Illegal drugs/alcohol abuse Articles

My Husband Is Addicted to Pills

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
My husband and I have been together since we were very young. Me 16, him 19. We are now 27 and 30 and have a 3yr old and 9month old. When we were younger, we pretty much did every drug imaginable together. ...

Husband wants to call it quits

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Friday, September 30th, 2011
Hello, I have been married for 16 years and my husband and I are having difficulties. He works from home and I am a stay at home wife/mother. So, we are together 24/7. We have three children, our youngest, age four has Down Syndrome. ...

Need Help Stopping My Attention-Seeking Behaviors

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Saturday, September 17th, 2011
To whomever this may concern, I noticed over the years, that I have been engaging in attention seeking behaviors, and I desperately want to stop. I have a great home life, I come from a loving family, and I have wonderful friends. However, ever since ...

Anger About a Terrible Life

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Friday, September 16th, 2011
I was Adopted at Birth, my step mom died at 9 and my step father drank himself to death when I was 13, I lived on the street for 7 months as a runaway from a foster care center in Chicago working 8 hours a ...

I Hate Myself

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Monday, September 12th, 2011
Everytime I eat, I hate myself. I'm always nervous, and scared, and I cry all the time and want to kill myself for no reason. I try to get drunk as often as possible because I'm happy when I'm drunk. And sometimes I feel like ...

25-Plus Years Of Seeing Psychiatrist And Taking Xanax

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Sunday, September 11th, 2011
Hi. I just need to get this clear. My soon to be ex has seen the same psychiatrist for 25 years. He has an ongoing Rx for Xanax but does not take it frequently except in times of stress. He is a ...

Alcoholic parents are tearing me up

By Daniel J. Tomasulo, PhD, TEP, MFA on Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
I’m sixteen years old and a senior in high school. Both of my parents are alcoholics and have been ever since I can remember. They are loud and violent when they get drunk, my dad has even been to jail for domestic violence. Its so ...

Rape And Current Relationship Problems

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Friday, August 26th, 2011
This is a complicated story so bear with me. I was 12 years old when this happened. It was the beginning of seventh grade, and I had noticed my friends had started cutting as means of attention. This was just a lot to take at ...

What Might Be Causing New Onset Of Delusions?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Sunday, August 21st, 2011
The past few months I have started to have mild delusions. The first that I can recall is the most frightening experience I can recall. I raced from one paranoid thought to another, lost control of my movement frozen in place but jerking my head ...

Talking To My Cousin About Self-Destructive Behavior

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Saturday, July 16th, 2011
My cousin is 16. She drinks, does drugs and has sex. she failed math this year and has gone to school and taken tests high. Recently she started going to church and promised to stop this destructive behavior, but she has not. She has a ...

Crying Too Often As A Male

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
I have been this way my entire life, I have done some searching but it seems as if I don't reach the extent that many others do. I am a very happy person, I am not depressed, i have a great life, and a lot ...

I’ve shut down

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
I was addicted to gambling for about 12 years. I've been in recovery for almost a year now. My problem is that during my addiction I ended up pushing almost everyone out of my life without really knowing that I was doing ...
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