All Posts Tagged With: "alcoholic"
What is the Most Effective Method to Stop Drinking?
For the true alcoholic, the idea that they can just stop drinking is no light matter. Because there are a bunch of different ways to get sober out there, which techniques prove to be the best and which ones don’t work so well?
1) Willpower - This is essentially the same as not using any [...]
How to Quit Drinking
In early sobriety we might struggle just to stay dry for another 24 hours at a time. We might have a hard time staying dry for a single day at a time and just to make it without drinking we will have to use our friends and support from the meetings. This is alright but [...]
7Mar2009 | writer | 0 comments | Continued
Should I Stop Drinking Altogether or Should I Try to Control it?
The question for some people who are struggling with their drinking might be: should you try to stop drinking altogether or is there a chance that you can control it?
First of all, if you figure out a way to moderate successfully then this is awesome. Chances are you are not a true alcoholic if you [...]
How to Really Help a Struggling Alcoholic
The best way to help an alcoholic is through modifying your own behavior, not attempting to control theirs. This means that you should not attempt to control their behavior. Do not try to beg them to stop drinking. Do not threaten them or shame them or engage with angry arguments with them. None of these [...]
6Mar2009 | writer | 0 comments | Continued
Stop Drinking and Start Living a Real Life in Recovery
Most people get confused when it comes to quitting drugs and alcohol, because they see it as a process of elimination. They think that the primary focus is on eliminating drug use and then on avoiding all of those triggers and urges that might pop up in our lives that might make us relapse.
If [...]
A Few Ways to Help an Alcoholic
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 how can we know how to avoid enabling? How [...]
Beating Alcohol Addiction Demands Creation
Alcohol addiction is a condition that disrupts every area of a person’s life. Drinking heavily affects the alcoholic more than just physically….they also are suffering from a mental, social, and spiritual handicap at this point. Their entire life is adversely affected by the disease. Jobs are lost and people get fired. Relationships are screwed up. [...]
27Feb2009 | writer | 0 comments | Continued
Addiction Help and Helping Alcoholics to Stop 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 [...]
27Feb2009 | writer | 0 comments | Continued
How to Diagnose Your Alcoholism or Problem Drinking
How can you know if you are an alcoholic?
To the normal person who is not suffering from addiction, this sort of question might seem ridiculous at first. This can really be a tricky situation for some people, especially if you are still in the phase of drinking where you still have fun with it [...]
How to Achieve Sober Living
The success rates are dismal and depressing when it comes to beating addiction. Based on most available data, very few will manage to achieve continuous, long-term sobriety. While it certainly is possible, the odds are stacked against us. Here is how you can achieve success with sober living.
1. The theory of the zero tolerance [...]