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Orthos |
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Why do children of alcoholics, who grow up seeing how their parents' lives are ruined by alcohol, start drinking? Especially when they have an older brother who constantly warns them that alcoholism is strongly genetic?
In other news, I sometimes really hate my brother.
Because some people simply will not take "no" for an answer until they come to the conclusion personally, which they may never reach.
lynora |
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I don't know. I've never really gotten what people get out of drinking in the first place. I had to give up alcohol for medical reasons and my reaction was pretty much mild disappointment. I like the taste of some alcohol, but *shrug* it's not really a big deal. I took it way harder when I had to temporarily give up coffee. SO glad that wasn't permanent.
And I don't know about your family, but mine are all contrary as hell. So just because someone's been told something doesn't mean they won't take it as a dare to do the opposite....
lynora |
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This has been one of those days. The ones where I find myself having the not so internal debate about chocolate. As in, if I eat this chocolate, it will be bad for my blood sugar. If I don't eat this chocolate, it will be bad for my mental health. I think we all know how that debate ended. It was delicious.
Tin Foil Yamakah |
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I certainly don't miss drinking
In other news
It's finger lickin good
Aranna |
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This has been one of those days. The ones where I find myself having the not so internal debate about chocolate. As in, if I eat this chocolate, it will be bad for my blood sugar. If I don't eat this chocolate, it will be bad for my mental health. I think we all know how that debate ended. It was delicious.
Switch to dark chocolate, it has far less sugar and a lot more of the stuff that makes it good for your body, mind and soul. Plus it tastes even richer.
Tacticslion |
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Plus, I don't plan on consuming any substance that alters my brain activity other than sugar. That includes caffeine.
I miss caffeine but have to avoid it for health reasons. Otherwise 100% agreed.
Yeppers!
I got the "pleasure" of watching my mother's family "benefit" from the tender, loving caress of the various vices of those kinds (some with one, some with the other, some with both). I also lived in Lithuania.
Between those two on-hand examples, I was very open to my parents "Never." policy, and have implemented it to a degree a number of my peers found weird. On the other hand, I've never been in quite a number of the bad situations that they've found themselves within.
So, from my experience, I'm golden without, and have more than enough examples of "Nope." in my life to guarantee that I'm uninterested.
That said, some of my in-laws engaged fairly responsibly (though my parent-in-laws raised their daughter - my wife - to be a teetotaler to nearly my degree, which even includes medicines, so... there's that, too).
Tin Foil Yamakah |
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Seventy six million Americans, about 43% of the U.S. adult population, have been exposed to alcoholism in the family.
Almost one in five adult Americans (18%) lived with an alcoholic while growing up.
Roughly one in eight American adult drinkers is alcoholic or experiences problems due to the use of alcohol. The cost to society is estimated at in excess of $166 billion each year.
There are an estimated 26.8 million COAs in the United States. Preliminary research suggests that over 11 million are under the age of 18.
I'd cut him a little slack, Alcoholism is a cunning sneaky disease
Scintillae |
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Tacticslion wrote:Orthos wrote:In truth, as a Baptist, I don't have the actual urge (to say such)... but I have enough people in my life that do (notably my wife and all my in-laws on her side) that I do automatically hear it. :DTriOmegaZero wrote:I don't but Scint tells me all the time that she has this problem.Tacticslion wrote:Oh good, I'm not the only one to have that urge.... and also with you.
/religious-nerd-joke
Yeah Scint is Catholic so it's reactionary for her.
Though she tells me that the wording has changed slightly in some recent years.
Catholicism and Star Wars don't mix that well, despite what Dresden Files would have you believe. Apparently, pointing out that Benedict XVI looks like Palpatine is a quick way to sit alone at college youth group dinner.
thegreenteagamer |
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Quote:Seventy six million Americans, about 43% of the U.S. adult population, have been exposed to alcoholism in the family.
Almost one in five adult Americans (18%) lived with an alcoholic while growing up.
Roughly one in eight American adult drinkers is alcoholic or experiences problems due to the use of alcohol. The cost to society is estimated at in excess of $166 billion each year.
There are an estimated 26.8 million COAs in the United States. Preliminary research suggests that over 11 million are under the age of 18.
I'd cut him a little slack, Alcoholism is a cunning sneaky disease
I know the AMA defines it as a disease, but unlike foreign pathogens or genetic disorders, one is self-inflicted... the disease itself is the predisposition for it to happen. For all I know, I probably would be alcoholic too - it's why I don't drink.
Scintillae |
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TriOmegaZero wrote:What? The church made a change? I don't know how to handle that.There was a whole thing. A lot of the Latin was heavily re-translated for English, which caused quite a stir among certain groups of folks.
This also got me into trouble, mostly because my mom got sick of my dad and me making cracks about the Roman Missal sounding like an awesome idea for a weapon.