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Everything in moderation. ESPECIALLY moderation.

I was saddened by this message from Beyond Blue reader Bambi on the message board of “Blanche’s 12 Bipolar, Alcoholic Days of Christmas”: I am extreamly sad. I have a family I live with. I’m 51, my mother is 69, my son is 29, and my granddaughter is 5. We all live under one pain-filled…

After Beyond Blue reader Larry Parker read Zana’s comment, he provided the link to lyrics of Kenny Rogers’s, “The Gambler.” I’ve sung this song so many times (yeah, yeah, yeah, you’re thinking … “NO, GOD, DON’T SING IT FOR US” like I did “The 12 Bipolar Days of Christmas”), but I’ve never contemplated the meaning…

Kenny Rogers’s refrain–You got to know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em/ Know when to walk away and know when to run–sounds an awful lot like the Serenity Prayer: God, Grant me the courage to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And the wisdom to…
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