You Can Stop Drinking Now

Anyone who has an addiction to alcohol knows intimately what the word addiction means. It means an ongoing struggle with alcohol. Alcohol is always in the back of your mind, and you pick up a drink when you don’t want one. It’s an ongoing war and the alcoholic always loses because alcohol is so powerful.

You wake up in the morning declaring to yourself you will not drink that day. You have never been so serious about anything in your life. Your resolve stays strong until later when you start feeling out of sorts and maybe have some slight shaking. Your thinking is clouded and you feel overwhelmed. Alcohol has moved from the back of your mind to the forefront.

You may make it a few days sober. That gives you enough time to get a look, how big a look depends on how brave you are, at the trail of debris your drinking career has left behind you. You have a lot of work to do to straighten it all out. It’s like starting a new life and it’s too much. You are overwhelmed and depressed. Where do you start? It can start with something as simple as cleaning your house, but that’s only the tip of the iceberg. There is the career or lack of one to deal with.  Your finances are a mess. Your relationships are damaged and your health is shot. It’s more than you can cope with, so you say to yourself  ”I can’t deal with this” and pick up a drink. You will always pick up a drink when you decide that you’ve had enough and throw in the towel.

As hard as it is for an alcoholic in the early stages to believe, this is an endless cycle that can go on for years. Some weeks will be better than others, but you will reach that same point over and over. You try to pull yourself together and you start fighting alcohol again. Alcohol has taken down the bravest, strongest men and women. It has taken down nations.  And when you fight alcohol with everything you’ve got, alcohol always wins because it is just too big for you if you don’t get some kind of help.