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Sexting Epidemic Amongst Teens and Young Adults On The Rise
Sexting, which is defined as texting words, images or videos with sexual content that contains ‘raunchy’ wording, nudity or someone performing a sexual act, is becoming an increasingly popular means for young people to connect with each other. Advances in technology often bring with them unintended negative consequences, and sexting has opened up channels for abuse. MTV recently conducted 1,355 interviews for their campaign, ‘A Thin Line,’ asking participants aged 14-24 about sexting. Here are some of the results: 13 percent admitted to having sent a naked picture of themselves to someone else. Of these people, 61 percent report to having been pressured into sending the picture at least once. Of those who have sent a picture: 59 percent sent the picture to a boyfriend or girlfriend. 24 percent sent the picture to someone they … Read entire article »
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Intimacy, Isolation, and Relationships
I hate you and I love you, or at least I would if I knew you and cared about you. I want to be close to you and leave me alone; I guess that’s my social credo. It’s either that or “I hate everyone. Always.” In my life, I chronically push others away and then cling to them or mourn the lost relationship. I perpetually want space and intimacy simultaneously. If I act on my feelings … Read entire article »
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Oxytocin Improves Fidelity
Oxytocin is defined in the dictionary as “a hypothalamic hormone stored in the posterior pituitary, which has uterine-contracting and milk-releasing actions; it may also be prepared synthetically or obtained from the posterior pituitary of domestic animals; used to induce active labor, increase the force of contractions in labor, contract uterine muscle after delivery of the placenta, control postpartum hemorrhage, and stimulate milk ejection.” Besides its characteristics related mostly to women and childbirth, new research published … Read entire article »
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Alcoholics Lack Empathy – Surprised?
Alcoholism can have disastrous results in blunting human emotion and expression. Whereas some view alcohol as the gateway to losing social inhibitions, there is also a strong case to be made that alcohol can also dampen our ability to comprehend true emotion and the expressions of those people with whom we interact. A new study was conducted testing alcoholics’ ability to express empathy and understand the concept of irony; two abilities usually greatly hindered by … Read entire article »
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Family Contact
I love my family but when I am using, I don’t talk to them much. I only focus on drugs, money, and girls. When I am clean I tend to talk to them a lot more due to the fact I have nothing to hide or keep a secret. My parents are not stupid; they know if I have been getting high. They live far away from me so I don’t see them much, mostly communicating via phone calls and texts. If I am clean I call them every week; if I am high I rarely call them unless I need something. I’m selfish when getting high and only care about myself and my needs. But when I have been clean in the past, I care a lot about my … Read entire article »
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The Pros and Cons of Dating Within the A.A. Program
When an individual in the A.A. program feels ready to date again, an issue arises that is common among A.A. members: Should you get involved with a fellow A.A. or find someone outside of the room? The issue is much debated and, of course, there are pros and cons on both sides. Being in a relationship with a fellow A.A. can have its benefits. Each partner will be a good influence on the other when it comes to attending meetings. If one shows up at a meeting, you can bet the other will be right alongside them. The most important reason why two A.A. members are good for one another is that each of them will understand where the other one is coming from when addiction and disease driven problems arise. … Read entire article »
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21st Century Addictions: Sex, Porn and Viagra
With sex addiction inching towards becoming an officially recognized mental disorder, it seems inevitable that subsets of the greater pathology of wanting it all the time will find their way into some future edition of the unholy bible of mental health, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (the fifth edition of which will be published in May 2013). Two of those subsets are already getting significant press coverage: Viagra addiction and porn addiction. If drug, alcohol, gambling and even food addiction have been mainstreamed in the last few decades—and the TLC series, My Strange Addiction, which features people addicted to household appliances, glass consumption, infantilism, exercise, make-up, laxatives, plastic surgery and roadkill collecting, has become a staple of reality programming—the likelihood is great that porn and Viagra addiction will … Read entire article »
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Sober Online Dating Websites: Fueling Happiness or Fire
Being a somewhat veteran now to the whole online dating scene I have had both good and bad experiences with it. Having seven and a half months sober, I’m realizing that I don’t want to be in a relationship with someone else from the program of Alcoholics Anonymous. I myself am sick in the mind, with an obsession of the mind, and I’d rather not have a relationship with someone else, also as sick as I am. I just prefer obtaining and having a relationship with a “normie”, someone who drinks socially or on occasion. Even though I see it all the time in A.A. meetings, I don’t think two alcoholics would be a good match for each other, which brings me to my main point of this article, online … Read entire article »
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Insecurities Are a Toxic Waste for the Mind
“Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen. There’s this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything” – Canadian actress Molly Parker. For the last decade I have tried to be the director of every romantic situation that happened to me in my life. From the start of what I thought would become wonderful and happy relationships to their heartbreaking conclusions, I have experienced a collection of insecurities, mostly in the field of dating and encounters with women. I guess I will start with the story of my first relationship and how it affected my previously healthy (or so I thought) sense of security. When I was just thirteen years-old, I met a beautiful girl at a school dance, … Read entire article »
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Heroin(e)
The occult and analogous symbolism between the words “heroin” and “heroine,” with respect to their unique definitions, has always been one of my many linguistic muses. I may have been born with a life-long desire to find a woman whom I could love, find inspiration in, disappear into, and form a symbiotic romance that would be so furiously intense, sickeningly raw, and positively violent that it would sends the gods of love into an uproar. Upon … Read entire article »
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