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Sun flames and moons glow, timeless the tides will flow, what will I face, what will be mine, fortune and fate the other side...

Contrary To What Frodders Says, I Am STILL A Member Of Our Church.

Tough love doesnt have anything to do with ridiculing,.. it has everything to do with pushing the person your trying to help into accountability.

So many people try the tuff love approach without understanding how it works,.. they usualy vent their anger regarding the issue and wind up doing more harm than good.

I'm not going to say that screamming in someones face to get a grip or telling them to "look at yourself,.. are you stupid?" has never worked, because I have seen it,.. but its in a very structured situation, and done under watchful eyes with years of experience.

However,.. it is avoided pretty much at all cost because its a last ditch effort to reach people in denial. You never know how its going to turn out. But you never, can I put a little more attention on this,.. NEVER use it on sombody who is unstable or depressed!
Another point is that if you use such a tool, it is critical to have a supportive network under the person.

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I can understand why people say "God bless America",.. what I cannot grasp is why he should.

...and not enabling that person....

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You might be a liberal if.....

You think that consenting adults can engage freely in every activity except capitalism.
If you think the answer to ANY crime, infraction, or injustice is counseling.
If you use the words "right wing extremist" at least four times in any given day.
You live in constant fear that someone, somewhere, is making a profit.

When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. -Benjamin Franklin

Having worked in gastroenterology for five years (as I said before) gastritis is pretty much a non-specific inflammation that could be caused by anything. It's not particularly serious and about 70% of people have it in one form or another, whether symptomatic or not. It's not really a single disease, but more of a word used to describe gastrointestinal symptoms that don't have a known cause.

Actually, it is NOT caused by alcohol consumption, but can be worsened by use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatories or the wrong types of foods.

It's usually treated with over-the-counter antacids.

It's very common and quite manageable.

I think that perhaps it has led to a secondary illness with you because there's no way that simple gastritis could cause the symptoms you are talking about.

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We've got rules and maps and guns in our backs, but we still can't just behave ourselves. Even if to save our own lives, we are a brutal kind. The Shins

Couldn't you then drastically change what it is you eat- say eliminate a type of food one at a time for however long to see if anything changes? Chesby is there a time range where you could expect the lining to repair?

We live in N California about 150 miles North of SF. Its a small town of 45,000 We are 45 minutes from the coast. The ocean when calm enough to dive or fish is loaded with crabs abalone rockfish and urchins for my Japenesse and Greek friends. I stop and get wild mushrooms on the way home, the eating kind. lol
We also have a lake 5 minutes form our house and i can walk down to the river and catch Salmon and steelhead.
And this is a great town, we have it all from liberals to conseratives to a Buddist temple that is run and for Buddists from Tawain. It has a great private school where my kids go. They are tought by Tawainese buddist nuns and monks and learn chineese. All my kids are fluent. They love to go with me to the store and when they see a nun from the school they stop and start talking in Chineese to them. It floors the locals to see all american white red headed kids speaking Chineese. I mean stop stare mouth open response!!!! lmao.
And vineyards are then main industry. Really pretty place to live.

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Robbing Peter to pay Paul will always have the support of Paul. The locusts have desended on Washington.

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The woman in my avatar is Cristina Scabbia and the woman in my profile picture is Tarja Turunen
Sun flames and moons glow, timeless the tides will flow, what will I face, what will be mine, fortune and fate the other side...

Contrary To What Frodders Says, I Am STILL A Member Of Our Church.

Sounds to me like it is also possible that it could be caused by deep seated neurosis causing a nervous condition.

sorry, I'm just a hateful person.

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Well here is the way to be healthy. Wife wants to have some freinds over for a fresh crab dinner. So after a breakfast of whole wheat bagel with Fat free cream cheese and smoked salmon, salmon i caught last year and smoked for my breakfast, I am off to the ocean for a 3 to 3 hour dive to get 10 crabs. Apples and bananas on the way back.
I tell ya wives are so demanding, go dive and bring home dinner!!!!! lol ya its a rough life, she also demands after 20 years of housewife that she make the money and i take care of the kids!

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Robbing Peter to pay Paul will always have the support of Paul. The locusts have desended on Washington.