How do you recognize that you have a drinking problem? When is it clear that you are involving yourself in alcohol abuse? If you have unproductively tried to stop drinking or if you promised yourself that your drinking days are gone and then you realized that you were drinking in a hazardous manner just a [...]
A Young Man Drinks Abusively, Gets Inspired to Get Treatment for Alcoholism and Depression, and Turns His Life Around. Stanley began drinking heavily when he was a freshman in college. Fortunately for him, even though he drank abusively and hazardously when he was a teen and a young adult, when he got beyond the age [...]
Ralph had just received his third “drunk driving” arrest. He was going to represent himself in court, but his father, Sam, told him that this would be a huge mistake. When Ralph heard this, he asked Sam why he should even consider getting a ”drunk driving” attorney. Although Sam wasn’t a lawyer, he told his [...]
Effects of Alcoholism The Banana Man I’ve seen Cirrhosis firsthand and it’s not a pretty sight. One of my lifelong friends and my former business partner is an alcoholic. His name is John and he promised to stay on the wagon to entice me to work with him, and it proved to be the biggest [...]
Not long ago I met a twenty-four-year-old lady named Rachael who is manic depressive and who is also addicted to alcohol and drugs. I remember hearing that under such circumstances, a person needs to get counseling for both medical problems and that mental health problems and addiction commonly occur in the same individual. In addiction, [...]
For the past twenty-eight years Jenny has been a registered nurse at a local hospital. What is more, she has also been teaching Sunday school at the local Pentecostal Church. Although she lived in a medium size country town where it appeared like everybody knew everyone’s business, relatively little was known about Jenny. Of course [...]
