ChaoticMusings

Quite.

Maddog wrote:

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Digger wrote:

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 That dug up some old memories.  

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 Jack Wild was one of my first crushes when I was 13.   

He had a short life sadly due to drinking and smoking excessively.   He ended up with oral cancer.  

The two photos below show him in his late twenties, and at 53 just before he died.

Syl wrote:

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Sad...early fame can be a curse.

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 He always said not.   He reckoned he would have been an alcoholic regardless because he had THIQ which addicts nearly always do.   

THIQ is a unique chemical that was first found in the brains of people with heroin addiction. Until that is, one day, a researcher discovered that it was also found in the brains of hardcore alcoholics after they died. Because the body can only manufacture this chemical, it seemed to be a likely link for solving the disease of alcohol addiction. When other, more moderate drinkers were studied, the chemical was nowhere to be found in their systems.

Maddog wrote:

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Digger wrote:

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Maddog wrote:

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Digger wrote:

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 That dug up some old memories.  

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 Jack Wild was one of my first crushes when I was 13.   

He had a short life sadly due to drinking and smoking excessively.   He ended up with oral cancer.  

 

The two photos below show him in his late twenties, and at 53 just before he died.

 

 

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 Damn. 😳

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They had to remove his tongue and voice box.  I think he was one of the UK's most talented performers that never was.   He was brilliant in Oliver!  

Digger wrote:

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I've lived with someone who had a drink problem. It was soul destroying and they would not be helped. There is something unbearable about watching someone kill themselves slowly with this disease.

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 I was friends with someone with a drink problem. She never addressed it, and she hid it so well only close friends knew. She was scarcely ill, but had underlying problems caused by drink that she ignored and never spoke about.

She died in front of me at the age of 41.

It's a terrible thing alcoholism but it can be beaten.

I've seen and heard some terrible things from people at AA Meetings who who managed it.

Myself included, I've been sober for years and stopping was the best thing I ever did.

There was a woman at a meeting who's daughter was in a wheelchair because she drank all through her pregnancy, a man who was given the last rites and wheeled into a meeting two days later on a stretcher, a man who passed out on the road and a car went over him, he was left with terrible injuries but never felt sorry for himself.

They all got sober and changed their lives.

Vita wrote:

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It's a terrible thing alcoholism but it can be beaten.

I've seen and heard some terrible things from people at AA Meetings who who managed it.

Myself included, I've been sober for years and stopping was the best thing I ever did.

There was a woman at a meeting who's daughter was in a wheelchair because she drank all through her pregnancy, a man who was given the last rites and wheeled into a meeting two days later on a stretcher, a man who passed out on the road and a car went over him, he was left with terrible injuries but never felt sorry for himself.

They all got sober and changed their lives.

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 I really admire the way you managed to stop drinking Vita, and also the way you talk about it, hopefully encouraging others to beat their own addictions.

Magica wrote:

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Vita wrote:

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It's a terrible thing alcoholism but it can be beaten.

I've seen and heard some terrible things from people at AA Meetings who who managed it.

Myself included, I've been sober for years and stopping was the best thing I ever did.

There was a woman at a meeting who's daughter was in a wheelchair because she drank all through her pregnancy, a man who was given the last rites and wheeled into a meeting two days later on a stretcher, a man who passed out on the road and a car went over him, he was left with terrible injuries but never felt sorry for himself.

They all got sober and changed their lives.

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 Being an alcoholic destroys not just their lives but their family around them.

 

I love that you speak out V, not many would.  You can now go on to live a full and healthy lfe. 

 

Well done V  x

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 Thanks Mags x