Alcohol does many things to the human body. First and the most important thing is that it is designed to get you feeling good and drunk as heck. That is the main purpose in my opinion, and it does a great job at it.
Many people that drink alcohol can handle them self in a sense that they know when it is time to stop drinking alcohol and then there are those, such as myself, that don't know when enough is enough. When we start out experimenting with drinking alcohol many of us don't realize if we are not careful this fun time drinking can turn into an addiction. Do you know what your addiction is doing to you? I bet not, for the simple reason, this addiction to alcohol has been slowly creeping up on you and now you can't figure out why in the world must you have alcohol every single day of your life. Many of us cannot live without this harmful poison in their bodies. We would start to go crazy and feeling on edge, nervous, shaky and the whole nine yards due to the absence of this poison we call alcohol not in your bodies.
Many people live, breathe, sleep with alcohol continuously on their minds. I have the right to say this because the minute I would wake, of course after drinking all night, my first thoughts were not, " I wonder how my day will be today." "I wonder if I will be productive today." No, the first thing I thought of was, "when is it time to have my first beer." How pitiful is that I might ask you? I am sure many people that have an addiction to alcohol the same and some might even crack open a can of beer or take a shot of booze minutes after they wake up to start their day and get their head out of the clouds from the night before drinking alcohol.
When you start to think to yourself, what is this addiction I have doing to my life and what is it doing to my family and friends? None of us that are addicted to alcohol ever for a moment think about the damage we are doing to our self and the hurt and pain we are causing to others, such as you family, spouse, and your children.
Yes,its not about what or how much we use but it is our reaction to the drug that makes us addicts.(different than others)We learn through WORK(NA,AA,sober living,accupuncture etc whatever helps us to find out the exact nature of our illness)Our illness is physical,mental and spiritual,but OUR RECOVERY starts with our desire to stop using,admission and surrender and then going to work a day at a time,to help us change our attitudes and behaviors, application of spiritual principles in all our affairs and guided by a Power greater than us keeping us away from that 'FIRST ONE"...Obsession and compulsion to use even when we know what it is doing to all who are in contact with us hopefully leading us to the 'PAIN FINALLY OUTWEIGHING THE PLEASURE AND OUR DESIRE TO FIND A NEW WAY TO LIVE,,Hope to hear more from you.......Peace
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Our purpose is to remain clean,just for today,and to carry the message of recovery.
Welcome to MIP! Who is your post directed at? I think most people in the NA program recognize that alcohol is a drug and that alcohol addiction is similar to addiction to crack, heroin, pot, etc.
