All Posts Tagged With: "alcoholic"
Overcome Your Addiction and Quit Drinking
There are a lot of alcoholics and addicts who keep screwing up in recovery and then return to their AA meetings, completely confused about how they can not “get it.” They believe that they are missing out on the secret to staying clean and sober, when in fact they are just screwing up whatever program [...]
25Feb2009 | writer | 0 comments | Continued
If You Think You Might Have a Problem with Drinking
If you believe that you have some sort of issue with alcohol then your first course of action is to properly diagnose your problem. What is the true nature of your problem and what is the extent of it? Is your problem really with drinking too much or does your problem really get nasty when [...]
25Feb2009 | writer | 0 comments | Continued
How to Help an Alcoholic - a Couple of Suggestions
So you want to know how to help an alcoholic without enabling them?
Of course we try our best to assist an alcoholic, but most of the time our help will actually hurt them instead because it does not move them any closer to surrender. So what do we do in order to avoid this [...]
A Plan to Stop Drinking Alcohol
If you have decided that you want to go beyond merely trying to control your drinking then it is time to make a decision and attempt to quit drinking entirely. Of course this might sound like a terrible punishment at first but it is not so hard once you get through the detoxification process and [...]
25Feb2009 | writer | 0 comments | Continued
Customize a Solution in Order to Help an Alcoholic Recover
Knowing how to help an alcoholic is a difficult thing to do. Sometimes the best we can achieve is to encourage a person in recovery to explore their options and find what works best for them.
Part of the problem with traditional recovery is that it usually seeks to fit the alcoholic into the program instead [...]
How to Help an Alcoholic
The best way to help an alcoholic is indirectly. This means that you do not try to control or manipulate them. Don’t make feeble pleas with them to miraculously stop drinking. Don’t scream at them or try to guilt them or get into a yelling match with them. None of these concepts help much. At [...]
23Feb2009 | writer | 0 comments | Continued
Alcoholism Help Guide
If you or someone you know needs alcoholism help then you might want to consider taking action. So what is the ideal action to take? In my opinion the ideal siutation is for the struggling alcoholic to find a rehab center that has a professional detox area and get checked in. This is the best [...]
23Feb2009 | writer | 0 comments | Continued
The Key to Living a Sober Life
Living sober has nothing to do with sobriety per se, it is more a state of mind actually. Of course, when you are sober you are not going to be drinking alcohol. But for the true alcoholic, how can this ever be sustainable if they are miserable while gritting their teeth in order to avoid [...]
21Feb2009 | writer | 0 comments | Continued