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While working at WPGC, Beck met his first wife, Claire... The couple divorced in 1994 amid Beck’s struggles with substance abuse. He is a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, has said he has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).”...

By 1994, Beck was suicidal, and imagined shooting himself to the music of Kurt Cobain. He credits Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) with helping him achieve sobriety. He said he stopped drinking alcohol and smoking cannabis in November 1994, the same month he attended his first AA meeting. Beck later said that he had gotten high every day for the previous 15 years, since the age of 16...

Beck announced in July 2010 that he had been diagnosed with macular dystrophy, saying “A couple of weeks ago I went to the doctor because of my eyes, I can’t focus my eyes. He did all kinds of tests and he said, ‘you have macular dystrophy ... you could go blind in the next year. Or, you might not.’” The disorder can make it difficult to read, drive or recognize faces...

On November 10, 2014, Beck announced on TheBlaze that he had been suffering from a severe neurological disorder for at least the last five years. He described many strong and debilitating symptoms which made it difficult to work, and that he had “a string of health issues that quite honestly made me look crazy, and quite honestly, I have felt crazy because of them.” Beck related that a chiropractor who specializes in “chiropractic neurology”, Frederick Carrick, had “diagnosed [him] with several health issues, including an autoimmune disorder, which he didn’t name, and adrenal fatigue.” Over a period of ten months he had received a series of treatments and felt better. A number of medical experts have expressed doubt about the legitimacy of Beck’s diagnosis, treatment, and the credentials of the chiropractor, with Yale University neurologist Steven Novella dismissing chiropractic neurology as “pseudoscience”: “Chiropractic neurology does not appear to be based on any body of research, or any accumulated scientific knowledge,....[and] appears to me to be the very definition of pseudoscience.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#Personal_life


32 posted on 09/07/2016 1:31:04 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham

And some folks say that illegal drug use is a victimless crime. Heavy pot use leads to crazy.


46 posted on 09/07/2016 1:50:01 PM PDT by PAR35
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