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It's strange how there are certain personalities who can seek out the precise opposite of who they are.
It's strange how there are certain personalities who can seek out the precise opposite of who they are.
Lovely thoughts for the HSP who has their empathic tendencies wrapped up in other people. Highly Sensitive People are so often codependently inclined, it is truly validating to read a piece such as this.
HSP Quiz
For the Highly Sensitive Person getting sober might be a matter of "what for? so i get to feel everything without even a chance of numbness?" It was for me anyway until one day...
wealth of information.
Straight, Inc. - Montage of Kid Abuse
"Straight, Inc. (1976-1993) publicly claimed to rehabilitate teenage drug users by using tough love and Alcoholics Anonymous principles. Straight, Inc. provided NO professional counseling: Straight, Inc.'s "treatment model" relied exclusively on "positive peer pressure" from unprofessional staff (program graduates) and from the teenage clients. Straight, Inc. claimed to have an astronomically high success rate and was supported by both the Reagan and Bush administrations. However, Straight, Inc. did not publicly reveal what many survivors will tell you. The REAL Straight, Inc. was a facility that used coercive thought reform (aka mind control, brainwashing), public humiliation, sleep & food deprivation, extremely harsh confrontational tactics, kidnapping, isolation and emotional, mental, psychological, verbal and physical abuse to forcibly break us down then remold us in the Straight, Inc. image. Straight, Inc. also operated in secrecy, just like a cult (Straight, Inc. has been classified as a cult by cult experts). No outsiders were ever permitted to know what really went on. Straight's rules and our fear of harsh punishment prevented us from talking to outsiders or from reporting abuses."
From the page: A government that is evil has no room for good men and women except in its prisons.
Like TSA porno-scanners but for good. ;)
From the page: "To say this figure -- $200 million a day -- has made the rounds in the blogosphere would be a huge understatement. It has been repeated by nearly every conservative pundit in the land: Hannity, Limbaugh, Beck, Drudge. Always with a healthy dose of indignation."
Portia DeRossi opens up on Ellen regarding her anorexia. This was so disturbing hearing her recounting. Anorexia is not just about body dysmorphic disorders but also violations, feeling you have [or actually having] no voice....and it's isolating.
Porta De Rossi - in this Ellen segment - answers an audience members question regarding her recovery through and from anorexia.
yeah cause drunken fun must mean no depression? that is ridiculous. no correlation at all. in fact, depressed people often USE alcohol to function. and most people i know smile in the face of depression, too. it truly is amazing how our society is brainwashed into believing that non-thinking social niceties - such as smiling at appropriate times and laughing at 'appropriate' times means there is no hell going on on the inside.
this is just another attempt at unsurance companies to appeal to "surface appearances" and the whole "outsides must match insides" mitote. as long as we have a world that believes pretty = better and a smile = happy well then....unsurance companies will be successful at denying benefits for the mentally or emotionally unwell.
imagine if our world were educated to this truth; that smiling and/or laughing does not necessarily correlate to feeling well, serene, or happy. the unsurance companies couldn't possibly get away with it. we'd run from them!
A Facebook Page to advocate anti-bullying regiments & resources.
Say NO to Bullies and Bullying
From the page: From my perspective, depression and loneliness amongst Americans may be as inevitable as lung cancer for smokers. No culture that devalues life, love, and meaning as profoundly as ours can produce a happy or unified populace. From the day we are born, our ability to love our selves and connect with others is subverted by a thousand barriers emplaced by cultural conditioning.
Using this site to keep up with Facebook outages. If you use Twitter you can use the hashtags #Facebook and #downrightnow to report to downrightnow.com you are having issues.
Myths: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/cellphones.asp
if the presence of ufos or aliens fascinate you, start here.
Ever since we adopted a young puppy from running in the streets we have been tuning into the Dog Whisperer and I have to say, I am amazed. I am here at the website now hoping to learn techniques on helping our young puppy to not jump on us and growl at his sister when SHE has her own bone. Now, let me go find the page entitled: "How to De-Spazz your New Puppy"
This is not an underwater UFO base. But here is the answer: http://panoramio.com/photo/22522265