UNITED STATES—I am going to just be blunt; alcoholism is on both sides of my family. Very strong on my mother’s side, as well as just as strong on my father’s side. It might explain to a degree why I don’t drink alcohol and why I don’t associate much with family members who tend to overindulge in their drinking habits, unaware of their antics.
My brother is a drunk and he refuses to see it and acknowledge it. He constantly asks the question, why I don’t tolerate his antics. It is a simple one: I don’t have time for it. I do not want to be around a person who is always drunk, unaware they are drunk or acts a complete jerk when they are drunk.
You can’t ask me the question of what is worse marijuana or alcohol? I think they’re both bad, but if we’re being honest, I think alcohol is the Devil incarnate because it leads to other bad habits in my opinion. I always tell people there are three types of drunks: goofy, sleepy or angry. Do you want to know which is the worst? I think you know the angry drunk because they tend to lash out, and everything that is eating them up on the inside starts to spill out.
I’ve seen this happen so many times, the excuses after the fact fall on deaf ears. Your behavior was atrocious and you voiced how you felt. In addition, you showed yourself as a complete jerk. There is nothing else for us to talk about. Leave me alone and let me be in peace.
Do NOT call me when you’ve sobered up. I want nothing to do with you and your antics because its a repeated cycle that happens over and over again. It gets to the point where I’m asking you to look in the mirror at your behavior and figure it out. They take a look in the mirror, and they go back to doing the exact same thing the next day, the next week, or the next month.
It is a repeat cycle and rinse format that if you’ve ever dealt with anyone who suffers from alcoholism and refuses to acknowledge they have a problem, and then downplays it, you understand it. The downplaying the issue is what annoys me the most. If you can’t hold a job, you’re functioning every single freakin’ day with alcohol because you can’t cope with life, and the stressors: THEN YOU HAVE A PROBLEM and you need to SEEK HELP.
No one can stop you from spiraling, no one else can help you help you except yourself. There are those who know they have a problem and take action to fix it, and there are those who simply refuse to do anything at all. The decisions you make when it comes to alcohol and your dependency can be life and death. You can get behind the wheel and drive drunk and kill someone. You are literally cooking your liver the more you drink especially if you’re excessively drinking daily. Or worse of all, you can say the wrong thing to the wrong person and it becomes a done deal.
People might not like when I say this, but alcohol is a terrible drug, its an addiction that destroys people and families. If you’ve dealt with alcoholism, it is a headache and stressor that not many can imagine.
