Does Lithium Cause Tooth Decay?

I have decided to become an aclu attorney.

It's strange how the mean, dark, prejudice people spin me manic, while the rational, educated people make me feel I can deal with life and my mental health disorder.
I think that it's important for people to keep logs and diaries of what they go through. When I first was hospitalized they did not hand out journals in the mental hospitals to patients. Now it is common place. This is as much to record feelings and growth as it is a legal journal.
I believe a writing component to the agencies who assist those with mental health disorders would be useful.
The classes for writing could be offered as follows:
WRAP: step one: write a wellness recovery action plan
Step two: blog, this creates an online legal web log/journal
Step three: facebook, this is basically an online autobiography, recording your daily thoughts and feelings.
All people with mental health diagnosis should write an autobiography. In fact, I think all people should make it their goal in their lifetime to write an autobiography.
People in old folks homes should be trained to write this way as well. Think of the treasure trove of historical dialogue we would be preserving for future generations!

Does lithium cause tooth decay? Bad oral hygiene and poor diet cause tooth decay. People who are poor and with mental health issues get early tooth decay. Everyone deserves to preserve their teeth!
Just as we deserve to preserve our oral history!

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rebuilding america one brain at a time!

Does Lithium Cause Tooth Decay?

Some people called me an angel because of what I am doing? I am on the road to recovery.
You would think that living in a location for three and a half years would finally let me get more of a sense of cohesiveness in my living situation.
Where do I live? I live just south of Brooks, Oregon where is said to have the highest concentration of mental health disorders in the nation. Well, as this is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest territory, there is no surprise there.

An angel. In times of mania I have felt that I was an angel in my mania. Is this delusion?
So why did my friends call me an angel?

I want to write a grant to get people living places who are on social security and need a place to live in. People particularly from southern California can come up and get plugged in with the many mental health resources available in Salem. Make your own position.
September 26th-29th I am going to training to be a mentor with Project ABLE. ABLE stands for a better life experience.
I want to lead writing circles. The first step would be WRAP, wellness recovery action plan, the second step would be a web log group. The third step would be autobiographical novels perhaps? I could help lead these groups.
The groups would mesh: ABLE, STEP (skills training enhancement program/DBT) and ROCC (regional outreach community program), and NA. Narcotics anonymous because cigarettes contain nicotine, which is a narcotic and a high percentage of people with mental health diagnosis have an addiction to tobacco.
STEP offers tobacco and you and tobacco reduction, ABLE offers TIPS to end smoking, ROCC has nicotine anonymous meetings, SOS has NA groups.
With these groups I will definitely have the help I need with stopping tobacco.
The idea or thought is that of a higher power. All four groups: STEP, ABLE, ROCC and SOS should address the concept of working the steps. STEP and ABLE can bypass the spiritual component but only to a point. The steps are very important for a person who has a nicotine addiction to use and follow.

So what are the STEPS, or steps and traditions of NA? Marijuana is a narcotic and a medicine.

The Twelve Steps of Narcotics Anonymous

1. We admitted that we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. We humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Tomorrow I am beginning with Step One. Instead of a sponsor I have a mentor, Dale who has worked the steps.

The Twelve Traditions
of Narcotics Anonymous

1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends on NA unity.
2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority - a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
3. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using.
4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or NA as a whole.
5. Each group has but one primary purpose - to carry the message to the addict who still suffers.
6. An NA group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the NA name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, or prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
7. Every NA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
8. Narcotics Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
9. NA, as such, ought never be organized, but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
10. Narcotics Anonymous has no opinions on outside issues; hence the NA name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
11. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films.
12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.

Are the twelve steps and traditions of NA the same as those of nicotine anonymous or nicA?

The Twelve Steps of Nicotine Anonymous

We admitted we were powerless over nicotine – that our lives had become unmanageable. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to nicotine users and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

and the traditions:

The Twelve Traditions of Nicotine Anonymous

Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon Nicotine Anonymous unity. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority - a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern. The only requirement for Nicotine Anonymous membership is a desire to stop using nicotine. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or Nicotine Anonymous as a whole. Each group has but one primary purpose - to carry its message to the nicotine addict who still suffers. A Nicotine Anonymous group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the Nicotine Anonymous name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose. Every Nicotine Anonymous group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions. Nicotine Anonymous should remain forever non-professional, but our service centers may employ special workers. Nicotine Anonymous, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve. Nicotine Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the Nicotine Anonymous name ought never be drawn into public controversy. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, TV, and films. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.

Does Lithium Cause Tooth Decay?

I am feeling depressed today. When people are depressed they do not want to brush their teeth. I have not brushed my teeth yet this morning.
I do not want to go to my writer's circle. I do not want to go to sing with the choir.
So what did I do?
I called my mentor with Project ABLE, Dale. We spoke for eighteen minutes until we hung up.
I spoke with my boyfriend Steve. We are going to work on selling authority websites through todaysgrowthconsultant.com
I started smoking cigarettes a couple of days ago.
I am very upset about my daughter Rachel. I am long done with my niece so I am not worried about that...
Do you feel your depression?
Are you capable of charting your moods?
There should be some sort of online mood charting mechanism...it would be an easy application to facebook or emails.
I think that emails are better than facebook. Facebook has this automatic sort of manic quality to it. It's like, all of a sudden, people who I thought I'd never speak to again! wooaaaah. they are still out there!
But it really should move toward the private email.

I have a master's degree in educational administration, yet do I have anything?
This morning in my car, a thought came to me, "Amy, society desperately needs you. You are highly educated. You have something to offer."\
Then, the negative thought came about why do they keep prosecuting me? I hate living in Salem Asylum sometimes.
Well, I heard that the Oregon State Hospital got 700 new beds and that if you have a misdemeanor they cannot keep you longer than a few days now. Someone from ROCC< regional outreach community center told me that.
They need more connectivity between the ROCC, ABLE and STEP. I mean seriously, why has it taken me almost three years to begin to get a little bit more comfortable with agencies designed to help me out there.
These programs, by denying easy community link in, are obviously very ineffecicntly run.
I just applied for a consultative trainer in efficiency for Pacific Efficiency. And I do so enjoy working for todays growth consultant .com just still fishing for a salaried position. The average person searches for nine months to find one in this economy.

But people are still out there working are they not?
Those with unilateral hearing, fibromylagia, asthma, bipolar disorder and PTSD. Do you need us do you want us? The Office of Vocational Rehabilitation is taking over six months to even begin helping me find a job. Is that efficient?> They are claiming that people with disabilities make better employees because they are more motivated to stay with the job once they get hired because it was even that much more difficult for them to obtain.\
So by making us wait they prove their point....suffer little ones, suffer, we will release the light at the end of the tunnel after you've learned a few more lessons about how leprous you are for being disabled. ugh. excuse my negative slant.\
And I have such a negative outlook today. Because I am depressed...
I like my new boyfriend though.