What Life Events Are Causing You to Drink?

 Not long ago, I finished a book called The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure, by Chris Prentiss (https://passagesmalibu.com/philosophy/the-alcoholism-and-addiction-cure). I highly recommend it if you are looking for reasons why you can't stop drinking.

It was clear to me that my alcoholism was the result of being laid off after 16 years working the best job I ever had, not being able to find another full-time position without moving away, and missing my many social contacts. There were other factors, but losing my job was at the top of the list. I had to find a positive way to deal with suddenly sitting home alone so much. It took me a while to understand that.

Prentiss, in his book, writes, "All of life presents us with two basic ways to treat events. We can either label them 'good for us' or 'bad for us.' How we treat those events determine(s) what they become in our lives. It is not the event that determines the outcome. The event is only an event. It's how we treat the event that determines its outcome in our lives."

So identify the event or events that are leading to your abuse of alcohol. Then ask yourself how you are dealing with those events. In my case, I let myself fall into a depression where only alcohol, not prescription anti-depressants, could give me immediate relief.

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