The lasting impact of growing up in an alcoholic home...
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The lasting impact of growing up in an alcoholic home...
Quote by the actress Charlize Theron:
Charlize Theron, Not Ashamed
"My father was a very sick man,'' she said. "My father was an alcoholic all my life. I only knew him one way, and that was as an alcoholic. ... It was a pretty hopeless situation. Our family was just kind of stuck in it."
Living as an only child under those conditions had lasting effects.
"The day-to-day unpredictability of living with an addict is the thing that you sit with and have kind of embedded in your body for the rest of your life, more than just this one event of what happened one night,'' she said. "I think our family was an incredibly unhealthy one. And all of it, I think, scarred us in a way. Of course, I wish what happened that night would have never happened. It's unfortunately what happens when you don't get to the root of these issues."
Living as an only child under those conditions had lasting effects.
"The day-to-day unpredictability of living with an addict is the thing that you sit with and have kind of embedded in your body for the rest of your life, more than just this one event of what happened one night,'' she said. "I think our family was an incredibly unhealthy one. And all of it, I think, scarred us in a way. Of course, I wish what happened that night would have never happened. It's unfortunately what happens when you don't get to the root of these issues."
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This is one reason that I tend to suggest "Adult Children of Alcoholics (and dysfunctional families".....to new members on the forum, if they have been raised in the home with alcoholism....
Or, al LEAST, study the literature....
Or, al LEAST, study the literature....
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"This family violence, this kind of violence that happens within the family, is something that I share with a lot of people,'' she said. "I'm not ashamed to talk about it because I do think that the more we talk about these things, the more we realize we are not alone in any of it. I think, for me, it's just always been that this story really is about growing up with addicts and what that does to a person."
Thank you, Charlize.
Thank you, Seren.
Thank you, Charlize.
Thank you, Seren.
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