I am not now.
I want to share an important experience from last night. We had dinner with a cousin I have not seen since I was 13 years old.
Throughout the evening the topic of alcohol, mental illness and drugs kept coming up.
Our aunt who recently passed away and drank from a large gallon bottle of gin for YEARS, right up until her death. She just would not or could not quit. Her ex-husband told me she refused to quit, I think it was a little of both. She lost everything that meant anything to her in life, but she wouldn't/couldn't stop drinking.
Her daughter OD'd on some kind of prescription medication about 6 months after her death. She was her caregiver and had also lost her husband two years earlier. She had everything to live for including a teenager and a ten year old.
Life was too painful for her, I am so sorry it had to end like this for both of them.
Yet, the topic of drinking as a recreational passtime continued to be discussed as something fun and harmless.
He did have a few words of warning though and said 'it is probably a very good thing you don't bother with alcohol anymore.' Very good indeed.
For me it was a clear message 'it is in your genes baby girl and it doesn't look good!'
I really am so grateful to have been able to stop as I did. I have to continue to fight for this. Spending time on MWO helps me to not take it all for granted. What I have accomplished by quitting drinking could very well greatly impact the rest of my life, and in a positive way. Thank you for everyone's support here.
I want to share an important experience from last night. We had dinner with a cousin I have not seen since I was 13 years old.
Throughout the evening the topic of alcohol, mental illness and drugs kept coming up.
Our aunt who recently passed away and drank from a large gallon bottle of gin for YEARS, right up until her death. She just would not or could not quit. Her ex-husband told me she refused to quit, I think it was a little of both. She lost everything that meant anything to her in life, but she wouldn't/couldn't stop drinking.
Her daughter OD'd on some kind of prescription medication about 6 months after her death. She was her caregiver and had also lost her husband two years earlier. She had everything to live for including a teenager and a ten year old.
Life was too painful for her, I am so sorry it had to end like this for both of them.
Yet, the topic of drinking as a recreational passtime continued to be discussed as something fun and harmless.
He did have a few words of warning though and said 'it is probably a very good thing you don't bother with alcohol anymore.' Very good indeed.
For me it was a clear message 'it is in your genes baby girl and it doesn't look good!'
I really am so grateful to have been able to stop as I did. I have to continue to fight for this. Spending time on MWO helps me to not take it all for granted. What I have accomplished by quitting drinking could very well greatly impact the rest of my life, and in a positive way. Thank you for everyone's support here.
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