Alcohol is a substance that has the power to overtake your life, if you're an alcoholic.
Loss Of Control
The main symptom to an alcoholic is loss of control. Alcohol has the power to make you not care about anything else but, getting drunk. An alcoholic always drinks to get drunk. To an alcoholic, there's no other reason to drink; than to get drunk.
Blackout
A blackout is a sign of alcoholism. When you blackout; you have no control of your behavior. You may wake up in a strange place or with strange people and have no idea of what you did the night before or how you got to where you are now.
The Power That Alcohol Has
The power that alcohol has over us who struggle with alcoholism is like a double-edged sword; once it's in our system, we're damned at everything we do.
Alcohol Always Leads To Poor Choices
Not only does alcohol cause us alcoholics to make poor choices, it prevents us from living a normal life. When the alcoholic is under the influence of alcohol, all normal forms of reasoning seem to go out the window. We seem to be stuck with the typical alcoholic behavior, which is, me, me, me. At this stage, the only thing that matters is getting drunk and we have no regard for our health or the health and safety of the people around us. The selfishness of alcoholism never leads to a road of glory, ever.
The Impossible
In all my years of drinking, I've never heard somebody say," gosh, I got so drunk last night that I had a blast." You will never hear this statement because to an alcoholic, this is impossible.
The Alcoholic
The alcoholic simply cannot drink alcohol, period.
Stages In Addiction
An alcoholic will go through many stages in their addiction. The first one is denial. They'll deny being an alcoholic and insist that they can control their drinking. They'll even do things to prove it to themselves that, they; are not an alcoholic.
The Achievement
The alcoholic might open a beer, have a few sips, and intentionally set it down, and not touch it until the next day. Having made this achievement; if you can call it, that, is proof to the alcoholic that he, is not an alcoholic.
Old Patterns
Then, the alcoholic will eventually go back to their old patterns of drinking.
The Power That Alcohol Has Over Us
Knowing the power that alcohol has over us, we know that we can never be around alcohol because being around alcohol has a good possibility of leading to relapse.
Playing With Fire
For the alcoholic, being around alcohol, is like playing with fire; you'll eventually get burned. It's not a matter of if you'll drink alcohol; it's a matter of when you'll drink alcohol. And, when you do drink alcohol, you'll wind up worse off than you were when you quit drinking alcohol the first time.
In Our Hearts
For many of us sober alcoholics, the thought of going back out again and drinking alcohol, is something we dread. In our hearts, we know that it's the same old, same old, out there. Always has, and always will be, for the alcoholic who suffers from alcoholism.
In A Body Bag
Alcoholics know that if they ever went out again, that the only way they would ever come back, would be in a body bag.
Life Or Death
For us alcoholics, it is a matter of life or death. We can choose to go the way of life. Or we can go the way of drinking alcohol again that always leads to death much faster than expected.
I Choose Life
For me, I choose life, not hanging out with some people at a bar somewhere who don't give a damn whether I live or die.
The Choice Is Yours
Life, or death.
What do you choose?
Loss Of Control
The main symptom to an alcoholic is loss of control. Alcohol has the power to make you not care about anything else but, getting drunk. An alcoholic always drinks to get drunk. To an alcoholic, there's no other reason to drink; than to get drunk.
Blackout
A blackout is a sign of alcoholism. When you blackout; you have no control of your behavior. You may wake up in a strange place or with strange people and have no idea of what you did the night before or how you got to where you are now.
The Power That Alcohol Has
The power that alcohol has over us who struggle with alcoholism is like a double-edged sword; once it's in our system, we're damned at everything we do.
Alcohol Always Leads To Poor Choices
Not only does alcohol cause us alcoholics to make poor choices, it prevents us from living a normal life. When the alcoholic is under the influence of alcohol, all normal forms of reasoning seem to go out the window. We seem to be stuck with the typical alcoholic behavior, which is, me, me, me. At this stage, the only thing that matters is getting drunk and we have no regard for our health or the health and safety of the people around us. The selfishness of alcoholism never leads to a road of glory, ever.
The Impossible
In all my years of drinking, I've never heard somebody say," gosh, I got so drunk last night that I had a blast." You will never hear this statement because to an alcoholic, this is impossible.
The Alcoholic
The alcoholic simply cannot drink alcohol, period.
Stages In Addiction
An alcoholic will go through many stages in their addiction. The first one is denial. They'll deny being an alcoholic and insist that they can control their drinking. They'll even do things to prove it to themselves that, they; are not an alcoholic.
The Achievement
The alcoholic might open a beer, have a few sips, and intentionally set it down, and not touch it until the next day. Having made this achievement; if you can call it, that, is proof to the alcoholic that he, is not an alcoholic.
Old Patterns
Then, the alcoholic will eventually go back to their old patterns of drinking.
The Power That Alcohol Has Over Us
Knowing the power that alcohol has over us, we know that we can never be around alcohol because being around alcohol has a good possibility of leading to relapse.
Playing With Fire
For the alcoholic, being around alcohol, is like playing with fire; you'll eventually get burned. It's not a matter of if you'll drink alcohol; it's a matter of when you'll drink alcohol. And, when you do drink alcohol, you'll wind up worse off than you were when you quit drinking alcohol the first time.
In Our Hearts
For many of us sober alcoholics, the thought of going back out again and drinking alcohol, is something we dread. In our hearts, we know that it's the same old, same old, out there. Always has, and always will be, for the alcoholic who suffers from alcoholism.
In A Body Bag
Alcoholics know that if they ever went out again, that the only way they would ever come back, would be in a body bag.
Life Or Death
For us alcoholics, it is a matter of life or death. We can choose to go the way of life. Or we can go the way of drinking alcohol again that always leads to death much faster than expected.
I Choose Life
For me, I choose life, not hanging out with some people at a bar somewhere who don't give a damn whether I live or die.
The Choice Is Yours
Life, or death.
What do you choose?
) As my friend 199 says, "Sober is the new rebel ~ cool". 
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