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I remember, as a boy, coming home from school and seeing either the living room or the dining room furniture thrown out in the driveway. Read the first page
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It Will Never Happen to Me by Claudia Black,
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This review is from: It Will Never Happen to Me!: Growing up with Addiction as Youngsters, Adolescents, Adults (Mass Market Paperback)
This is an excellent book for any one who has lived in an alcoholic and emotionally abusive home. It explained the mysteries of my childhood.It Will Never Happen to Me! I bought this book from Amazon.com.
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Well written, jargon free, motivating and inspiring,
This review is from: It Will Never Happen to Me!: Growing up with Addiction as Youngsters, Adolescents, Adults (Mass Market Paperback)
Claudia Black has written extensively on the subject of Children of Alcoholics (COA) and Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOA). In her book 'It Will Never Happen to Me' she has combined her considerable talent for jargon free language with the words and expressions of those who have experienced life as a COA/ACOA. The result is a wonderfully insightful book that will bring clarity to a great many people.A central theme of the book is an exploration of the roles that ACOA adopt as a means of coping with the events around them - the responsible one, the adjuster, the placater and so on. Often in childhood these roles are appropriate in that they enable the child to cope with their often traumatic experiences. However, in adulthood the over-dependency on these roles can lead to obsessions, neurosis, mental health problems amongst other issues. Furthermore, in a family where alcohol is used in an unhealthy manner the child learns to 'don't talk, don't trust and don't feel'. Claudia Black gives the reader an insight in to the possibilities that exist for the adult child to break away from the scripts that have been set for them by others. The message is 'it doesn't have to be this way'. I was the responsible child, the hero of my family. I did well at school, was good at sports, succeeded in almost all areas. I went on the University, gained a good degree, a counselling qualification and then a Masters - as an adult I was fulfilling my script to be responsible, to achieve, to be the hero. I was also in a succession of relationships where I took on the role of carer, replicating the role that had developed in my family. Along with some therapy, the books of Claudia Black were pivotal in my change process, moving away from who others wanted me to be to the person I wanted to work towards being. This book alone cannot change the behaviour of the ACOA, words after all are only words! What this book does however, is provide the right words - full of wisdom and experience - that can motivate and inspire the ACOA to begin his/her journey to wholeness.
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This review is from: It Will Never Happen to Me!: Growing up with Addiction as Youngsters, Adolescents, Adults (Mass Market Paperback)
I read it like a month ago and it changed the way I look into my life. I recommend it to all the ones who say 'It will never happen to me'.
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