Ashley Needles

Here's what I've learned over the last few years from trying to make things make sense again. Often addicts are trying to fill up a hole in their "soul." They try to fill it with food or drugs or exercise or other people. This need can create both good or bad habits. It can lead to greatness or destruction. Sometimes both. It's an interesting paradigm. Narcissists are also typically addicts. They are addicted to praise and feeling special. The reason is usually the narcissist feels incredibly lonely and is in deep pain. Like drug addicts, they will do just about anything to get their fix. Hurt loved ones, lie, have affairs, make millions, whatever it takes. This is why narcissists often turn to drugs or create delusions of grandeur. The most difficult time for a narcissist or a drug addict is the comedown, the crash. This is when the narcissist is most vulnerable to psychotic breaks or picking up new addictions. The desperate need to feel special wil...

Hi World, I'm about to offend you but read to the end anyway. Let's talk for a second. There are problems and more problems and all of them have solutions but we've been too lazy, too overwhelmed too whatever to implement what we know will save the planet, end hunger and clean the oceans.               We're supposed to be intelligent beings but we seem dead set on putting survival as the last priority on the list. Children learn good means reward, bad means punishment, teens learn morality to be what benefits the self, adults what benefits those they care about, Leaders are supposed be guided by what benefits their community, the highest state of consciousness is said to be putting the good of the world first. I apparently skipped a ton of steps in my moral development. At five I learned the world was overpopulated and thought then I won't have kids.    (That not everyone thinks that way boggles my mind.) Dating ma...