Hi All
I have been reading some of todays posts on binge drinking and as someone who was a binge drinker would like to share. al entered my life when I was a teenager.Forty years latter I am trying to break its grip on me.When I was in my 20- 30 it was the weekend drinking and partying.Working and raising a family and not thinking al was a problem because all my friends were in the same boat.Some got the dreaded DWI but I viewed it just as their bad luck.Could have been me but it still didn't register how I was not in control. al was in control of me.
Trying to remember when it went from weekend use to daily and can't. Some where in my life al became a daily companion. I think this is an eventuality if you are a binge drinker.It is just a matter of time.Saw it happen to myself and almost everyone I socialized with.You start to gravitate more and more to people like yourself and away from the people living a healthy lifestyle.Now in my mid 50 I see the ruins around me of people dead, families ruined.When I was younger I only saw the alcoholic as the person sitting on the park bench with his bottle. Well I went from the binge drinker to the daily drinker and now I see it was just a matter of time for this to happen. We go down the road further and further as we get older.The sooner you recognize that you are playing with fire that will totally consume you. The better chance you have of getting your life back.It is my opinion that if you are now a binge drinker it will escalate as time goes by.I didn't become the alcoholic sitting on the park bench with my bottle numb to the world.I was the walking and driving alcoholic numb to the world and one step from the bench.I think that to was a just a matter of time before I was sitting on that bench
Stay Healthy and Keep Fighting
AF 5-16-08
I have been reading some of todays posts on binge drinking and as someone who was a binge drinker would like to share. al entered my life when I was a teenager.Forty years latter I am trying to break its grip on me.When I was in my 20- 30 it was the weekend drinking and partying.Working and raising a family and not thinking al was a problem because all my friends were in the same boat.Some got the dreaded DWI but I viewed it just as their bad luck.Could have been me but it still didn't register how I was not in control. al was in control of me.
Trying to remember when it went from weekend use to daily and can't. Some where in my life al became a daily companion. I think this is an eventuality if you are a binge drinker.It is just a matter of time.Saw it happen to myself and almost everyone I socialized with.You start to gravitate more and more to people like yourself and away from the people living a healthy lifestyle.Now in my mid 50 I see the ruins around me of people dead, families ruined.When I was younger I only saw the alcoholic as the person sitting on the park bench with his bottle. Well I went from the binge drinker to the daily drinker and now I see it was just a matter of time for this to happen. We go down the road further and further as we get older.The sooner you recognize that you are playing with fire that will totally consume you. The better chance you have of getting your life back.It is my opinion that if you are now a binge drinker it will escalate as time goes by.I didn't become the alcoholic sitting on the park bench with my bottle numb to the world.I was the walking and driving alcoholic numb to the world and one step from the bench.I think that to was a just a matter of time before I was sitting on that bench
Stay Healthy and Keep Fighting
AF 5-16-08
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