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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Thursday, February 07, 2008 - 6:20 pm
Legal drugs are all stamped with identification.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, February 07, 2008 - 7:08 pm
PDR, Twinkie. Physician's Desk Reference. We used to have to look up unknown pills in it.
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Konamouse
Member
07-16-2001
| Thursday, February 07, 2008 - 8:30 pm
Looks like Cher is going to be the new show for THREE years! Yahoo Story
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Thursday, February 07, 2008 - 8:32 pm
I have seen Cher in concert twice. She is phenomenal!
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Sharinia
Member
09-07-2002
| Thursday, February 07, 2008 - 8:34 pm
very cool. i've never seen cher in concert but hubby & i have always loved her
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Thursday, February 07, 2008 - 8:45 pm
Beth4freedom, what is hoarding disorder? You can pm me if you'd like or go to my folder.
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Thursday, February 07, 2008 - 8:56 pm
You can't throw anything away, obsessively keeping everything you buy or find. My sister is so like that, it's terrible. She can't stop. They say it is an unconscious reaction to the fear of being poor. some info Britney story now on Anderson 360--going mainstream with that whole saga.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Thursday, February 07, 2008 - 9:20 pm
I love Cher and want to go see her!! Maybe later this year!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, February 07, 2008 - 9:39 pm
Hehe, when mom was in nursing school and used the PDR, I used to love looking through it (keep in mind I was probably about 7-8 at the time) all the pills were so pretty and colorful!
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Thursday, February 07, 2008 - 10:27 pm
Yeah, we have a PDR here at home. I just never thought about the cops having one on them. <shrug>
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Thursday, February 07, 2008 - 10:30 pm
A lot of places are installing computers in their law enforcement vehicles. They could just look the pill up on the internet.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, February 07, 2008 - 11:16 pm
If the pills are not generic, some are pretty recongizable...
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Beth4freedom
Member
10-24-2003
| Thursday, February 07, 2008 - 11:32 pm
Thanks, Hukdonreality, for the transcript of Delta Burke's phone interview, short though it was. Re Chiliwilli's question re hoarding disorder, http://www.squalorsurvivors.com/squalor/hoarding.shtml IS a good resource to learn about it. (Thanks, Nyheat) Also my own website at www.clutterworkshop.com has before and after photos. It's a very complex issue, which medication has so far NOT been shown to help, and has a multitude of causes, both genetic and environmental. I have been busy writing articles with themes of "releasing the shame", and "dealing with grief", and "resisting the temptation of acquiring stuff." Basically, it's like a squirrel gathering too many nuts, until it fills their tree and they have no place to live anymore. I would love to send a note to Delta Burke, praising her courage in going public. Does she have a website or any kind of mailing address?
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Thursday, February 07, 2008 - 11:42 pm
Once it's mine, it's mine forever. I must have that disorder. I haven't read the website yet but I will. Is it hereditary? I think my mother and her mother had it too. I have an especially hard time giving up certain types of things, like books. But then if you come to my house and admire a vase or knick knack type thing, I will give it to you easily and love that you will have it in your home. Is that strange? Getting rid of stuff is very emotional.
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Friday, February 08, 2008 - 8:21 am
I prefer to call myself a collector. I think those of us who like to hang onto our stuff, but not to the disabling extremes of a horder are collectors. I still have some childhood toys. Some I've given to DD to play with. I don't think she's that interested in them. I've noticed she's a collector too. I have to catch her in just the right mood if I want her to give some old toys to charity. She says she loves them all and wants to keep them forever. I also have to be in the right mood to purge the closet of clothes I never wear or get rid of other junk I haven't used in a while.
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Biloxibelle
Member
12-21-2001
| Friday, February 08, 2008 - 9:25 am
I am glad to see Delta Burke speaking out. I watched my husbands aunt live with hoarding. It really is awful. It wasn't just things either it was stuff, string, she would cut off postmarked stamps, scraps of paper anything and everything. She lived in a 5 bedroom/4 bath house. You had to walk a path around boxes. Only one bathroom was usable as all the others were full of soaps, shampoos, toothpaste, deodorant, hairspray, shaving cream, brushes, combs all that stuff, including the tubs. She sold that house and moved to a 3 bedroom. She is unable to live in it. It is full, not even a pathway. She lives with her nephew now. On a lighter note I am so happy to see Cher is back. I went to one of farewell tour concerts and was by large one of the best concerts I have ever seen.
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Stacey718995
Member
07-06-2007
| Friday, February 08, 2008 - 10:04 am
I am the opposite, I throw everything away, almost as unhealthy. I can't stand clutter, so I throw stuff out that I should keep to use again to save money or something to hold onto for memories. I don't know if this is a true issue or a name, but it effects my life. My gramma is a hoarder, it is hard for me to be around it honestly. I feel for anyone that has any thing to extremes.
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Friday, February 08, 2008 - 10:09 am
I'm somewhere in the middle with the hoarding. I amassed a lot of stuff while moving quite a bit and attending different schools, so it snowballed into a lot of useless crap. I was very ambitious this summer and threw out a lot of stuff. I live in a tiny apt and have to squeeze everything into a room and a half. I stalled out on cleaning when I got the computer. Coincidence? I think not!
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Friday, February 08, 2008 - 11:42 am
Nyheat, I'm like you. I keep stuff in "eras". I kept about 8 years of school binders, notes, books, etc. Finally, just a month ago, I was like "I have never ONCE gone back and read those notes" so I threw the papers all in the recycling, and the books I am looking to either give to a high school or public library, or to some sort of charity. I have to be in the right mood to purge stuff out of my life, but my daily life is not spent preoccupied with keeping anything and everything. I'm pretty sure my neighbor is a hoarder.
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Friday, February 08, 2008 - 11:52 am
I've told this story several times. A friend of my mother's had to clean out her mother's house after she died. The ceiling of the top floor was caving in from the weight of all the stuff (mainly newspapers) in the attic. She wanted to hire a company to come in, but when she started looking through things, she found money. A $20 here, a few $100 there, tucked in old girdle boxes, in magazines, and yes, the sugar jar. She had to go through every scrap of paper in that house to find all the money. Something like $40,000 of it. Boggles the mind. I have a friend who is a hoarder. In her office at the college (about 9'x9'), there are books and papers literally stacked to the ceiling over about 2/3 of it. There is a small pathway from her door to her desk and a clean area behind her desk where she sits. She cannot possibly get to 90% of the crap in there. But she won't get rid of it. We suspect her apartment as gotten to the same point (thanks, in part, to QVC), but since she no longer invites anyone over, we can't be certain.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, February 08, 2008 - 1:03 pm
lol.. I thought I'd wandered into the decluttering thread for a minute! I gather, per People (the paper version) a judge has ruled that Charlie Sheen's ex, Denise Richards can have daughters Sam, 3, and Lola, 2, star with her in her reality show. I guess Charlie had wanted this to be ruled out. I cannot believe I'm siding with Charlie in something, but.. here it is.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, February 08, 2008 - 1:04 pm
Delta Burke has not checked into a psychiatric facility, a rep for her husband, clarifying earlier reports, tells PEOPLE. "Delta is in a clinic – not a psych ward – to adjust medication," said Henry Bollinger, the press rep for Burke's husband Gerald McRaney. "This is something she does once or twice a year." He added that the former Designing Women star, 51 suffers from a "number of conditions" including depression, high blood pressure and diabetes. On Wednesday, stories circulated that the actress had checked into a psychiatric hospital for obsessive-compulsive disorder and "hoarding." "The tabloids have blown it up as if she's landed in a mental institution," Bollinger said. "It's not true." The rep said it's not clear how long Burke will remain at the facility. "Based on past experience, it's anywhere from three days to two weeks," he explained, adding that the drug-evaluation process is complex. "They eliminate everything and then monitor her as they reintroduce the same drugs or new drugs, then see how she responds."
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Friday, February 08, 2008 - 1:06 pm
I am just the opposite, I don't keep anything. If I don't use it, or haven't used it in a long while, I toss it or donate it. the only thing I hoard is pictures. I have more pictures than I know what to do with.
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Holly
Member
06-19-2005
| Friday, February 08, 2008 - 1:11 pm
I wish I were like you, Escapee. I keep WAY too much and have a hard time parting with stuff. Every so often I have a huge clean out. Then, two years later, I can't get another single thing into any closet or cupboard again. I shop too much.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, February 08, 2008 - 2:45 pm
In a sad conclusion to a tragic life, the Los Angeles County Coroner confirmed that actor Brad Renfro died from an accidental overdose of heroin. The cause of death was ruled "acute heroin/morphine intoxication," and the drugs were injected, according to the coroner's office. "The final manner of death has been ruled an accident," the coroner reported. The 25-year-old former child actor was found dead in his L.A. home on January 15.
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