Where have you lived, Where are you from?

[Angel]

I am wondering where everyone on the forum is from? I bet this will be interesting!

I was born in overseas. The AF Base there doesn't exist anymore. Then my Dad was transferred to CA, NV, and ND. When he retired we ended up in AZ.

So what's your story?

 

[KevinK]

Born and raised in San Mateo, CA, in the San Francisco Bay Area, where I currently live. Lived in The City a couple times, but back in San Mateo now. Both parents are from Honolulu, Hawaii. Went there so many times growing up that some of my friends think I grew up there. My pidgin English sucks! At one point I planned to move to Japan, but my health had other ideas.

For a short time (year-and-a-half) I lived in the East Bay with a family who went to high school with Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) in Japan.

 

[Angel]

Neat! What's your favorite thing about CA?

 

[KevinK]

Neat! What's your favorite thing about CA?

Well, my favorite thing about California is that it's only 5 hours to Hawaii. The Sierras were nice when I was a skier, too, and drove a Jeep.

 

[Angel]

I head that there is a big problem with drug addicts in Hawaii. Is that true?

 

[Corn Pop]

NZ

 

[KevinK]

I head that there is a big problem with drug addicts in Hawaii. Is that true?

Never heard that. Might be true. I hate drugs of any kind myself, so of course my medical problems turned me into a drug addict.

 

[KevinK]

I am wondering where everyone on the forum is from? I bet this will be interesting!

I was born in overseas. The AF Base there doesn't exist anymore. Then my Dad was transferred to CA, NV, and ND. When he retired we ended up in AZ.

So what's your story?

How long did you actually live in the Phillipines?

 

[Angel]

Just the first year of my life.

 

[Angel]

KevinK : Well, you have to take it anyway right?

 

[KevinK]

KevinK : Well, you have to take it anyway right?

Yes, so the better term is drug-dependent. I've kicked off addiction twice, both times basically cold turkey, so I know I can do it. The problem is that the pain doesn't go anywhere, so I have to jump right back on again.

 

[Angel]

I am drug-dependent too. One of the biggest helps my medication gives me is that after I take it I sleep very deeply. Sleep is a MUST for me. My hallucinations increase when I don't get sleep.

Then there is the whole mental illness thing. If I don't take my medication, I get really sick.

 

[KevinK]

I am drug-dependent too. One of the biggest helps my medication gives me is that after I take it I sleep very deeply. Sleep is a MUST for me. My hallucinations increase when I don't get sleep.

Then there is the whole mental illness thing. If I don't take my medication, I get really sick.

What are hallucinations like? Like Ally McBeal?

 

[Angel]

Never seen Ally McBeal.

Imagine a small, old school radio. Put it in a corner of your room. Turn it to talk radio on low.
That's what it's like.

Now, imagine the content of what's being said: Its startling, uncomfortable, accusing, threatening, ridiculing, etc.

I do whatever I can not to listen. Right now I'm sitting on the floor watching the News and having fun on the forum. It's not a problem now. Sometimes I just hear talking but I don't listen to what's being said.

It is really hard to play guitar or learn anything because I hear conversations while I'm playing.

 

[KevinK]

Wow, that's must be an awful thing to go through. Do you think it's demonic?

 

[Angel]

Honestly? Sometimes it is.
There are times when I know in my spirit that it is, but it is not often.
There are many times when its just a hallucination. These result from trauma. It doesn't make it any less scary, because it feels real, but God is so merciful to give me the ability to cope for the most part.
I am trying to make a point of clinging to God just as strongly when I am doing well, and not just when I really need Him.

 

[KevinK]

What do you do when it is (demonic)?

 

[Angel]

I pray hard. I worship. I apply coping skills.

This is how I deal with either situation.

 

[KevinK]

Do you specifically ask the Lord to cast out the demon(s)?

 

[Angel]

If I become too focused on the enemy, I get paranoid and it blows out of proportion. So, I surrender the situation to Jesus. I ask him to guard my mind. I ask him to fight for me. Then I distract myself.

I trust God to do what I cannot.