Alcoholism Contradictions

The alcoholic represents many things to many people, but, they are the world’s supreme paradox with their contradictions in thought and behaviour.
Alcoholism is a disease that tells its sufferer that they are not an alcoholic. The evidence may be in the following behaviours;

They go to a bar knowing that they won’t find what they are looking for.
They are looking for happiness and freedom from fear, but find only despair.
They will trade freedom of choice for a drink.
They search frantically for courage in a bottle, but find only hopelessness and yet still drink.
They know from experience that alcohol makes the poor person rich in fantasy for a short time and that it makes a wealthy drunkard poor in reality.
They drink to ease the tensions of the day.
They drink to escape the pressures of tomorrow.
They are in love with themselves, yet they try to kill themselves.
They want to be free but rush headlong into a self-made prison.
When sober, they want to get drunk.
When drunk they pray for sobriety.
They get ‘high’ in the evening so that they can be low in the morning.
They want the beauty of life, yet seek the sordid and the ugly.
The strange contradiction of the alcoholic is that they think that the only way they can feel better is by drinking the liquid that will make them feel worse.
They seek to inflate their ego with alcohol but succeed only in shrivelling their soul in the bitter gall of remorse.
They will start all their bouts with the dignity of a monarch and w...

Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - May 31, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Alcohol Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholism Disease alcoholism is a disease paradox Source Type: blogs