I used to have a very bad drinking problem. Withdraw from booze can kill you. I dealt with it, paid for my problem... a few times. I never hurt anybody but hospital stays ain't cheap.
I paid for it, sure I had help from my folks but they got paid back. I have sympathy for very few. If you're a soldier, yes you have my sympathy but other than that... I don't know.
The booze thing is true but you can also taper off over the course of a week or two if you have some supervision and/or discipline. In my experience so-called hard drinkers are addicted to the sauce for sure but a large part of them is also addicted to being a drunken mess.
You have to buy into being psychologically addicted to alcohol at some point as a lifestyle choice before you reach the point of physical addiction. I don't think you can get to that point without some level of commitment and conscious buy in it's not like opiates. Even with those I'd argue you make a conscious decision to accept psychological dependence because some level of abuse or misuse generally has to take place it's not totally accidental.
Maybe I'm over generalizing here but this always seems to be the case.
I've done the taper thing. It still sucks but less. It is also psychological.
I know even smoking to me is part psychological. It's five minutes to get away from people, five minutes to relax. I can go days without smoking but some times it is just nice to have a "reason" to go sit outside and relax, look at the stars. (excuses)
I know that kind of impulse was what got me smoking in the first place I just wanted to be able to stop and slow things down for a few minutes or even just get some quiet reflection time. I still make time to do that a few times a day I just haven't smoked in almost 5 years.
I used to have a very bad drinking problem. Withdraw from booze can kill you. I dealt with it, paid for my problem... a few times. I never hurt anybody but hospital stays ain't cheap.
I paid for it, sure I had help from my folks but they got paid back. I have sympathy for very few. If you're a soldier, yes you have my sympathy but other than that... I don't know.
The booze thing is true but you can also taper off over the course of a week or two if you have some supervision and/or discipline. In my experience so-called hard drinkers are addicted to the sauce for sure but a large part of them is also addicted to being a drunken mess.
You have to buy into being psychologically addicted to alcohol at some point as a lifestyle choice before you reach the point of physical addiction. I don't think you can get to that point without some level of commitment and conscious buy in it's not like opiates. Even with those I'd argue you make a conscious decision to accept psychological dependence because some level of abuse or misuse generally has to take place it's not totally accidental.
Maybe I'm over generalizing here but this always seems to be the case.
You are not wrong.
I've done the taper thing. It still sucks but less. It is also psychological.
I know even smoking to me is part psychological. It's five minutes to get away from people, five minutes to relax. I can go days without smoking but some times it is just nice to have a "reason" to go sit outside and relax, look at the stars. (excuses)
I know that kind of impulse was what got me smoking in the first place I just wanted to be able to stop and slow things down for a few minutes or even just get some quiet reflection time. I still make time to do that a few times a day I just haven't smoked in almost 5 years.
Good on you. (not trying to be condescending) but I'm not there yet.