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I understand that desire to drink. Like you, my grandfather was an alcoholic and likely bipolar, although he didn't commit suicide, he did smoke and drink himself to death when I was about 7. I know that I have the genetic predisposition to substance abuse because of those desires to drink. I always make the choice not to drink when I am craving it, because I believe that that would be self-medicating. Those craving are a warning signal to me, that I need to solve, either on my own or with help, the feeling, thoughts, actions and/or environments that are causing the craving.
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
---"Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society". Abraham Lincoln Online. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 30, 1859.
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