Alcoholism can be a real bitch :(

Sounds like gastrointestinal bleeding...and, no, I'm not a doctor.



My younger son's best friend from high school began drinking heavily in his mid-20's....and died of the bleeding mentioned above in his 30s.



The human body can only take so much abuse before it quits.

In light of what the world has gone through the last two years, l would say that the answer is self evident.

Sounds like he is trying to drink his problems away.

Probably cirrhosis.

When the friend is in the hospital bleeding out - I expect a doctor has covered it. Someone who will drink anything is most definitely addicted...but not all heavy drinkers are alcoholics.



Addicts have excuses they use - stress, family problems, world problems, work problems, financial problems. More often than not, the problems are a result of the addiction rather than the cause.



I've known people who quit an addiction when it became life threatening - and I've known some who didn't and died. It's frightening how strong addictions can be.

Nope - as long as you state your opinion and allow others the right to have their own opinion....that doesn't happen.


I think we insist on 'labels' because it adds a layer of permission.

If someone is 'addicted' we can excuse the behavior to some extent and sympathize or at least empathize.

I understand what you are saying, odahh. But I personally have seen "drunks" ( who go on a bender once every few months) who are NOT alcoholics.

It may be a New Years Eve party or a wedding. But they get drunk and act as "drunks" but it does not interfere with any problems in their life.

There is a difference - and it is well documented.

--Harvard.edu

https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohol-he...binge-drinking

excess of everything is injurious... so as alcohol.

It is totally troo I occasionally walk into walls, havin' completely forgaht who I am.

An' most Noo Years, you gotta scrape me offa the ceilin' if'n you wanna query Moi 'bout anythin'.

As a Sagittarius, I would be noplace without what most male hair groomin' products might wanna describe as "volumized excess".

But I would naht wanna walk this path 24/7.

Here are blasts fired aloft ... firewoiks in the sky ... momentary elevations beyond the pedestrian.

How I know this?

Bcs you can't yogah out all sublime while you floopsied off your Yummypipe.

Here is a clean-livin' & soulful lift of alla yr presences & yondahs demands a diffrent stance toward reality & its imminent horizons.

CONTRAST IS A SUPAHPOWAH.

It be practical conflux in motion -- booms & kazooms punctuated by soulful flopout.

An' I would wanna question the doctrine of single-mindedness here bcs it is the positive flipside of addiction.

What choice do you have if the path you CHOOSE is hellbento?

What choice do you have if your lack of choice has a similarly singulah destination?

That is why I favor livin' a broad existence.

The wisdom of manyture.

The optimism of sum kinda balance.

Gotta say, I am a creacher of excess, trooly.

So I would want always to stabilize musself in regulah pulses.

If I am to be driven, I wanna see plenty places steada jus' the one.

Wider out than alcohol, likely it is the case that plenty people jus' kinda get STUCK.

One slooshin' for the whole shebang, kinda thing.

Tellya, we gaht an entire planet fulla miscellaneously stymied talents & opportoonities could be maximized if'n only we could lift folks up bettah.

My view?

Too many weaponized carrots don't gaht no actschwl vitamins.