Whats better? Sobriety and Dealing with life issues? Or getting high...

[Taverner]

Poll question: Whats better? Sobriety and Dealing with life issues? Or getting high...

...and escaping?

Lemme see sobriety and getting real:

Or Getting stoned and escaping:


Hmmmmm....Getting real:


Or doobage:

[jellybelly]

1. There should be a poll option:

"huh, what?"

[u4ic]

2. You mean

if we all get real, we'll all end up looking like "Dr" Phil?

:puke:

[SarahB]

3. I vote for the real thing.

Just in a non-Dr. Phil way. :scared:

[Taverner]

4. ahh but reality is a crutch

for those who can't handle drugs ;)

[SarahB]

8. Maybe.

My drug of choice used to be chocolate, but my tendency to accumalate excess poundage with that wasn't good either. Yeah, for the other stuff, I'm a lightweight to say the least. Oh, well. :D

[IStriker]

15. Good thinking!

[RagingInMiami]

5. Getting high

And then trying to deal with life issues.

[Wapsie B]

6. How about get high,

then dealing with life's issues after you've chilled out a bit? Doesn't mean you're not going to deal with them. Or procrastinate either. You're just putting them aside for the moment to get into a more relaxed frame of mind.

[Taverner]

7. That would be a good idea but...

I just know I'd put on Lamb Lies Down on Broadway...and there is the most wicked keyboard action on that album...and I would have to listen to the whole friggen album just to build up the emotion for that...

[Nikia]

12. I'd vote for that option too

Sometimes to better deal with problems, provided that they aren't urgent life and death things, is to step out of real life for a short time. You could do that with substances or you could just go somewhere else like a wooded park or something. After your break it is eaier to deal with things.
I don't recommend being drunk or high all the time. Some of the perscription medicines, the doctor gave me were like that. I honestly don't know why someone would want to do that voluntarily. Also I know a few recovering alcoholics and drug addicts who realize know that constant substance abuse caused more problems than it solved.

[Ron Green]

13. I like your response. Follow the "Middle Way."

The problem with drug- and alcohol-abusers is that they don't know how to use a substance in moderation. It's like the teenager who first takes a drink and thinks, "If one is good, then 7 must be great."

Knowing how to use psychotropic substances carefully IS one of life's challenges, IMO.

[artificial flavor]

9. life issues are easy to fix...

It won't fucking kill me. So they don't stress me out. I don't really care.

Homeless, broke, and hungry. I have done that, I can still type. I'm doing it right now.

I drink more when I have a NORMAL life. Repetition hurts me like getting fucked in the ass with a rusty spork. I thrive on different situations.

Stagnation scares me more the(a)n my family calling me a economic failure.

[Mr.Green93]

10. life issues

Will solve themselves if you just stay out of the way.

[Orsino]

11. You'll Never Get to Be President...

...by saying no to drugs and booze.

[Deja Q]

14. I'd tell Quick Draw McGraw there to get real.

:D