Deep Thought of the Day - Is it Really a "Choice?"

Re: Deep Thought of the Day - Is it Really a "Choice?"

feeds@yuku.com (Penel0pe) — Mon, 19 May 2008 14:36:47 GMT

Once I start getting high I seem to lose the ability to make good choices - so I choose not to get high anymore.

Re: Deep Thought of the Day - Is it Really a "Choice?"

feeds@yuku.com (le grumps) — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:28:19 GMT

I thought about this question for a few days.

Ultimately, we do have a choice. With everything we do. But under some circumstances, we sometimes make choices that we wouldn't make in other cicumstances.

For example, I am a non-violent person by nature. I can't stand hurting even an ant, let alone a person. If I had a child, and someone was trying to harm him/her... I cannot say that I could make a non-violent choice against a person attempting to harm my child....

Re: Deep Thought of the Day - Is it Really a "Choice?"

feeds@yuku.com (sotired) — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:13:14 GMT

Good question.

My ex has always said that it's all in your mind. He could quit if he wanted to. Could he? It sure doesn't seem that way to me. I understand that it's clearly a "choice" when you snort that first and next line, but, I've always wondered too - if once you're addicted is it a choice?

My ex has been in and out of jail. As of 6 months ago, went from seeing his kids every single day to not seeing them for weeks at a time. He is...

Re: Deep Thought of the Day - Is it Really a "Choice?"

feeds@yuku.com (Hemetchik) — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:50:44 GMT

ahhhhhhh...the little thought before action....gods intervention....my soul trying to save itself

Re: Deep Thought of the Day - Is it Really a "Choice?"

feeds@yuku.com (Loraura) — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:46:31 GMT

It's always a choice. However the power needed to make one choice over another may not be there.

A decision that is not immediately followed by action, is only a thought.

Thinking about staying sober sometimes isn't enough to actually stay sober. Staying sober requires action.

Choosing discomfort over numbness, anxiety over euphoria, these are tough choices and sometimes the power needed to make those choices simply isn't there. I believe this is...

Re: Deep Thought of the Day - Is it Really a "Choice?"

feeds@yuku.com (1tamtom) — Sat, 17 May 2008 17:31:20 GMT

God decide i was done. after the stuff was out of my body the choice was mine as it is today,i will say while on a run there was no choice.but after detox its all on each of us, no one else to put it off on and no excuses.sure your gonna want it from time to time but wanting doesn't me you gotta,like to day all it would take is a whistle a honk or a nod and it will be in my hand,just like everywhere else then the choice is to use or not,i chose not to.

i think all can quit, like the...

Re: Deep Thought of the Day - Is it Really a "Choice?"

feeds@yuku.com (luvepiphany) — Sat, 17 May 2008 15:58:02 GMT

I prefer to think of it as a "dis-eased choice" and I believe we need to heal or go into recovery-remission of our dis-ease.

luv

Re: Deep Thought of the Day - Is it Really a "Choice?"

feeds@yuku.com (missybuns) — Sat, 17 May 2008 12:58:55 GMT

Choice

Re: Deep Thought of the Day - Is it Really a "Choice?"

feeds@yuku.com (JrsHubby1) — Sat, 17 May 2008 08:46:45 GMT

As a Meth user, yes I made the choice every single time that I used!.... Sure I was an addict, but it was not the addiction that made it ,did it , and lied about it! it was ME!....
When I was a active user I was fully aware of what I was doing! .....
I smoke, thats my choice. When I drink a beer or few, does not mean I'm a Alchoclic, thats my choice, I control it. When I eat a Whole plate of choc. chip cookies, or whole bag choc. covered raisins, doesent mean I have to, I...

Re: Deep Thought of the Day - Is it Really a "Choice?"

feeds@yuku.com (oaklandathletic) — Sat, 17 May 2008 06:39:05 GMT

I believe you have a choice to use or not to use. I used Meth and other drugs......I made the choice to call my connection and get some Meth.I made the choice to hide it from my wife......I was addicted but using was but a symtom of my problems.....I self medicated because i didn't like living in my skin. I did meth because I wanted to feel anything but how I felt without using it...My choice.......

I use to smoke cigs too....I have been quit for over 3 years...But I know I am...

Re: Deep Thought of the Day - Is it Really a "Choice?"

feeds@yuku.com (keepitsimpleforme) — Sat, 17 May 2008 05:35:51 GMT

I have a good friend who is a recovering alcoholic/crack addict and he told me once that with addiction it comes to a point where it's not a choice anymore --- you ARE going to use. I disagree with him on this.

One time my husband and I were sitting at home. His parents came over to play with the baby. He was sullen and distant. Wouldn't talk to any of us. This was after he had been clean 6 months and had already relapsed once. He said he was going to a meeting and left. He...

Deep Thought of the Day - Is it Really a "Choice?"

feeds@yuku.com (starfishlover123) — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:25:45 GMT

Hi All,

A thought that I have been pondering, (as one who has many loved ones who are addicts to the meth monster, but have grown really far beyond my anger, pain and frustration at their behavior during active addiction,) is: Of course, there is that "first choice" to take, try or expose oneself to meth, (unless exposed by another in-utero or by force,) but once that first hit of dopamine takes one into the furthest reach of "uphoria," is it really a...