Alcoholism is ruining my life

I heard about such stories a lot. My girlfriend's father is an alcoholic. I've never seen him sober. Even when I first met him he was drunk. My advice to you, you should find a good rehab center where you can get professional treatment and so on. If you don't have enough money you can find a free rehab or rehab without insurance. Also, there are a lot of hotlines for people with alcohol addiction (

https://addictionresource.com/alcohol/treatment/hotlines/

).

You can read more about free rehabs here

https://addictionresource.com/drug-rehab/free-rehabs/

. I hope that this info would be helpful for you. And don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

You sound like my brother. After a life wasted drinking, he hung himself in despair. Don't be my brother.

Any decent physician prescribes MAT with the direction that this is not a panacea and should be used in conjunction with either 12 step or other group therapy (Smart/Refuge) . This is to break the isolation and let the Alcoholic/Addict know that their not alone.

I also never had any luck with Campral for cravings.

Yeah I understand you very well, because if you start drinking nonstop, when in the future it’s really hard to stop drinking alcohol. I have suffered from alcoholism for many years. I even had a lot of troubles in my family because of my alcoholic addiction. But if I didn’t drink for a few days I have found myself really weak and depressed so I was returning to alcove very soon. But once my close friend said that Kratom https://www.wekratom.com helps to recover from alcoholic addiction very easily. I didn’t believe him but when I tried it the effect shocked me. Because I felt myself really an energized after quoting alcohol.

Sugar (candy) cured my alcohol problem. That created other issues, but I quit drinking, and have quit sugar.

Alcoholism is real. And weed is still illegal on a federal level. Good ol' USA.

In most cases, addiction is a symptom of unresolved trauma, probably from childhood and/or adolescence, but it can be later too. Heal the trauma, and your desire/need to medicate will go away. Think you're not traumatized? Go to a therapist (or better yet, an analyst) and start talking/exploring. A lot of people with deep-rooted early childhood trauma aren't even consciously aware of it.

Best of luck to you.

SHAME on you for proffering garbage about repressed memory and 'early childhood trauma'. It's BS with no science behind it. Therapists who mine around looking for these things are charlatans and more often than not they encourage and embrace false memory in clients. Alcoholism is a disease with a massive genetic predispositional factor. Keep your pseudoscience out of it.

Post-traumatic growth wrote:

In most cases, addiction is a symptom of unresolved trauma, probably from childhood and/or adolescence, but it can be later too. Heal the trauma, and your desire/need to medicate will go away. Think you're not traumatized? Go to a therapist (or better yet, an analyst) and start talking/exploring. A lot of people with deep-rooted early childhood trauma aren't even consciously aware of it.

Best of luck to you.

Ganja4Everyone? wrote:

SHAME on you for proffering garbage about repressed memory and 'early childhood trauma'. It's BS with no science behind it. Therapists who mine around looking for these things are charlatans and more often than not they encourage and embrace false memory in clients.

Alcoholism is a disease with a massive genetic predispositional factor. Keep your pseudoscience out of it.

Post-traumatic growth wrote:

In most cases, addiction is a symptom of unresolved trauma, probably from childhood and/or adolescence, but it can be later too. Heal the trauma, and your desire/need to medicate will go away. Think you're not traumatized? Go to a therapist (or better yet, an analyst) and start talking/exploring. A lot of people with deep-rooted early childhood trauma aren't even consciously aware of it.

Best of luck to you.

I never said there wasn't a genetic component. And it has been common knowledge within clinical psychology for decades now that addictions are often (if not usually) symptoms of underlying trauma. Even most laymen understand this from my experience. It is also common knowledge within clinical psychology that many people who are traumatized and have dysfunctional behaviors as a result are not aware that there was anything wrong about their childhood.

If you're not trolling a truly this ignorant, I have to wonder why you chimed in on the subject at all.