Tball Posted June 4, 2012 Member ID: 112 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 2 Topic Count: 104 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1132 Content Per Day: 0.21 Reputation: 228 Achievement Points: 6975 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 3, 2015 Birthday: 10/09/1960 Share Posted June 4, 2012 Cavey Believe it or not its not a tarnish to be an alcoholic or an addict. For the first time in many peoples lives its the first time they belong somewhere with people that understand them. There is no cure there is only recovery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogleg Posted June 4, 2012 Member ID: 907 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 96 Topic Count: 126 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2731 Content Per Day: 0.52 Reputation: 3928 Achievement Points: 26177 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 13 Joined: 12/20/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 19 Birthday: 02/10/1969 Device: Windows Share Posted June 4, 2012 If you in Los Angeles, being an alcoholic is a badge of honor. I will say that I think there is a significant difference between an addict (alcoholic or otherwise) and a person suffering from depression. There are no pills to "cure" addiction, or even really stem the symptoms. There are often no environmental influences that cause addiction (although there may be environmental influences that provide access to addictive materials). You can't "fix" it, really. I, like any other person, suffered some depressed periods in my life - hell, I think I'm in one right now, actually. But I understand what's going on just as I did back when I was 16 and hated everyone and everything and thought the whole world and every person in it was pointless. I am lucky enough not to suffer from any chemical imbalances in my brain that might cause depression (afaik); usually, when I am feeling depressed, there are tangible reasons. My wife and I moved to a new town where I don't know anyone. I work from home so I rarely have face to face contact with any real human beings (not counting grocery clerks or the guy who works at Kwik Trip) other than my wife; but she's a cop and works the swing shift, so I only see he for about an hour a day, and quite frankly you need more than one person in your life to talk to regularly anyway. In short, I am alone all the time and don't have any RL friends. Yeah, it depresses me. But I found a local hockey game, met some guys who like to hunt and fish, and things are slowly getting better. I can see tangible reasons for why I feel the way I do and, at least for me, I see a path out of it. Being older helps. Alcoholism doesn't really have a "tangible reason." I know a woman who was sober for 10 years; she decided she wasn't an alcoholic anymore. So she had a drink, and that turned into drinks, and then a pattern of drinking all the time, until she lost her job and almost lost her family. She can't take a pill that will allow her to have a drink now and then. She either doesn't drink, or she runs the risk of killing herself with alcohol. The Flush 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
BANNPIRE Posted June 4, 2012 Member ID: 1176 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 7 Topic Count: 110 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 954 Content Per Day: 0.18 Reputation: 216 Achievement Points: 6665 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 02/23/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 6, 2015 Birthday: 07/27/1983 Share Posted June 4, 2012 Lay off anti depressants and TAP WATER. Maybe smoke some really good chron...{seriously} Find out what excites you and do it and keep doing things that excite you.. Find a way to make a living by doing what excites you. Your reality is a mirror image of you. If you smile in a mirror your reflection is forced to smile back. If you go down a negative path,thought cycle, or vibration You will experiance negativity. This is you creating your own problem. Things can't change unless you change. Remeber Your reflection can't smile without you unless you make it smile by doing it yourself. The same thing with life. If you think possitive and do possitive your life with follow suite because it has no choice to. It has to follow you. You are the one who gets to choose and has the power of choice. Bogleg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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