rehab center for a drug or alcohol abuse problem is the best way to overcome a drug addiction problem for good.
  • "Survivor To Thriver": Healing The Impact Of Childhood Abuse - Healing the impact of childhood abuse is a difficult yet hopeful process. If you were physically or sexually abused as a child, you may often feel fragmented, confused, vulnerable, and somewhat chaotic inside. You may have difficulty with trust and intimacy in your relationships, and your emotions may seem unpredictable and volatile to you. You may also have a generalized feeling that you are somehow "bad" or unworthy, and therefore, not like yourself very much. You may also feel guilty, as though you caused the abuse. All of these experiences are common and make sense in light of your childhood experience. There IS hope! An integrated and intentional approach in therapy can lead to healing in these areas of your life.
  • 7 Step Guide to Creating a Life of Substance Abuse - While it is probable that no one consciously sets out to create a life of substance abuse, those who end up addicted to substances are choosing certain thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors that will likely end up leading to some form of substance abuse - drugs, alcohol, nicotine, food, junk food, sugar, and/or caffeine. Since substance abuse is the result of these choices, if substance abuse is part of your life-style, why not do them consciously instead of unconsciously? Substance abuse is the result of self-abandonment.
  • Identifying an Abusive Relationship: The Power of a Diagnosis in Ending Domestic Abuse - The value of the diagnostic label has more to do with the way it impacts the person with the condition than anything else. Can you remember a time in your life when you had a medical condition and you received a diagnosis that immediately lifted the weight off your shoulders and sent you to remedy your condition. My sense is the "propelling one into remedy" can happen no matter what the diagnosis.
  • Domestic Violence and Child Custody - From the Frying Pan to the Fire of Family Violence - Can we bring justice to family courts? That's a highly political question, and I think the answer has more to do with the nature of the human beings behind the system and the misconceptions of those using the system to seek safety. We hear of battered women falling through the cracks of the system as much as those securing safety through the system.
  • When Is BDSM Emotionally Abusive? - “He made them want to shout, Ouch! But this time you better watch out. He kicked her oh and he beat her, and he whipped her. S&M” These are the words from the Thin Lizzy song S&M. But how much do you know about S&M? Can you distinguish when the role play ends and the abuse begins? BDSM BDSM is a collective term used for the many subdivisions of the sado-masochistic culture. B&D stands for bondage and discipline, D&S stands for domination and submission, and S&M stands for sadism and masochism.
  • God Wants You to Prosper - For over 35 years I have taught that Christians should be prosperous, yes, God wants us to prosper and be in health. I know some groups don't like this message and other groups abuse it. The groups that don't believe it stay in their poverty mindset because they think that is what they are supposed to do. And the groups that abuse it make God sound like an ATM machine. Both of them really bother me!
  • Domestic Violence And Elder Abuse - Domestic Violence and Elder Abuse – It’s Unforgivable It really may not be as unusual as it appears.
  • Family Violence Healing - Writing about a Mother's Nightmare of Abuse Beyond Control - Where did you get the where-with-all to write your book (All But My Soul) people continue to ask seven years after its publication.
  • 4 Ways Men Can Heal From Sexual Abuse - Most often when we read or hear about the sexual abuse of children the stories are about the victimization of young girls. Less often discussed, but still pervasive, are the number of young boys who have also been affected. In the United States, one out of every six young men has been a victim. I am one of them; I was physically and sexually abused as a preteen. But what I want you to know is that I was healed and made whole through Jesus Christ and the same can be true for any boy or man who has walked in my shoes. In this article I will share some of the healing techniques that helped me overcome the residual effects associated with this painful and traumatic experience.
  • If Money Talk isn't Easy, Don't Marry - Everything is set for the wedding, but you're feeling panicky about something the wedding planner could never take care of. Last night, you and your fiancee had a conversation that raised a red flag for you about whether to go ahead with the marriage. You: “Honey, our wedding is in six weeks and I’m feeling very uncomfortable because we’ve never really talked about money and how we’ll handle it after we’re married. “ He: “We did talk about it, sweetheart. Lots of times. Aren’t I paying for most the wedding expenses? And didn’t we agree we’d take care of the details after we get back from our honeymoon.
  • How You Can Help Fight Animal Cruelty - Animal cruelty is something that is close to many people's hearts. Many think of it as an abuse that is akin to child abuse, since animals are also defenseless against the hands or neglect of humans. It tends to rouse similar anger and outrage as well, and there are now many agencies that are set up to help prevent animal cruelty, and also shelters where rescued animals find solace and comfort from their abusive or neglectful environments. Years ago, there were not even any laws set up to protect animals from abuse, and abusers were able to get away with doing just about anything they wanted without consequence.
  • Forgiving Your Parents - "My parents were distant, unaffectionate people. I don't remember ever being held by them. They were never interested in how I thought or felt. I never felt important to them at all.
  • Are You Letting Those Bad Credit Credit Cards Abuse You? - If you're looking into or are using bad credit credit cards, it's probably because you've run into a few financial road blocks in the past. Nothing to be ashamed of -- it happens to the best of us. It definitely doesn't mean you should be treated like a second-class citizen in the world of finance, which is exactly what some credit card companies try to do.
  • Healing from Abuse - How Wakeful Rest Can Heal and Enhance Health for Domestic Violence Survivors - Tell me more about the "wakeful rest," asks my proofreader. Well certainly, I think to myself. There is nothing I'd rather talk (write) about more. What is the wakeful rest? Ahhh, that is the magic...the gold...the sweet spot, wherein the mind and body mend. But before I lose myself in this discussion, let's not lose site of your question. How is this relevant to me, as a domestic abuse survivor?

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