The Diary of a Victim of an Alcoholic

You have to be sympathetic towards alcoholics because there but for the grace of God go I. Alcoholism is described as a disease. I don't think that it is. It is a very strong habit, almost impossible to shake off. But humans are predisposed to this sort of condition. Anybody can be born with this predisposition towards alcoholism.  Photo: Pixabay. Humankind is quite a messed up species of creature. Clearly, a large segment of society finds life intolerable and therefore they need to get out of it, remove themselves from it. Alcoholism does it for them only the downside after the upside is enormous. The downside is far worse than the upside but alcoholics never quite digest that simple fact. So we have to be sympathetic towards alcoholics. They damage their lives and they can't control their lives and they hate the world. I understand it completely but fortunately I don't have that problem (although I hate the human world sometimes). And if you don't have that problem...

A permanent danger for the binge alcoholic is drink-driving. They call this driving under the influence, DUI, in America. Binge alcoholics are those that are sober for a long time, perhaps a month or up to 3 months, and then they have an almighty binge during which they become completely and horrifically drunk, make a mess of their home and end up in hospital.  Gotta stop DUI - drink-driving when on a binge.  Image by  PublicDomainPictures  from  Pixabay   The binge, as is the case with Jane, might last for about a week. It might last for four days or, in all, three weeks. It's all very flexible but during this time vodka stocks need to be topped up. If a binge alcoholic is drinking a bottle of vodka every day, over 10 days she will be drinking 10 bottles of vodka so she will probably have to pop down to the shops to get some more. That presents a problem because she will be dead drunk, covered in filth and looking like the worst tramp in the world. She ...