The American Indian would disagree.
I was a drinker for 25 years, with the last 5 mainly being the hard stuff. A functional alcoholic. Most are. Eventually your body, and in my case my Pancreas, says no more and you have to choose between eating and drinking. I would love to say I went through some kind of moment of clarity or emotional awakening. None of that happened.
My body just said NO more. It’s like the old story of the grandpa sticking the boy in the closet with a pack of cigars and the boy can’t come out until all the cigars are smoked. The boy never smoked again after that. I just see it as it took me 25 years to come out of that alcohol filled closet.
I don’t believe in the Dogma of AA. People can make it without it.
True. And American Indian’s are all dark eyed, except the mixed races.
My brother is a immature 57 yr old, can’t hold a job because of the booze, he has drank himself to the point he spent 17 days in the hospital with Wernicke Korsakoff syndrome. He’s on a walker now, and will not be able to walk on his own ever again. He sends a cab for his booze when he can find money which my sis thinks he steals out of their wallets, she just can’t prove it.
When the hospital dumped him on my middle sister’s love seat with just the walker it took 4 large men to haul his 200lb up her second story steep stairs. He spent a couple of months sleeping on the floor there, until the smell from no hygiene drove her to move him back to his RV in her back yard. She put his porta potty out there with him. He scares the H out of her grand kids. He refuses to take the meds he was prescribed for the Wernicke Korsakoff, plus I don’t know what else.
She has sclerosis, her husband has MD he barely gets up the basement steps that are narrow. His only hope is a care facility where he is made to follow the rules.
None of us are really capable of taking him on due to health issues.
You have to want to help yourself. Same goes for over eating.