{"id":2306,"date":"2020-10-09T03:13:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T03:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bernardo-moya.com\/?p=2306"},"modified":"2020-10-09T03:13:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T03:13:37","slug":"treating-alcohol-addiction-david-smallwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bernardo-moya.com\/es\/treating-alcohol-addiction-david-smallwood\/","title":{"rendered":"Treating Alcohol Addiction (Advice from David Smallwood)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Treating Alcohol Addiction (Advice from David Smallwood)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zb2nKAKfuJk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What makes a person addicted?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Just a predisposition to sensitivity. The sensitivity means that there will be discomfort because you can see everybody else has a contented life. You can spot people who are contented because we&#8217;re ultra-sensitive. So I can see everybody else, why don&#8217;t I feel like this? Ah, I know, if I have a gin and tonic, by the second gin and tonic, I&#8217;ll be so relaxed, it&#8217;s not true. There&#8217;s a lovely phrase that goes, &#8220;I was born to drink short.&#8221; Which fits the bill. But the problem is the two drinks short became 10 drinks too short and onward. You see the process is, I&#8217;m trying to make myself feel okay. As I make myself feel okay, there&#8217;s a tolerance buildup by using whatever I use. Now, whether that&#8217;s drugs or alcohol or sex or whatever, there&#8217;s a tolerance buildup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the tolerance increases, you need more to get that effect. And at some point in time, you cross where this is drunk, but this is where I feel okay. So you end up elevating the point where actually you never really feel okay, but you are drunk, and that&#8217;s where chaos ensues. That&#8217;s when people wake up feeling awful. That&#8217;s when people can&#8217;t function properly, when they get all sorts of illnesses. Some people will have multiple addictions. I believe anybody that&#8217;s an addict has the predisposition to all of them. You have to deal with the whole thing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Some people may feel or know deep down that they have an addiction, but they&#8217;re lying to themselves and just getting on with life.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I can remember coming out of the pub again and again and again, I&#8217;d get home. I&#8217;d feel exhausted. This is before I went into a pub that, I&#8217;d get home and I&#8217;d go down the pub and have two or three pints of beer, and I&#8217;d always have a bottle of Jack Daniels at home for later. But I&#8217;d come out of that pub thinking, &#8220;If I carry on doing this, I&#8217;m going to end up in a psychiatric hospital.&#8221; And of course, I did, but it didn&#8217;t stop me. The knowledge that this was not a good idea, it didn&#8217;t touch the sides, it had no effect whatsoever. I was truly addicted. In other words, I didn&#8217;t have a choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">So what would your advice be for somebody who knows, maybe, deep down that they are already addicted to whatever it may be.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Get help, because I don&#8217;t believe that the average addict is capable, and this is just my experience, of actually getting well on their own. They need other people to help them. I needed other people to help me. I still do. I still attend fellowship meetings, 26 years down the line. And it&#8217;s not something I think that people can do on their own because we need identification, we need affirmation that we&#8217;re okay as people. And the best people to do that are other people with the same illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Would you not say that after 26 years you&#8217;re not an alcoholic anymore?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>No, I&#8217;ll always be an alcoholic. I&#8217;ve seen too much evidence of people who have gone back out after 10, 20, 30, 40 years, they&#8217;re dead very quickly. The descent into the pit takes about 24 hours. I&#8217;ve seen people sober for 10 years, take a drink, and within two days, drinking two bottles of Jack Daniels or two bottles of vodka. It&#8217;s very, very scary. I hope that I never ever go back to that again. Actually, I&#8217;m not afraid of dying. 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