My fear of facing the day without a drink evolved into a fear of leaving the house without a drink. That led to a fear of leaving my bedroom without a drink. Eventually I was afraid to get out of bed without a drink. And in the end, I was afraid to pull the blankets off my head because of my suffocating fear. This is the progression of my disease, and I wouldn't have survived much longer.
Before the seed had even been planted that I was an alcoholic, I saying in a self-assured slurring sentiment, “I will stop anything, but I will never stop drinking.” I thought that bad relationships, childhood bullying, and insecurities made me drink. But I drank because I am an alcoholic. Nobody made me drink, just like nobody was going to make me sober.
I don’t know why I was gifted with the willingness to change when so many of us don’t make it out alive. But I owe it to the next suffering alcoholic to give what was so freely given to me—a chance to really live.
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