Only Children who are Actors does Drugs....NOT!

Look around you at every single school that houses children ages 13 - 18. Only look at those who do NOT work professionally in acting or modelling. How many of them are on drugs? How many of them drink?

Look around you at those same children in those schools, but this time only look at those who professionally act or model. How many of them are on drugs? How many of them drink?

Can we honestly say that acting and modeling causes children to drink and do drugs? Can we honestly say that if we BAN them from acting and modeling that they will NOT touch drinking and drugs? Seriously folks! Stop trying to ban children from acting and modeling. Instead, wouldn't it be better if we taught them how to deal with temptation and the stressers of life in the first place? Only those children who are taught how to deal with life face on, is really best equipped to stay away from drugs and alcohol. They are less likely to smoke too. And, just maybe, we can start with the adults and stop our own addictions. We drink and smoke. Some of us do drugs. What are we teaching kids? We are teaching them that a real adult who is worth their weight in Gold murders their body with drugs, alcohol and smoking. We are suicidal. We only deal with life through the bottom of a bottle, drugs or smoking. Our self-esteem is low. We follow the crowd of God-Haters and think that that is how we should be too. We are dying inside.

Some of us only have self-esteem if we wear make-up or dress sexy. Others only have self-esteem if they do only what the majority do. Guess what? Self-esteem doesn't come from the bottom of a compact kit or from how many men lust after you as you walk by. Self-esteem comes from within. Are you teaching your children this? You should be. I have gone to so many different churches and I look around. The bathrooms in American churches (haven't seen the toilets in UK yet) tend to have scented sprays or oils. I've seen many a women put on their make-up in there, or put on hair spray. God does not see an ugly wart when He looks at Women. Women see an ugly wart when they look at themselves. This ugly wart is the ghostly face they see in the mirror no matter how colourful their face is without make-up.

This view of self is why so many people are persuaded to follow the crowd towards drinking in the first place. This view of self is why so many people smoke. This view of self is why so many people do drugs. Acting or modeling did not cause this. Lack of true self-esteem caused this. Not learning how to deal with temptations or stresses in life causes drinking, doing drugs and or smoking. Teach your children how to deal with life - its temptations, it stresses, it up and downs - and you will have a child full of real self-esteem who stays true to themselves and stays clear of drugs, alcohol and smoking. They may even decide that they don't need to wear make-up. I did.

However, my parents did not teach me this. I taught  myself how to have self-esteem from within. I came from a very dysfunctional family. I was taught hate, fear, abandonment, 'parn' addiction and war. I had to teach myself so that I would not make the same mistakes the people all around me were making. I saw my mom wear make-up and still beat herself up because the house wasn't perfect enough.  I saw my dad parade around the house as he worshiped his own skin. He was a flake. He would make us attend church on Sundays, Legal Child 'Parnography camp' on weekends, and lead family Bible Study in his skin on that piano bench, with his fake tears of how much God meant to him. I only saw Hypocrisy. I only saw addiction. My mother was violent. She shook me until I passed out twice as an infant because she was afraid that she was going to be a bad mom. So, she became a bad mom - a black witch. I called her the 'B' word for many years. I even fantasized how some evil person would come into the house and murder my parents or murder me. (Hint: This was back then, and NOT how I am now! Why I've wrote this blog post.)

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is a killer disease. It kills families, friends, relationships, strangers, enemies it kills every living thing that gets in its way. It also kills peace. I was afraid of the night, not the dark. Even though blood was not shed in my immediate family, blood was shed in my mom's immediate family. She learned fear and abandonment from her mom and dad. Her dad was an alcoholic who killed her mom and then committed suicide. He wasn't taught how to deal with life. His relatives were drunks. The whole clan were drunks. They lived by the bottle, they swore by the bottle. They lived the bottle. The bottle killed them.

This is why we need to teach ourselves and our children how to deal with life without using a crutch. Drugs, smoking and drinking do not make life change for the better. Instead, those things will only make life change for the worst. My mother lost her parents to murder-suicide when she was Nine years old. It is time we stop the violence to our bodies and our suicidal tendencies. It is time we stop teaching our children how to commit slow suicide. Teach your children how to deal with stress and temptation. Teach them to stand up for others. Teach them how to live in harmony with others. (No, I'm not saying teach them pacifist lifestyle. The Jews were almost wiped out from Earth due to pacifist beliefs. Many people lost their lives and their freedom because of stupid pacifist who refused to believe what was really going on. You can NOT appease a maniac and get peace. Hint: Hamas means Violence. They are ONLY about Violence. They murdered 150 PALESTINIAN BOYS! And you thought they were all for kill the Jews in favour of the Palestinians. They aren't. They only want violence for violence's sake. Those 150 boys were mostly, but not all, kidnapped and forced to dig tunnels into Israel. Only a small amount of boys volunteered.)

PTSD needs to be dealt with in professional therapy and needs to include Life Skills, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Journaling with reframing, Anger management (in most cases), Stress Release classes, and proper diet and exercise. B vitamin supplements and D3 Vitamins are highly recommended.

Thanks for reading this!