The Power that Alcohol Has Over the Alcoholic Who Lives with Alcoholism

Alcohol is a substance that has the power to overtake your life, if you're an alcoholic.

Loss Of Control

The main symptom to an alcoholic is loss of control. Alcohol has the power to make you not care about anything else but, getting drunk. An alcoholic always drinks to get drunk. To an alcoholic, there's no other reason to drink; than to get drunk.

Blackout

A blackout is a sign of alcoholism. When you blackout; you have no control of your behavior. You may wake up in a strange place or with strange people and have no idea of what you did the night before or how you got to where you are now.

The Power That Alcohol Has

The power that alcohol has over us who struggle with alcoholism is like a double-edged sword; once it's in our system, we're damned at everything we do.

Alcohol Always Leads To Poor Choices

Not only does alcohol cause us alcoholics to make poor choices, it prevents us from living a normal life. When the alcoholic is under the influence of alcohol, all normal forms of reasoning seem to go out the window. We seem to be stuck with the typical alcoholic behavior, which is, me, me, me. At this stage, the only thing that matters is getting drunk and we have no regard for our health or the health and safety of the people around us. The selfishness of alcoholism never leads to a road of glory, ever.

The Impossible

In all my years of drinking, I've never heard somebody say," gosh, I got so drunk last night that I had a blast." You will never hear this statement because to an alcoholic, this is impossible.

The Alcoholic

The alcoholic simply cannot drink alcohol, period.

Stages In Addiction

An alcoholic will go through many stages in their addiction. The first one is denial. They'll deny being an alcoholic and insist that they can control their drinking. They'll even do things to prove it to themselves that, they; are not an alcoholic.

The Achievement

The alcoholic might open a beer, have a few sips, and intentionally set it down, and not touch it until the next day. Having made this achievement; if you can call it, that, is proof to the alcoholic that he, is not an alcoholic.

Old Patterns

Then, the alcoholic will eventually go back to their old patterns of drinking.

The Power That Alcohol Has Over Us

Knowing the power that alcohol has over us, we know that we can never be around alcohol because being around alcohol has a good possibility of leading to relapse.

Playing With Fire

For the alcoholic, being around alcohol, is like playing with fire; you'll eventually get burned. It's not a matter of if you'll drink alcohol; it's a matter of when you'll drink alcohol. And, when you do drink alcohol, you'll wind up worse off than you were when you quit drinking alcohol the first time.

In Our Hearts

For many of us sober alcoholics, the thought of going back out again and drinking alcohol, is something we dread. In our hearts, we know that it's the same old, same old, out there. Always has, and always will be, for the alcoholic who suffers from alcoholism.

The Solution In AA

Many of us alcoholics have found the solution in AA, Alcoholics Anonymous. We know that we cannot drink alcohol no matter what. We have reached a degree of acceptance within ourselves and we can fully admit to the fact that we, are, an alcoholic.

In A Body Bag

The alcoholics in Alcoholics Anonymous also know that if they ever went out again, that the only way they would ever come back, would be in a body bag.

Life Or Death

For us alcoholics, it is a matter of life or death. We can choose to go the way of life and go to AA meetings on a regular basis; which will always lead us to a much happier life. Or we can go the way of drinking alcohol again that always leads to death much faster than expected.

I Choose Life

For me, I choose life. I would much rather go to AA meetings on a regular basis, have sober friends and hang out with sober people than hang out with some people at a bar somewhere who don't give a damn whether I live or die.

The Choice Is Yours

Life, or death.

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