AMY WINEHOUSE R.I.P.........It doesn't have to be like this, No addict need ever die from the horrors of addiction.That is the promise of Narcotics Anonymous, our message is hope and the promise of freedom from active addiction. i'm out.................
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I just saw this running across the bottom of the screen when I turned on my TV. Amy Winehouse, dead at the age of 27. Yes, may she rest in peace, where her demons can no longer chase her. There but for the grace of God go I. Peace
I always feel bad when this disease takes another life. That being said I've always found the "Rehab" song extremely offensive, it's a slap in the face of all the selfless people who works so hard trying to help an addict get recovery. I wouldn't have found Narcotics Anonymous with out the help of Jack my Rehab counselor. My real sympathy goes to those who die without having the opportunity to find recovery and the better life it brings
can you imagine this ? they actualy had a website that promised freebies to those that predicted her death date. http://www.whenwillamywinehousedie.com
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Raman an addict clean and serene just for today in NA Worldwide ; live to love and love to live the NA Way !!!
I believe anything today. Can't say I wasn't predicting her death myself. She was so wasted she wasn't able to perform at concerts and didn't even know where she was. She was booed off stage at her last show.
yeah Dave, its carzy aint it ? how people will go on as they are even tho theres evidence to the contrary !! Not only was she booed off stage but that whole tour was cancelled and her promos said shed do rehab and be back...
Dave, I think personally that she was a victim of her marketers rush to cash in on her popularity. yeah, true that the crowds wanted her to do a next on "Back to Black". True she was still million strong in fan base,, True her marketers hadnt given up on her yet,,
but all that said and done, I think she never had a real chance,, seems like she never got to place her recovery first !!!
-- Edited by Raman on Sunday 24th of July 2011 06:31:34 AM
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Raman an addict clean and serene just for today in NA Worldwide ; live to love and love to live the NA Way !!!
Sad, but not surprised to read about her death. A real blow to fans of the genre....She was the only new singer to come along in alot of years that i was able to get excited about. If we accept the disease concept of addiction then it's hard not to feel sympathy for her. Denial is the most obvious symptom of our disease. Saying no to rehab is common among young addicts (I think she was only 21 or so when she wrote that song) Her fame and wealth may have interfered with her getting help, but addicts die all the time who had neither so who's to say. I'm sad at the loss....the morbid website just demonstrates that everyone saw this coming, except her...or maybe even her too. It's drug addiction and it destroys. I can only hope that her death may motivate some to seek help...ya never know.
I agree with the Charlie Sheen comment there. It's a tragic lost but fortunately the demons of temptation will no longer haunt her. May her soul rest in peace.
I always so WOW when this happens because i dont think these people if given another chance would let this happen to themselves but then again some people are filled with so much pain and emptyness maybe death is a blessing.
But even with so much pain and emptyness, whichever, sometime both there is a solution and that sollution is surrendering to God, or a higher power, surrender everything and watch the power that fills you back up once you start doing the leg work, thats a must so I gues you need to surrender AND be willing, to do whatever needs to be done to receive the blessings we get, the promisses of doing the 12 steps.
I'm blessed to be alive today I was one of the worst, been in Amys shoes and somehow got past it alive, some dont and thats a sad sad day in my world I HATE when addiction takes anyone!!!!!
I agree, recovery is a blessing from GOD that we do nothing to deserve, but until a person takes the FIRST Step and admits they're powerless and ask for help no recovery is possible. Every week at NA meetings I hear stories from recovering addicts who's addictions were as bad or worse then Amy's appeared to be and they found recovery and a better way of life. I've been to conventions with over 10,000 recovering addicts doing the birthday count down and I know that any addict can recover.
Yes,, we never have to use again, no matter what !!
The wierdest thing that come sup is Amy joining the 27 club,,, Jim Jimi Janis Kurt,, etcetcetcetcetcetc,,,,,,,,,,,,, and now Amy...
all of em died at age 27.
And it sends shivers down my spine, cause I got recovery again at the end of my 27 !!!! I am no star, or great musician and all, but just to think I was at the station to take the last train out of hell at 27......
They let me out of rehab few months later and I came home to a clean 28th bday..... No more grams of smack each day, no more paranoia from LSD and Grass, no more fights and fists after drinking or downing downers,,,,
God had sent me a warning in my early 27. i sat there smacked out and tripping on jazz and nodded off. then I woke with a start, my Soul had left my body, it went to the ceiling in the far corner of the room and said in a Silent Voice "you are going to die".......
I thank God for for then answering my prayers and Leading me to rehab and then AA and then NA...... An unmerited gift, which I believe we addicts earn through our pain......
Now that said, for all the Kurts, Jims and Amy's, we have the Eric's, the Billy Joel's and the etc.etc.etc's......
So who is to tell, or how do we tell, why some do and some dont ?
But God, NA please sho0w me each day that I never have to use again, no matter what !!!
-- Edited by Raman on Tuesday 26th of July 2011 05:17:12 AM
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Raman an addict clean and serene just for today in NA Worldwide ; live to love and love to live the NA Way !!!
