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Alcohol Treatment
You don’t have to live life in a fog of needing a drink to get through each day. While you may feel that alcohol helps you to forget or deal with your problems, it’s actually complicating your world and destroying your health. The good news is with the help of Lighthouses, Christian Transitional Restoration Homes you can start again to live the life you once knew, or the one you may have never known because of you or your loved one's alcohol addiction.
How Alcohol Can Take Over Your Life & Control You
It’s common to hear phrases like, “I just need a drink to take the edge off” and “Let’s kick back with a drink.” Drinking is culturally and socially acceptable, but when does wine with dinner become trouble? When do after-work cocktails with colleagues become excessive? And just because an alcohol abuser appears to function at work or home, that doesn’t mean his or her life hasn’t been damaged by relying on alcohol to get through the day. So when does someone cross the line from moderate alcohol use to alcohol abuse or addiction?
According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Addiction, “up to
two drinks per day for men and one drink per day for women and older people
causes few if any problems.” That statement applies to most people, but for
those who thirst for a buzz or want to use alcohol to desensitize themselves from
their surroundings, the number of daily drinks multiplies to an unhealthy and
harmful amount.
Drinking will only lead to disappointment, broken promises, and ailing health, but experiencing that isn’t enough to get alcoholics or alcohol abusers to turn away from liquor. Without help they’ll never see how they’ve been hurting themselves and those around them. They won’t realize how all the missed recitals and sports games are affecting their kids. How the time spent at bars rather than at home is affecting their spouses or partners. And they won’t remember what it’s like to truly enjoy a bright day without stumbling through it in a stupor. Until they’re shown that drinking excessively isn’t an answer to their problems, but an action that only creates more complications, they won’t see how much alcohol has stolen from them.
It’s time to get back what’s been taken away. Help and hope await you at Lighthouses, Christian Transitional Restoration Homes (941)348-5901.
Stop Letting Alcohol Destroy Your Life - Get Help Now!
If someone told you what to do or how to act, most likely you’d get angry at
them. Alcohol is that controlling figure in lives, telling people that they
need it to deal with a stressful work situation or conflict at home. It’s
saying that you can’t meet a challenge without taking another taste of wine.
It’s whispering to you that you have to take another sip of those spirits at a
party so you can be your charming and sociable self.
But alcohol has been lying to you, so stop listening and get angry. Let that anger push you to turn away from alcohol. Don’t try to do it alone, though. As destructive as it’s been physically, mentally, and emotionally, you may still be under the illusion that you need alcohol to survive, and your body may have become dependent on it.
If you ignore alcohol-related problems, they’re not going to go away – they’ll just get worse. Through Lighthouses, Christian Transitional Restoration Homes (941)348-5901, break free of harmful patterns of behavior and develop healthy coping skills that will help prevent a relapse when you face your former drinking triggers outside of the Lighthouse. There is no such thing as “liquid courage,” and the biggest and most courageous achievement of your life will be sobriety.
