Alcohol is a soul killer
 

a spirit destroyer

a mind defiler

a body corrupter


All the while telling you it's your savior, your only hope,
your only friend, your only life...

Isn't that the truth. 😔

The problem is usually the person, not the alcohol itself.

its also a liar.tells lies like its your savior, your only hope,
your only friend, your only life...

Glad I don't drink anymore. :)

There is an ebook by Craig Beck called Alcohol Lied to Me. I thought that was a very fitting and clever title.

all true.
but I find that it doesn't matter anymore, since I don't drink it.

Yep
 

I agree 100% columbus

Probably why they call it ‘spirits’.....

As it robs our spirits from us.

Like cigarette packaging - alcohol packaging should have photos of diseased livers and figures for suicides. It might help even if it helps one person avoid the fallout.
Dave 🤠

I'm traveling for work. Would this be a good read while traveling?

When I decided to quit drinking i truly felt like I had lost my best friend. I actually went thru a type of mourning. Looking back I see what a crazy destroying cloud I was living in.

I know the feeling.

He has a website and YouTube channel called Stop Drinking Expert. I like his YouTube videos as they are to the point. Couldn't hurt to check it out.

There's another website and channel called Alcohol Mastery by Kevin O'Hara, which I like.

Both sites have free content.

Confidence robber..... the list goes on. That bottle of wine would actually love nothing more than to see you dead.

Somewhat agree. To many its a pleasant social outlet. To an addict, it can be death.

Once you cross a line, it takes on a life of its own and it is nearly impossible to go back to a casual relationship.

I dont give alcohol that much power over me. When deeply into addiction it would have been difficult, even dangerous, to stop without help.

Once i made the decision that i was done, i was done. Now its just a colorless solvent.

How are you doing Columbus?

D

Alcoholic is one sadistic SOB isn't it? Hope you are staying clean,..

This exactly why I often compare stopping drinking to breaking up from a toxic relationship. Once lines/boundaries get crossed enough, it's never going to be the same again.

I'm only early into sobriety (once again) but I don't look at alcohol as some kind of existential being. In fact (for me) I find it unhelpful. In every day life we would call it projecting. The projection of blame onto another thing or person.

In my story I'm the problem. Not alcohol, people, work, circumstance or anything else.

Me.

I'm the problem.

And it's me I have to fix.

JT