Tons of water? Exercise? Sweating it out?

What is your opinion on alcoholism? Do you think all alcoholics feel a pressing need to drink all the time, some of the time or none of the time? I believe all three to be correct. So many people have the wrong information about the different reactions people may have to alcohol. Not everyone processes it in the same way. Most people have no problem with metabolizing alcohol. But unfortunately, alcoholics have what I would call a physical malfunction. I know this from personal experience. In my younger days, drinking escalated from weekend warrior syndrome to a more frequent habit. At least that’s what I called it. I wasn’t in denial as so many concluded. The real missing link concerning what happened inside my body when I drank alcohol was that I was uneducated. I didn’t think of myself as alcoholic. I thought I was a problem drinker; even though small tremors in my life evolved to major earthquakes. Those earthquakes led to my decision to leave alcohol alone. I did so without any struggle. There was no white knuckling it or rehab. It wasn’t until years later during a momentary lapse of reason when I forgot how acutely sensitive I was to alcohol that I knew I was more than a so-called problem drinker. At a festive event where old friends converged, I decided to loosen up by having a few drinks. Heck, I hadn’t had any problems with alcohol in so long that any life altering catastrophes associated with it in my past were like a child’s long forgotten nightmares. To my surprise, I found I couldn’t be more mistaken. My physiology had not changed. When the alcohol entered my system my body wanted more. Needless to say I became intoxicated. I think I had so much sugar in me that I nearly blew out my pancreas. The shame I felt for weeks after was almost unbearable. I had thought of myself as totally clean and new before that night. Then that newness went away and I felt like I lost self-trust. Who was I? A drunk? During the following week I recalled a string of alcohol related events that turned my life upside down in years past. Those forgotten events now seemed as though they happened just yesterday. They surrounded and suffocated me. I was so angry and disillusioned with myself that I could not contain my grief. It took a while, but I had to realize it was set before me that I needed to forgive myself. After all I had learned spiritually, was this a test to see if I could walk my talk about forgiveness? Was the same type of self-separated ego I write about in my book asserting itself mercilessly by immobilizing me in guilt? Only if I allowed myself to stay suspended in its grip. I believe there are two kinds of guilt. There is the false guilt wielded by its twin—self-condemnation, and there is real guilt, which comes from harming yourself or others. I knew better than to condemn what God created, namely me, so I chose to use the guilt I felt. It led me to look closely at what I needed—information. My friend gave me a book titled “Under The Influence” by Dr. James R. Milam and Katherine Ketcham. The book is filled with statistical data on the reactions of alcohol on the physiology of the people who cannot tolerate it. Alcoholism is explained, and not as a psychological weakness. The word “alcoholic” is one of the most stigmatized words in the English language today because of ignorance. Maybe another word should be coined. But in any case it is the most used word to describe a physical disease that is often misunderstood—even by the people who suffer from it. http://www.jpdanna.com/blog

a friend of mine is trying to quit alcohol on his own and im worried that he can possibly die from the withdrawl….not sure if i wanna watch this happen..any suggestions?

I realize one isn’t going to change till they want to but I want to give him some information on this stuff. What should I do?

This question has NOTHING to do with me but I’m just curious if a person is addicted to alcohol and doesn’t have it for awhile, what are the withdrawal symptoms? How many days sober does the symptoms start?

I would sit around and watch TV and drink beer for four or five hours a night. I did binge drink while watching football all day long on Sundays and then try to recover on Monday night by having a few more. There were times where I would wake up really late in the day and manage until evening. Than I would drink five or six more a night. Maybe I would take two days off a week at most. Anyway, the other day, this being the holidays I got really depressed and stayed drunk from Saturday night to Tuesday night. On Wednesday I woke up at noon and tried to get through the day. But felt horrible. I was not sick to my stomach or anything like that, but did not want to eat anything. In the evening i manage a small meal. I did not have a headache. Just felt like crap. That night I had three small cans of beer, because I felt disorientated and very uncomfortable and thought if I just had a little compared to what I had drunk the three days before that it would relieve the symptoms a little bit. It didn’t really. The next day I still had the shakes and the chills and the sweats. I thought, “What the hell have I done to myself?” I could hardly sleep. I have fallen asleep well past 5am for the past two nights. Most of my sleep has been off and on from midnight to 5am and then I will sleep until 9am then lay down for a nap fro around 1pm to 3pm. I think tonight might be better though. I hope anyway. There is one more thing thats bothering me. Whenever I drank a lot before, I would usually feel physically normal by 5 or 6pm. But since I have stopped I feel a little unsure of myself when I turn my head or walk. I can walk fine, just I feel a little uneasy about it it initially. Not like I could just run down the street like before. My vision seems to be a little strange, when I go to get up or turn my head. I don’t get dizzy, just feeling off visually.

After a nice large dinner tonight, I felt a little panicky and just not right after my meal!. The feeling is like I am still a little drunk visually. I can see fine, just things seem off a bit. I am feeling a little better now (an hour and a half) after dinner. I did some weight training yesterday. It felt good, so I thought I was going to be okay this morning, but the same odd feeling returned this morning and has been there throughout the day, most of the time when I walk. It is like I am unsure of myself. Does that make any sense?

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A Conversation with John Steele, www.youtube.com John Steele was very much a socialist in the 1980s. It was during his time as a miner when the Thatcher government started to sell off coal mines the nation over, that he hit rock bottom and dabbled not only in gambling, rock music and booze, but also in the ideology of Scargilism. With the conversion of John’s mother, his secular world fell apart and he would also seek salvation from the Lord Jesus Christ. A great man of God and faithful street preacher in the United Kingdom.

Maybe that was her “medical condition” that she so desperatly needed to get out of jail for!
Opiates and Alcohol create intense withdrawl symtoms unlike most other drugs…..

Some of you people don’t think when you answer.