Helping Escape Addictive Lifestyles

06/18/2024

Attention everyone:

It's been a long time since I made a post asking for help for someone but here it is. A female friend of mine went to Florida with her now ex-BF and he ended up abandoning her there without her belongings or any means to get back home to Tennessee. A Greyhound ticket is $180 and this caught me at a time that I am broke or I would have just paid for it myself like I have before. Needless to say I won't post her name here but if you are able to help with even a few dollars please send me a message on messenger and I'll put you in contact with her. She does have a Cashapp account and a Cashapp debit card. If you can only send $5 please do so because it adds up quickly and she is stranded with no place to go tonight and she doesn't know anyone in Florida so time is crucial to make sure she isn't on the streets in a strange town tonight. Thank you everyone and please share this post! You are all awesome!!!

07/24/2023

03/30/2022

Prayers for winds to calm. Hopefully rain tomorrow will extinguish fire.

03/12/2021

Just a reminder:

The flu has a vaccine and still kills 45k to 65k people every single year. Just educating those who panic.

01/21/2021

Service Animals:

I have a friend and HEAL member who suffers from PTSD, Bi-polar disorder and depression. She has also had back surgery and cannot sit or walk and is still managing to moderate for me and write a book about her own trials and tribulations. She is in need of a service animal, specifically a dog or a badger (I decided to add a funny twist with that one. Smile, life is too short not to). A dog will suffice however although a trained badger would be my choice. I am by no means educated in this topic so I may get this wrong but I think she needs someone to adopt her in order to get one? If that's the correct procedure then I ask for someone to please help her get back to a quality of life and sense of security that she deserves. She's an amazing person who has already overcome more than anyone should ever be faced with.

Anyone who actually knows about obtaining a service animal please feel free to post and educate me on any errors I made and so others who may not be familiar with this procedure can be. Thanks everyone and as always please share this post if you think someone in your circle of friends may be able to help. Social media can work miracles if enough good people are aware of the need so please share when you can.

Michael Gray - Professional Addict and founder of HEAL "Helping Escape Addictive Lifestyles".

01/06/2021

My name is Michael Gray. I'm an addict of 37 years, I'm homeless, I have $32 to my name and it's cold outside. I am walking across the city to the greyhound bus station to give a lady $20 so she can get on a bus home because she is stranded and short on getting a ticket. Why? Because it's the right thing to do and because people in my community know that they can find a way by calling my number and we give hope and try to heal some of the pain life can throw at us when we are already down. So if I can make a difference in this ladies life, you can open a door or feed someone today who may very well have nobody else who will. Stop being scared of your neighbor or the man on the sidewalk and ask them if they are okay or if you can help. A cup of coffee and a burger isn't going to hurt you, and that random act of kindness could very well save a life if it happened to be the only love that a person felt that day. We were meant to live as a group together, and we once cared for our community and those in it who felt or were made to feel like they were not welcome or not the same as us. Think about how you would feel if everyone you know were gone and you stared at strangers for the only source of love you could find. You are that stranger to the broken yet we are all their brothers and sisters. I can't walk past my brother when he is cold and hungry and live with myself. Just like I couldn't walk past you if you were sitting there. Help me change the world one person at a time.

Thank you,

Michael Gray - HEAL founder and professional addict of 37 years.

08/21/2020

So I had unpublished this page a few weeks ago. I figured I would shut it down until a time I was better able to help people and had proper funding, etc. But I shouldn't have, because I haven't stopped trying to change the world one person at a time.

Today I saw an older gentleman sitting on the curb with a walker in front of him. He was struggling to get to hid feet so I stopped and tried to help. He was frail looking with an eye patch over one eye and some obvious issues with coordination (as if he may have had a stroke in the past). He refused my help and made it to his feet and asked me where the city bus station was located. I told him about 6-7 blocks north (but I didn't mention it was up hill the entire way). He thanked me and started on his way. When I looked back I seen him struggling to cross the street and I turned around and told him to rest while I found him a ride. For an $8 Uber, I hopefully changed this man's life a little bit for the better.

He wanted my address and I told him I was homeless and he asked how he could send me back the money. I told him to do the same thing that I did for him. Help someone else when you see a person who needs a friend. He said he would and I believe him. It's that easy everyone. Even in these times of social distancing and racial tension. Don't think about the virus or the color of someone's skin. Just act when you see someone who needs your help. You never know, you could save their life or your kindness may spread and better the lives of hundreds over time.

I challenge every one of you to do som**hing for someone this weekend. Just one selfless act of kindness for a stranger that you see in need. The feeling you get is amazing and the chain reaction could save lives or change the world. You just never know. And to inspire others, please post and tell us what you did and how they reacted. Thank you everyone and I hope you and yours are all healthy and safe.

Michael

07/13/2020

Everyone, if you haven't started taking this COVID-19 serious, you need to start now. Thai is NOT just another flu. This is a flu that destroys the insides of your lungs and makes all the capillaries bleed. That means you slowly drown in your own blood and there's NOTHING an emergency room doctor or a top surgeon can do about it. There's no way to stop the flow of blood into your lungs. No surgery, no meds, nothing. Why am I posting this now? Because I now know personally someone who has COVID-19, and I also know friends who have lost family members and friends!

Start taking this seriously people! Wear your damn masks! Stay 6 feet apart. Stop going out of the house unless you have to! Take responsibility for your home and loved ones! So many people think this is government propaganda. I was one of them. I no longer believe that and I am wearing a mask and following the advice of our doctors by staying 6' away from others or staying inside. If we do not unite on this issue and stop posting misinformation, this sickness is going to keep spreading and millions are going to die. Mark my words! Please be responsible and do the right thing. Even if you don't believe, play along please?! Humor me, it won't hurt anything but it may save lives! Thanks everyone!

06/14/2020

Everyone, I think we all need to spend a moment thinking about and raising awareness for victims of domestic violence / abuse:

As the world is locked inside their homes, most feel safe and secure. However if you are a victim of domestic abuse, these past weeks have been a nightmare and may be the last week's you have without the ability to escape your abuser. If you are being abused and need help, I will post a list of female profile links who are personal friends of mine or members of my organization H.E.A.L. and I promise you we will figure out a way to safely get you out of that nightmare and away to somewhere we can help you start a new life.

I've got 5000 friends across the country who are on my list because they care about people, so you will have 5000 new family members making sure nobody ever lays hands on you again. Don't be scared, we got you. You deserve to be happy and safe, and we can help make it happen. If you need help, message me and if you are unable to type out words, just leave a crying smiley or send me a location and I will do whatever it takes to get someone there to help you. Will also post a list on all my pages tomorrow with profile links to females who will also know how to help, along with some ways to communicate without alerting your abuser. Hang tough, there's good people out here who won't let you down.

Michael Gray 615-541-3661

Please share and also I need female friends who would like their name added to a list. This list will be made public on all my pages for women who are being abused to contact someone for help. We need to make up a code system that will not alert an abuser as to allow safe basic communication that can be used to determain the severity of the situation and allow us to react accordingly. If you choose to help, you may end up being the only hope a victim has and could very well be the one factor that can save a life, so please think it over. You have to be alert and ready to call the authorities if needed and could end up being called into court, have to make statements, etc. However if you are like me, nothing else matters except that we were able to change a life for the better and possibly save a life. The rest is nothing as long as we do our part instead of standing by and hoping someone else does. Because nobody else is, so we are it. Help me help someone.

06/11/2020

Why we will NEVER become a great country again:

Because we are all so quick to divide by race, s*x, beliefs or anything else that someone finds is different than themselves. We will all sit and argue and act like 12 year olds on topics like the current President, homos*xuality, skin color, 100 year old battle flags, police brutality, abortion, music, religion, etc. Some of us have ever TAKEN ANOTHER HUMAN BEING'S LIFE over asinine ideals or beliefs, or out of just plain ignorance.

Others are currently destroying their own cities and neighborhoods or allowing outsiders to incite riots and destroy your neighborhoods! And everyone is awful quick to condemn everyone who wears a badge over the actions of a few! If every cop was bad, there would be HUNDREDS of dead people every day by the hands of our LEO's! Some of you idiots are even attacking paramedics and firemen! The very people who you need to save your life if som**hing bad happens, and some of you are trying to kill them!

We have one gift, and that is our life. It is short and it is precious. To have to make statements like "black lives matter" or "all lives matter" is ridiculous. Because we ALL MATTER! And if all of us would stop and look around and realise that while we are all killing each other or calling each other names or throwing bricks at the police or burning down OUR OWN NEIGHBORHOODS! The elite, the rich, the well off people who unfortunately also hold all the positions of power in our world, are laughing at us "simple minded common folks". Watching us show our ignorance by believing we are making a difference with our misguided actions.

But, if all of us would stop and see that we are all the same in the fact that we are all puppets on many different strings, but all of which are manipulated and guided by a few who think we are all too stupid to ever unite. But God have mercy, because if all of you would wake the hell up and stand together as Patriots, as Americans, as neighbors and brothers no matter what color the skin or what religious beliefs, no matter if you are a police officer or a plumber, a drug dealer or a pastor, in the end there is us and there is them. God forbid we all stopped and stood together, we could fix this mess together and make sure NOBODY is ever a puppet again and NOBODY ever loses the one gift over som**hing that is only going to make a rich man richer.

Think before you open your mouth or type out an attack! Is it really more serious than stopping an out of control elitist government?! One that our ancestors have died by the tens of thousands to make rich? One that doesn't care if you or your family starves to death?! Doesn't care if 100,000 of us kill each other in or streets?! Because NONE OF WHAT WE ARE DOING TO EACH OTHER IS AFFECTING THEM!

UNITY IS THE ONLY WAY WE WILL EVER BE EFFECTIVE!

It isn't "all lives matter", it is "OUR LIVES MATTER"!

We need leaders, not anarchists and thugs. We need heroes, not gangsters and criminals.

I myself love all of you and it angers and hurts me to see us all divided and being played like simpletons. Wake up people! If we don't do som**hing about it, nobody will!

Michael Gray

04/16/2020

The Methamphetamine Haze,

The amount of mental damage done by abusing Methamphetamine is staggering. I know it damaged me over the years and I see the damage it has done to people I know. It simply is the most powerful drug in making people think everything is okay while their world crumbles down around them. Years of plans and goals and great insight on ideas but you will remain in place spinning your wheels on the ice for eternity. If you are still using, please take a moment to read this. I am an addict of 37 years and this is truth.

You are not accomplishing anything. It will feel as though you are. In the beginning you may very well have excess energy and get to things done faster but it comes to an end. Trust me, it does. You WILL still think you are completing tasks with the speed of sound but you are not. You can't even get done to go to the store without procrastinating for hours. That's if you even make it at all. Deny it but you know inside it is truth.

It is not okay to live in an abandoned barn in the woods and although you have "fixed it up", your life IS falling apart around you. If you no longer have your job, your vehicle or your home, the drug has taken a toll on your life already and no matter how much energy or how many plans you have made to obtain another, they will stretch out over the years and your life will start to pass you by without ever reaching any of them. Trust me on this. If everything feels okay, that is what the drug does, and it is not reality. Reality and yourself have split ways and you are now in a reality created by a chemical. It's not too late to backtrack and get on the correct path.

Ladies, if your significant other offers you m**h, he doesn't give a damn about you. Simple fact. He knows that Methamphetamine increases libido and women seem to lose all inhibitions. You will also feel like you are desired more and s*xier and that is a trap for most females. We all want to be wanted and desired but in the m**h circles it is nothing more than a primal need for men to have s*x and no matter the words, I have yet to see a couple pull through that met in active m**h addiction and are still together in recovery. I'm sure there are some exceptions, but not that I have seen.

In a woman's mind, the weight loss and the newfound attention from men is som**hing positive. The significant other or the friend who introduced you to this drug, knows damn well what issues it causes in females but that's why he wanted you to get high in the first place. If this is someone who claims to love you, RUN. Because he is only getting you high for his own selfish desires. By offering it to you, he proved he doesn't love you and he does not respect you or have your best interests in mind.

As the addiction takes hold you feel s*xier and skinnier and more desired. But look at the costs. Think about the s*xual encounters you are having and ask yourself if you were sober would you allow any of this? The weight loss is the result of the drug killing your appetite and the lack of nutrition WILL cause your body to quickly fall apart. If you are a mother, this drug will damage your body worse than a couple of hard pregnancies will. It will take your teeth from lack of moisture in your mouth and lack of dental hygiene. It will dry your skin and hair to a boot leather texture and it will make you risk your s*xual health because you will slip and have unprotected s*x with a man that may have already had s*x with 4 different women that day. So you just had your first o**y and you didn't even know it, having just had s*x with 5 people because the man claiming he loves you didn't bother to shower.

I'm talking about the s*xual issues more than anything because that is what kept me using. At first it was used for a heightened s*xual experience and only for s*x. But as you grow with the addiction, the extra energy and false feelings of accomplishment cause you to use it daily and the "responsible or functioning" addict has now started to slip away on his own path. These men are h***y ladies, and no matter how you spin it, and no matter what promises they make, they should have never allowed you to get high if they cared. You will sell your soul cheaply on this drug. You will make decisions based on a chemical that may haunt your self worth and lean hard against your self esteem for the rest of your lives. Please see it for what it is and get some help. It's never too late to start a new life and if you are sincere about it, myself and a family of people who have been there will help you.

Thank you and if anyone needs help, please call me night or day at 615-541-3661.

Michael

04/12/2020

Updated: Homeless or income below $12k? Here is updated way to get your stimulus check! Please feel free to repost and if you know any homeless people, here's the way they can get a stimulus check easily.

If you did not file taxes last year you will still get a $1200 check. A new link has been setup by the IRS which allows you to add your information and direct deposit information so you don't have to wait weeks for your check. If you do not have a bank account but you have a smart phone, go to the Play Store and install "cashapp". They are now providing real routing and account numbers so you can have your check direct deposited. Apply for the Cashapp Visa card the minute you sign up and it will allow you to use your cashapp account just like a bank account. And yes you can withdrawal cash from any ATM once you get your card (the stimulus check may deposit before you get your Cashapp card in the mail but at least you have the money in your online account which you can use online for purchases).

Here is the link to the IRS non-filers website (follow link after reading if you qualify):

Steps to receive the Economic Impact Payment if you haven't filed a tax return for 2018 or 2019, and aren't receiving Social Security, SS Disability Income or Railroad Retirement benefits. This payment is also referred to as "stimulus checks" or "coronavirus relief."