Greetings Chuck
Yeap, that's the way it is...
 CB> I know several Scizophrinics who also suffer from 
 CB> Alcoholism.  I sponsored one of them for a couple of 
 CB> years.  I remember all the "doctors" in AA who told him 
 CB> that he wasn't sober and clean while he was on drugs 
 CB> and that he had to stop taking his meds if he wanted to stay in AA.
I've yet to mett a scizophrinic who dos not have some sort of addiction.
But to say that meds are part of an addiction, they would have to be  totall
jerk offs !  The meds make you fell like shit, and that's just for starts.    
 
 CB> It was a constant fight with me telling him that those 
 CB> bums didn't know anything and that he needed to stay on 
 CB> the meds.
Thank God someone had enuff sence to see the defrents.  It's been 
myexperience as well with Christiens or want to be Christiens.  Addiction and 
mental health  are two very deffrent matters...  You don't need to be a 
doctor to see that.   
 CB> We drifted apart but when I ran into him a couple of 
 CB> years ago, he had 3 years sober, was married and was 
 CB> working every day.
I remember telling myself, life as I know it is over...
I could not see myself living life with an illness like scizophrinia." It was 
Hell on earth "...    " Then some "...
No matter what people sayd.  Nor matter what I believed. There's just no 
words to discribe what it's like to suffer from a mental illness.  I was 
sicker then I would have ever imagined.
That was some years ago...  But I'll never forget those very real and 
painfull days!    And I know that I would not be here today if it was not for 
people like yourself Chuck.  People who walked the extra miles.
There carring shows that life's worth living.
And that's one lesson I hope to never forget.  
God  Bless     
    &
Thank  You !
GazOo
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