The funny thing is we have come so far in medical research and healing diseases, fixing broken bones, replacing organs, and now we are entering what our president is against, and area which doesn’t make me feel too secure either is cloning.

Aside from all of that we have our very large pharmaceutical lines. And then our pharmaceutical lines on the psychological end. Depression, Attention Deficit Disorder, many among common women illnesses such as postpartum, menopausal and Riddlin for children. I’m not even sure if I spelled that correctly because I don’t believe in it or agree with it. I’m sure there is a precise definition for it but unfortunately I’ve heard it misused and abused so much I turn the other way as soon as I hear a mother say their child was diagnosed with A-D. I immediately tell them I don’t want to hear anymore and I am a bitch about it.

I am not a doctor nor am I studying to be a doctor and wanted to say that before I write anymore. I am a single mother, I was born in Brooklyn, New York and moved to Florida 12 years ago. I have since seen what I couldn’t imagine. I love Florida, don’t me wrong but it’s definitely totally different LIFESTYLE than in New York.
I was 20 when I moved here and was still not well, emotionally mature, I was selfish, I was childish and wanted to go out and look the best and have the most and what I said was most important. No different than most other people around me in clubs and bars and well, most places. Maturity defintely takes a toll. I partied for a good 2-3 years. When I say partied, I mean going out spending MY OWN money freely, going out up to 4 nights a week, not caring what I spent on my hair, nails, clothes, car, drinks, gifts, anything. I was arrested for a DUI in 2000. And it was probably the best thing that ever happened to me.

Since then, I bore my 1st child just 3 weeks after meeting all my court requirements. All I had going for me was 2 good licenses, no money, no car and was in major conflict with my parents (just another topic).
In raising my child alone, I had to try to do anything (nothing illegal) to support him and was even evicted a few times.

And in approaching my late 20’s to early 30’s I have seen a gross amount of drug use.
All kinds of it. I struggled with alcohol which was legal but also addicting and troublesome and have not experimented with others. I do not think that any one on this planet is better or worse than the next guy. I have become wise enough to know otherwise but I have to tell you that when Ispeak tosomeone about anything I can pretty much tell if they are using and what it is and why and am so glad that I’ve struggled to find a better way and I would love to explain that to any teen or young adult that is also struggling with a habit, (but young enough to save instead of saying that they have been doing it long enough to control it and IT doesn’t control them), regardless of what it is to tell them how and why they should beat it. My son is now 5 years old and has a conversation of a 12 year old and if I were on anything and have not struggled or rehabilitated my lifestyle of always feeling like I needed to be everywhere with everyone and have everything, I would have never noticed.
I only had experience with a few family members who had it but I had actually walked away and said I couldn’t handle it to actually see changes. I just knew something was wrong when people change their stories and you look at them and no matter what they are saying now, you KNOW they completely forgotten the whole conversation you had with them the day before or a few days before. And they will always put the blame on everyone around them, even though they cause distress in everyone else’s lives and then they ask you, well, “what’s wrong?”.

Believe you me, when I tell you in any way I have been hurt, I would still rather be me than them. Because I can live without the substance, I can get out and go to work, I can eat, sleep, drink, earn a paycheck, dress myself, go on vacation, go to the beach and travel and even just get in the car or even on a bike with my child and go without it. And that’s the message I wish to convey to all the teens and young adults who have been pressured or are being pressured to take it.
JUST WALK AWAY, no answer is required.