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Maybe the alcohol was at fault, maybe not, it doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things. They happened. This extended withdrawal period is exactly why you cannot safely have ‘just one drink’. That one drink is the reason why 95% of people trying to quit with ‘will-power’ fail. Just one drink? PERFORMANCE - The writer is a great motivational speaker and does a good job reading his own work. He has a pleasant British accent. Firstly, the discomfort will go away if you take a drink of alcohol, and secondly, that pain will dissipate if you give it long enough. So I decided to look for a pill to help take some of the load. Even though I’m allergic to most meds out there I didn’t care. I needed help in some way and a pill was a perfect answer in my thinking.
Demands don’t work on me. Threats push me farther into defense mode. We are still getting a divorce. There are some good points made in this book. I appreciate that Craig does not go on abou the value of AA and he also does not take a religious stance. But he spends a lot of time saying the same things over and over again, one of the most significant of which is, When you're done reading this book you're going to agree with me that alcohol tastes terrible, that it's a harmful poison, and that there's really no good reason to drink. Apparently a number of people have found this approach useful but I don't. Well, this past June I came AWFULLY close to getting a DUI, and I KNEW I shouldn’t have been driving. I KNEW I should have called Uber, or Lyft or for that fact walked the ½ (or less) mile home!!! But, no, that was not my norm, that was not something I learned from watching all those people in my life who drank. I, of course, stopped drinking and smoking when I was pregnant with both my daughter (soon to be 19) and son (16.5). The entire lives of my children have had drinking, smoking and other horrors in them. Is it any wonder my son smokes pot, drinks with friends and has occasionally smoked cigarettes! Of course not! That is his norm.
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He tried countless ways to cut down; attempting ‘dry months,’ banning himself from drinking spirits, only drinking at the weekend & special occasions (and found that it is amazing how even the smallest of an event can suddenly become ‘special’). I know I just added years to my life, years to spend with my family and however many grandchildren I get in the future.
It makes me a person who found value in conducting an inquiry around if alcohol was adding as much to my life as it took. (It wasn’t.) I would say to any one who is struggling with alcohol to read or listen to this book I've been to AA & had councaing but it just made me feel so guilty,That does not make me an alcoholic or a person who has a problem with alcohol. I am not and do not. So to a certain extent, it’s true; they do feel instantly less stressed. This is because the general unease and anxiety directly created by the alcohol have now gone. Because of the hardwiring, you have constructed in your brain and your overactive hypothalamus. You may never achieve total zero, but every day you don’t drink, the base state of withdrawal drops a little further. Maybe my prayers were finally answered. Maybe I was in the perfect storm of my life and was ready to listen. Maybe I knew deep in my soul my Norm had to change. I don’t know. Maybe it was a combination of all 3.
By 18 I was a regular drinker with my mom at bars and working in some pretty shady places, doing some pretty horrific things all because this was my norm. One of my brothers got spared this life of strife and angst and died when he was very, very young. My 2 other brothers and myself were not spared this lifestyle and family NORM. Smoking and drinking go hand in hand in my family.
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All rites of passages are big experiences and turning points in life that push you into a new way of experiencing it. With earning your driver’s license, you realize you have a new freedom that comes with a huge responsbility. Earning a degree opens new possibilities for following your dreams and goals as well as your career. Becoming a parent brings a new human being into your life and with that comes a huge responsibility. How does alcohol fit into any of this in terms of important life milestones? I read that book and a switch was flipped in my thinking, in my beliefs, in the deepest part of my soul I changed. Just like that! For 20 years he struggled to control his drinking, all the time refusing to label himself an alcoholic because he didn't believe he met the stereotypical image that the word portrayed. He tried countless ways to cut down; attempting ‘dry months’, banning himself from drinking spirits, only drinking at the weekend and special occasions (and found that it is amazing how even the smallest of event can suddenly become ‘special’). This is why people incorrectly claim that a drink when they get home from work helps them unwind. The only thing that the first drink does is to turn off the withdrawal symptoms of the previous days drinking. I started smoking when I was 4. Yes, a little young, but my older brother by 2 years was already smoking and I would tag along with him as his little shadow, so he taught me how to smoke so he wouldn’t be tattled on. My father ultimately found out and we were literally tied to our beds for days.
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