finding help

One of the hardest hurdles for any acoholic to jump is to admit "I may be an alcoholic. Look at yourself realistically. Has your alcohol use increased over the years? Does it take more beer or liquor than it did in the past to get the same high? Does your drinking cause you more problems than in the past, problems with family, problems with work, problems with the law, police or courts. If so you may be an an alcoholic. It may be easy at this stage to excuse your way out of admitting you have a problem. Easy to blame on stress at home, and at work. Stress about money. And in today's economy they all may be true to a certain extent. But does drinking make the problems go away or make them worse. Once you have really looked at your situation and decided you may be an alcoholic, look in your Phone book, Community service boards or offices often can refer you to folks who can help. So Can the Salvation Army and even one on one talk with a therapist can help. Often that help is AA; Alcoholics Anonymous. AA can be a little intimidating. You find yourself with a bunch of strangers, who admit, who in fact sometimes brag about being alcoholics. but they are there at that meeting for one reason. Helping someone else out makes an alcoholic less likely to drink. I don't how that mechanism works but with 14 years sober I know that it does.Each person who walks into that door walks in for many reasons but mostly its because they want help or want to help. So team up folks who have to help with folks who need help and you have the making of a successful program. And it has been among the most successful programs in the world to help a person change destructve behavior. Good luck my friends, One day at a time.