If a person has a serious enough drinking problem, he should certainly stop drinking. However, how can you know your problem is serious? Just start with the consequences and consider those carefully. If you have not had any consequences in your life, it means that your problem is not that bad and it is not really essential for you to stop. Nevertheless, you have to ensure that you are hoest with yourself in this analysis so as to get the accurate results.
If you have lost jobs, lost friendships, blacked out, or wrecked cars because of your drinking then these are huge red flags. Many people who do experience these kinds of consequences will still stay in denial about them and thus not take any action about their drinking.
If you think you have a drinking problem then you should ask for help.
That is not easy for most people to do but that is what will move you towards a solution the quickest. If you think about it, any alcoholic needs to ask for help because obviously they cannot solve their drinking problem by themselves. If they could then they would not have a drinking problem at all. But the mere existence of the problem is proof that they need to ask for guidance in how to solve it.
Avoiding the truth of this idea is what defines denial for the alcoholic. They claim that they could quit if they truly wanted to but they simply do not want to. In fact, they secretly wish they could both control and enjoy their drinking, but cannot figure out how to do it.
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