Jails, Institutions, and Death

[caressa]

Alcoholism is the only disease they lock you up for. Anon.

From Alkiespeaks

So often the term is taken for something that belongs in NA (that other fellowship that people don't seem to want to talk about). Hey people, times are changing. I would say that most addicts start out their journey by using alcohol and when it quits working, they move on to other things.

That isn't always so, often their parents or friend used alcohol so they stayed away from it because they didn't want to be like them.

Yet alcohol is just as deadly, if not more so than other drugs, mainly because for the most part it is legal if you are of age, while most other substances are not.

Even if you look at what people call the 'safe drugs' like food, work, exercise, gambling, etc. it all leads to the same soul sickness and can take you to the same places.

Alcoholism kills. Substitution kills. Addiction kills. Some is good, more is better is a FALSE statement.

[justjo]

My thought was, lock you up and throw away the key. That is what they would have done one night to me if they had stopped me on the way home from Port Severn. The police followed me home, me in my VW, that stayed on it's own side of the road and did the speed limit. Appearances can be deceiving, although realisticly I was smashed. You can't drink from a 26er in the afternoon, drink at a dance until closing, go back to the boyfriend's cabin, and finish the bottle and be sober, although you couldn't have told me that. I believed my own lies. I didn't realize they were lies, I would have claimed that I was being totally honest. You can't make a drunk out of me, that was my father.

[majestyjo]

A remember when for me found on another site. This from a person who didn't think she was an alcoholic. A person who stayed sick because she compared instead of identifying. A person who said, "I am not as bad as they are." Just because I wasn't a falling down drunk, could walk a straight line, didn't like beer, and any other excuse I could think up, I wouldn't let myself wear a label that I put on others. I didn't know it was a disease. I thought it was an excuse for unacceptable behaviour.

[caressa222]

A ream remember when for me. I compared for years and even stayed sick in recovery, because I didn't think I was THAT bad. I had a person who said they spilled more than I drank. Another said, "If I drank like you, I would still be drinking." I had to learn, that was them. It wasn't my truth. My son has told me several times that he never met anyone who drank as much as I did. He has expressed on several occasion that he wished he could drink like I did. I was very function for the most part, except for the last year.

In recovery, I have learned that it has to begin with me. If I have a problem, it is mine.

[majestyjo]

We don't think it could happen to us, and then we find ourselves there.  I chose life.