)On average a human daily eats: .5 lb meat, 1.6 lb dairy, .2 lb fat & oil, .8 lb fruit, .7 lb vegetables, .5lb grains, .4lb sugar, for a total of 4.5 lb food plus liquids KS 029269

I really don`t know, maybe alot

On Average a Human Body consumes around 800 gm to 1000 gm per serving.

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I have a rat, her name is mimi. i have no idea how old she is but she is about the average size you find rats in a pet store. recently she has discovered the wonders of human food. i don't like to spoil her but i would think that eating the same old seeds and such would get boring after a while. a couple of weeks ago i introduced her to ice cream for the first time and now she can't get enough. i don't give her much, maybe a pea sized drop ever couple of days. but my boyfriend has recently bought hershey's chocolate syrup and i like to eat them together. sometimes i let mimi sit on my shoulder while i am eating and she really starts to beg. but i don't know if chocolate is bad for rats. i usually only give her some in an area that has no chocolate even near it. so does anyone know the answer. by the way, she wasn't gotten sick or anything from any of the human food she has eaten so i would assume it's fine.

It's not poisonous to rats if that's what you are worried about-the main issue would be the sugar and fat content, but in tiny amounts it shouldn't cause any weight or teeth problems. Rats love fresh fruit if you are looking for a healthier treat:)

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This is an actual research page i found when working for a home vet and she loved it so much that she put it on her page..read it with an open mind...and think...here is her page also if you are interested..http://www.carinrenning s.com (don't read if you have a weak stomach) what's really for dinner? the truth about commercial pet food, by tina perry cow brains. sheep guts. chicken heads. road kill. rancid grain. these are a few of the so-called nutritionally balanced ingredients found in the commercial pet food served to companion animals every day. more than 95 percent of us companion animals derive their nutritional needs from a single source: processed pet food. when people think of pet food, many envision whole chickens, choice cuts of beef, fresh grains, and all the nutrition that a dog or cat may ever need -- images that pet food manufacturers promote in their advertisements. what these companies do not reveal is that instead of whole chickens they have substituted chicken heads, feet, and intestines. those choice cuts of beef are really cow brains, tongues, esophagi, fetal tissue dangerously high in hormones, and possibly diseased and even cancerous meat. those whole grains have had the starch removed for corn starch powder and the oil extracted for corn oil, or they are hulls and other remnants from the milling process. grains used that are truly whole have usually been deemed unfit for human consumption because of mold, contaminants, poor quality, or poor handling practices. pet food is one of the world’s most synthetic edible products, containing virtually no whole ingredients. pet food manufacturers have become masters at inducing companion animals to eat things cat and dogs would normally spurn. pet food scientists have learned that it's possible to take a mixture of inedible scraps, fortify it with artificial vitamins and minerals, preserve it so that it can sit on the shelf for more than a year, add dyes to make it attractive, and then extrude it into whimsical shapes that appeal to the human consumer. for this, pet food companies can expect to earn $9 billion in sales in 1996. scraps and byproducts for years, many care givers have tried to avoid feeding their companion animals people food leftovers, having been warned by veterinarians about the heath problems they can cause. yet much scrap material from the human food industry is ending up in dogs and cat’s dinner bowls. what the consumer purchases and what the manufacturer advertises are often two entirely different products, and this difference threatens the animals healthy, especially as they age. learning to read ingredient labels and taking the time to read them carefully is crucial to making an educated choice when purchasing pet food. ingredients are listed in descending order of weight (heaviest first) under standards established by the center for veterinary medicine for the food and drug administration (fda). the name of the product (in most states) is dictated by the regulations of the american association of feed control officials (aafco). the trouble is, aafco standards can lead to deceptive product names due to the weight and volume variations between wet and dry ingredients. also, the average consumer has no idea what the definitions for the listed ingredients mean. preservatives, vitamins, minerals, flavorings, and cereal make up most of what the companion animal eats. it is not happenstance that four of the top five major pet food companies in the united states are subsidiaries of major multinational food production companies: colgate palmolive (which produces hills science diet), heinz, nestle, and mars )see the corporate connection). from a business standpoint, multi-national food companies owning pet food manufacturers is an ideal relationship. the multinationals have captive market in which to dump their waste products, and the pet food manufacturers have a direct source of bulk materials. both make a profit from selling scraps that originate from places far worse than the dinner table. in his 1986 book pet allergies veterinarian al plechner sums up what goes into companion animals food: condemned parts and animals rejected for human consumption are routinely rerouted for commercial pet foods. a similar fate applies to so-called 4-d animals. these are food animals picked up dead, or that are dying, diseased, or disabled, and do not meet human-food qualifications. they are processed straightaway for companion animal consumption. little goes to waste. says plechner, food processing refuse of all sorts winds up in your animals dinner bowls. moldy grains. rancid foods. meat meal. the latter is ground-up slaughterhouse discards often containing disease-ridden tissue and high levels of hormones and pesticides, the very things that may have contributed to the death of the steer or hog. a decade later, his words still apply. when cattle, swine, chickens, lambs, or other animals meet their ends at a slaughterhouse, the choice cuts -- lean muscle tissue and organs prized by humans -- are trimmed away from the carcass for human consumption. whatever remains of the carcass (bones, blood, pus, intestines, ligaments, subcutaneous fat, hooves, horns, beaks, and any other parts not normally consumed by humans) is, according to the pet food industry, perfectly fit as a protein source for cat and dog food. the pet food institute, the trade association of pet food manufacturers, acknowledges in its 1994 fact sheet the importance of using byproducts in pet foods as additional income for processors and farmers. the purchase and use of these ingredients by the pet food industry not only provides nutritional foods for pets at reasonable costs, but provides an important source of income to american farmers and processors of meat, poultry, and seafood products for human consumption. many of these remnants are indigestible and provide a questionable source of nutrition. the amount of nutrition provided by meat byproducts, meals, and digests varies from vat to vat of this animal protein soup. a vat filled with chicken feet, beaks, and viscera is going to make available a lower amount of protein than a vat of breast meat. james morris and quinton rogers, professors with department of molecular biosciences at the university of california at davis veterinary school of medicine, assert that there is virtually no information on the bio-availability of nutrients for companion animals in many of the common dietary ingredients used in pet foods. these ingredients are generally byproducts of the meat, poultry and fishing industries, with the potential for wide variation in nutrient composition. claims of nutritional adequacy of pet foods based on the current aafco nutrient allowances (profiles) do not give assurances of nutritional adequacy and will not until ingredients are analyzed and bioavailability values are incorporated. meat byproducts, the catch-all term of the pet food industry, is a misnomer because these byproducts contain little if any meat. byproducts contain little if any meat. byproduct are animal parts leftover after the meat has been stripped from the bone. chicken byproducts include heads, feet, entrails, lungs, spleens, kidneys, brains, livers, stomachs, noses, blood, and intestines free of their contents. what the pet food manufactures fail to mention is that most byproducts, digests and meals are also filled with other substances, such as cancerous tissue cut from the carcass, plastic foam packaging containing spoiled meat from supermarkets, ear tags, spoiled slaughterhouse meat, road kill, and pieces of downer animals. canned cannibalism another source of meat that isn't mentioned on pet food labels is pet byproducts, the bodies of dogs and cats. in 1990 the san francisco chronicle reported that euthanized companion animals were found in pet foods. although pet food company executives and the national renderers association vehemently denied the report, the american veterinary medical association and the fda confirmed the story. the pets serve a viable purpose by providing foodstuff for the animal feed chain, said lea mcgovern, chief of the fda's animal feed safety branch. because of the sheer volume of animals rendered and the similarity in protein content between poultry byproducts and processed dogs and cats, rendering plant workers say it would be impossible for purchasers to know the exact contents of what they buy. in fact, sacramento rendering cited by inspectors five times in the past two years for product-labeling violations. grease and grain the most nutritious dry pet food is no better than the worst if animals will not eat it. pet food scientists have discovered that spraying the kibble or pellets with a combination of refined animal fat, lard, kitchen grease, and other oils too rancid or deemed inedible for humans makes an otherwise bland or distasteful product palatable. animal fat is mainly packing house waste or supermarket trimmings from the packaging of meats. animals love the taste of this sprayed fat, which also acts as a binding agent to which manufacturers may add other flavor enhancers. the pungent odor wafting from an open bag of pet food is created by this concoction. restaurant grease has become a major component of feed-grade animal fat over the last 15 years. often held in 50-gallon drums for weeks or months in extreme temperatures, this grease is usually kelp outside with no regard for its safety or further use. the rancid grease is then picked up by fat blenders who mix the animal and vegetable fats together, stabilize them with powerful antioxidants to prevent further spoilage, and then sell the blended products to pet food companies. rancid, heavily preserved fats are extremely difficult to digest and can lead to a host of animal health problems, including digestive upsets, diarrhea, gas, and bad breath. once considered filler by the pet food industry, the amount of grain products included in pet food has risen over the last decade as the american population has focused its attention away from consuming beef and toward a healthier diet of grains and vegetables. commonly two of the top three pet food ingredients are some form of grain products. for instance, alpo's beef flavored dinner lists ground yellow corn, soybean meal, and poultry byproduct meal as its top three ingredients. 9 lives crunchy meals lists ground yellow corn, corn gluten meal, and poultry byproduct meal as its top three ingredients. of the top four ingredients of purina's o.n.e. dog formula -- chicken, ground yellow corn, ground wheat, and corn gluten meal -- two are corn-based products from the same source. this is an industry practice known as splitting. when components of the same whole ingredient are listed separately (ground yellow corn and corn gluten meal) it appears that there is less corn than chicken, even when the whole ingredient may weigh more than the chicken. soy is another common ingredient in many pet foods. it is used by the manufacturers to boost the claimed protein content and add bulk so that when animals eat a product containing soy they will fell more sated. tofu is suitable for humans, but most forms of soybean do not agree with a dog or cat's digestive system. like many other pet food ingredients, soy is virtually unusable by an animal's body. being obligate carnivores, cats have little ability to digest any nutrients from soy. the problem is worse for dogs because they lack the essential amino acid to digest soy products. soy has also been linked to bloat and gas in many dogs. additives and processing pet food industry critics note that many of the ingredients (such as corn syrup and corn gluten meal) used as humectants to prevent oxidation also bind water molecules in such a way that the food actually sticks to the animal's colon and may cause blockage. blockage of the colon may cause an increased risk of cancer of the colon or rectum. two-thirds of the pet food manufactured in the united states contains synthetic preservatives added by the manufacturer. of the remaining third, 90 percent includes ingredients already stabilized by synthetic preservatives. because most pet food contains large percentages of added fat, a stabilizer is needed to maintain the quality of the food. sodium nitrite, often used as a coloring agent, fixative, and preservative, has the ability to combine with natural stomach and food chemicals (secondary amends) to create nitrosamines, powerful cancer-causing agents, according to a consumer's dictionary of food additives. many pet foods advertised as preservative-free do not contain preservatives. almost all rendered meats have synthetic preservatives added as stabilizer, but manufacturers aren't required to list preservatives they themselves haven't added. premixed vitamin additives can also contain preservatives. in the 1003 journal of the american veterinary medical association, veterinarian philip roudebush reported finding low concentrations of synthetic antioxidant preservatives in all analyzed samples of products labeled as chemical free or all-natural. other types of additives depend on whether the pet food is semi-moist, dry or canned. because semi-moist food contains 25-50 percent water, antimicrobial preservatives must be used. propylene glycol was frequently used in cat food until it was pulled in 1992 for causing a variety of health problems. processing greatly alters the nutritional value of the food ingredients. veterinarian r. l. wysong states in rationale for animal nutrition: processing is the wild card in nutritional value that is, by and large, simply ignored. heating, freezing, dehydrating, canning, extruding, pelleting, baking and so forth, are so commonplace that they are simply thought of as synonymous with food itself. because the ingredients that pet food companies use are not wholesome, and harsh manufacturing practices destroy what little nutritional value the food may have had in the first place, the final product must be fortified with vitamins and minerals. questionable nutrition how, then, can any pet food be guaranteed to be 100 percent complete or nutritionally adequate? as long as it meets the aafco minimum standards, such a guarantee can be on the label. yet in 1994, feed tests conducted by the new york state agriculture department showed 7 percent of all pet foods analyzed failed chemical analyses for guaranteed nutrients. other states report similar findings, with failure of analyzed feed ranging from to 12 percent. even if a pet food meets aafco standards, certain nutritional requirements (for example, lysine) can vary between species by as much as seven-fold. although manufacturers clam that millions of companion animals can thrive on a diet consisting of nothing by commercial pet food, research and an increasing number of veterinarians implicate processed pet food as a source of disease or as an exacerbating agent for a number of degenerative diseases. for example, kidney disease is on of the top three killers of companion animals. according to plechner, the extra protein and harsh ingredients of many pet foods place an overload on the kidneys. left untreated, the toxic buildup leads to vomiting, loss of appetite, uremic poisoning, and death. wysong adds, in the last few years, large statistical studies have shown the link between the diet (of processed foods) and a variety of degenerative diseases, including cancer, heart disease, allergies, arthritis, obesity, dental disease, etc. after extensive research, the animal protection institute (api) published a pet food investigative report to educate companion animal care givers about pet food ingredients, ingredient definitions, labeling, and dietary ailments resulting from processed commercial pet food, including the most commonly know brands. yet, whether such food is purchased at the supermarket, pet store, or from a veterinarian, it makes little difference in terms of the quality -- only in the cost. since the report was published earlier this year, api has conducted more research on holistic pet care and pet food alternatives, but still claims that the vast majority of pet foods available on the market today provide less that optimum nutrition for companion animals. it is sad to think that the food provided by animal care givers to their four-legged friends could be hazardous to the animals'; health and longevity. care givers should assume responsibility for providing as healthful a diet as possible for the animals in the care. consumers should be informed: speak with a holistic practitioner or herbalist, or consult your veterinarian (but be aware that a veterinarian's knowledge of nutrition may be limited to the two weeks of nutrition he or she had veterinary school 20 years ago). although the ideal solution would be for companion animals to be fed only wholesome homemade and/or vegetarian diets, this is not an optician for everyone -- the cost and time commitment is sometimes prohibitive. by taking more moderate steps, however, care givers can still greatly improve companion animals' diet and quality of life. edit: on carin rennings page she lists recommended diets... she really researched them and its really helpful....go check it out..smile edit edit: sorry but it is still happening to the person that said its not... when i did my research i asked around and found out that the people that picked up the dead pets from the vets offices that did not want a private creamation actually had a company come in and pick the bodies up...really sick...valley protien i think was the name of the company... i am not just trying to "scare" people ...here is more proof....read this article just written!! and see for yourself whats in your pet foods!! http://www.petfoodreport.com/aboutp etfood.htm#ingredients edit: as far as ill timing and such... i think its just the right time!! people need to open their eyes...so sorry you 2 feel that way...smile http://www.api4animals.org/facts.ph p?p=359&more=1

Thanks for the research and letting others see it. Those who are new pet owners should know about it, if they don't already.

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Of course skepticism should be encouraged, but (from wikipedia): "as discovery channel's commentator concluded: "after 96 hours of filming, ram has defied modern science by continuing his meditation and remaining alive." according to scientists on the documentary, an average person would be expected to die from kidney failure after four days without drinking any fluids (although cases of inedia lasting for a whole week have been observed and the recorded guinness world record of inedia is eighteen days). the boy showed no signs of classical physical deterioration caused by dehydration. a close inspection by the film crew of the area around the tree where ram was sitting revealed no hidden food supply or water pipes." pretty impressive, no? how many human beings can survive that long without anything for 96 hours?

They've had generations of practice

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The essay assignment was on food production after we had read the book animal vegetable miracle. i decided to write my essay based on fast food and the health problems that arise from it. here is what i have so far. please give feedback! compared to sixty years ago this country has moved to more fast paced lifestyles. with women working as much as men are now. old traditions of sitting down together as a family to enjoy a meal are almost non existent. with so many people with busy lifestyles it’s hard for people to spend time preparing meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. so what do the people of such busy lives do to eat in this country and many others? chances are these people are choosing to eat at mcdonalds or burger king to fill their appetites. it’s so much easier for someone to make food for you in less time then it takes to tie a shoe. convenience is in my opinion the main reason for why we choose to eat fast food over a home cooked meal. fast food chains are everywhere in this country. you can’t go anywhere without seeing fast food signs popping out of the ground. our country is known for the greasy burgers and fries that are prepared at a low quality for us to consume. but do we really know what we are consuming? when i was a junior in high school my human biology teacher has us watch a video called super size me. it was a free day so she clipped the video in for us to see. super size me is a documentary about a man named morgan spurlock who decided to eat mcdonalds for every meal for an entire month. spurlock was above average physically before starting the documentary. “at the end of the documentary spurlock gained 24 ½ pounds, his cholesterol levels increased, and his body fat increased 13 percent.” (super size me) this documentary clearly shows how food high in fat and calories can affect a person in a negative way. after watching the documentary i ate mcdonalds less realizing how unhealthy it is. this documentary supports kingsolver’s idea that regularly eating fast food can increase health risks.

Your essay is very interesting so far and a good subject to write about. You say that this is for an English class however so I would suggest spending a little more effort on the writing style, for example instead of... "So what do the people of such busy lives do to eat in this country and many others? Chances are these people are choosing to eat at McDonald's or Burger King to fill their appetites. It’s so much easier for someone to make food for you in less time then it takes to tie a shoe. Convenience is in my opinion the main reason for why we choose to eat fast food over a home cooked meal." ...try "So how do people with such busy lives choose to eat. Chances are they satisfy their appetite at a McDonald's or Burger King where the food is ready in less time than it takes to tie your shoes. In my opinion, the main reason for this is the convenience and time saved by visiting a fast food outlet rather than preparing a home cooked meal." The teacher will be marking you on grammar and sentence structure as well as the presentation of your argument. Good luck.

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1.most american car horns honk in the key of f. 2.the name wendy was made up for the book "peter pan." 3.barbie's full name is barbara millicent roberts. 4. every time you lick a stamp, you consume 1/10 of a calorie. 5. the average person falls asleep in seven minutes. 6. studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. it supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself. 7. your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every 2 weeks otherwise it will digest itself. 8. the citrus soda 7-up was created in 1929; '7' was selected after the original 7-ounce containers and 'up' for the direction of the bubbles. 9. 101 dalmatians, peter pan, lady and the tramp, and mulan are the only disney cartoons where both parents are present and don't die throughout the movie. . 10. a pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. 11. 'stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand. 12. to escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly. 13. reindeer like to eat bananas. 14. no word in the english language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple. 15. the word "samba" means "to rub navels together." 16. mel blanc (the voice of bugs bunny) was allergic to carrots. 17. the electric chair was invented by a dentist. 18. the very first bomb dropped by the allies on berlin during world war ii killed the only elephant in the berlin zoo. 19. more people are killed annually by donkeys than airplane crashes. 20. a 'jiffy' is a unit of time for 1/100th of a second. 21. a whale's penis is called a dork. 22. because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west. 23. the average person spends 6 months of their life sitting at red lights. 24. in 1912 a law passed in nebraska where drivers in the country at night were required to stop every 150 yards, send up a skyrocket, wait eight minutes for the road to clear before proceeding cautiously, all the while blowing their horn and shooting off flares. 25. more monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money throughout the world. 26. caesar salad has nothing to do with any of the caesars. it was first concocted in a bar in tijuana, mexico, in the 1920's. 27. one quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet. 28. crocodiles and alligators are surprisingly fast on land. although they are rapid, they are not agile. so, if being chased by one, run in a zigzag line to lose him or her. 29. seattle's fremont bridge rises up and down more than any drawbridge in the world. 30. right-handed people live, on average; nine years longer than left handed people. 31. ten percent of the russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka. 32. in the united states, a pound of potato chips costs two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes. 33. a giraffe can go without water longer than a camel. 34. a person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. for example, if a strong-tasting substance like salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds will not be able to taste it. as soon as a drop of saliva is added and the salt is dissolved, however, a definite taste sensation results. this is true for all foods. 35. nearly 80% of all animals on earth have six legs. 36. in the marriage ceremony of the ancient inca indians of peru, the couple was considered officially wed when they took off their sandals and handed them to each other. 37. ninety percent of all species that have become extinct have been birds. 38. there is approximately one chicken for every human being in the world. 39. most collect calls are made on father's day. 40. the first automobile race ever seen in the united states was held in chicago in 1895. the track ran from chicago to evanston, illinois. the winner was j. frank duryea, whose average speed was 71/2 miles per hour. 41. each of us generates about 3.5 pounds of rubbish a day, most of it paper. 42. women manage the money and pay the bills in 75% of all americans households. 43. a rainbow can be seen only in the morning or late afternoon. it can occur only when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon. 44. it has never rained in calama, a town in the atacama desert of chile. 45. it costs more to buy a new car today in the united states than it cost christopher columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the new world. 46. the plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets. 47. an eighteenth-century german named matthew birchinger, known as "the little man of nuremberg," played four musical instruments including the bagpipes, was an expert calligrapher, and was the most famous stage magician of his day. he performed tricks

Why would they name the little plastic things on the end of shoe laces? How would that word ever come up in a sentence. What a waste of a word.

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I wrote too much for most to read - but my disease is my life and it's all i have left. it has taken everything i care about and torn it too shreds and it leaves me alone to sit and think about it. read this and tell me what you think i need to get better, because god knows i don't know what that is.... i hate thinking about my problems. i've found it a lot easier over the years to just ignore them. things were always difficult for me... i didn't go to kinder garden and pre school because all i would do was cry and struggle with just being there. i saw "experts" when i was very little - they tried to figure out what was wrong with me; in the end, no one figured it out. eventually, i got old enough to stop crying (in public) but remained home schooled for all of my childhood. i skipped most of my childhood. i didn't have many friends or activities except for some sports growing up. so, now i'm 22 and for the last 2 1/2 years i've rarely left my room. i've gained and lost 25 pounds. i've started seeing a therapist and a psychiatrist for the last year (well, therapist for only a few months) and i've been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. i can recall 1 manic episode in my entire life. just one. and it just happened a few months ago. it is the only time i've felt good in as long as i can remember. for two weeks i was accelerating. i went faster and faster. i should say i was running 4 miles a day every day and my resting heart rate was decreasing, slowly. but the acceleration changed me. my resting heart rate went from 70 to 80, 90, 100; it peaked at around 117 as an average over several visits to the doctor. by that point i wasn't sleeping at all. 5 straight days without sleep. most of my 25 pounds that i lost came in thst two week period. in the end, i took lots of seroquel and now it's down to more human normal numbers. now that the mania has ended i've fallen back into despair. i walk past the guns in a walmart and just stare at them. i imagine buying a revolver and going to somewhere beautiful where i can be alone. i think about aiming it at my chest, just off center to the left. i want to end it, but that thought has been with me for a while. it makes me feel better just to imagine it. but i have been a bad person and i tell myself there's nothing better for me on the other side. i'm trying to paint picture that you can see in this small space so that you can understand what's really wrong with me. because i don't know what is. but i know it will kill me sooner or later and i'm getting desperate for answers. i could talk more about my symptoms but i'll just list 3 that stick out. first, my memory has faded. at it's worst, i don't remember my middle name or birthdate but usually it's just trivial things like where i put a glass of water or my wallet. second, i have no libido at all. it's gone along with my need for contact with other people on a personal level. third, i don't ever get hungry which would make eating right easy if i didn't (only sometimes) stuff my face with food to distract myself from myself. from day to day i go between overwhelming anxiety to empty hopelessness. my mind can be overrun with intrusive thoughts that tell me i'm going to fail and that there's nothing to do but end it. i don't walk around in dark clothes with a worthless frown on my face trying to call attention to my sadness like some do. i do my best to hide my illness. i am so ashamed of myself. i don't like being seen or looking at myself in a mirror. but i've digressed enough... tell me something. my original question seems irrelevant now. if you read this then i'm glad to know there are people who care or are interested. i forgot to mention i can't sleep without taking heavy doses of seroquel. seroquel is pretty potent stuff when it comes to sleep aid. if i run out of the drug i run out of sleep. and i lost all of my friends a few years ago. i couldn't maintain relationships. i really appreciate your support. i can't say that it will inspire me, i hope that it does. i want to read your comments and find a little bit of strength and maybe your comments will energize me a little. i'll check out those links. lyrics mean alot to me in music so i'll take a look at matthew good. also, for those that are interested - check out devotchka's song how it ends for some cool - could be interpreted as-religious music/lyrics.

I read your question and, believe it or not, it wasnt really that long. My son, who is 22, was diagnosed on 9/11/07 with bipolar with manic tendencies. To make a long story short he went up to school, dropped out, bought a store, exhausted his life savings and attempted to walk 450 miles home while carrying a drawer full of wires while chanting how he was going to take over the world. He was put on a plethora of drugs from abilify to zyprexa and every other bipolar drug in the middle. He was in and out of SEVEN Mental Hospitals since then. When he was manic, he didnt eat, sleep. He ran three marathons. The last marathon he ran, his shoes fell apart during the last two miles and he ran with no shoes on. He took everything from inside the house and put it on the front lawn under the guise that it was a garage sale. Articles were even on the roof and needless to say, he didnt sell much if anything. We took the car away from him in fear that something would happen so he got on a fold-up bike and rode it out on the island some 50 miles away in the pouring rain. We found him and brought him home. I could go on but I think you get the point He seems to be doing very well lately. He was put on risperdal consta which is a shot he gets every two weeks. He was non-compliant with his meds. He lost almost every friend he had and we are now trying to put together the pieces of his life. I still dont know where half the things around my house are but I am hopeful because he is better and not manic anymore. My suggestion to you would be to go to the doctor and get the right mix of meds for U so you DO NOT have to feel the way you describe above. You are worth it. Make those doctors listen to U and get a pro active stance on your health and bipolar issues. You DONT have to live like that anymore. Also get a therapist to point out to you the triggers and what to look out for. Good luck. I wish you the very best. If you want or need to know anything else, please feel free to email me.

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This is called seeing is believing summary: when you're 16 you don't believe in mythical creatures like lauren davis. it is impossible to believe in anything that you cannot see. but when you meet a mythical creature and they show you a complete opposite world from which you live in, you'll dream and imagine things you didn't want to when you grew older. lauren davis will experience this opposite world and see for yourself the creatures that appear. dream, imagine, and you'll go far. believe in the land uskuma. number one i am an average girl you see walking down a street. brown wavy hair and deep gray eyes, sixteen years old, hates school and has a few friends. never popular. my name is lauren davis and i really don't believe in fairy tales like any other sixteen year old. unless you're a believer. the believers believe in anything, even if it's scientifically proved that those things don't really exist. i, for instance, am an unbeliever. they don't believe in anything unless they see the things they don't believe for themselves. i only have two friends. ashley and mark. we don't talk much but we consider ourselves friends for some reason. both ashley and mark are believers and i sometimes feel left out in their conversations when they talk to each other about mythical creatures. "mark! oh, mark!" ashley yelled out to him when mark came out of the lunch line. "i saw an epic movie of vampires last night!" "really? what was this epic movie about?" he asked while sitting in front of ashley. "well, it's really violent and awesome! this vampire kills humans he hates and stuff. can you believe it? imagine if a real vampire did that to us? hopefully never." "guys, they don't exist." i added taking a bite of my turkey sandwich and taking a moment to swallow it. "you don't really believe in those things do you?" i asked staring at them. "yes we do, lauren. we are believers. you are an unbeliever. get it?" ashley answered like if i was stupid. i sighed while standing up and throwing away the food i didn't eat. i wasn't hungry anyway. yes. these are the only two friends i have who are opposite from me. it's very uncomfortable if you ask me. i have to keep up with this everyday. i know believers and unbelievers are never supposed to mix, but who do i talk to then? *** my family. i have a father. i had a mother who passed away two years ago from a heart attack. i was shocked when i received a call at school from dad. really, who would expect their parent to die when you're in world history worrying about the teacher hating you? i didn't. since then i've been living with dad. we never talk much. just a few words before i leave for school and when i come back home. we don't need attention now that mom is gone from our lives. want to read until chaper 5?? go here: http://www.webook.com/project/seein g-is-believing-1 thank you 3rd answer ^_^

I think this is a great idea! If only I'd thought of it first ;) You should probably make it a bit longer, though. I'll definitly be reading until chapter five :)