Submitted by vegetablelollipop on Sat, 07/09/2011 - 12:48pm.
Dear Dlisted Community:
As a lifelong recovering addict who has commented on many blogs while high (can't you tell?) I have always been fascinated by getting in-patient detox or radical readjustment (my term) at one of the topnotch, chic addiction centers across the world: I'm talking about the ones where just going there makes you feel like you're going to do the head-spin like Linda Blair in the Exorcist. (My cunt runneth over, I know, I know...I won't be long this morning, congregation.)
Well, folks, The Betty Ford Center is like even higher than the top for me in terms of treatment centers. It's like being sized down by one of those cartoon shrink rays and then entering into the utterly calming, corrective mind of Betty Ford herself. I live for this image of Betty Ford. May my girl rest in peace!
PS: In North Korea (where my family hails) it used to be that if you had mental illness, were an addict, or were otherwise disordered, you were simply incarcerated. So let's thank the atheist power horders for American treatment for addiction!
Your faithful commentwat
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Veggie - I hope you don't mind that I copied and pasted your comment, but I was so moved by it, I thought it deserved repeating.
I come from a family with multiple mental health/substance abuse issues and I know how hard the struggle is. I love Betty Ford not only because she brought attention to the disease that is substance abuse, but because she also brought attention to the destruction that this insidious illness brings to "NORMAL" families (whatever that means). No one is immune to it, and no one is deserving of it. I hate the judgemental assholes who try to cast blame, when they have no idea of the pain that's involved in trying to deal with this illness.
I'm confident that Betty has been welcomed into the holiest circles in Heaven, not only because she had the courage to come forth with her own problems and lay them open to the world at a time when people judged illness as a moral weakness, but because she put every effort into trying to correct the problem. She could have chosen to live the life of a socialite, but she chose to expose her vulnerability to the world, and then work every day of the rest of her life to help cure it.
RIP Betty, there aren't many like you left in this world. And we're all the worse for it.
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"Look. Lets just cut to the chase. If you are so into me, then lets go to the bathroom, you can blow me and I can get back to my dinner." - The Piv
Source: http://dlisted.com/2011/07/09/rest-peace-betty-ford
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