Just MC and ready to try again? Pack your cake, wine and tightie whities and join us for more ranting, weeping and most of all laughing! All welcome! (Part 16)

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Manda couldn't agree more. Sorry to hear you have had to deal with it so much, that must be very tough.

I don't have any experience of drug addiction but I have much first and second hand experience of mental illness and I think addiction is just the same. I have seen people on Twitter and Facebook saying Amy Winehouse chose that life - how little they know.

I like a drink, yet am not addicted. She liked a drink and it took over her - you could say a drink liked her. No difference in action (having a few drinks) yet totally different consequences.

Similarly drugs. What many who have never touched illicit drugs don't realise is that the vast majority of people who try drugs do things once or twice and don't get sucked in and people like Amy probably thought that would be them too.

Her poor parents who predicted this, tried to help but couldn't.

Hello girls!

I'm worried our thread's going to run out and all you lovely ladies are going to desert me so have set us up a shiny new one! It can be found here Let's Metal

Fully agree ladies - I woke up this morning and my first thought was about my pg. Then I thought about her parents and their first thought this morning - their first thought this morning must have been "my child is dead"......I couldn't imagine how soul destroying that must be. Then to have all of these people who didn't know her as a baby, a little girl, a teen and only wanted to see her at her worst splashing her dirtiest secrets across the papers and everyone who ever spoke to her coming out of the wood work for their share of the lime light.....it must be horrendous.

I was a fan of her voice as she had a similar feel vocally to billie holiday who I love and it is such a shame that even when her dreams came true she couldn't enjoy it through all her other demons. Drugs are a disease - not only do they hurt the person taking them they can very quickly destroy everyone around them. I have refused to get into a slanging match on face book as I know that these people wouldnt care or understand trying to be sympathetic towards her family - now that she is gone she won't have to suffer but her poor parents will wake up everyday for the rest of their lives and know that their daughter is gone and there was nothing they could have done to help!!

Manda, thanks for sharing that and sorry to hear of your experiences. My Mum tragically ended her own life last August after a long battle with mental illness, alcohol and prescription drugs (every bit as bad as illegal ones in my opinion). She had been sober for 10 almost 10 years (the birth of my DD being a turning point in her life) but then it all went wrong again a few years ago. It is by far the single worst thing I have ever had to deal with. Addiction is a battle no one ever 'beats' as such - if an addict manages to become and stay sober, they are still an addict, albeit a recovering/recovered one. It's a battle they face daily, it's for life, and when you've seen it first hand, you know FOR A FACT it is not a choice. And, my DD's Dad had alcohol and mental health issues when he was younger too. Thankfully, he managed to get the help he needed, and find the strength to hlep himself get better, but I had to hide a lot from my DD, particularly the fact that we almost ended up a statistic, as he confessed he stood at the bottom of the stairs late one night (whilst drunk) with a knife considering ... well, I can't even type it, but you know.

There but for the Grace of God indeed...

It sickens me to think that people actually think Amy's life was worth less because she had addiction problems. They need a stern reality check. Pathetic.

Anyway, Marathon, thanks for setting up the new thread! Will jump on very shortly