Sentences with phrase «not alcoholic families»

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He learns to cope within a blended family, attempts to understand and contend with an abusive and alcoholic stepfather, and later dates and experiments with drugs and alcohol; experiences that are not uncommon within the lives of youth today.

That said; being an alcoholic is not something a person should be blamed for, but they do have an obligation to get help for themselves, especially if they have a family / children.

It had nothing to do with Christianity because I was not raised in a family of faith; rather, in a home with an alcoholic, there was an underground but extremely strong message that negative emotions should be avoided at all costs.

The pastor wants to discover these situations within his parish, not only because the alcoholic and his family need help which he may be able to give, but because help rendered at this stage of the illness may save them from years of suffering.

Yet their consumption of alcohol does not affect their families, jobs, finances, health and public behavior as it does in traditional diagnoses of alcoholics.

In fact, the epiphany that came to me on the day over six years ago when I chose to quit drinking was that all my crying to God to help me quit wasn't going to work — because in that moment I was confronted by the awareness that I had to choose whether to quit or not, that there was no heavenly big daddy waiting in the wings to help me do so, that my choice to not drink would not change the fact that I have come from a family of alcoholics and other addictions that may have a genetic component.

To illustrate, the statement by a trusted family doctor to an alcoholic patient, that he «is not an alcoholic but simply drinks too much and should cut down,» can petrify that man's resistance to seeing his problem for what it is.

Coming from a family of alcoholics of which I wasn't one, I find any kind of drug addiction a horrible obstruction to a «normal» life.

One thing I have learned as well is that growing up in an alcoholic - addicted and codependent family from many generations - I personally NEED more of the emotion based stuff - not a lot, but some.

As a matter of fact, they often do not, and the pastor does well to keep close to a family even after the alcoholic member has achieved sobriety.

The other reason why the pastor has more opportunities of this kind is the fact that members of the family are often accessible to him when the alcoholic is not.

It seems to be a blow to the family's self - image to think of one of their number as an «alcoholic» and as one who is not fully in control of his behavior.

If involvement in AA, Al - Anon, and the church program do not suffice in helping the alcoholic and his wife make the marital adjustments which will undergird productive family life, the pastor should help them obtain marriage counseling.

Even if such a method does not backfire (as it will if the alcoholic discovers what is occurring), it tends to compromise the openness and mutual trust that should characterize marriage and family relationships.

Lisansky concludes that at least two subgroups must be distinguished among «women alcoholics» — the «respectable» woman whose drinking is relatively concealed and the woman alcoholic whose drinking makes her an obvious problem to society and not just to herself and her family.

The researchers determined that subjects with a family history of alcoholism found salty solutions less pleasurable than did those individuals not related to alcoholics.

Uhm — And — And, if you want to know where they can go to — to get a prescription, a lot of times, the last evac and the family doctor, and the Doc kind of specializes ahead and say, «Well, you're not alcoholic, why do you need Nal — Naltrexone?»

Whenever I would start running or anything like regular fitness, in my tobacco addicted, alcoholic family that was viewed as... i do nt have the words... above my station or being phony.

For example, you will find it very easy to open up about an alcoholic past or a family separation and you will not worry about being judged by the other person.

One reason that he married Peppy was that his ex-wife had been an alcoholic and Peppy came from an evangelical family and didn't drink.

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Fluff — «White» children from single mother families whose fathers are not convicted criminals, alcoholics, or drug addicts — and therefore not «absent» — have lower incidences of delinquency, heavy drinking, and drug use than «white» children from the group of single mother families whose fathers are criminals, alcoholics, or drug addicts.

While most of the children had a father with an AUD (N = 68), six offspring came from families with an alcoholic mother, and two adolescents lived in a family with both parents having an AUD.

In many cases, it is not the alcoholics that reach out for alcoholism treatment, but rather their friends, family members and core support systems that seek treatment services.