thomas11

Mike, you have a worldwide team of support behind you to get help. Unfortunately it is not the first time. At this point, I think you need to step away from SR, internet, Eminem, neighbors, and hookers, and put on your sobriety armor, enter rehab, and get yourself straightened out. You've got to take care of YOU. If I remember correctly, you are 34, you've got a lot to salvage. I wish you the very best.

thomas11

Mike, eminem is a human being, not a "god". he is a professional musician, just like a professional painter, mechanic or anything else. He reaches people through media, it makes him wealthy and famous. He "raps" about emotional hotbuttons that makes him and his label $$. I know you may not realize that, but everything is about commercialism and money. You of all people should understand that as you come from a family of money. Good for you, but at the end of the day, commercialism controls a large amount of the economy....in every country.

MikeM

I've been a fan for 16 years. Followed everything. Interviews, everything.

I know when someone is bs'ing or not. He's being real. Sure I know the business side too. But the lyrics and music are straight from him.

He's not a god. He's an inspiration to me. He went through heavy addiction and he beat it.

thomas11

Pretend you are Eminem and beat your addiction.

tomsteve

he did it by getting his ass into action and going to rehab. worked his ass of changing himself.

so if hes an inspiration, do what he did.

Bunny211

You know when I got clean and sober? When I was out of ideas. I was out of options. There was nothing LEFT for me to do but get sober and stay sober.

Stop creating ideas of hospitals, mental wards, more medications, less medications, more rest and sleep, less rest and sleep, visiting family, not visiting family etc. and go to inpatient rehab as a FIRST STEP. That is not the end all right there. While in rehab, choose a path to recovery - SMART, LifeRing, AA, NA, Therapy etc. and then as soon as you leave rehab get down to hard work of staying sober. At first it needs to be an all day, every day thing. As soon as my @ss cleared the threshold of rehab I went to an AA meeting. I got a sponsor that first week. I did whatever she told me to do. I sat in 3 meetings a day sometimes because I was not working and I knew being alone in my head was dangerous. Until I got a job I spent my days occupied....meetings, walking to get fresh air, printing off resumes and looking for jobs, going to church, calling my sponsor, coffee dates with other sober women etc.

Lasting sobriety, at first, is an all consuming, full-time JOB. I wish there was an easier "softer" way but there is not. I pray that you go to rehab and start making sobriety your #1 priority.

ladyboo

very well said, Bunny!