Alcohol Freedom Blog

When you drink too much you barely realize that the alcohol you consume is slowly taking over your life. Sure it may feel good to over indulge and feel the high that comes with drinking more than the usual; it takes away the real world for a while and helps you to relax. In the church basements it’s said that if you enjoy the way you feel when drinking, you should be very careful where that could lead.

Normal drinkers, social imbibers, tend to feel uncomfortable when they get past tipsy and feel like they are losing control with the dizzy tired feeling and that sick sensation. The general consensus among casual drinkers is that it doesn’t feel right or good at all. Many alcoholics fit under the “enjoyable feeling” category at one time and got pleasure from the feeling alcohol gave them, but it soon became a life altering priority and any enjoyment vanished.

The satisfaction was not in having a drink but knowing you would be able to drink. The anticipation of the “feeling” became more thrilling than the drink itself. No way you’re an alcoholic though. You still have a job, a family and you don’t sleep on park benches or drink from a paper bag. But still you ask the needling question in the back of your mind when drinking, when you get to that sweet spot and go in for yet another refill, “I wonder if I’m an alcoholic?”

Now would be a good time to take your drinking seriously. You wouldn’t be asking this question if everything was really fine. It will only get worse from here unless you do something about it now. So what should you do? Ask yourself if you are happy with the way your life is progressing. Could it be even better than it is now? Does your drinking interfere with your immediate plans or any future goals you have yet to achieve? Can you foresee how your alcohol intake, if it progresses from where it’s at now [and in all likelihood it will], could make your life unmanageable.

If you’re still unconvinced you have a problem try taking an alcohol screening test. This will assist in determining what risk level you are currently at with your drinking. Designed by professionals, the questionnaire is as close as you’ll get to understanding your chances of developing a problem or recognizing you already have one with alcohol.

Now would also be a good time to take inventory of your personal life. Ask yourself, what you are risking by your continued excessive drinking? Do you not want to live life to its fullest? Alcohol has only a negative effect on a person when their drinking becomes habitual, and things will not improve as they become overwhelmed with the desire to drink more alcohol. If life does improve while drinking heavily, it will be purely by accident and a result of ones ability to hide or mask alcoholic activities from plain view. This period won’t last long - eventually your problem will surface.

There is a window of opportunity for the smart alcohol abuser to make a decision to do something about their drinking before it takes a heavy toll. This clarity of thought about how you would like your life to be; if you could control your drinking or cease drinking altogether your chances of improving your life will dramatically increase. Ask yourself what’s valuable to you in your life. What are the positives in your natural existence that mean everything to you? Are you willing to put these at risk because of your destructive fondness for alcohol?

If you are drinking too much and you know it, the next step is to get help fast. Asking for this help is not going to be easy. Many alcoholics have faced the same questions that you are right now and failed to take the necessary steps to take their life back from alcohol. You aren’t a bad person for drinking alcohol to excess. Just a person making bad decisions and procrastinating when your life literally depends on you making honorable and wise choices.

Believe that alcohol will eventually grip you like a vice, because it will. Understand that alcohol will rob you of all sovereign thought, wreck your personal life and destroy all of those dreams and ambitions you had. Don’t think it won’t happen to you. Do not believe that you are stronger than the alcohol you drink because it WILL beat you and leave in its wake a defeated, morally wasted shell of what may have been.

If you are at that point now as you read this, you must also recognize that you can still regain control of your life. It will be more difficult the longer you put off making the wise decision, but you can turn your life around. It’s never too late to regain control of your life and shake the physical hold alcohol has on you so that you can design your life and really live it the way you always wanted to.

It must start with a pledge and desire to seek help, by deciding for yourself to get on with your life before circumstances worsen and these decisions are made for you because you are powerless to act on your own behalf.

If you think you have a drinking problem believe me when I say you don’t want things to reach that stage just mentioned. While you are still able - make the call and ask for help. Think of what you are gambling with just so you can continue to feel that siren call of the alcohol buzz. If you need encouragement to seek assistance with your drinking ask yourself once again just how you would like your life to really be. Pose these questions to yourself, what are the positives in my life and what am I risking by my increasingly harmful and disturbing drinking behavior?

Sobering thoughts!

Now you need to follow the only honorable course of action, get some help.

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