Alcoholic......?!

Alcoholic......?

How does a person help an alcoholic who wants to stop drinking, but surrounds himself with the wrong people and feels compelled to spend time with his "family" at the bar?? Is it possible for him to stop?

Real alcoholics are real alcoholics because they cannot stop even though they want to. But be careful, just because a person tells another he “wants to stop” doesn’t mean it’s true.

But assuming he DOES want to stop – and cannot - then consider this line out of the book, “Alcoholics Anonymous”,

“At a certain point in the drinking of every alcoholic, he passes into a state where the most powerful desire to stop drinking is of absolutely no avail. This tragic situation has already arrived in practically every case long before it is suspected.” (24:0)

A very revealing statement to say the least. Many times we hear stuff like, “He has to WANT it” (meaning sobriety) but here are the folks with the most experience with alcoholism and the solution, admitting that this is impossible to do for the alcoholic.

As a real alcoholic myself I can tell from experience that alcoholics don’t drink because they WANT TO – they drink because the HAVE TO.

Even if he were to separate himself from his drinking friends and environments – he WILL STILL DRINK – no matter what!

So the solution is not to separate oneself from alcohol – but to recover from alcoholism so that he is FREE from King Alcohol and can place himself in the slipperiest of places and still not be tempted.

It is possible IF the solution is sought. If you’d like to know what they solution is, just ask, but hopefully that answers your immediate question directly.

Peace,

Danny S

http://recoveredalcoholic.blogspot.com...