Here’s What I Found About Alcoholism
The description of alcoholism differs depending on the person talking. To an average person on the street, the term is akin with drinking of alcohol. Then we may ask, does it mean everyone drinking alcohol is an alcohol addict?
To help us graps the meaning properly, let’s turn to Wikipedia for help. It says: alcoholism typically constitutes any condition that results in the continued consumption of alcoholic beverages, despite negative personal and social consequences. This definition has a lot to say to us all. From this description, it can be inferred that it is not everyone drinking alcohol that is plainly an addict. What constitutes ‘too much’ is very subjective.
But we can establish that someone is an addict if he or she continues drinking alcohol beverages in spite of negative personal and social consequences.
What many of us think about alcohol addict is not true in most cases. We tend to address the aftermath of the obstacle. We don′t address the cause of the predicament. We blame the addict for going into it. We counsel him or her to enter an alcohol treatment centre and get alimony. We even go the extra length of avoiding him or her.
All I am saying is that our course of action to assisting the addict only compounds the predicament instead of ameliorating it. The best course of action to assisting an addict is to look at the cause of the predicament. In other words, we should look at what led him or her into alcoholism in the first place.
Many justifications can be adduced. These include loss of job, loss of a loved one, marriage collapse, etc. In essence, we should first take a look at any of these causes, and then proffer answer. Parenthetically, if it’s a loss of a job, we should make him or her (the addict) realize that it is not the end of the world. We should tell him of hundreds of people out there that have really made it in life after losing their jobs. Tell him or her about Abraham Lincoln, the man that failed so many times and yet still became the president of the United States of America.
Do you see that it will be incorrect depriving such an addict of your love just because he has become an alcohol addict? What he or she needs is not the alcohol treatment centre yet, it is love and understanding that he or she needs.
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