LadyPact
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I'm going to suck at the quotes, so if I screw it up, it's my bad quote:
ORIGINAL: Marini quote:
ORIGINAL: JVoV Well, only a doctor can diagnose a medical or mental condition. Until the poor are given appropriate access to mental health providers, how can they be diagnosed, much less treated? I believe this is incorrect. Of the thousands of folks sitting at AA meetings this weekend, how many of them are there on a doctor's referral? quote:
The poor also lack the best lawyers available when they're on trial, and they get one, not a full team with the resources of major firms behind them to pull rabbits out of hats. In my opinion, the whole job of a defense attorney is to try to get the client a not guilty verdict. In lieu of that, the next best thing is 'smallest sentence possible'. Try to keep the client out of jail quote:
Also, I don't think anyone here is qualified to state what treatments work, what treatments do not work. OK. I'm not qualified. I have two questions for you: How many recovering alcoholics do you know? It's probably at least a few. As opposed to how many recovering sex addicts do you know? If you know any, you can probably count them on one hand and still have fingers left over. Unless, of course, you are in the field. quote:
Addiction of any type is a mental health issue, and I am not sure why it is being picked apart more than the other mental health addictions. Nope, nope, and more nope. I tend to believe that, unless a person is so ill that they honestly don't know right from wrong, they are accountable. I am the LAST person you will ever see on this board excusing an alcoholic for ramming into another car. Random person A wants to get high? I don't care. Right up until they make another person a victim of a crime because they were "chasing the dragon". quote:
What is the overall "cure" rate for any addiction? {drugs legal and illegal, alcohol, sex, gambling, over eating, smoking, etc.} Sex addicts don't seem to be doing well on the scorecard. I didn't cherry pick, but a quick turn on google gave an estimated 5%. (It's actually worse than I thought it was.) For what it's worth, I tend to separate addictions to food and sex differently than other types of addictions. To take alcohol as an example, a person can abdicate from drinking without it being necessary to life. Can't really do that about food, and most people consider sex as an essential part to a healthy life. quote:
I wonder why some people feel like they can judge some issues over other issues? It's because I believe in choices. The whole concept of, even in addiction, people do know right from wrong. I've done a lot of wrong sh^t in my life. When I did this thing or that thing? I knew what I was doing. Like it or not, unless a person really is mentally incompetent, they do, too. quote:
Anyway there are some great treatment programs, it is interesting sex addiction centers also treat: Compulsive masturbation Multiple affairs Anonymous sex Obsessive dating Compulsive use of pornography Risky or unsafe sex Cybersex Exhibitionism Voyeurism Prostitution or use of prostitutes Recovery Ranch- sex addiction Thank you! Thank you for posting that! Yet, Weinstein had to flee to Europe for "treatment". Maybe Spacey will find a nice treatment center in Bermuda. (I hear extradition is a b^tch from there.) quote:
Another thing I don't see being mentioned is the LONG list of actors/directors/entertainment folks being accused, including Dustin Hoffman. Really? I must have missed the articles from the two (former) 14 year olds that were published in the last week saying Dustin Hoffman sexually molested them. quote:
This issue is widespread and pervasive, it also is not limited to celebrities. Well, at least we agree on something. quote:
It has been covered up for a long time, and I hope in the future we see "less" cover ups. For what it's worth, I hope that, too.
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