i dont understand this whole 'theres hidden trauma in ur life u need to deal with' therapy. i keep digging but havent found any. it feels like im exaggerating things that havent given me trauma but just the human experience of feeling things. i dont wana make something outta nothing. how do you deal with urself when u just prefer to drink bcus its fun?
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I drink because I'm alcoholic, I'm not alcoholic because I drink.
Trauma, no trauma, it doesn't reallymatter for me, I have an internal condition that left untreated will lead me back to a drug or a drink. It also causes me to harm people in personal relationships because I need too much from them.
Alcoholism.
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yeah i dont like my family seeing me like this. in my world im doing fine. but i can see the hurt in my brothers look when he sees me drinking. that hurts more than the damage im doing to my body
I guess it really depends on what you consider "doing fine" to be.
I’ve done a lot of therapy over the years in search of uncovering some hidden secret or trauma. The 12 steps of AA did more for me than all of that combined. I stopped trying to figure it all out. I stopped trying to figure out a lot of things. The less I overthink, the more peace I have.
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The book says men and women drink essentially because they like the effect of alcohol. You don’t have to have trauma to be an alcoholic.
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