Drinking Can Be A Lonely Past Time
January 24th, 2008Remember when you would have a good time drinking with friends? You’d go out and have a great time and there were no issues. That was before alcohol became a problem.
As time goes on and your behavior under the influence gets worse, many people who develop a drinking problem decide at some point that they really can’t drink in public anymore and maintain any kind of decent reputation. And so begins the drinking at home. Drinking and thinking - left alone to your thoughts.
Drinking alone can exacerbate these feelings of loneliness. In fact drinking tends to amplify the mood you were in before you picked up the first drink. These feelings of loneliness can lead to picking up and calling people you know on the phone, announcing to the world that you’re drunk, or worse, may lead you to get in the car and either just take a drive or go visiting. Under some circumstances you don’t even have to leave the house to damage your reputation.
When you wake up the next day, filled with anxiety, you recount your actions of the night before - who did I call? Did anyone come over? What did I do? And you vow to stop drinking for good. But until you make the effort to get some kind of help, the alcohol use continues.
Drinking can be a lonely past time. Many have to hide their drinking in order to avoid putting themselves in a position to be judged by others, and that’s a big secret to keep. This pattern will continue, this lonely, solitary drinking, until you decide that this is not good enough anymore, you deserve better and you want to put an end to this misery.
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January 24th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
Karen:
Thanks so much for the nice comment you left on my blog. I really like yours as well and I’m going to put a link to yours on my site as well.
I am in school right now to be an Addictions counselor.
Keep up the good work!
January 26th, 2008 at 8:55 am
Ohhhh thank youuuuu!!
… wow it was so out of the blue, but really appriciated. You deal with real mature issues, and i think thats great because sometimes we need to hear the real truths. i can also see you’re a well established woman, with all your blogs on business. thats cool, because i’m actually learning all of that in college. But yeah, i thought it would be most appropriate to comment in your drinking blog because of those teens i encountered. Down here in London, the people drink socioably, but sometimes thats how it spirals out of control.just seeing those drunk kids made me think how lucky i was to be privilaged with my past times such as dance. well hope to see you on my blog again. Lon
February 1st, 2008 at 5:52 am
Very true!
Many of us have this notion that people who drink are drunkards. Drinking is always equal to vice but for me, I don’t see it that way. For me, drinking is my way to relieve stress or to get over a sad heartache. A lonely pastime to consider… What matters most is that we should know our limitations, to avoid all subjects that have been associated to drinking.