So, how many of you suffered from an alcoholic influence, most likely a family member, in your lives before you started to abuse a substance of some sort, whether legal or not? It is surprisingly, a great way to predict that you'll drink, or have some unhealthy addiction to something. All I'm asking is the ability to recognize it and keep recognizing it so that I'll have some perspective in the future when waste and neglect and indolence comes knocking, because it used to be my best friend, and you know how familiar best friends are, even when they've been out of your life for some time.
"It is surprisingly, a great way to predict that you'll drink, or have some unhealthy addiction to something."
ReplyDeleteWhy is this surprising?
I find it surprising because people that would be most impacted (negatively) by abuse should potentially be more lucid about steering clear of it for themselves.
ReplyDeleteYou're assuming (implicitly) that propensity to abuse alcohol and other drugs has no genetic component (because if it did, you wouldn't be surprised by its inheritability). What is the basis for this assumption?
ReplyDeleteGood point. And yet, if this was a different risk taking activity, like driving really fast (resulting in some harm), or even worse, child molestation of some sort, then it could have drastically altered the younger person's life in such a way that I would think them likely to be consistently aware of their own tendencies so as to block them to some relative proportion.
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