Alcoholism Cures you can do at home.
I didn’t have the spare cash to even think about going to an alcohol treatment center and I didn’t feel like being public about my drinking problem at an AA meeting. So I did loads of research on alcoholism cures that I could do in the privacy of my own home. I basically cured myself by reading how to stop drinking books and doing a couple of at home hypnosis courses. It took me a while but I eventually got there.
The starting point was becoming acutely aware that I had a drinking problem. For me the hangovers were not as bad as the fact that I slep’t really badly. Even if I only had a couple of drinks, I would go to bed at a normal time and then wake up between 1am and 3am and not be able to sleep again until dawn. Those long hours were filled with self loathing and disgust with myself. The next day, not only would I have a headache, nausea and look really awful but I would just be completely exhausted and in a bad mood all day. I repeated this for years. Over time I realized that for a few hours worth of drinking, that I would lose the entire next day in utter misery. And while I promised myself that I would never drink again, once the hangover and fatigue had gone, there I was with another drink in my hand.
The other thing that I noticed at the time was how my kids just seemed to be high on life without the need for alcohol. They get up in the morning with great bundles of energy and seem to be able to giggle and laugh at the slightest thing. Wouldn’t that be wonderful I asked myself to be like that and not have to lean on alcohol for the laughs. I started looking out for adults who didn’t drink – ie teetotalers. Granted there are some who are quite frankly boring but there are other teetotalers who are high on life and have a great time at parties and other social events, just without the alcohol. That fascination with observing teetotalers started me thinking how wonderful it would be to be like that.
So I read a few books on alcoholism and how to stop drinking. One of them I remember was Allen Carr’s book. He gives a vivid example that stuck with me on how alcohol addiction is a slippery road into hell. I also did a couple of hypnosis courses at home which slowly started me back to the road of recovery. Guess what? I sometimes have an occasional drink, and because I rarely drink the taste is awful. Do you remember your first ever drink? You wondered how adults drank such horrible tasting stuff? But because it was “cool”, you kep’t going with it until you acquired a taste for it. And now I hate how after even one sip of alcohol, I can feel it coursing through my veins. And I get this dull kind of feeling all over. And then I don’t sleep. And although I have not had more than a few sips I wake up in the morning with this horrible taste in my mouth. I guess that must be something to do with the fact that alcohol is just poison in disguise – literally.
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