If an alcoholic rants, raves, throws self-pitying fits, is it possible for them to continue these behaviors even after they quit just out of habit?
Help me here? I need to understand this a little better....
2006-11-25 13:36:31 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Mental Health
This I know...when a person gives up an addiction, they are flooded with emotion, anger, and time that is open now to feel all these things. A bad combination. The coping mechanism is gone, no crutches and PLENTY O TIME to enjoy the cascading feelings, now unanaestized, it is a hard time.
However, remember also that an addict of any kind can be highly functional, talk, drive, think in an almost normal fashion, adept at hiding usage, and claiming to be "clean"...and not be.
2006-11-25 23:57:19 · answer #1 · answered by turtle girl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, the reason people drink is because they have problems dealing with life. They drink to escape.
When they're not drinking anymore, they have to cope with those things they were trying to escape from, plus not having their alcohol tranquilizer. So they now have two problems to cope with.
That person needs to go to Alcoholics Anonymous to learn how to live life sober. The 12 Steps will help to correct defects of character and correct any other problems. Plus give that person fellow recovering people to talk to and help sort out issues.
Good luck to them and to you.
By the way, family and friends of alcoholics can go to Al Anon - also a 12 step program which helps those affected by the alcohol and alcoholic.
2006-11-26 00:01:35 · answer #2 · answered by concernedjean 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sometimes. its even worse because theyre pissed off cause they cant drink anymore. for some, its just theyre nature, or they have some other problem besides alcohol. its not a habit. all alcohol does is intensify primal feelings. a baseball bat to the head would be a good remedy.
2006-11-25 21:53:38 · answer #3 · answered by chris l 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ya, its called being on a dry drunk. To be sober ones attitude
and values must change to the better. Keeping the same negative ways is called a dry drunk and many times leads back to the real thing.
2006-11-25 21:46:54 · answer #4 · answered by robert m 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you talked openly with your AA sponsor about what is bothering you? Causing the rage? Maybe you need to go through your 12 steps again and confess your sins and get to the root of the problem. If you don't deal with what's inside, you will start drinking again.
2006-11-25 21:40:25 · answer #5 · answered by stick man 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If it's a long term alc. the brain patterns have to change pathways. It is really a hard process to understand unless it's you. Like a drug addict, it just takes time , kinda like waking up after a long long sleep.
2006-11-25 22:12:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Absolutely. Please do some reading about alcoholism--there are tons of excellent books out there that very eloquently describe all facets of this "illness" or whatever you wish to call it. There are even some really short books, if you are not into reading...
2006-11-26 14:10:00 · answer #7 · answered by monchichi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES
2006-11-26 00:23:34 · answer #8 · answered by PENNIE 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes.i do it.
2006-11-25 22:33:57 · answer #9 · answered by dysfunctionalyMe 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋