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My wife is writing a paper for her Psychology class on a social debate sort of subject. She decided to do it on addiction being a disease rather than a choice. I have experience in that I am an alcoholic, attend AA and have been sober for 6 years, I also give AA meetings the credit as support and fellowship I believe has made all the difference in my life. I was just wondering what the community here thought about addiction being a disease rather than a choice and being treated as such. Personally, I think it should at least in part be treated as a disease. If you are in an accident and are prescribed pain killers, then are took off of them, shouldn’t you be helped to come off of them with doctor advice? Again, this is just asking for opinions, thanks everyone.
I am doing a project where I must diagnose a “patient” with a psychological disorder.
This make-believe patient portrays the following symptoms:
-Mood swings
-Alcoholism and other addictive behaviors
-Secrecy
-Feelings of guilt
-Restlessness
-Arterial inflammation (BMI/ body fat falls within normal ranges)
-Periods of aggression
The answer I am searching for is NOT depression or bipolar disorder.
I recently decided to take alcohol out of my diet completely. I used to drink a pint of beer or so a night after work. I am on day 2 and feel pretty good. I am just apprehensive of if I am fooling myself. Is it possible I could still experience symptoms or DTs? Thanks!!
For almost two years, I have had custody of my sister’s two children, ages 15 and 11. She and the father have supervised 8-hour visits every other Saturday. The supervisor had planned surgery and could not supervise this past weekend, but my sister and her boyfriend did not let anyone know until the last minute and wanted his aunt to supervise, with me providing half the transportation. I only know the aunt well enough not to trust her, and they refused to provide the last name and date of birth to DYFS for a background check, would not return DYFS’ phone calls or meet with them. This is not a DYFS case, but DYFS monitors the situation for the court, and is involved to try to help the parents get their children back.
On top of all that, they were both staying at a shelter until about a month ago, when the father was kicked out after a drunken fight. I just found out that he was not staying in the shelter anymore, and his son, 15, recently stayed with him on the street one night (possibly all night) when he was supposed to be spending the night at a friend’s house. The son is also starting to experiment with drugs, and witnessed his father dealing pot at their last home. The father has failed to complete any court-ordered alcohol abuse treatment and admitted to the DYFS worker that he still drinks. He also told the DYFS worker my sister was planning to leave the shelter this week to sleep on the streets with him so that she would not have to give $200 a month of her welfare money to the shelter for rent (with no place else to go). He was probably drunk during the conversation. We barely speak, but I begged my sister not to leave the shelter. She did anyway.
My sister has been attending her alcohol treatment and had been passing her drugs tests, until this week, when her results came back as “diluted”. She and her boyfriend are very abusive towards me, and they bad-mouth me and misrepresent the situation to the children. Still, I feel overwhelmed by guilt that she is not seeing her children today. The children are happy with me but still love and want to be with their parents, which I understand. We had a family team meeting in December where the parents set up goals to try to achieve stability, with a June deadline, and they have done nothing. Should I offer to take the kids to meet her at a park or somewhere for an hour or so? I would have to stay at least within sight-distance of them if I do. This could very well backfire on me. I don’t know what to do.
This is a complicated situation and I have tried to be brief, so if you have any questions, please ask. I desperately need advise.
Melissa: TY for your kind words & prayers! Best of luck to u in your situation. I will be praying for u as well & may God bless u & give u strength. The children are too old & have been through too much for me to lie to them.
Miss_cri: I have been the bigger person more than u know, & I understand & do want to honor the kids’ wishes & I have done so in the past. I fear that their parents have become complacent with things as they are (having fun visits while my husband & I shoulder all of the responsibility of raising their children, all the while telling their children its not their fault, while still being able to maintain their lifestyle of drinking/drugging &, from my sis’ mouth, “only working enough to pay for the next six-pack.” Unfortunately, I feel like the only “card” I have left in making the parents straighten up is visitation. Unfortunatley this all falls on Mother’s Day weekend. Sucks for everyone.
Faye: I want to honor the childrens’ wishes & I agree with what you are saying. When kids have been raised amongst chaos & abuse that is “normal” to them. I have spoken to the kids & will speak to them again… at this point I feel there is more to it than that (read my above comments)… but I understand what you are saying & that is my dilema. Bless you for helping others in the same situation. Happy Mother’s Day.
Rita: TY so much for your kind words. I feel that you truly understand where I am coming from & the dilema that I face: honoring what the kids’ want vs. motivating the parents to do the right thing. The bf that I speak of is the father. Thak you for your much-needed prayer and I have now prayed for you as well.
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I’m talking like for a serious alcoholic…
This person is currently in the hospital and not had any alcohol in several days, not sure exactly how long. But he’s already almost died once, over the weekend, but now they are saying the same thing again that he may not make it through the night tonight.
“Research” is from an article that makes fun of Charlie Sheen. But whatever, my point still stands.
-He threatened his wife with a switchblade on Christmas day.
-Crashed two of his cars into a ravine, that’s twice within a span of 4 months
-Multiple prostitutes
-Public battles with ex wives
-Drug abuse, alcohol abuse, rehab.
-Generally violent
-Does cigarette ads in Japan
-Demanded Obama discuss the 9/11 conspiracy theory with him in private
-General asswhole comments to the media.
For all this he gets very brief jail time and fines he has no trouble paying cause he’s still filming his show. Right after the xmas scandal, he got signed for 2 more seasons. Don’t even try to say it’s because no one cares about Charlie Sheen. Two and a Half Men was the #1 rated show in America for a time in 2008 and most people know who he is. He makes 1.8 million an episode.
the cover I think was orange and the title was pretty long. the pictures were in black and white and the author discussed particular cases. One example was taking LSD gave the person a feeling of superiority to the people around them. Covered alcoholism, schizophrenia, homosexuality (treated it as a curable disease) pretty old book. even had a topic on lsd and one on addiction.Each picture related to the topic. I think it the title might have been man’s inner demons or conflict not really sure.
He drinks a lot. His preference is Vodka, but for some reason yesterday it was brandy. He works a full time nite job and is very well off. How he keeps a job drinking the way he does is beyond me.
On Sundays, he starts out drinking and passes out, then he wakes up and eats, cleans house, and takes care of bills, mows, then starts drinking again until he passes out again. He usually goes to bed around midnite every Sunday nite and sleep until around 4 or 5 on Monday afternoon to get ready for work. He says he sleeps 16 hours plus because he is exhausted from his job. Right now he is still sleeping and he has been in bed since last nite at 11 pm.
Is this a symptom of alcoholism or is he just tired?
He nearly died a couple years ago from drinking. Literally in a coma for a month. He will never get help. He gets no support from his adult children who just dont get it.
I learned….I will never drink, not even a glass of wine with him again. I cant make him stop, but I dont have to partake in his problem and pretend like its not there.
