I'm sorry but i need to RANT !!!!

[robert@fm]

Looking at the Amazon UK reviews page for that book, I see that it has 20 reviews. Without reading any of them, I see that 12 are 5* (meaning "excellent"), 6 are 4* ("good"), one is 3* ("average", or in teen-speak "meh"🙂), none are 2* ("poor") and one is 1* ("rubbish"). So I'm left baffled as to where this large number of negative reviews are.

Maybe if I read some of them. It's usually the case that only people who care enough about something are moved to comment on it, so 3* reviews are scarce in any case; and "reading between the lines" can sometimes give a truer picture than taking everything at face value...

 

[AlisonM]

The majority of clients who come to our little charity for help, whatever their addiction are using whatever it is to shut out issues they can't deal with, such as bereavement, stressful jobs, abuse, family/relationship problems. We have all sorts of addicts from drink, gambling or drugs to food related problems and self-harming. All of them, without exception, say it helps them ease the pressure so they can blank out the pain for a while. Whether that pain is mental or physical doesn't matter, we can't help them take back control until the underlying problem is identified and dealt with. That's what we do. We're a small, underfunded charity like others, struggling to fill a chasm the NHS should be tackling but let's face it, drunks, druggies and fat gits (like me) are society's whipping boys. They don't deserve help because they've done it to themselves, right? WRONG! So wrong. But no matter how we try to educate the world, nothing seems to change and that makes me so angry.

Sorry, I kidnapped your rant.

 

[larkie]

Feel free to kidnap my rant...i think the whole point i wrote it was to open a discussion about it all...PLUS feeling frustrated, low, and a bit angry with myself for not being able to get a grip.The IRONY of it all is that i have in fact now lost 1 stone in weight in the last 2 months and i should be happy about it but it is tainted by STILL fighting with myself to resist and wondering if i will ever be at a point were i can be around the foods that tempt me without pulling my hair out. May i say...did it off my own back no help (apart from my hubby and wonderful little ones ) AND of course the kind words and help off the members here .. Thanks for making me feel like i'm not alone nor a loser for not being able to cope.