Hello! and a very warm welcome to my very first blog!
I'm Colin Perriss and I'm a former alcoholic or recovered alcoholic, whatever you prefer, and yes I am recovered, although I realise that there are many who argue that alcoholism is for life and that recovery is simply not possible.
I do not agree with the view that alcoholism is for life. Tough as it may seem alcoholism is a choice, for me, I chose to drink alcohol instead of facing the problems and difficulties in my life that needed my attention and some significant work to resolve them.
Alcohol is a very powerful and often underestimated mind altering drug. Like it or not, we use alcohol to quickly change our mental state without having to work at it. I started as a 'responsible drinker' but that all changed when I started to use alcohol to change my mental state instead of addressing the very issues that were making me want to drink in the first place!
In fact drifting from 'responsible drinking' to alcoholism is a real risk for all of us. For example if we use alcohol to 'relax' we are already taking risks! It may be worth considering what it is that is stopping us from relaxing in the first place? If alcohol is present then I would argue that we are not truly relaxed!, just the illusion of being relaxed because whatever is troubling us is being suppressed by the alcohol.
In my experience alcoholism is usually a symptom of an underlying issue of some kind. Binge Drinking is a big issue for the UK, and those indulging in it are wanting to change their mental state in a big way, quickly.
Is it the binge drinking that it the problem? or is that just another symptom?, a sick society perhaps?
Alcoholism is not for life, unless you choose it to be that way of course. http://www.enp4.co.uk/
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