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Did addiction turn your kid difficult child or was your kid a difficult child who became addict?
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<blockquote data-quote="keista" data-source="post: 539590" data-attributes="member: 11965"><p>I'm not at this stage of parenting, but I've known many addicts in my life. Every single one had some sort of psychological/emotional issue BEFORE they became an addict.</p><p></p><p>At a Hospice information group, I met a recovering alcoholic who claimed that this was not true for himself. After speaking to him, I learned that he only started drinking after his girlfriend died. Although grief can be intense, it would still stretch my theory a bit. After further conversation, I found out it was not plain grief that dove him, but guilt as well. Due to coincidental circumstances he felt responsible for her death. So the combination of grief and guilt (extreme emotional stress) drove him to alcoholism. Although this was extremely traumatic, he was an otherwise psychologically/emotionally healthy man, so, in my opinion, he was more <em>"easily"</em> able to beat his addiction.</p><p></p><p>SuZIr, the problem with all the articles and stories you read is that the perspective is from an outsider. A person can act very easy child, and still have internal struggles that no one knows about. Even if there are signs, those outsiders could be ignoring them and pretending everything is perfectly OK. It's only when addiction becomes severe and destroys everything they used to know that they see there is a problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="keista, post: 539590, member: 11965"] I'm not at this stage of parenting, but I've known many addicts in my life. Every single one had some sort of psychological/emotional issue BEFORE they became an addict. At a Hospice information group, I met a recovering alcoholic who claimed that this was not true for himself. After speaking to him, I learned that he only started drinking after his girlfriend died. Although grief can be intense, it would still stretch my theory a bit. After further conversation, I found out it was not plain grief that dove him, but guilt as well. Due to coincidental circumstances he felt responsible for her death. So the combination of grief and guilt (extreme emotional stress) drove him to alcoholism. Although this was extremely traumatic, he was an otherwise psychologically/emotionally healthy man, so, in my opinion, he was more [I]"easily"[/I] able to beat his addiction. SuZIr, the problem with all the articles and stories you read is that the perspective is from an outsider. A person can act very easy child, and still have internal struggles that no one knows about. Even if there are signs, those outsiders could be ignoring them and pretending everything is perfectly OK. It's only when addiction becomes severe and destroys everything they used to know that they see there is a problem. [/QUOTE]
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