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03-07-2012, 07:09 AM
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My two cents on alcoholism? Try working with the alcoholic when you have to carry their weight on the job and I bet some of this sensitivity goes away pretty quickly. 
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03-07-2012, 07:46 AM
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The most interesting thing about this thread to me and how it differs from Cancer etc..... Kev said if he goes to the bar he knows he will drink and not be able to stop. He has been able to avoid this temptation and not drink for a while now. People with cancer or other awful diseases do not have this option. While both are diseases I believe that people with alcoholism, at least in some cases, can make choices that will keep them healthy.
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03-07-2012, 08:28 AM
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The difficult thing for me to convey and equally difficult for the average drinker to understand is that when an alcoholic is in the depths of his illness, there is no choice. That is the power that alcohol can have over people. When it comes to alcohol, my mind and body are wired completely different than others. I never expect anyone to understand that, just as I can't understand people that are able to have just a few. As a group, we can go around and around about this topic all day, but just like most controversial topics, there is always gonna be 2 sides and rarely will one side be able to change the view points of others. Personally, I am blessed to have family and friends in my life that, even though they may not understand alcoholism, they support me in my effort to remain sober.
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03-07-2012, 11:49 AM
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my girlfriend (unhappily) is an alcoholic and it's a nightmare....she comes from a whole family of boozers and she literally turns into a monster when she drinks...it's like jekyll and hyde...can't tell you how many times i have been unable to drag her out of a bar or away from a bottle at 3am only to be berated by insults or having random objects thrown at me for trying to get her on track...next morning rules around with things and shambles and she doesn't even acknowledge anything happened....
it's downright scary how alcohol makes people and until you are around someone who cannot control themselves you would never know...
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03-07-2012, 08:55 PM
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so, why in the world is she still your girlfriend?
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. Abraham Lincoln
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03-07-2012, 09:14 PM
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I buy a big ole bottle of Jack Daniels and keep it in the freezer at my girlfriends house. I mix it up with Coke or Pepsi and get down with it.
I usually pass out in bed while we're watching a movie. My gf tells me stories about how I talk jibberish in my sleep. One time, she said a conversation went like this... Me: Did ya bet the under? Her: Huh? Me: Did ya bet the under? Her: whaaa? What does 'bet the under mean'? Me: Show me the ticket Her: Whaaa? Me: Show me the ticket Her: What does bet the under mean? what are you talking about? What ticket? Another one ..... Me: Pizza and Oranges. Her: What? Pizza and Oranges!? Me: Peace and Quiet... I said peace and quiet. I have my doubts about this...but she claims she's going to record me the next time I do it.
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