We in AA call this untreated alcoholism, some call it spiritual malady. Most people think its the booze that is the problem. But we later realize its not. We just used booze as a lubricant. The real situation is we can't handle the current situation we are in. Guilt, remorse, anxious, depression all comes back.
Back in 1920s' the benefactor of AA said this in the Doctors Opinion and i still think its valid. There is no medication to fix it. But there is a spiritual solution:
Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol. The sensation is so elusive that, while
they admit it is injurious, they cannot after a time differentiate the true from the false. To them, their alcoholic life seems
the only normal one. They are restless, irritable and discontented, unless they can again experience the sense of ease and comfort
which comes at once by taking a few drinks-drinks which they see others taking with impunity. After they have succumbed
to the desire again, as so many do, and the phenomenon of craving develops, they pass through the well-known stages of
a spree, emerging remorseful, with a firm resolution not to drink again. This is repeated over and over, and unless this person
can experience an entire psychic change there is very little hope of his recovery.
On the other hand-and strange as this may seem to those who do not understand-once a psychic change has occurred, the very same person who seemed doomed, who had so many problems he despaired of ever solving them, suddenly finds himself easily able to control his desire for alcohol, the only effort necessary being that required to follow a few simple rules.
