You Can Stop Drinking Now

When you first start drinking, it’s all good times with your friends, going out and enjoying yourself.  When drinking becomes a problem, you start having a few before you go out, and then drink too much as the evening wears on.

As time goes on and your behavior under the influence gets worse, and the “incidents” start.  Embarrassing moments you don’t want to remember. Many people who develop a drinking problem decide at some point that they really can’t drink in public anymore and maintain any kind of decent reputation.  And so begins the drinking at home. Drinking and thinking – left alone to your thoughts.

Drinking alone can make these feelings of loneliness you had in the first place worse. In fact drinking tends to amplify the mood you were in before you picked up the first drink. These feelings of loneliness are painful, and there really is no escape.  At least no short-term escape from this pain that holds you captive.

So you spend countless hours alone drinking. The boredom and loneliness helping you to take another drink. It’s a vicious circle that lands you in a depressed state the day after the night before.  So as soon as your schedule will allow it, you pick up another drink, hoping it will take you out of the depression, and alleviate the other uncomfortable feelings you are experiencing. And there is no one you can really talk to about it. They really wouldn’t understand.

Drinking can be a lonely past time.  Many have to hide their drinking in order to avoid putting themselves in a position to be judged by others, and that’s a big secret that takes a lot of energy to keep.  This pattern will continue, this lonely, solitary drinking, until you can make the decision, finally, that this isn’t good enough for you anymore, you deserve a better life and you want to put an end to this misery.

- By Danny M.