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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch
I've talked about this with people 'in the know' -- people who work professionally in dealing with alcoholism, and/or have gone through rehab themselves. The issue isn't regularity, but dependence. One person told me that he was actually shocked to learn, back in his early rehab days, that people actually drink alcohol because they like the taste. He didn't even realize it tasted good, despite having drunk a few carloads of booze in his time. I think you're a big distance from that.
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One of my closest friends got to the point that she'd drink wine that had been opened for a few days and turned bad. Didn't seem to notice or care that it was downright awful. She lived down the street from me for years, and would stop by my house two or three times a week. I'd hide the booze in my house from her and stopped stocking wine all together, because I knew three or four bottles would be emptied if she came by. So did her roommate, who eventually moved out because of the drinking. It was really, really hard to talk to her about it, and several of us tried. But it wasn't until my boyfriend, another addict (15 years clean off of cocaine) came into our circle of friends that she had someone to talk to in langauage that she could understand that she started thinking about trying to quit. She tried on her own, and failed miserably, and then went to outpatient rehab.
It's been a year. She stopped going to meetings after about four months; she sort of thought of those meetings as being cultish. She says that she can control it now, but I'm not so sure. This spring, she had her contract non-renewed, and as of August 31, she's out of a job. I'm pretty sure that her drinking led to the poor performance evaluation that led to the non-renewal of her contract. I'm also pretty sure that had she NOT been through rehab, she would have spent the spring inside a bottle. But the closer and closer she's getting to that August 31 deadline, the more her drinking is becoming something we're worried about. She's moving to Costa Rica next week for a two month clear her head and figure out what she wants to do with the rest of her life. I hope that there are meetings in Costa Rica, and I hope that she has the good sense to go to them. I doubt it though.
