Many times we miss rather obvious signs. Sometimes we simply refuse to change, no matter how obvious the signs become. All that simply means is that the signs became so obvious that they had to make a change. The handwriting was on the wall. Of course it's always possible to ignore the obvious.
Foolishness is always an option.
The result is that change becomes more and more difficult to initiate and we may become trapped in our reality and eventually forget that we have the power to do something about it. It wasn't alcoholism that was the writing on the wall for Mary Moeller. Mary Moeller lived with the constant pain of fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. What really brought it home for her was that her 8 year-old daughter was beginning to show the symptoms too. Sick and tired of feeling sick and tired, Moeller helped herself and helped her daughter by developing a program of lifestyle changes that left both her and her daughter symptom-free.