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To: Suma who wrote (1383)	2/26/2008 12:45:54 PM
From: grusum	Read Replies (1) of 1564

my friend's brother was an alcoholic. he stood in front of an oncoming train to end his life. my friend to me to never stand between someone and their addiction because, they will run over you like a mac truck to get to their addiction. his brother's life was a long spiral down to that point in which everyone that tried to help him eventually gave up. he used everyone he came into contact with. it started when he got fired. he borrowed money and stayed with every friend and relative that would take him for years. it lasted until he ran out of people who would help him. then he had two choices. the same two choices that every alcoholic will have to realize are coming or actually make at the end. the choices are 'continue to drink and die or stop drinking'... many people choose to die. fortunately, many choose to stop drinking also. but only those that actually see it as a matter of life or death really stop for good. others can't give it up even if they know it will kill them. i believe that people who 'help' them only delay the choice and make that choice harder to make in the end. the choice should be an easy one to make for life. but the longer alcohol has its grip, the stronger the grip is. there is nothing anyone can do about the choice that an alcoholic will make. the only thing one can do is help them to understand the depth of their choice. their choice isn't to stop drinking or not. because one can stop drinking for a day, a week or a month etc. and then start again at any time. which means of course that they never stopped drinking. they suspended their drinking to get help again from people that care about them. but when they start drinking again the help usually stops and once again they are confronted with the ultimate two choices. so once again the only real choices are to continue drinking and die or stop drinking forever and live. but perhaps she's not an alcoholic. if she isn't, she might have a problem she's trying to self medicate for such as clinical depression. if that's the case she, if she could end the depression she could stop the drinking. it's not always easy to tell which came first because alcoholism nearly always causes depression. ending depression will only work to help to stop drinking if the depression came first. i'm neither a doctor nor a psychiatrist. what i wrote above comes from various experiences with alcoholism.

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