Alcoholism is not a shameful or guilty vice!

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One of the popular misconceptions is that alcoholism is a vice. “The others”, while looking at an alcoholic will always say or think: this is a bad person; shame on him to drink; he should quit and become a normal person.

It’s been like this for centuries. Only modern times medical research revealed that alcoholism is a disease which puts the alcoholic in the position of not being able to quit. When he started drinking more than the “average” people do on occasions, the disease was already installed and he was already unable to quit without either strongly acknowledging that he is developing a problem or by help from the others.

We notice on occasions that one of our friends takes one more beer than the others. It is a sign that he or she should learn more about alcohol immediately. It is the crucial moment in our dear friend’s life when he should be helped quitting or he will have bigger problems later. His will has began to fade already… And it is not up to him, it is up to us to bring his will back and save him!

“Alcoholism begins in a group but it ends up in loneliness.”

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…it is a tragic truth we’ve seen too many times and so many times overlooked by parents when prepare their teenage children for the first party to attend.

The joyful days of youth when we started going to parties. Places and people we enjoyed and love to remember. If only at that moment someone would’ve told us that drinking and laughing together could be the start of loneliness…

We’ve all seen too many times youngsters drinking alcohol to get the courage to approach a girl or just to warm up and bring more life to the party. Can you count how many of them have become alcohol addicts ? I guess you all know some. And once they did, have the majority of people around them continued to treat them like nothing happened and stayed around them?
The loneliness part comes once the drinker starts making excesses and misbehave. The others will gradually start pushing him away, avoid inviting him to group gatherings, and eventually he or she will be completely rejected. The sad thing is that he or she will not realize that alcohol is to blame and will instead blame the others for the isolation and his problems.

Take other stories, like a drinker who once had a family, a job and work colleagues which are now all gone. Why? Because nobody told him before he started drinking that alcohol will take away all the persons around him and leave him alone.

Is alcohol a shameful guilty vice ? Can an alcoholic be held responsible for having become an alcoholic ? Is there hope ? …these are questions to be answered further in our discussion. Meantime, feel free to comment, add your own experience, examples or simply contradict what it is said above. We want to hear from you.

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