I suppose none of her staff or colleagues thought of seeking professional help. An intervention, for instance. Or perhaps they considered it but decided it was not their place to interfere. Maybe they were scared of her reaction. People around the drinker often are.
He came to see it in terms of needing to give up one thing– alcohol– so he could have everything else.
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“Now, whether I have one drink or 10,” she admits, “I know I’ll still be where I started, in the nook of my sofa with the TV on at half-volume, anxiously biting hangnails.”
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Wherever addiction is present, unintended overdose is the consequence, not the disease.
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Every time I run into a case like this, the drinker winds up his presentation by asking if he needs professional help. So far, I’ve yet to say no.
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Consensus within the mental health field is that this year’s holiday season can’t help but be more stressful than in the past – due to the pandemic and the restrictions that accompany it.
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It isn’t nature vs. nurture. It’s both.
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Eventually their iron control failed and problems re-emerged, usually far worse than before.
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I remember one expert’s claim that it wasn’t unusual for someone to require seven treatment episodes to establish a stable recovery.
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Daily life becomes a battle zone; the more folks press for change, the more the drinker retreats into isolation, aided by the bottle.
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It’s always been fun for the public to speculate on what drove someone to literally disappear inside the bottle.
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But Russians (again like Americans) tend to view the liquor store as an essential business.
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That’s the real dilemma: Not ‘can I quit for a while?’ because most can.
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