The Difference between Alcoholics
Neither having alcohol once in life time does not make someone alcoholic, nor leaving alcohol all of a sudden makes someone non-alcoholic.
There is a huge difference between an active alcoholic and a heavy drinker. A heavy drinker may face some problems to stop or even moderating their drinking levels, but they can manage to do so if they can convince their minds with some strong reasons. However, an active alcoholic rarely takes any ones advice or any self challenges to stop drinking.
Most active alcoholics continues to drink in an irregular pattern and either die premature due to alcohol related health problems or hit by family or friends related pressures and finally quit drinking. The later ones from either the active alcoholics or heavy drinkers are the fortunate ones who are able to quit drinking.
Real alcoholics are usually known as the master of justifiable excuses. These psychopaths fool nobody but the one in denial. This self denial is the common attribute of the character of many alcoholic and this is their major obstacle for the chances of recovery. These alcoholics might or might not have knowledge on the dangers of alcohol abuse, but it rarely does have any effect to influence the behavior of anyone obsessed with and seriously addicted with this poisonous mind altering beverage. Just like as nicotine addict continues to smoke cigarettes knowing it cause them lung cancer for sure, real alcoholics keep drinking they are going to die soon.
However, there are some alcoholics who quit drinking, but thy really are not non-alcoholics.
Like there are no success without a failure, for an alcoholic there is no recovery without deterioration. Such a lifestyle has to get to the drinker making them sick and tired of getting sick and tired by drinking alcohol. For the alcoholic, this can mean a lot of things depending in their physical and mental pain threshold. Some start drinking them to death after they have broke all ties with their friends and family members. Some start drinking if they have no money, no home, and no job or have no suitable life partner. In other words, peoples who are living their lives in complete misery and isolation form the healthy society end up bottling their days with alcohol. Eventually, these are drinkers who get to reach the peak of drinking and leave drinking due to betterment of conditions. May be one can get a job, or money, or get their relation back with their spouse or parents and suddenly quit drinking.
However, there are some peoples who manage to have a working relation with families or get a job or something, they just cannot stop drinking. They start to grow a fragile relation with their families due to these drinking habits but despite all, they just cannot stop drinking till death.
Even if they manage to get a job, they continue to drink. They do not have any functioning problems during the working hours and after work when they return home, they manage a bottle for themselves. These drinkers never manage to get out of alcohol ever in their lives.
The alcoholics who quit drinking eventually lead a much healthy life otherwise. They start taking all kinds of therapies to quit drinking and adopt all other healthy attitude like regular workouts and healthy food intake. They mentally change to a much positive thinking and eventually change their lives like nothing bad have ever happened in their lives.
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