Does your Family have a history of Drug/Alcohol abuse?

[Madlib]

uh huh, madness runs in the family.

[The Colonel]

i come from a long line of alcoholics....

i do too
and i sure drink a hell of a lot of alchohol.

[Nochowderforyou]

I as well come from a long, looooongline of drinkers, and I fell into it as well. I was a daily drinker for a good 3 or 4 years until my stomach just couldn't take booze anymore. I quit for 3 years, not one drink.

I still have the ocassional beer, but hard stuff I don't touch at all.

I don't blame it on genetics, I blame it on past traumatic experiences I went through and my mental illness. I was diagnosed with a severe bi-polar disorder at age 16. High school was rough on me and I eventually got kicked out. Because of my mental illness, I had paranoia, irrational thinking patterns, and a bad temper. Little things set me off and after 2 semesters of getting picked on daily, I had a blackout and beat a kid bloody and bruised. I got kicked out at age 16.

The only way I could control my illness was with alcohol, so that's why I started drinking. It's theonly way I could cope.

Then I got jumped by 3 guys a few years later and that made my anger even worse, so that's when I started drinking everyday.

I drank to be happy. I wasn't happy due to being bi-polar and the pills weren't working. Thankfully, after 8 years of diff. kinds od meds, I have found something that works great. Now I drink on occasion. If I do, it's only a few beers.