CELEBRITY ADDICTION: Reznor Sober | Nine Inch nails

i like nine inch nails. in fact i felt as if Trent Reznor was like a musical Picasso in his work. more and more musicians are seeing the light of being clean. again it points to the cycle of pain, masked by drugs, covered in shame, loss of ability, mask it with more drugs, inward failure when outwardly it appears to be ok. nothing but pure, clean living without drugs,alcohol or substance can give clarity. 

"I can see now with pretty much crystal clear clarity that that aspect had governed my life. I had made writing out to be a terrifying prospect filled with pain and failure and some things that I dreaded doing because I’ve always lacked self-confidence and every other thing," he said, while on tour in Europe. "By the end of my run with drugs I’d also realized that my brain wasn’t functioning right and I’d lost the power to really concentrate – it really made my art suffer, which made me feel worse, which made me want to get high and you know, that cycle starts up."

Source: TuneLab Music

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Source: TuneLab Music

CELEBRITY ADDICTION: Metallica - Sobriety now..

wake the world up with your message james. 

begin with all the garage bands right to the top. we are losing our children, the new talents of the world to the disEASE of drugs... 

Nothing Else Matters!

Hetfield began his speech asking for a moment of silence "for the people who didn't make it, that aren't with us, who could be and I think should be." He recounted the old saw that "dying is easy, living is hard," and offered his own recovery as proof that addiction is survivable. Tom Waits congratulated Hetfield, saying "getting sober's not for sissies."

Five years ago, things were different, he recalled, expressing gratitude to the award-winning documentary "Some Kind of Monster," which depicted Metallica's virtual dissolution as Hetfield began a lengthy rehabilitation to treat drug and alcohol abuse.

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Original Posted By Dean Goodman on Red Orbit, LOS ANGELES (Reuters) Saturday, 13 May 2006

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Five years ago, things were different, he recalled, expressing gratitude to the award-winning documentary "Some Kind of Monster," which depicted Metallica's virtual dissolution as Hetfield began a lengthy rehabilitation to treat drug and alcohol abuse.

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Original Posted By Dean Goodman on Red Orbit, LOS ANGELES (Reuters) Saturday, 13 May 2006

CELEBRITY ADDICTION: David Duchovny

David Duchovny's sex disorder likened to alcoholism. 

Here's the deal. I just read this article 

I admire the fact that he admitted his problem and is getting help. even after stating this:

"I'm not a sex addict," Duchovny told Playgirl magazine in a 1997 interview. "I have never been to those meetings. It's hurtful to my family and if I was involved with a woman in a monogamous relationship, it would be hurtful to her."

DENIAL. First sign that something is wrong. Shame. Hiding.

The ...ISM's: 

Often likened to alcoholism, drug addiction or gambling, sex addiction is a form of compulsive behavior which is sending growing numbers of people into therapy but which is not formally recognized as a "diagnosable disorder" by the American Psychiatric Association...."There are a lot of people who are critical of the concept because we live in a society that tends to over medicalize and which makes every behavior, which deviates from the norm, an addiction or a disorder," Eichel said. (Dr. Steve Eichel, an addiction specialist who works in Delaware)

LOVE is still the answer. Love with guidelines. (see bottom of post)

WHAT'S THE NORM? Let's review history. Back to the garden. Back to the stone commandments. The 10 Commandments cover anything, anyone can come up with to be classified as an addiction. 

The Answers:

And God spoke all these words, saying: 'I am the LORD your God… 

The Ten Commandments:

1. ONE:  You shall have no other gods before Me. 
2. TWO:  You shall not make for yourself a carved image--any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
3. THREE:  You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain. 
4. FOUR:  Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 
5. FIVE: Honor your father and your mother. 
6. SIX: You shall not murder.
7. SEVEN: You shall not commit adultery. 
8. EIGHT: You shall not steal. 
9. NINE: You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. 
10. TEN: You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.

Jesus summed it up: 

"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments" (Matthew 22:36-40)

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CELEBRITY ADDICTION: Fallen Stars of Club 27

CLUB 27

The most notable names of musicians who died at 27 on this list are:

Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison, Kurt Cuban

It's astonishing to read the list list of 100's of historical figures or celebrities, musicians who died by alcohol or drug related deaths.

Some interesting celebrities included: 

• Sigmund Freud/cocaine
• Ken Caminiti (Major League Baseball) Cocaine
• Max Cantor (journalist) became an addict while researching addicts
• Tommy Dorsey (bandleader) drugs
• Bobby Hatfield (Righteous Brothers) cocaine
• Frank X. Leyendecker (Illustrator/artist) drugs
• Aimee Semple McPherson (Evangelist) prescription barbiturates
• Jackson Pollock (painter) alcohol related accident

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CELEBRITY ADDICTION: Mackenzie Phillips

Yet another star with roots in 60's rock n' roll falls to stardust. 

Perhaps she never had a chance with the reports about her childhood, if you could even call it that. Isn't it ironic that the TV show that made her popular is called One Day at a Time? This phrase is something most addicts live by just to get through a day. How would you survive the following? 

Phillips has said :

"she started using marijuana and LSD when she was 12. Her father showed her how to shoot up when she was 18."

Her friend and co-star Valerie Bertinelli, herself a reformed addict, has come to Mackenzie's defense stating,

"she needs love not judgment."

I do hope Mackenzie finds love and heals her soul. someone needs to share truth and love with her, in fact fill her with it until her pain is transformed into forgiveness. I heard those words coming from my own lips as I was speaking to a friend recently about addiction. I believe it to be truth. in truth, love is the only answer or cure to "sin" or addiction. created as we are, our deepest need is love, acceptance and enduring. 

in a previous post called the patterns we form I wrote about the cycle of family patterns, how addicts beget addicts or co-dependents who hook up with more addicts and co-dependents. to me it's the same pattern since the Garden of Eden when the serpent tempted Eve, she tempted Adam, they both were ashamed, fell from grace and had Cain & Able. Cain killed Able was ashamed and tried to hide, yet was only banished when found out. History never quite gets better, but reveals this chronic pendulum swing from wicked to trying to good and back again. the sins of the fathers following up to 40 generations. so here we are...

the questions to us all: 

Why are drugs/substance/sex abuse the muse and downfall of many musicians, artists and actors? 

How are we to love others enough to stop the insanity of addiction?

WHEN WILL I BE THE ONE TO BREAK THIS PATTERN AN MAKE A NEW ONE?

NOTE: MacKenzie is now Sober after going through Dr Drew's Rehap for Celebrties. Read here

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