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    Yes You Can!: If You Really Want To
    Yes You Can!: If You Really Want To
    Yes You Can!: If You Really Want To
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    Yes You Can!: If You Really Want To

    By B. H. Richberg MA MFT

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    The Brain is Your Center of Control

    You Can Prevent Addiction!

    You Can be Free of Drug Dependency!

    You Can REBUILD YOUR FOUNDATION!
     

    http://yesyoucan23.com

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilliam Richburgh
    Release dateFeb 4, 2019
    ISBN9781535602945
    Yes You Can!: If You Really Want To
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    B. H. Richberg MA MFT

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      Yes You Can! - B. H. Richberg MA MFT

      Section One

      Four Letters that can Change a Nation

      A Common Sense Approach to Prevent

      Drug Addiction and Dependency

      This book WILL save your life, period.

      Easy read, easy applications,

      powerful solutions!

      There is something you can do to prevent drugs from taking over your city, your state,

      your country, and one thing to totally destroy it.

      1. Do something.

      2. Do nothing.

      How long will you sleep, America?

      Do you even care?

      When will you wake up and take the blinders off of your eyes?

      When this country is totally

      dependent on drugs there will be no sleep

      In order to rid the country of the problem, people have to put away their differences and come together as a nation and focus on national healing and balance.

      A Common Sense Lesson from Nature

      The Reaper

      Using drugs is like walking into the unknown—each trip can be your last.

      Insidious

      What’s waiting for you from within? Are you willing to take that chance?

      Will you return the same? Will you return at all!

      DESTROYER

      SHORT TERM EUPHORIA

      Long Term Brain Damage

      Dependency

      A Lonely Road To Destruction

      Demoralizing

      What Happens to Us When We do Drugs

      I’ve talked to many people in counseling sessions about the varied reasons they’ve gotten involved in the life of drugs, and the role drugs played in their lives.— Money of course played a large part to the distributors but the four main reasons were stress, low self-esteem, anger, and just plain yes to using and being involved. I call it the SLAY syndrome: Stress, Low Self-Esteem, Anger, and Yes to Drug Use. Drug use can slay us spiritually and physically. Let’s look at the four areas of SLAY.

      Stress

      A lot of factors can cause stress. We can use drugs because we’re stressed, or we can become stressed because of drug use and addiction. A lot of people I’ve polled report becoming stressed because of relationship issues, or not having enough money. So they use alcohol or sell and use drugs to ease the pain or fill an empty void or both. Of course after you become addicted or get caught by law enforcement, there will be additional stress, greater pain, an emptier void, and an empty wallet. Change and societal factors can cause stress. Maybe change is hard to deal with because of a failed relationship, loss of a loved one, loss of employment, lack of education, or a variety of other factors. We all have to face changes in life and we deal with those changes differently.

      Too often some believe the best way to deal with difficult change is to drown their sorrows and dull their senses with drugs and alcohol. We can become pleasers or beat up on ourselves. We make ourselves sick trying to deal with stress, not realizing that stress can become very dangerous if not managed properly. Such dangers are vulnerability to other diseases due to lack of sleep and improper nourishment, which weakens our immune systems. A bad environment without positive outlets can cause emotional pain and lead to drug use, adding even more stress to our lives.

      Because of this you can feel trapped and develop all-or-nothing thinking, which can result in failure. Failure can lead to feeling sorry for yourself and using sorrow as an excuse to use drugs. Once you feel stuck, you can over generalize, encounter sleepless nights and grapple with pessimistic thinking. Once a person develops an addiction, especially if they are uneducated, they can develop an I would have, I should have, Maybe I could do this if I had a chance attitude. The results can be unrealistic expectations, trying to make up for what could have been. When this person fails they become even more stressed and fail to make the effort of the first step (See Kaj’s First Step to Overcoming Addiction, on page 87). Stress accompanied by drug use can result in changes in eating habits and you can become unhealthy, adding to present problems of abuse and addiction. Now that individual becomes prone to accidents, insomnia, illness, and more.

      At this point our emotions take over and we develop difficulty concentrating. We can become short tempered, depressed, develop anxiety, suffer from auditory and visual hallucinations, and overreact to the simplest situations. We sometimes withdraw and the result is drug abuse and addiction with the risk of dependency and overdosing.

      Low Self-Esteem

      Anytime you keep company with negative, overpowering, and aggressive people, you risk the chance of developing low self-esteem. You can end up using drugs because of peer pressure and take your problems out on family and friends. If those family and friends have empty voids and are users, it is a strong possibility that you too can become a user as well. You may also find yourself putting the needs of your associates above your own. The results: Often more drug use, unsafe behavior, and pity parties. At this point, the drug user no longer accepts himself or herself. They can’t stop the negative thinking, which can result in a loss of faith in themselves or in God.

      When you think less of yourself, you have difficulty reaching goals and blame others for your problems. Instead of feeling sorry for yourself, take the first step (Effort). Stop the drug use and begin working on your self-image. Start working on your body image from the inside out and develop positive affirmations. The worst thing you can do is procrastinate: I can easily kick the habit, you may tell yourself. I need more time, I don’t have the strength, or classic denial: I don’t have a drug problem. We must stop fooling ourselves with denial and face up to the fact that we are abusers, addicted, or dependent on drugs. What is there to gain by killing yourself? It might rid you of your misery and addiction, but what about the ones you leave behind? It’s not all about you.

      Anger

      As mentioned in the Stress section, we become stressed and use drugs, or we use drugs and become stressed. Anger can work the same way. We can get angry about the economy and life situations, and use as a result. We get angry because our life is falling apart due to drug use. Now we are angry

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