What nobody is saying here is that alcoholics DO NOT WANT to drink normally. They all wish they could, but that’s only because they know that they’ve hurt people including themselves. “If only I could drink like everybody else, my life would not be so screwed up” .....
Eventually whatever treatment the alcoholic gets to help him drink normally, will stop working or stop being used. The only solution is to help alcoholics rid themselves of the desire to drink.
10 years sober, and friend of Bill
"Normal" for us may be a bottle of Jim Beam in one sitting - I wanted to drink "normally" - all day every day!
"The only solution is to help alcoholics rid themselves of the desire to drink."
"But there is one who has all power, that one is God, may you find Him now...."
AA helped save my father and gave him back to our family.
I have nothing but respect for AA. As many have said, it isn’t for everyone, but if it helps one person, it is worth it to me.
It did, and that person was my father, thank God. We got 14 sober years at the end of his life from a wonderful man, who even though he was a great person, father, naval officer and provider, was a drunk nearly his whole adult life.
AA helped him quit. Once he quit, he took to AA with a vengeance, running meetings, attending as many as five nights a week, helping guys in AA find jobs or hiring them for things he needed.
And as he became sober, our whole family saw a side of him we had never seen, a funny side, a talkative side. He had been a quiet drunk his whole life, NEVER abusive, NEVER violent or mean. He just got drunk. And when he wasn’t drunk, he just didn’t talk much. Like a lot of guys of his generation. But when he got sober, man, was he a different person in some respects.
God Bless AA.