I’m not sure the author realizes that almost all the drinkers who wind up in addiction treatment do so after having gone through a period of questioning whether or not they deserve a label such as alcoholic.
One man was shocked at the intensity of his craving for liquor after just a few weeks of relative moderation.
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Offer counseling and support or even a special track for folks who “fell off the wagon”, so to speak, and now may be ready to climb back on.
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I suppose he was happy for people to see him as pigheaded, since it covered up the real problem: His rapidly deteriorating cognitive function.
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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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Many hospitals are notoriously lax about testing, and if you really are injured, who can blame them?
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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 don’t know how many times over the years I’ve listened to family members cite evidence of a loved one’s alcohol problem only to hear many of the same events cited by the drinker to prove that he doesn’t.
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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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