re: Debate anyone? =) And or Discuss?

Quoting Satan:“ I know you all have moved on ...but i am Satan so listen. I don't believe DRINKING is the disease...lot's ... [snip!] ... ones who tried it...and then COULD NOT STOP. So basically...its a disease that needs to be "turned on" to start killing you.”

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This thread has probably migrated on to a different topic by now judging by the pages but I still have my 2 cents to add. I'm trying to figure how to put this. A child of an alcoholic parent(s) isn't neccessarily going to be 1000% garaunteed to be a drunk or alcoholic. It just means the tendency is there and there is a higher chance. Sure it's their choice to pick up a bottle or drug but like me, my dad was an alcoholic. I, personally, have an addictive personality. So it was my choice to start drinking. It's also up to me to control it and not let my impulses get the best of me. When things get hard for me I remember how nice it was being drunk and I wanna drink again SO BAD, but I refuse to let myself drink during times like that b/c that would just be feeding into it. That's the same reason I have never smoked or done drugs, b/c i know how easily i would be hooked. Personal weakness of mine meh anyway. But it IS up to the person to drink or not. That's why a 6 yr old isn't an alcoholic or anything along those lines. It's when they grow up. I probably didn't explain myself well. Sorry...

this post is probly over but i just wanted to say this

i think that if you have alcholic parents or grow up around people who abuse alchol you have a higher chance of becoming one your self, lately that message has been plastered all over our tv's and it really saddens me before i saw thouse adverts i already thought michael was gonna turn out to be an alcholic, his mum is oen his dad is one his granddad and grandma are all alcholics so he really hasnt had much of a happy life i guess you would say, my dad is an alcholic slowly dieing from emphsyma(sp) but he still is drinking his life away but i dont care about him

but in the end it is the persons choice to either keep picking up that drink and solving problems that way or to do it another way

i know im probly gonna get bashed for this but i dont care

i adore my son soo much he is my world, but with all this bullshit thats going on in my life atm i cant handle it and i have actaully thought about drinking or taking painkillers just to escape for awhile, but i know better then that and i know i have a greater responcebility in life then my self now and i wont go down to that level just to let them win, its been hard but some how i am fighting my urge to become that person, i need to prove not only to my self but to my son and the trouble making in laws that i will not let them get to me and not let them get me to go back to my old ways....

i hope that made sence