Hey there jvr;
Reading your posts lends me to believe that you really have the cards stacked against you when it comes to addiction and recovery. It’s not an excuse. It sounds that, by your family history, you have a biological predisposition to addiction and that being the case, it’s almost written in the cards that addiction will be an issue in everyone’s life. It’s the same with mine. Both my grandmother and grandfather were addicts and my mother struggled as well. We were all smokers up until a decade ago (my entire family including aunts and uncles) and my nephew struggles as well with opioid addiction. We knew from a young age that we were predisposed because my mother received help and it was what they told her. We are all careful to avoid drugs and alcohol, except for special occasions. I never thought that gambling would be an issue, then found out my father has a bit of a gambling issue himself as well. It is never an excuse when it involves the brain and biochemistry but it gives us a bit of a break ( in our own minds perhaps) that we somehow were led to it by the hand. I hope that you are well and that your day let’s you see more of the good and less of the bad in your life.
