Parents Stealing Your Life With Their addiction

Hurting over a parents addiction? Addiction can be alcohol, drugs, medications, money, people, work, drama..many things. And they all have the same powerful affect on the kids that have to live with it at home, and the side affects it brings into the house. These addicted parents living in denial and self-destruction, don't seem to notice that their kids can't deny it and see it all too clear.
Having to watch a parent addicted, having to witness all the negative side affects, yelling, no communicating, no reasoning, can rip a teen apart. This always angers and breaks my heart, and just this week alone, again, I'm running across several teens in this nightmare.
Watching a parent in self-destruct mode is daily torment. Teens get to see it and watch it at a distance, clearly, between being drug in and out of the turmoil it wreaks. I see them in tears..
of fear for their parents safety, health and happiness (yes they love them and worry), of fear of consequences if they try to intervene and make change happen, in fear even of their own emerging temptations to want to use the same self-destructive products to ease their increasing depression and pain. Guess what? So far most have told me they already have started, when the parents leave them alone.
They are scared, at a wits end, and feel like theres a big brick wall they hit and can't do anything else but ease the pain.
It's not a teens fault, and it's not a teens responsibility to have to fix the problem. So why are they left alone to do that? These 'busy' with addiction parents leave their teens all alone to figure this one out, and cause them to suffer the BS that comes with it. Is It Not enough that so many parents forget they have to show the road to a happy fulfilling life, and what joy and laughter are by Being an example? Alot of parents that don't have addiction problems forget that one as it is. I wonder how many teens never even made it to the point of 'trying' to help change the family problem before their own lives were bent too soon. Not fair, not right, and it might as well be dismemberment.
~Hugs~ For you teens out there that are living in this hell, you Are better than this.
You can rise from these hell ashes and know what its like to laugh, and talk, and be heard, and enjoy waking up and going to sleep every day. It's your right to know what living really is, and too keep living!

If you are a parent in denial, have a problem with addiction, wake up! Your teens know, trust me. You're killing them inside and out.