Alcoholism Recovery & Treatment

is not everything in this life a slow form of suicide?

the abuse yes, the bible says don’t get drunk, but a glass of wine is good for you.

Yes. And giving birth is a slow form of murder.

It is a part of death, and alcohol is very dangerous for your body. Up there with cigarettes, heroin and mass use of cell phones.

So, with that being said, it kills you, but so what? That is, 1 out of 1 humans are going to die anyway, so what is the big deal about death. Humans are very primitive to see death as a bad thing. Where it is beautiful.

I myself have given alcohol up, and understand it could be difficult to stop or understand ones enjoyment of it.

Peace, love and light

Most people who drink aren’t trying to kill themselves, but if someone drinks to excess then yeah, they are killing themselves without thinking.

Actually suicide is more definitive than alcoholism because the results are rather “final” and the path fairly evident.

An alcoholic often doesn’t know they are one until the “signs” begin showing up and many alcoholics can live a lifetime without doing anything about it until they find themselves hooked on to a dialysis machine every six hours or in jail for doing something stupid like running over a family or even murder.

Alcoholism is such an intricate matter, that in order to classify it simply as a “slow form of suicide” is a bit stringy. There is no difference of opinion among physiologists regarding the facts of the action of alcohol in the human body. They differ strenuously regarding the conclusions to be drawn from these facts, some contending that alcohol is a “partial food when taken in moderate quantities”. Modern knowledge justifies the belief that in health it is never a food in any sense, be the quantity large or small, but always a poison, biologically or physiologically speaking; in disease it is neither a food nor a poison, but may be a suitable and helpful drug. It should be rightly called what it rightly is, a drug, and not a drink; a narcotic, and not a tonic. Its use as a drug will then be rightly restricted, as in the case of other drugs, to the intelligent direction of men upon whom the State imposes, at the present day, rigid restrictions as to preliminary education, supplemented by study of the technical knowledge of the profession of medicine. Its uses in disease are many: there are cases of typhoid fever, pneumonia, and diphtheria in which alcohol is a most valuable help, and in some other conditions its use may be advisable. Careful observations of its effects, in private practice and in extensive hospital experience, compel this conclusion: “Alcohol in health is often a curse; alcohol in disease is mostly a blessing.” From a sociological standpoint, we are compelled by incontrovertible evidence to acknowledge that it is of all causes the most frequent source of poverty, unhappiness, divorce, suicide, immorality, crime, insanity, disease, and death.

Yes, I believe it is slow suicide…and it’s sad, to say the least to see someone wish this for themselves. Quite frankly, it is the saddest thing you could ever see in someone you know and love. My aunt, as precious as she was, had lived the most alcohol filled life one could imagine and ultimately died from sclerosis of her liver. It was incredibly sad to watch growing up over the years. Since her passing, the house has remained empty and let me just say this…you can feel her and a spirit of oppression lingering still within the house.

So very sad…

Yes alcoholism is a slow form of suicide. You can not even say people don’t know because everyone knows it will kill you. I also grow tired of Alcoholism being refereed to as a disease. A disease is something you can not control, however, when you are sober and decide to go get a drink you are making a decision to indulge in something you already know to be bad.