Quote From: mommyjenna I pretty much disagree whole heartedly with 'once an alcoholic always an alcoholic'.
I don't believe that someone who hasn't touched a drop of alcohol in 20 years is an alcoholic. I believe they are a recovered alcoholic. A person no different than myself who simply can't touch alcohol again, but why give yourself such a negative title when you have been free of it for so long?
Former drug addicts don't call themselves 'drug addicts' after being freed from addiction.
Former smokers don't continue to call themselves smokers.
Well,
What have you recovered from then? Alchoholism right? And you can't begin recovery untill you call it what it is. Admitting the truth is the first step. The moment you forget your illness will be the moment the illness takeshold again.
The moment an alchoholic denies that first step, they begin their slide back into addiction.
Staying true to one's addiction, and not clouding up with pretty names and the like, will allow the addict, alchoholic, smoker, etc. to take the next step towards sobriety.
