Show Problems Plaque Drinker by CECIL CARLE A Chinese proverb has that man takes a drink and then the drink takes the HOW TRUE often tragically true that But this seemingly hopeless cry of despair can be accepted as a warning and does not have to proceed to frightful death or The Utah Alcoholism 2875 phone is where advice and help may be obtained about the kilter disease of IN AN effort to keep drinker from taking the and to the man from the this paper is printing a series of articles on progression toward chronic This article continues pointing up during the acute THE problem drinker reaches the point where once the first drink is taken he always winds up Guilt during a return to sobriety prompts He knows it is not his He often admits to himself he has become a drunk but he'll deny it to Self-esteem and he must devise ways to bolster his waning This leads to extravagant behavior-Til E chronic alcoholic needs to buy good Since he has learned to drink to his gestures to family or friends are He may buy a set of luxurious furs for a wife whose dresses are shabby and who cannot afford visits to He will seek to see his children's eyes sparkle at a new television set while they are badly in need of dentistry or even proper The gift may be such as the best washing machine available which eventually is reclaimed for BUT THE end is revulsion at the simple and childish attempts to buy good Their their has to get through to the drinker who a of inner anger which before Aggression The problem drinker becomes His retaliation need not come in brawls or abuse of his The alcoholic is noted for a tendency to develop resentments against persons or objects entirely removed from those whom he believes has stirred up his FEELING deeply the alcoholic too often strikes back by doing such things as kicking in the window of an innocent bystander or charging down a street slashing the tires on automobiles of Both have been done many The drinker whose actions are less flamboyant is not less Kicking dogs and throwing things are relatively just as BECAUSE of intensity of his the alcoholic at this stage seeks He will walk out on friends and usually to avoid embarrassment at them deserting His foolish and erratic behavior inevitably carries him into increased complications at at with even with the NOW THE things he once merely regretted become objects to create He feels that no matter what he everything turns out all His best efforts are misunderstood by Willi increasing he starts out with great expectations and abandons them because another gets in the REMORSE is a constant companion of all problem He Keeps asking that Why Why can't he drink like other he finds his answer It is not The world has handed him a bum rap in spite of the fact he always has his The answer also he tells in seeking blessed relief in a few hours THEY ARE hours not to truly after but to suffer and Oblivion for the time blots out all the troubles and the He keeps always with the same Unpleasant But there is much more for the alcoholic to undergo even before he reaches the chronic |