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    After watching real world and seeing Joey get help for his alcohol and other addictions, it made me think of all the people I know that have battled addiction. Most are functioning addicts but still..... As a teen and young adult I experimented with a few drugs, was a pothead thru out high school....and now my vices are a few drinks and a ciggarette now and then. I just realize how lucky I am to have never developed a problem.Most are not so lucky. Looking back I don't regret the choices I made but feel sad that a lot of people are not able to recreationally use drugs or alcohol.No one starts off wanting to become an addict- we all start off the same way, just wanting to try some shit to make us feel good. I just feel lucky that for me, it never went beyond that.

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    You are fortunate. My boyfriend is battling addiction to painkillers and it's affecting every aspect of his life. His Mom even secretly texts me to ask if he's ok or not when he's with me. Sad. He has cut back a LOT since we've been together and he is doing the best I've seen him do but the addiction is still there nonetheless. His whole life revolves around pills. It sucks.

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    My family history is littered with addiction problems. Luckily, this has scared me into NEVER even having a desire to try drugs, as I was to scared to become "one of them". I never even drank until I was 21, because I was so afraid of turning into my mother.

    Anyway, I have 4 different addiction stories from my family that stand out.

    My uncle
    An Alcoholic and mentally unstable. Finally diagnosed with Bi polar (runs in the family)
    Would end up quitting his job, get worried abotu how he couldnt afford to feed his family, and try to kill them. Then he would get committed for awhile, get out, get a new job, work for awhile, quit, worry, try to kill. Eventually, he burned the house down, his wife divorced him, he spent a long stint in mental health facility, was homeless for a long time...and finally, maybe 15 years later is getting his shit kinda together. He still drinks daily.

    My Cousin
    This is a very sad story. His wife took Phen-Fen for weight loss. As mos tof yoru know, that was dangerous shit. It damaged her heart and caused her pain. She was prescribed and became addicted to Oxycontin. Her husband, my cousin, had back pain and begain takign her pain pills. He also became addicted. They both hated the addiction, were good people and went to Methadone clinics in an attempt to get off the pills. She was sucessful. He was not. He even started takign drugs prescribed by the doctor to make him physicially ill if he took the pain pills. Nothign worked. He spent many sessions in rehab with no sucess. He fought the addictiion hard for almost 10 years.
    He got on his motorcycle high one day without a helmet on and died at age 32.

    My mother
    Her mom died, my parents got divorced, my mom got laid off, all within a few years apart. My mom lost it. She started drinking beer. Then vodka. Heavily. constantly. She stopped paying bills. We frequently lived with no heat, electric, water, phone or food. She spent every penny on vodka. She drove drunk and got 3 DUI's in a 2 week period. She spent time in jail. Got out. Got 2 more DUI's. Went on the run and moved out of state. Came back, got more DUI's. Went to jail longer. She now recieves social security checks monthly because she is unable to work due to depression and bi polar disorder. She drinks daily and her psych meds do not work. She has numerous health problems and is in and out of the hospital because of all these stomach/liver and other illnesses. My mother is dying. She still drinks constantly. She has stolen money from me, not fed us when we were children, just to buy liquor. She insists she is not an alcoholic and has never done anythgin wrong to anyone. She lives in her own little dream world. I cant even talk to her because she cannot be reasoned with or carry a conversation. I can't stand her. She makes me sick just to speak to her.

    My brother
    Thought my mom was cool for letting him drink at age 13. H e went on to sell crack for her boyfrind at age 15. They stayed up drinking together every night. He became a severe alcoholic before age 18. He is now 22 years old, still lives with her has no job or life, never grauated high school. They just drink together constantl. he is also dying at age 22. He refuses to go to the doctor although he vomits blood daily and only weighs 130 lbs. at 6 foot tall. He also uses other drusg with her recreationally. Or maybe addicted. I dont know. I dont talk to my brother cause it makes me to sad to think about. I hate my mother for ruining his life.


    Almost everyone in my family has an addiction to drugs or alcohol. It scares the shit out of me that I could be next. It can happen at any time. I am extremly careful to not drink to much, or when I'm upset or unhappy. I never have tried drugs, aside from smoking pot when I was younger. Everyoen also has some mental disease, mostly bi poalr and depression. I have also started to suffer from depression and anxiety, which is another reason foe me to not drink.

    Addiction is such a powerful harmful disease. It has basicially uined my entire family and has killed or will kill my entire immediate family. That's sad. Addiction sucks.

    I commend anyone for beating it. I dont think I could do it. Anyone who is able to overcome an addiction deserves great things in life.


    Well, I wrote a damn book, LOL. I'm bored and talkative tongiht Maybe i should just go to bed before I start sounding liek a dumbass and being quoted on another random troll forum.

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    Nice OP, I like what you said (-:
    Ive been around a lot of addiction with friends and most arent around to tell the tale but there have been some lovely stories 20 years on.
    2 of my oldest friends here have amazed me in the last couple of years. One finally after 25 years of abusing every substance possible and years of heroin and cocain addiction suddenly decided he didnt like drugs anymore and got clean almost over night. The other discovered MODERATION and completely turned his life around.
    Both made me laugh so hard when they told me! Good stuff! (-:

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    My boyfriend is a recovered alcoholic and addict--just celebrated his 11th year of sobriety in January. It's weird for me because a) we knew each other in HS and I would never have pegged him as one who would end up that way and b) I have never touched a drug in my life, and the first time I ever got drunk, I was 30! I've only been seriously trashed once in my life, too--and that was enough.

    It's a sticking point. I'm incredibly glad he's sober and the lack of booze in our daily lives is not a big deal at all (I rarely drink even socially, so it's nothing for me to skip the booze when we go out), but most of his stories about HS and college involve getting wasted and/or high, and so much of his focus currently revolves around addiction and recovery. For instance, Heath Ledger can't be mentioned on the news without my bf talking for 5 minutes about the dangers of addiction. Or someone at his work will get drunk and that'll be good for another 5 minutes.

    This gets really tiresome for me because, well, I KNOW addiction fucks you up! That's why I made a point of not drinking and not taking drugs! If I were to reveal my true, inner feelings, I have little pity for addicts and drunks. I know it's a disease--but you have to make the choice to drink the alcohol or take the drug first. We all did. I made the choice not to, even as a teenager, because I knew that the chances of it fucking up my life in some way would far outweigh the temporary enjoyment I might get from whatever I took. And to be brutally honest, if someone's STUPID enough to start drinking or drugging it up to the point where they develop a habit...then they deserve what they get. That's how I feel.

    (I'd exclude people who develop addictions to pain medication as a result of their treatment from that...I'm thinking mainly of the people who start out experimenting or trying to be cool and end up being a burnout.)

    But, I'd rather hear a thousand stories of past inebriation and tripping, than have him start up with even one drink or toke. That's for sure.

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