Yeah, because if she doesn't . . .
Posted on 08/18/2013 9:41:08 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Weeks after finishing her sixth trip to rehab, actress Lindsay Lohan said in an interview broadcast on Sunday that she was an addict and realizes she needs "to shut up and listen" because her approach to dealing with personal problems had not worked.
"I'm my own worst enemy, and I know that and I admit it," Lohan, 27, told Oprah Winfrey in an interview on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN). She said she only realized she had a problem "over a period of time" rather than at any one moment.
Asked whether she was an addict, Lohan replied "Yeah," adding that her drug of choice was alcohol, which she said had been a "gateway to other things."
(Excerpt) Read more at movies.yahoo.com ...
Yeah, because if she doesn't . . .
But according to Hollywood’s products drugs are glamorous.
When they asking for leniency they said she was a role model for yutes
Good for her. I hope she sticks to it.
No doubt everything will turn our just dandy since okra is on the case.
I really hope that she will overcome her addiction.
Perhaps soon she will again be insurable... she can’t get work because no one wants to insure her. If she is contracted to play a part in a major production insurance is an absolute necessity. Without insurance a production could become a total loss if she relapsed.
I doubt she has the cash to self-insure.
Robert Downey Jr had the same problems with addiction and insurance.
That’s very interesting...thanks for posting that info.
Pleased to do it! The problem with the Sinclair Method is that U.S. docs won’t touch it with a pole since in order to work, the addict *continues* to drink, but takes the medication every time he/she drinks. The medication eventually “calms down” the addiction to a dull roar. Some people continue to drink socially (with one or two drinks in an evening, instead of two bottles) but many people go the whole way and just quit drinking because the physical pull has been negated. The problem is that it would require physicians to tell their patients to continue to drink, and of course who gets sued if the patient kills someone on the road in the meantime? There is a very good book on the method titled “The Sinclair Method” which goes into the whole thing in depth. As I said, it is widely used in Europe. Well worth looking into.
She’ll never be over Laz...
Po thing...
Yup. I wish her the best. But going on TV to tell the world makes me leary of her intentions.
Her life, her choices.
Just par for the course if you are a celebrity. If you had a public meltdown, you have to have the public mea culpa, so you can redeem your character arc.
I was surfing the other night and came across Lohan subbing for Chelsea Lately. Lindsey was very funny and comfortable. She’d do well with a talk show. She also kicked butt playing Liz Taylor.
Some background music from Mr. Ray Davies:
“And those who are successful,
Be always on your guard,
Success walks hand in hand with failure
Along Hollywood Boulevard.”
- ‘Celluloid Heroes’
There are US providers. Here's a FL one. http://www.sinclairmethod.com/index_files/Page442.htm
Also ran across this anti-SM screed by a 12-step group. While they claim to have an open mind, their essay proves they absolutely don't. Their criticism of SM is based not on studies showing it doesn't work, but on demonstrating that AM violates 12-step dogma on addiction, which supposedly means that it inherently cannot work.
http://www.originsrecovery.com/what-about-the-sinclair-metho/
I thought this "critical analysis" was a truly classic example of a closed mind at work, one unaware that it is closed. Not surprising, since 12-step shares many features of a religion. (One of the reasons it sometimes works.)
Perhaps their best song....although “Catch Me Now I’m Falling” rings true today.
Of course, “O” is God and Okra is his disciple!! :)
Nice!
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