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07-24-2007, 04:09 PM
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| getting stronger each day Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: canton, ohio
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| Lindsay Lohan
Ok, so I know that it's completely shallow to be interested in celebrity news, but sometimes we all need a good distraction. I look at this 21 year old who has gone through 2 rehabs, and hasn't even faced her court appearance on a previous DUI and now she's arrested for another DUI (she had a .12) and had cocaine in her pockets. All I have to say is WTF? I don't know whether to pity her for not having a childhood and turning out like this, or to wonder what the hell her problem is. Any thoughts?
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07-24-2007, 04:31 PM
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Actually, I was thinking about her today also. I really feel sorry for her. She obviously has a lot of problems...........but to expose pictures of her being high just makes me sick. I think that is so sad. I know she is a celebrity and all, but she has enough to deal with without exposing her. I'm not so sure she knows what her problem is............she is a sick girl. I am praying for her.
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07-24-2007, 04:31 PM
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07-24-2007, 05:42 PM
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I agree Margo. And, forgottenchild, you didn't mention Driving on a Suspended License. These spoiled, rich kids are just too much.
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07-24-2007, 10:06 PM
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| New things have come to light  Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Downtown Nashville , TN
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I would think her problem is, addiction. | |
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07-24-2007, 10:15 PM
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I didn't realize that it happened again... I feel badly for her. As for being a "spoiled rich kid" I don't believe she chose that circumstance for herself. I've found that many alcoholics/addicts continue until they're left with "nothing." If she has a lot of financial/legal sway and power she also has a longer way to fall in terms that she could support a habbit for a longer period than most. I coulnd't imagine how I would feel if the media broadcast images of me at my worst drunken moments. The depression after was enough pain. I truly feel badly for her...that's what I think anyway. |
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07-25-2007, 07:22 AM
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| Living in a Pinkful Place  Join Date: May 2006 Location: Louisiana
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like so many of the addicts in our lives - you can look back at a time before the disease took their lives. If you watch the remake of the movie "The Parent Trap" - wonder what happened to that innocent, sweet, looking little girl? A disease that is cunning, baffling and powerful.
__________________ ". . . let the understanding, love and peace of the program grow in you One Day at a Time." From the Al-Anon Suggested Closing It is very difficult to have a pity party when celebrating all the gratitude I have in my life! |
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07-25-2007, 09:22 AM
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| Just plainly tired  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: crossroads
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I am a little torn with this. A part of me doesn't feel bad for her... she could afford a driver if she knows she's gonna be drinking or even if she doesn't know she could afford a driver to take her any where. But then again I do feel bad for her because addiction is horrible and whipes out any sense you normally would have. As for the pictures I don't feel bad about that at all and I actually think its a good thing. Addiction is still hidden on TV and the news... it's always a hush hush thing and the stereotypes of people who have addiction. This is good for the kids to see such a pretty, succesful young woman also struggling with addiction. It lets the kids no that no one is invincible and that drugs and alcohol can affect everyone and anyone. I am sorry for Lindsey and pray that she overcomes her addictions. No one celebrity or not should have to face this type of life. Jewel
__________________ The thing we feel most guilty doing or the thing we hate to do the most is probably the right thing to do where the addict is concerned. It is the hardest thing of all to do. And if you don't know what to do .. then best to do nothing (safer ground). Thank you Passion |
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07-25-2007, 07:20 PM
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Just because you have money dosent mean you have to lose it to realize where you are going. | |
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07-25-2007, 09:48 PM
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Absolutely true, but I also think if repprecautions can sometimes be "softer" because of it when "looking back on it" one may say to themselves "that wasn't too bad"...what if she had gone to jail the first time? And when she got out had to get a job to pay her rent? I know money (I didn't work for) has helped me in ways to not face my problem with alcohol. I'm thankful but at the same time I was able to slip through some things I shouldn't have. ...also have almost pretty well gone through most of it because of drinking. |
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07-25-2007, 10:00 PM
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| getting stronger each day Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: canton, ohio
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i read an interview with daniel baldwin today, and he talked about his experiences which were strikingly similar to hers. he said that until he chose to go to rehab "without a gun to his head" there was no way he was gonna be serious about his life. it made me gain an immense respect for him, and i can only hope that she gets her life together before her lifestyle kills her. because nobody deserves to go out like that.
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07-26-2007, 08:07 PM
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I think we also forget her formative years were stunted by such an abnormal lifestyle. Yesmen surrounding her, everyone attending to her every whim; what child could handle all that; what adult could. I pray she finds the help she needs, right along with Britney Spears. She is another one that breaks my heart, especially for those two littel boys and their lost little girl of a mother.
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07-26-2007, 08:11 PM
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I feel for her. I'd rather have my life, living unemployment check to unemployment check, then her life/her family etc. I have empathy for anyone struggling with what I have struggled with. I've been noticing a lot of young people (OMG..I'm not that old am I?) in meetings and I admire them, and I'm jealous. I wish that I found the program when I was in my twenties.. I hope that she finds recovery.
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