After you’ve been doing some serious drinking, whether you want to call it alcohol abuse or alcoholism, it gets to the point where it’s just alcohol and you.
When you are drinking constantly, you don’t want other people to know how serious the problem is and you certainly don’t want to stop drinking, so you have to keep it under wraps. We really shouldn’t answer the phone or the door, although many of us do against our better judgment, unfortunately in the process advertising the state we’re in.
And for those of us who suffer from hangovers, it can be very hard to keep the plans you committed yourself to family and friends when you can barely function after a night or day of really putting it away.
It’s been said that a true alcoholic will get their hands on the booze at pretty much any cost, such as walking through a snow storm to get to the liquor store. Without accomplishing much else, we always manage to keep alcohol within reach. Some drink around the clock, some start in the morning and drink until they pass out just to wake up later and drink some more. Some may have the rule that there is no drinking before noon or 5:00 pm and then they allow themselves to get so drunk they can’t remember what they did the night before even if they were alone.
If we drink enough and long enough, what we considered the great effect alcohol once gave us is gone. It becomes just compulsive, non-stop drinking.
When it just becomes alcohol and you, it’s no fun anymore and there are the consequences that go along with a lifestyle that demeans you and alcohol alone can make you feel worthless.
