I heard something from Aimee Mann that I really liked, along the lines of “people are entitled to dislike you, and their reason why is none of your business.” Maybe a person is shallow and only talks to models; maybe you have an uncanny resemblance to someone who bullied him/her as a kid. As long as someone isn’t…

Ikr? *Eyeroll*. I just had to respond to someone in the comments who insisted that I (a former heroin addict) couldn’t possibly know anything about “these people”, who are all drama queens and should be ignored because any kind of positive attention is “enabling”.

the entire staff has turned over almost twofold since then

I’M A FUCKING QWEEEEEEN!!

Fuck all those toothless crackheads!!!! They’re probably black anyway! They’re probably wondering if I’m skinny enough to fuck anyway! They’re probably doing crack because they know how amazing I am and yet how high my standards are and that they can never be with me so they’re so sad! Fuck them!

all addicts deserve to be murdered!

“And it just so happens that they were two of the sweetest angels who have ever lived, you know? It is never some toothless fucking crackhead who gets killed.”

Thank you. I am sick to fucking death of the “anti-vax” bullshit about her. Especially here on Jezebel.

An anti-abortion candidate will never get my vote.

I think she should be forced to spend a week at a Japanese or Korean spa where people from ages 3 to 100 scrub up with no body shame and no one gives a shit how you look naked. Get over yourself, lady.

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I tried several of the medications used for alcohol dependency, Antabuse, Campral, Naltrexone and those did not work for me personally, but I am now in study at a nearby research University (UNC) that is exploring Baclofen (a medication used for back spasms) and it shows promise. Of course, just doing the study alone…

I had the same experience! Once I got on an anti-psychotic it wasn’t the hardest thing ever in life. It became doable. I didn’t realize how much I was self-medicating until then. I am diagnosed bipolar but there was a time when I was certain I was borderline because of the instability surrounding every single thing I…

This, SO MUCH. I just re-watched the episode of The West Wing where Leo tries to explain to that kid staffer who outed him that he drank and took pills because he’s an alcoholic and a drug addict. That sort of reductive, circular logic may be helpful to a tiny portion of people who are genuinely, truly dependent on…

I truly pity you if you feel that drinking is the only thing that makes your life enjoyable and worth living. Here’s a story that hopefully will give you some perspective. My brother-in-law developed a form of cancer that ended up having him cycle through hospitals for years, get an organ transplant and be on tons of…

I cant agree enough. My mom and brother asked me to go to rehab because I was abusing alcohol. I was using it to mask all sorts of issues. Of course, they (rehab) labeled me an alcoholic, which I am not. I just needed to get my shit together.

There is an interesting article in The Atlantic called The Irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous. It caused a bit of an uproar among AA proponents (the title says it all), but it does go into some detail about therapy and medication, and might be a good place for you to start looking.

i appreciate your comments, and i just want to say it sucks how polarizing AA is, from both sides. i feel like AA stands so firmly on the “we are absolutely right” platform that when it doesnt work people become bitter towards it/talk shit on it. i wish more people could be like “AA works for me, but it obviously…

Can’t tell if this is a troll or severe alcoholic.