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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 608519" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>Glad she has been doing well, and I hope she will be able to survive also this obstacle. Keeping the stable job that long is a huge thing. Congrats!</p><p></p><p>Sometimes I wonder how much about addiction goes down to pure luck. Have wondered a long time starting from the conversations I used to have with my granddad. He was a war veteran from the three desperate, ugly wars with many terrible personal experiences during those long years. During those years when accumulative loss count in his unit was over 100 %. Looking back, he did suffer from PTSD, but at that time and place that was not something that would had been recognized or treated. And he was very high-functioning so even now he could had been overlooked. He, and all the others in his unit, used both amphetamine and heroin regularly during the war. Nothing to keep you going like speed and there are nothing that compares to heroin as cough medicine (and it takes care of the pain too.) He was able to get rid of both quite easily after war but many were not so lucky. First they did get their heroin from doctors and were somewhat functioning after the war but when the time went on, the long term effects of cause started to show. And then there was of course alcohol. </p><p></p><p>Many of those men my granddad served with, were long gone before I was born, some were high functioning till the end like my granddad but for many, the toll of all that begun to show during the year. I met many of them as a kid with my granddad. Many were wreck, some were downright scary for a young girl and it was so difficult to connect the stories my granddad told me, old photos he showed, to those people I met. </p><p></p><p>So much that was lost. So much grief and hurt. Decades and decades of suffering for your country even when everyone else was wanting to move on. So very sad.</p><p></p><p>When young, I hated it, that granddad always wanted to make me meet these people, but when I have grown older, I have understood and I'm grateful. After the war also Granddad just wanted to forget, he didn't talk about war to my mother much. My mother ended up hating everything that war and what my granddad did represented. She had no respect for those sacrificies and what all that had meant for her life. With me, granddad got a second change and wanted to show me, what the cost of my comfortable life in free country had been and who have paid it.</p><p></p><p>Addicts and alcoholics those men were. And not the nice people necessary, but putting that solely on them would be more than cruel.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 608519, member: 14557"] Glad she has been doing well, and I hope she will be able to survive also this obstacle. Keeping the stable job that long is a huge thing. Congrats! Sometimes I wonder how much about addiction goes down to pure luck. Have wondered a long time starting from the conversations I used to have with my granddad. He was a war veteran from the three desperate, ugly wars with many terrible personal experiences during those long years. During those years when accumulative loss count in his unit was over 100 %. Looking back, he did suffer from PTSD, but at that time and place that was not something that would had been recognized or treated. And he was very high-functioning so even now he could had been overlooked. He, and all the others in his unit, used both amphetamine and heroin regularly during the war. Nothing to keep you going like speed and there are nothing that compares to heroin as cough medicine (and it takes care of the pain too.) He was able to get rid of both quite easily after war but many were not so lucky. First they did get their heroin from doctors and were somewhat functioning after the war but when the time went on, the long term effects of cause started to show. And then there was of course alcohol. Many of those men my granddad served with, were long gone before I was born, some were high functioning till the end like my granddad but for many, the toll of all that begun to show during the year. I met many of them as a kid with my granddad. Many were wreck, some were downright scary for a young girl and it was so difficult to connect the stories my granddad told me, old photos he showed, to those people I met. So much that was lost. So much grief and hurt. Decades and decades of suffering for your country even when everyone else was wanting to move on. So very sad. When young, I hated it, that granddad always wanted to make me meet these people, but when I have grown older, I have understood and I'm grateful. After the war also Granddad just wanted to forget, he didn't talk about war to my mother much. My mother ended up hating everything that war and what my granddad did represented. She had no respect for those sacrificies and what all that had meant for her life. With me, granddad got a second change and wanted to show me, what the cost of my comfortable life in free country had been and who have paid it. Addicts and alcoholics those men were. And not the nice people necessary, but putting that solely on them would be more than cruel. [/QUOTE]
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