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Lonely Drinking – When you Drink Alone

Lonely drinking. When you drink alone it makes those feelings of loneliness, depression, and isolation even stronger.

You wonder how it all happened. You started out drinking like everyone else. Down the road you found yourself to be the last one at the party. Then you’d have a few before the evening even started. Eventually there were the alcohol related incidents.

Your family started to complain about your drinking. Then your friends began to notice and mention that you seemed to be drinking too much. Your friends meant a lot to you. You didn’t want anyone to know how serious your drinking problem had become, so you started doing the logical thing – hiding your drinking.

You started drinking alone so no one could really know how much and how often you drink. You can’t talk to those closest to you when you are under the influence and need to keep this secret, so you started spending more time alone as a result. And depending on how often you drink, it sometimes resulted and still results in you spending the vast majority of your time alone. Then you are disconnected because you can’t confide your drinking problem with just anyone – people who don’t have the problem themselves do not understand addiction.

As a result, you started to develop a relationship with alcohol. This is something that happens to all of us who become addicted to alcohol if we drink long enough. It becomes kind of a friend. It eases tensions, helps you cope with unpleasant or upsetting situations, and not only can you count on it to be there, you know exactly what to expect when you drink, because the feeling and outcome is predictable. There’s a certain amount of comfort in that predictability. So you came to depend on alcohol as a kind of insulation from the unpleasantries of life.

Most of us who are addicted to alcohol will do most almost anything to protect our drinking. You want to be sure it is not threatened in any way because you want to continue to drink, which by now has likely become a daily ritual.

These feelings of loneliness are inevitable because drinking has isolated you from the people in your life and you notice that when you drink again, those feelings of loneliness are amplified. Alcohol always seems to make them bigger.

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