Struggling with your Demons? - Get some Help

Believe me I know about Demons - It is all so easy for people to say 'Just Quit' but they don't realize what an addiction is like.

However, above and beyond any help you might get with this, the thing is YOU have to make up YOUR mind that YOU WILL QUIT.

No matter what you do, if YOU do not make that decision, YOU will relapse at the first problem you want to medicate or temptation (party, date, etc). This is evidenced by the fact that people make a career out of 'Rehab' - it's all well and good until they get back to 'real life' and then they are toast.

• If you ask God to help you He will give you strength (IF YOU believe He will).  As with all things concerning Him, YOU have to accept the help and that you are weak and can't do anything without Him.
  
  
• Change your patterns - don't go to where you know people will be drinking.  This is the hard part as I strongly believe drinkers have a real need for social interaction and most socializing is done in bars or at parties where there is alcohol.  It is a sacrifice you will have to make until you know you are strong enough to say 'I'll have soda' or whatever.  (there are lots of non-alcoholic drinks you can have)
  
  
• Fortify your efforts with Information - it not only helps to know about others who have fought the good fight and won, but to learn what they did that might help you too.  This is an excellent resource for when you are ready to GET SERIOUS.
  
  
  Alcohol Free Social Life

God bless you and show you the LIGHT and give you the STRENGTH to save your LIFE.

Hot Off the Presses: Alcohol More Harmful than Heroin, Crack Cocaine: Study

Here is an article in Google News today citing a study that says that alcohol is more dangerous than illegal drugs


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This is not to say that (as the report states) those drugs are not more deadly - but I guess alcohol is more dangerous because it is so much more readily available.

So don't replace one bad habit with another one that might kill you faster.  Replace your bad habit with healthy habits like exercise and a healthy diet.

Do it now before you do any permanent damage to yourself or your family.

You CAN do it!

How to Quit Drinking

Feeling Gnarly 'The Morning After the Night Before?'

Did you have one too many last night? Do feel like dirt today?

Beyond the queasiness, dehydration and headache from too much alcohol, do you suffer from a little anxiety and guilt?  (don't remember what you might have said or done?)   No little pill for that, is there, Yo?

... or maybe you figure everyone will just forgive you for acting like an ass. They probably will to a degree - especially if they are drunks themselves.  It wears thin after awhile though, believe me.

However, sometime for an experiment if you can do it, go to a bar or party and stay sober.  Watch the drunks.  After a few they are all bubbly and charming, right?  Funny guy that dude.

After 'one too many' they are pretty obnoxious a lot of the time.  They make jokes that aren't funny really; they may even get belligerent - if there was ever a 'truth serum' it must be related chemically to too much booze.

The worst time to drink is when you have problems - if they are problems that make you sad, you will get more sad.  If you are mad, you will get more mad.

Alcohol really does reduce inhibitions and that is why we have so much fun - at first - 'let it all hang out', 'get down', etc. etc.  However when you take the scenario of anger and controlling it, you need some inhibitions.

Particularly if you have 'anger management' problems anyway, there is no telling what you might do that you will regret when you sober up.

Remember that if you are repeating the scenario with friends and loved ones of getting drunk and being abusive and then being all sorry and penitent the next day - after awhile it is rather hollow.

If you were REALLY sorry, you wouldn't do it AGAIN.  So get REAL.

You just need help - and it is definitely 'self-help' - but you can get assistance with that - take a course in how you can psyche yourself up to get past your DEVIL - get on a health regimen with your diet and exercise.  You will find that if you replace that urge to drink with something healthier that the urge will get less.  You will 'DRY OUT'.

We all have the capacity to be both good and evil.  It is a constant battle between the two.  The one that wins is the one you feed...

... but don't take it from me - take a minute to see what the professionals have to say about how you can get help today!

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Need a Drink? Quit Drinking & Replace it With Something Better!

Whatever makes people drink too much, in my mind there is some void.  Something that is missing in their life, whether it is from the root of their being -- a lack of self-esteem, all the way to being lonely, discouragement, or just plain boredom, there is a cause.

While there are many things we can't control in our lives - so many - we actually are or sure as hell should be in control of our actions.  As they say at Al-Anon, (sic) 'You can't change anybody else, all you can do is change how you deal with them'.

So this can apply to you and dealing with your problems - while you may not be able to find anybody to love you right now, or you are stuck in a job or relationship that is making you unhappy, or whatever - you can still control how you respond to the catalyst of your particular irritant in a different way if you quit drinking.


When you feel the urge to medicate your pain with a drink (and you know you can't just have one or two), try something else to change your mood.  Just jump out and go for a long walk. Get some fresh air and see something picturesque like trees or water. Or treat yourself to a really good meal out someplace and chase it down with something good to drink like flavored mineral water, fancy coffee drink, or a big chocolate milkshake.. Whatever floats your boat as they say - just do it until the urge to have a drink passes.

You might look into Cognitive Behavior Therapy because they do things like this where when people suffer from compulsive disorders they help them get through the impulses just by (1) replacing something negative with something positive (thoughts/actions) or (2) practicing NOT doing what they are obsessed to do enough times that they break the pattern.

While you may not have ever been diagnosed as 'compulsive obsessive' you know logically, to some degree, if you CAN'T or WON'T Quit Drinking too much, that it is a compulsion; and that since you drink too much whenever you drink that you are obsessive.  Admit it.

To read some more from some professionals at dealing with this issue, please Go Now to:

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I'll be praying that you will take action to get on a better path and you overcome your demons.

Drink Water and Wash Away Your Blues

Abusive levels of drinking creates an unhealthy lifestyle.  Drinking dehydrates your body, loads it with sugar, and you likely eat salty snacks to get nourishment (overloading your system with sodium which is dangerous at high levels). Yes two of the most dangerous elements when used to excess are sugar and salt.

So  probably one of the most important things to do to help yourself  is to drink water -- to sober up (dilute the alcohol and salt), rehydrate your tissues and flush your liver and other organs.

However you like your water best, make it as palatable as possible - use ice cubes, drink good tasting chilled spring water, even add a twist of lemon to it - and there are lots of flavored waters you can buy as well..

So either to maintain some semblance of health and especially if you are going to quit drinking, make a point of  drinking lots of healthy water.

Another thing over-drinking does is deplete your body of vitamins and minerals.  So if you want to mitigate the effects of drinking or better yet to quit drinking, take some vitamins on a regular basis.  Try to at least eat healthy food if you insist on drinking; ...and if you quit drinking, make eating well part of your rehab.

In extreme alcoholics there is a tendency to stop eating, especially if they foolishly think this will help them to limit calories, (to leave more room for high calorie alcoholic drinks) or if they are nauseated and/or have no appetite (which can be a symptom of an assaulted liver - in fact Hepatitis feels just like stomach flu).

In severe alcoholics you will often see a bloated look, especially the stomach and abdomen  - I am referring to that which is beyond but has its roots in the 'beer belly'.  This bloated condition is, in addition to being from the sugar and water retention from salt, from the liver and can indicate a serious disease is developing.

Check it out.  Liver damage is often permanent damage.  Once your liver is malfunctioning you will not be singing '1000 bottles of beer on the wall' and may instead be memorizing 'As I walk through the valley of death...'.  You can't live without your liver, Yo.

Drink Up!

Water that is...


To YOUR Health!

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Why Do You Drink, Anyway?

There are lots of reasons people drink alcohol.

It certainly starts out innocent enough =  We just want to have fun!

No problem with that!  Only problem is if you HAVE to drink to have fun.

... or worse if you have to drink just to feel good enough to proceed.

Do you feel bad about yourself?  We all have our demons, Yo.

We just need to OVERCOME them. If we hurt ourselves and those that love us, we are doing just what they want.  When you totally destroy yourself they will be happy they did their job. Thank you very much.

Many VOIDS in our lives too.  Where'd everybody go?

Lots of times people who 'self-medicate' are trying to fill some kind of a void, but again, the party is over when it starts to control us instead of the other way around.

Anyway, sometimes we just need help to get on the right track again.  Hopefully we can do this instead of ruining our lives or dying of liver disease. What I mean is to Quit Drinking.

Please don't think I am judging you or that I am a goody two shoes.

I am not and I am not. No way.

I am just somebody who knows how this party plays out.

I was just a little girl who never knew where her Daddy was or why he never wanted to talk to me.

All those years I wondered and felt so alone,

... and then when I found out he wasn't there because he was drunk, he had just died at only 42 years of age from liver disease.

I understand now it wasn't that he didn't love me - (or was it?) ; however it really permanently affected me and that is my VOID..

Please don't do this to your little kid, ok?

Quit Drinking Now in the name of Love.

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