Pretty much just the title.

I mean, seriously. I see people ALL THE TIME posting about how they ended up in serious drug/alcohol addiction issues and the likes due to their traumas. When I've been in group therapy sessions (which I detest, btw) 3/4 of the people there talk more like they should be in an AA or NA or GA group than in a PTSD group.

Trying to figure out how to put this without it being taken wrong, so please bear with me if I seem a bit Rambling or Disjointed.

This is not meant to be, or come across as, somehow judgemental. People cope how they cope, and its not my place to say someone else chose the wrong coping mechanism since I have never been in their specific shoes. I absolutely do NOT consider myself somehow "better" than others because I never ended up in a substance abuse addiction cycle. What I'm actually wondering is how in the hell did I AVOID doing so, when so many others did Not manage to avoid it? Does it really just come down to the loathing I feel for my alcoholic, drug addicted, extremely abusive brother - that I avoid the use of drugs altogether (unless it is specifically a prescription taken exactly as prescribed) and alcohol in anything but The MOST Moderate amounts (a single glass of wine with a nice dinner, a single cocktail late at night strictly at home to relax with) ?