I have had friends/family who have passed away from long term use, or one day they just didn’t wake up after a night of drinking =[. Wtf is going on?
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Alcoholics get something from alcohol that they can’t get anywhere else in their life.
Something so important to them that even when their organs are failing and they’ve lost their marriage and job and friends and family have all stopped trying to help them, and they’ve seen the hospital thirty times in 2 years, even then they keep drinking.
I was an over thinker who struggled to stay grounded. Alcohol, at first, made me feel like I finally arrived in the world, could finally express myself and be spontaneous and “real.” My perspective has changed since then, however my views now feel as real and as authentic as my worldview did back then. In retrospect the way I reasoned and lived was insanity.
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“Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol. The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is injurious, they cannot after a time differentiate the true from the false.
To them, their alcoholic life seems the only normal one. They are restless, irritable and discontented, unless they can again experience the sense of ease and comfort which comes at once by taking a few drinks—drinks which they see others taking with impunity.
After they have succumbed to the desire again, as so many do, and the phenomenon of craving develops, they pass through the well-known stages of a spree, emerging remorseful, with a firm resolution not to drink again.
This is repeated over and over, and unless this person can experience an entire psychic change there is very little hope of his recovery.”
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