Can someone explain to me how/why it can be so hard to quit drinking?

Question

I have drank before and I don't understand how someone cant just put the bottle down(especially if it is ruining the family) thanks

Answer 1

Because for someone who drinks "socially" and can take it or leave it they have a different chemical make up then someone who drinks"alcoholically"It is very hard for the person who drinks alcoholically to put down the bottle because its a disease,believe it or not.However its is just as difficult and probably even more stressful on the family and loved ones under the same roof as this person,because its difficult to watch someone destroy themselves,their family,their job and their self worth.The best thing to do for the suffering family members is to go to Al anon,so you can focus on yourself and your needs in a healthy way,with others who suffer the same turmoil at home.It's no picnic going thru this,but knowing you don't have to do it alone is sure helpful.

Answer 2

No, you can't understand it if you don't have a problem with alcohol. I am someone who does have a problem with alcohol, so I'll try to explain it a bit to you.
Bear in mind though, that some people suffer from this much worse than I do, and it takes a very strong mind to go sober. Some people maybe can't go sober.
For a problem drinker, there is always a part of the mind that suggests having a drink, and this part of the mind never shuts up. You have to fight against it all the time and it can be very hard. Especially once you have been drinking for a while and it has made your life bad; then you are embarrassed and ashamed while you are sober, and the only thing that makes you feel better again is - incredibly enough - being drunk. For the problem drinker, drinking creates problems; the problems make you feel awful; sadly the one thing that numbs the pain of your problems is drinking. So it is a cycle. It takes a lot of strength to go through the self-hating sober weeks until you have made your life good enough to endure even if you are sober. Does that make any sense?
The most important part for a problem drinker is to understand that it is a problem. If drinking is making a person sick, unwell, they are losing days at work from hangovers, they can't look after their kids properly, they don't have enough money for food and clothes and entertainments for kids, then that is a life-affecting problem and it might be time for an intervention. You can read about interventions on the net somewhere; it's where you all sit down together and make it totally clear that you all feel the drinking is a life-affecting problem and you aren't prepared to ignore it any more.
Some people can drink once a year, once a month, once a week and then not worry about it if they can't get a drink for ages. Some people wake up with a hangover and right away are thinking about the next time they can afford something to drink. It's not their fault, but it is their fault if they don't recognise their problem and get the help they need to stop drinking.
I hope this helps you. Good luck.

Answer 3

first: its the Alcoholism,
second: If u want to leave the drank u most thing that if u drank after some time u become as pig. and every day u loss some thing special in ur live, family, Friend, virginity, love, and ur live

Answer 4

i started drinking when i was 13, i drank everyday until i was 17, i got really sick because of that, so i quit drinking, i would of never stopped drinking if i didnt get sick.. it wasnt hard because i knew if i didnt stop id get even more sick.. but im glad i quit my life is so much better now.. but people that have no reason to stop, if they dont want to.. they wont, drinkingz fun everyone knows this.. and after a certain point you DO get addicted.. addictionz are serious you cant just stop doing something your addicted to... liquor gets you away from all your problemz its a cheap drug to take care of your problems.. so why wouldnt someone want to drink

Answer 5

you may have drank but you weren't an alcoholic. it's a disease, an addiction. you might want to consider attending al-anon or alateen meetings. they are for the families of alcoholics and teach them what it is and how to deal.

Answer 6

It's an addiction....what don't you understand?

compulsive need for and use of a habit-forming substance (as heroin, nicotine, or alcohol) characterized by tolerance and by well-defined physiological symptoms upon withdrawal;

Answer 7

I think some ppl simply have - or do not have - what is called an "addictive personality". It can be alcohol, drugs, smoking, gampling, sex... almost anything. Just seems some do and some don't.

Answer 8

different kinds have different ingredients and for some people they can easly get addicted.