| As an alcoholic and addict that's had around | | | | accept they have a real problem. It's only |
| 7 years of continued sobriety, I have to | | | | when they can face the fact that their life |
| begin this article by saying that there is | | | | has become unmanageable because of their |
| nothing in my life today that a drink or drug | | | | addiction, that they are desperate enough to |
| would make better. It wasn't always like this | | | | seek a solution. |
| though, and I once thought that escaping into | | | | |
| a hazy crazy world of alcoholic madness was | | | | Statistics show that 1 in every 10 people has |
| the answer to all of my problems. You see, | | | | some form or alcohol or drug dependency and |
| ever since my adolescent years I have been | | | | there are no signs of it getting any better. |
| what can only be described as an egomaniac | | | | Alcoholics and addicts have a disease that |
| with an inferiority complex, so it was little | | | | centers in the mind, and a body that craves |
| wonder that I found oblivion an attractive | | | | for more of the same once their drug of |
| state of being. | | | | choice enters into their blood stream. Having |
| | | | no mental defense means that education on its |
| One of the major problems that many | | | | own is useless. Therefore, it's little wonder |
| alcoholics and addicts have is that they are | | | | that so many folks from all walks of life |
| self centered, self seeking, and selfish. | | | | become victims to drugs and alcohol. |
| Anyone that is trapped in a world of self | | | | |
| absorbance can never truly be happy, and | | | | The most successful solution, which has |
| unhappy people often do things and take | | | | literally worked for millions of people world |
| things that help them to change the way they | | | | wide, is the fellowship of Alcoholics and |
| feel. With so many natural and unpleasant | | | | Narcotics Anonymous otherwise known as AA and |
| characteristics, does this mean that | | | | NA respectively. Being a fellowship means |
| alcoholics and addicts are bad people? The | | | | that there is safety and support in numbers. |
| answer is a simple no. In fact many of these | | | | Most recovering alcoholics and addicts will |
| addictive personality types are warmer, and | | | | tell you that something happens in those |
| often more talented than Joe Average. The | | | | meeting rooms which lifts away their |
| difference is that their mind tells them this | | | | obsession to drink or use. They have |
| just isn't so, and they therefore take a path | | | | something together that they don't have by |
| of self destruction which often wrecks, not | | | | themselves. No one quite knows why it works |
| only their own lives, but the lives of those | | | | so well, only that it does, and most don't |
| closest to them. | | | | try to analyze it further than that. |
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| THERE IS A SOLUTION | | | | Some addicts and alcoholics have gone so far |
| | | | down the track that they may have to be |
| Yes there is. There is most definitely a | | | | hospitalized or placed in a treatment center |
| solution to those that reach out for help. | | | | before committing to any fellowship, but once |
| Unfortunately, most addicts need to hit rock | | | | dried out and cleaned up, some begin to |
| bottom before they throw in the towel. It | | | | really see the errors of they ways and embark |
| isn't until they become as desperate as only | | | | on a new life that they never imagined |
| the dying can be that they admit to | | | | possible. |
| themselves the nature of their malady. | | | | |
| Oversensitive to the extreme, many alcoholics | | | | So, there is a solution, and the above |
| and addicts tend to feel more than they | | | | touches on just a couple of the most |
| think, and consequently believe the world is | | | | successful, but some manage to find other |
| against them, especially when their nearest | | | | ways to recover. However, anyone wanting to |
| and dearest attempt to talk to them about | | | | get clean and sober will only succeed if they |
| their problem. Addicts and alcoholics need to | | | | want it enough. Recovery works, but you have |
| hear if from within before they can finally | | | | to work it. |