I?M Not an Alcoholic, Why Do I Need an Alcohol Rehab Center?

by Matt Niemi

I?m not an alcoholic, why do I need an Alcohol Rehab Center?

It doesn’t take much to turn into an alcoholic. It can start as easily and innocently by going out with your friends for a few drinks every now and then.  All of sudden every now and then turns into 3 or 4 nights a week and what used to be cocktail or two has turned into a bar tab of 0 and you didn’t even buy a round for anyone.  Your 3 or 4 nights a week turn into 7 nights a week and before you know it you are keeping a 12 pack of beer in the fridge so you can pop open a cold one and relax after work.  Next thing you know you’re drinking a fifth of whatever your poison is; daily and you see absolutely nothing wrong with it. You can afford the drink and as far as you know, you are still a productive member of society.

Your friends don’t see it either, they drink when you do and they don’t seem to have a problem with their drinking.  Your friends love that you are always the life of the party, and even though they know you drink heavily, you can handle it; besides to them you have always been a responsible drinker.  You always take a cab home and show up for work the next day, earlier than most even.  What they don’t know is that when you get home you continue to drink until you pass out and you’re arriving to work still drunk from the night before and worse still, you have a bottle in your desk and you can’t wait to go out drinking again. They don’t realize that you are an alcoholic; unfortunately, you probably don’t even realize that you’re an alcoholic either.

What you imagine an alcoholic being is nothing like who you are.  You go to work everyday.  You take care of your family and pets.  You pay your bills, you do everything that everyone else does; you just do it drunk. Still you don’t see that as being a problem though.  Your idea of an alcoholic may be someone who is down on their luck, broke, upset at the world, and miserable.  You are not miserable.  You just like being drunk, all the time.  Your friends like being drunk with you, and so you have a group of friends that all drink excessively with you, all of them denying that they are alcoholics as well. If this is you, it may be time to call Sunset Malibu at 800-501-1988 and find out about their alcohol rehabilitation program.