To any alcoholic reading this.....

To any alcoholic reading this, who is still drinking, still abusing alcohol, still suffering from all the pain, problems, madness and humiliations that alcohol abuse causes, I would say the obvious:
"Stop drinking now !!"

By 28 it was so obvious I had a serious drinking problem, I was an alcoholic then at 28 who had just for the first time achieved 3 months sobriety since finishing high school; I had just completed 3 months in rehab in about April, 1991, but I went back to drinking.......

I could have stopped drinking at 28.
If I had done that I could have avoided so much further suffering and further serious troubles !!

For many years my thinking was so WRONG. Countless times I said to myself: look !! I have all these other problems and I am drinking to cope with all that.......but very, very rarely reflecting how many of the problems in my life were being caused by alcohol abuse.

I did have other problems but drinking excessive alcohol never really helped but just made things worse. In fact, by abusing alcohol for years I was for those years unable to properly sort out other problems as I could have done to a large degree if I was sober. And ALL the extra problems caused by drinking too much, too often !!

It is INCREDIBLE and AMAZING how MUCH pain, problems, madness, troubles and humiliations etc the alcoholic can avoid by simply not picking up that first drink each day !!!