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Hi folks.
I'm just reading through the threads and taking in the support that we give and receive here.
I got news today that a young woman whom I did some work with when she was a child (15) died following "complications with alcohol".
My service lost track of her some years ago. She'd be 25 or 26 now.
Apparently she died alone and wasn't found for some time. Tragically, there was nobody to check in on her and evidently she didn't really have friends. I remember her being very difficult and suspect she was hard work to be around.
Anyway, I suppose I'm just thankful for the support I have- family, friends and a bunch of addicts on a website who have never given me anything but support.
Let's not underestimate the value of what happens here on S.R.
Stay safe everyone.
I'm just reading through the threads and taking in the support that we give and receive here.
I got news today that a young woman whom I did some work with when she was a child (15) died following "complications with alcohol".
My service lost track of her some years ago. She'd be 25 or 26 now.
Apparently she died alone and wasn't found for some time. Tragically, there was nobody to check in on her and evidently she didn't really have friends. I remember her being very difficult and suspect she was hard work to be around.
Anyway, I suppose I'm just thankful for the support I have- family, friends and a bunch of addicts on a website who have never given me anything but support.
Let's not underestimate the value of what happens here on S.R.
Stay safe everyone.
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So I attended the funeral today.
There were no young people there.
As in no friends. Just her mother, brother and tragically, her three year old child. And a bunch of professionals from our agency who worked with her throughout her childhood at various points.
But she had zero support.
And that's so sad for somebody of only 26 years of age.
There were no young people there.
As in no friends. Just her mother, brother and tragically, her three year old child. And a bunch of professionals from our agency who worked with her throughout her childhood at various points.
But she had zero support.
And that's so sad for somebody of only 26 years of age.
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One thing alcoholics never fail to do is lose their relationships.
Active alcoholics are impossible to be around. I could see with the level of my irrationality at the end of my drinking that if I had continued, my husband would have to leave. He couldn't stay with that. No one should.
We have a family member who has lost almost everyone now, he's down to his mother, who still let's him crash on her couch. Other family has said they believe he will not allow himself to be homeless, so if she stood firm and stopped enabling, he could get clean.
Unfortunately sometimes, we die instead. This is no joke. Whether or not to quit drinking as an alcoholic is not an offhand decision, or something to be bandied at and considered lightly. It's deadly serious. continuing to drink is dangerous for the alcoholic and everyone who gets in his path.
Active alcoholics are impossible to be around. I could see with the level of my irrationality at the end of my drinking that if I had continued, my husband would have to leave. He couldn't stay with that. No one should.
We have a family member who has lost almost everyone now, he's down to his mother, who still let's him crash on her couch. Other family has said they believe he will not allow himself to be homeless, so if she stood firm and stopped enabling, he could get clean.
Unfortunately sometimes, we die instead. This is no joke. Whether or not to quit drinking as an alcoholic is not an offhand decision, or something to be bandied at and considered lightly. It's deadly serious. continuing to drink is dangerous for the alcoholic and everyone who gets in his path.
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