Mindsets that Enable Alcoholism
Alcoholism is a disease inducing menace that refuses to cease for the lifetime. Alcoholism happens over time and could be well prevented, given, the patterns to addictions are identified, well, within the time. You might be surprised to know that alcoholism majorly, is a consequence of the addict’s mindset. It is easy to manage cravings if the mindset of the prospective alcoholic is acknowledged and mended to produce positive results.
‘Alcoholism mindsets’ have long been significantly associated with the negative outcomes of alcoholism. The associations being specific to ‘explicit drinking and consumption’ among addicts with stronger drinking ability, and changes in drinking behaviors, over a period of time. Alcoholism rewires the brain and makes the experience of drinking more pleasurable by the day.
The habits which start as trials during the teenage years develop into binge drinking and eventually landing in alcoholism. We witnessed, most brilliant and creative people become slaves to substance abuse and alcoholism. Though we understand the compelling cravings people feel for liquor, it surely drives us to wonder after all what makes them choose easy over wise. The simple answer is “The Alcoholism Mindset”. People cultivate mindsets that enable them to help drink whenever they please. These cunning mindsets could be very convincing. Let’s take a look at some of them.
It helps me escape stress/relax
Alcohol is said to be the second largest addictive substance after Heroin. Alcohol hooks in so slowly, that it would be already late by the time you realize. Every excuse, including ‘relaxing with alcohol’ is simply illogical and is a simple result of your craving. Acknowledging the fact that you have relaxed before alcohol too, and in a healthy way, helps understand that the idea is just another trap of the mighty alcohol. Alcohol doesn’t actually help you relax. But, in turn it makes you get dehydrated, irritated and more confused every time you ingest it. To learn the truth about our mindsets may be quite challenging. Especially during the transition period from binge drinking to alcoholism. But, dissecting and tearing apart our illusions and reasoning our thoughts helps understand the way alcohol works.
It helps me be more sociable
This is the biggest lie alcohol can tell you. The concept of sociability is to help ease tensions by interacting with other likeminded, healthy people and deviating from stress at least for a little while. Sociability with other alcoholics in the name of parties and pubs only deteriorates your health and results in more negative outcomes. The progress from binge drinking to alcoholism could just be a matter of days and alcohol is adept at making its trips and tricks seem harmless until it pulls it’s subject down under the hope of reversal. A simple re-thinking of the excuses we make comes a long way in attaining sobriety and leading a life of freedom. Comparing self to others: This is the funniest excuse that people give themselves to binge on alcohol yet again. They constantly compare themselves to other chronic addicts to make feel better about themselves and conveniently give into their cravings. It doesn’t occur to them that the so- called chronics have actually progressed to the present stage from where they are now. Acknowledging the fact that you are gravitating towards chronic alcoholism only helps break the pattern of giving yourself illogical excuses. Listening to the stories of addicts and how empty and worthless they feel before at the end of every day may help understand the nuisances of alcoholism and the irreversible harm it does to your life.
Fear of losing friends
This illusion starts affecting you right from adolescence when you have made trials on drinking as part of socialising. Friends do not essentially push other friends to drink. The fact could be that you have been abandoned by many good friends who resent our drinking habits and are left out with the only one group of social drinkers that you hang out with. Or you in turn, abandoned many other friends who do not binge on alcohol and you get bored with them. In either case, you are hanging out with people who push you to drink more and crave more. This is a highly risky state of socialising where you encourage and are encouraged to depend on substances. Logical thinking is the only hope in this chaotic world that has helped us discover, invent and reinvent things to make lives easier. Right from the Newton’s laws to stepping on the moon, we could do wonders with the help of logical thinking. Then why on the earth, would not a human being do a simple thinking that his/her excuses, to binge on alcohol are nothing but, his/her ‘cravings’ doing wonders on the brain. Giving into the illogical excuses of alcoholism is like standing in a bog and screaming at and blaming others while getting pulled in by the bog itself. So, right now is the time to cut your excuses today to empower yourself with the new found freedom of sobriety.
