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Breaking Free

God wants you to overcome your destructive behaviors. Encouragement can help.

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  • by Sarah Blackston
Being dependent on another person for your emotional well-being isn't a healthy way to live.
  • by Elissa Kroeger
Having a parent or loved one with schizophrenia or other mental illnesses presents unique challenges.
  • by Michael D Summey
If someone in your family has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, then you know that it impacts each member of the family! This is especially true if the person with the diagnosis lives with you.
  • by Michael D Summey
It is not as portrayed in entertainment media, here is a look at the real story.
  • by Elissa Kroeger
In my journey along the road to recovery from a crazy childhood, I learned about an interesting idea called "re-parenting ourselves." What that means is that those of us who had less than ideal family situations when we were children are not trapped by the negative things we learned from our original families. The idea is we can choose someone we think of as a good role model and put that person...
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  • by Ace Cockrell
Today autism is the biggest and fastest-growing mental disorder in the world. In the last decade, the U.S. population has increased by 13 percent. Autism alone in the last decade has increased 173 percent. Such a dramatic increase makes it imperative we have some understanding of what autism is.
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  • by Anonymous Author
I have been battling what I thought was a weight problem for a long, long time. I've finally come to realize it's a spiritual, thinking and acting problem.
  • by Anonymous Author
That probably sounds ridiculous, even ludicrous. And it is. But having had anorexia nervosa, my "best friend" was once the scale. The numbers on the scale don't rule all my thoughts as they once did, but I could probably still tell you the approximate caloric value of most foods I consume.
  • by Anonymous Author
July 18, 1988: "I have to do something about myself and quick. It's getting very hard to breathe. I have no energy. I hate myself. I always feel sick, and I'm so skinny that my stomach sinks in and I can see my heart pumping and my stomach working. I'm really scared now. What if my potassium drops? Then my heart will quit and I'll die. I sure hope I don't start hating myself again because I'm...
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  • by Anonymous Author
This is a question that I have meditated on for a long time. Of course, I know throughout our converted lives we ask why God called us. We understand that He calls the weak and the base of this world (1 Corinthians 1:27-29), so we know that we are not perfect. However, we strive to be. The Bible says: "Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect" (Matthew 5:48).
  • by Larry Walker
Alcoholism results in the deaths of over 100,000 people a year in the United States alone. Alcohol is also involved in 30 percent of suicides, 55 percent of auto fatalities, 65 percent of deaths by drowning and a staggering 85 percent of domestic violence. Direct and indirect costs of alcohol abuse are estimated at well over a billion dollars a year. Half of this figure is paid by industry in...
  • by Janet Hendershot
Jeff Foxworthy has a routine that goes, "If your porch falls down and kills four of your five dogs, you might be a redneck."
  • by Larry Walker, Glen White
In the previous article the topic of alcoholism was introduced by showing the need for learning more about this widespread problem. Let us now seek to understand the nature of alcoholism and how it differs from alcohol abuse.