The Impact On Children Who Parents Are Alcoholics Or Drug Addicts / Educational Video PSA
The Impact On Children Who Parents Are Alcoholics Or Drug Addicts / Educational Video PSA. Children in families experiencing alcohol or drug abuse need attention, guidance and support. They may be growing up in homes in which the problems are either denied or covered up. These children need to have their experiences validated. They also need safe, reliable adults in whom to confide and who will support them, reassure them, and provide them with appropriate help for their age. They need to have fun and just be kids. Families with alcohol and drug problems usually have high levels of stress and confusion. High stress family environments are a risk factor for early and dangerous substance use, as well as mental and physical health problems. It is important to talk honestly with children about what is happening in the family and to help them express their concerns and feelings. Children need to trust the adults in their lives and to believe that they will support them. Children living with alcohol or drug abuse in the family can benefit from participating in educational support groups in their school student assistance programs. Those age 11 and older can join Alateen groups, which meet in community settings and provide healthy connections with others coping with similar issues. Being associated with the activities of a faith community can also help. Dependence on alcohol and drugs is our most serious national public health problem. It is prevalent among rich and poor, in all …
www.hrmvideo.com This program, targeted at teenage viewers, emphasizes the message that depression is a medical illness, not a sign of weakness or a flaw in character. Real teens from diverse backgrounds talk about their struggles with depression and their strategies for recovery. Students learn the warning signs of depression; that resorting to alcohol and drugs only makes depression worse; that seeking help is an act of strength, not weakness. The program describes different kinds of depression and explains that depression can result from a variety of genetic, biological, and social causes. It stresses the difference between normal feelings of sadness and clinical depression. The video explains to students how to recognize the signs of depression in themselves, their friends or classmates, and what they can do to seek help. Depression is treatable and should not be suffered in silence.
February 22nd, 2012 at 7:23 pm
I agree this is an issue. One can’t asume anything is safe. I find it profound how much alcohol has affected my life. I am so angry that I have been so rejected by so many adults and family. I would love to beleave there’s hope. But there are still cracks that we fall through. Thanks to your addiction. Thanks for being so selfish look around at the society You created
February 22nd, 2012 at 7:32 pm
oh my gosh!
February 22nd, 2012 at 8:29 pm
I guess there is proof that just because both your parent make bad choices does not mean the children have to. I have never and will never have a drug or alcohol addiction. Coming from the environment where I was ” raised ” if you could say that….it’s a big shocker. I mostly raised myself and trained myself to never have those kind of issues in my life.
February 22nd, 2012 at 9:14 pm
@susan987654 Detestable is a bit strong. But having governments laws (and presumably government officials) literally forcing women to have vaginal implants is a bit far from our constitution
February 22nd, 2012 at 9:53 pm
@woodstyleah Why bother screening people who want to adopt? Sex offenders and drug addicts have the right to have kids ,too right? Do you call the local meth house when you need a babysitter? If not, why? If you wouldn’t leave your kid with a drug addict for a few hours, how can you condemn someone else’s kid to that environment for their entire life? We have a moral obligation to protect kids that outweighs any obligation to safeguard the “rights” of drug addicts, felons, alcoholics, etc…
February 22nd, 2012 at 9:57 pm
@forestskog What a silly comparison. Legally, a 16 year old girl is too young to consent to sex, but, if she’s pregnant, she has full responsibility for the resulting unwanted child. So we don’t even allow her to decide whether or not to have sex, but we DO allow her to make all the decisions for a helpless infant. We enforce strict standards on adoptions because we understand the importance of a stable home environment, so why is the idea of enforcing standards for parenthood so detestable?
February 22nd, 2012 at 10:28 pm
@susan987654 Go to Iran. They have a system that works along the lines you seem to like. Women are told never to drink and never to have sex before marriage. If they disobey, they are literally dragged out so a soccer field by the authorities, buried up to their waist, and then stoned to death a mob of hysterical screaming bearded mullahs. Thanks I still prefer the west. No implants for me or mine
February 22nd, 2012 at 10:49 pm
I was high once and gave my 2 year old a puff on my crack pipe, is this bad? will it harm it.
February 22nd, 2012 at 10:50 pm
@ axlfoleyfanatic Please 4give me 4 not replying sooner, just read ur post. Utube will not let me post links, pls go 2 google & type in alanon meetings, then navigate 2 find meetings in your area&online. I encourage everyone 2 go 2 alanon/alateen meetings, knowing that complete anonymity is given & received. The love, kindness, compassion & tools u find in these rooms will fill ur soul with the much needed love & hope that addition has robbed from us all. All the best 2U, please keep in touch.
February 22nd, 2012 at 11:31 pm
my mum was an alcoholic ever since i was 2
February 22nd, 2012 at 11:31 pm
My dad became a cocaine addict when I was 6.
February 22nd, 2012 at 11:54 pm
Thank you, I am an adult child of an alcoholic it’s AMAZING HOW MUCH IT can make a child suffer. I have a friend that critizes the choices I have made in the past and I am just now realizing there was a reason for it.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:53 am
@requiemvlog that’s true!
February 23rd, 2012 at 1:18 am
My Daddy and Mommy were both alcoholics. This has been hard for me to confess because of the shame and feeling like I’m all alone in my feelings. I’ve been emotionally, sexually and physically abused growing up. People a child thought she could trust destoried it all. Some family members will never understand my need to come to terms with it. It is a shame one ever has to go through abuse from older brothers and a grandfather. Dad and mom went to bars every weekend, leaving me with abusers.
February 23rd, 2012 at 1:29 am
@givebirthathome My husband was an ACOA, who thought he could do just fine without therapy, and apparently was doing OK…until we had our child.
February 23rd, 2012 at 1:30 am
@Lysebaby620
Well, don’t worry about not drinking alcoholic beverages, that will do you good! What you really want to be careful about is *not having children* until you are sure you have sorted out traumas you may have from your mother in your own childhood. If you don’t, having your own children will re-awaken them when you may not have the resources to be able to sort them out. As one of my neighbors said, “Having children is like the most powerful acid you have ever taken in your life”.
February 23rd, 2012 at 2:15 am
To anyone interested in healing, I come from 2 alcoholic parents who are both deceased for many years now. I am reading a book by Dr Laura called
” Bad Childhood — Good Life ” and it has really helped me to understand alot.
Please dont wait as long as I have to start seeking help. Please start today. I have wasted so much of my life being depressed over this. Its time to move on. The past is the past. So anyone young, please get answers today ok. God Bless.
February 23rd, 2012 at 2:56 am
@requiemvlog – you are welcome!
February 23rd, 2012 at 3:48 am
Thanks for the video. One does have to point out that children of dysfunctional families, even if no substance is present, can also suffer from the same problems.
February 23rd, 2012 at 4:23 am
Allright here we go… my mother is an alcoholic and I believe she takes speed, her mother was an alcoholic and was a hard core drug abuser, (so was her brother) , her mother was an alcoholic, and so was her mother. So while I understand its not something that can be predictied, I am 19yrs old and deathly scared to have any alcoholic beverages and have never touched one. My heart goes out to all of you. I can only imagine the long term affects cuz I already know what the short ones are!
February 23rd, 2012 at 4:28 am
@ExtremeRehab Do you know any websites of forums I could go on. I am Australian and I am not really the type of person who can just be out there and just tell me story straight off ,but in time I would be able to.
February 23rd, 2012 at 4:55 am
@Mus1cGurl I feel for you! I am not in the same situation as you, I mean I understand more than you would think.But I’m not in the same situation,close.
axlfoleyfanatic.
February 23rd, 2012 at 5:27 am
my mom drinks rund my child hood
February 23rd, 2012 at 5:41 am
@Rainbows648 - you are very welcome! regards…
February 23rd, 2012 at 6:18 am
so how do u get help ? where and whom do u go to ? how much is the help gonna cost me now ?
maybe i should just avoid getting help … maybe it will pass , u know , whithin time …