Category: Alcohol addiction

It’s a common scenario, one that may start innocently enough but can soon evolve into something dangerous. Perhaps it’s happening to you, or has already happened. It’s the cycle of codependency and alcohol addiction. You meet someone, and you grow to care about them. You may fall in love. Your two lives become entwined into one. You become emotionally reliant on one another. Your partner begins to abuse alcohol. Or perhaps you realize they’ve always had a problem with alcohol. You might try but fail to establish boundaries. You may start making excuses for your partner’s behavior when they’re drinking.

Your days are filled with a little more stress and worry than they used to be because of your spouse’s, child’s, parent’s or sibling’s drinking problem. It’s been the little things: that extra drink or two at dinner, the empty beer bottles scattered throughout the house and the whiskey on their breath after coming home from the office. Your loved one is undoubtedly struggling with alcohol addiction, but what can you do to help them? It may be useful to understand the causes of alcohol addiction, so you can better talk to them about what they’re going through. The Most

Your loved one doesn’t look or act like the person they used to be. Ever since their drinking spiraled out of control, they’ve gained weight and have made impulsive decisions like driving drunk and spending their money on alcohol instead of groceries or rent. But your loved one’s drinking does much more damage to your loved one’s body and mind that you can’t see. One of the reasons alcohol addiction is destructive is because it convinces your loved one to ignore basic dietary and nutritional needs that help us live healthy lives. In this article, we’ll review some of the

Most people don’t intend to become an alcoholic. Maybe your loved one’s drinking started as a way to relieve stress, but soon they found more excuses to drink. Company golf outing? It would be rude not to drink with their colleagues while out on the golf course. Just won a huge pitch they’d been working on for weeks? That calls for a celebration! As your loved one’s drinking increases, there are little slips that start to add up. They’ve started to doze off in meetings and are taking more sick days than normal. They’re lying to you and spending more