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13 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1562

back at day 1

The book Alcoholics Anonymous is freely available on the internet. Our kind would benefit on chapters 'Doctors opinion' and 'More About Alcoholism'. Then when convinced you may read the rest of the book.

The chapter 'More about alcoholism' illustrates this baffling disease using personal stories. The first one is about a business man who quits on his own will and then after a successful career succumbs to the idea that he can drink normally after a prolonged absence.

Then a car sales man thinks he can drink safely on a full stomach and orders milk with whiskey along with his second sandwich...

Then there is another story where an Accountant after a great successful day falls into a trap that he could handle a tall drink after a brief abstinence.

All these stories reiterates that the alcoholic has no control over his drinking. The only hope is to pick a spiritual solution..

13 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1562

what shall I do

once you put the 1st drink in, all bets are off for an alcoholic. but then that alone is not the problem, the mind of alcoholic plays trick with him/her the next day, convincing him/her to take that first drink.

13 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1562

I?mnew

Other times, when I go out and am offered a drink, I can't stop at just one

This is one of the traits of an alcoholic where something happens within the body that forces them to take another once they put the first drink. THIS does not happen in a normal drinker.

Your decision to quit altogether is a sound one.

I would sneak out on a Saturday morning for a pint of Beer but would have been drunk by afternoon. This happened every time until i quit 4 years ago.

13 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1562

been here before but had a relapse

We alcoholics go through a queer mental twist that lands us on the first drink. Our will power is almost non-existent when it comes to alcohol. I would suggest you seek a spiritual solution.

13 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1562

Getting ready for a Massive life change

Welcome Alex. Do you realize that for an alcoholic, there is no concept of controlling the drinking and that the only solution is total abstinence?

13 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1562

Getting ready for a Massive life change

thinking about what I might say when someone offers me a drink.

I drank because my mind tricked me into thinking that i could handle a drink or two. Nobody forced me into drinking. Looking at my past, toward the end, i became a lone wolf. Selfish to the core. Would not even go to places where there were no booze. And talk about triggers: Food Store, Gas Stations Package stores...everywhere but then I had to realize that my mind was the trigger.

13 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1562

Your top 3 - Inspirational Reads

Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle (Actually love the Audio Book)

Guaranteed Solutions By Paramhansa Nithyananda (Founder of LifeblissFoundation)

Bhagavad Gita As it is by Srila Prabhupada (Founder of ISKCON)

All these books will tell you that you are just not the body you a spirit soul temporarily embodied in a physical body. We need to enrich the Soul not just look at the physical body.

13 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1562

Myth or Fact?

Alcoholism is not determined by how often people drink but whether or not they can control their drinking once they start.

That is 100% true. However: there is a peculiar mental twist Alcoholics develop which leads them into taking that first drink. If it was just the controlling of the quantity after they take they first drink, the simple remedy would be just not to drink. But why are they taking that first drink? Knowing very well they can't handle the drink?

Another characteristic of an alcoholic is, if he is not drinking, he is restless, irritable and discontent.

In my case, I vividly experienced this state when on forced sobriety. But the moment, I picked up a 6 pack from a store, i don't even have to take a sip, I would be at ease.

13 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1562

Myth or Fact?

Here is some questions the book called AA asks the reader:

Why does he behave like this? If hundreds of experiences have shown him that one drink means another debacle with all its attendant suffering and humiliation, why is it he takes that one drink? Why can't he stay on the water wagon? What has become of the common sense and will power that he still sometimes displays with respect to other matters?

Perhaps there never will be a full answer to these questions. Opinions vary considerably as to why the alcoholic reacts differently from normal people. We are not sure why, once a certain point is reached, little can be done for him. We cannot answer the riddle.

We know that while the alcoholic keeps away from drink, as he may do for months or years, he reacts much like other men. We are equally positive that once he takes any alcohol whatever into his system, something happens, both in the bodily and mental sense, which makes it virtually impossible for him to stop. The experience of any alcoholic will abundantly confirm this.

These observations would be academic and pointless if our friend never took the first drink, thereby setting the terrible cycle in motion. Therefore, the main problem of the alcoholic centers in his mind, rather than in his body. If you ask him why he started on that last bender, the chances are he will offer you any one of a hundred alibis. Sometimes these excuses have a certain plausibility, but none of them really makes sense in the light of the havoc an alcoholic's drinking bout creates. They sound like the philosophy of the man who, having a headache, beats himself on the head with a hammer so that he can't feel the ache. If you draw this fallacious reasoning to the attention of an alcoholic, he will laugh it off, or become irritated and refuse to talk.

13 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1562

day 15

The late Dr. William D. Silkworth, AA's great medical benefactor, in the chapter 'The Doctors Opinion' talks about this condition:

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.

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