Alcoholics often lack a correct understanding of their current condition. So I felt it was very important to understand my situation and how deeply distorted my craving for alcohol was. First of all, you should honestly admit that you are an alcoholic, alcoholic, and alcohol dependent. The positioning must be precise so that it is possible to prescribe the right medicine. Sincerely admit that you are powerless over alcohol and that your life has become a mess because of alcohol. Understand the inevitable cause-and-effect relationship between staying sober and achieving a healthy life. This is the first step toward sobriety. It is an important prerequisite. Without this understanding, nothing else can be discussed. This is the most basic and extremely important attitude issue, and attitude determines everything here.

Abandon old ideas

During our past alcoholism, we have accumulated some deep-rooted ideas in life. Even after we stop drinking, we cannot magically change them. Just disappeared without a trace.

Although we are far away from the days of drunkenness and dreams, the disease of alcohol addiction still lingers. So we have discovered that it will help in our healing process if we can try to remove many of the old beliefs that are beginning to take root again.

And these old thoughts do happen again and again. What we strive to achieve is to regain a sense of relaxation and freedom from the constraints of the past. Many of our past habits of thinking and the concepts they form limit our autonomy.

When we take a closer look with fresh eyes, it turns out that they only serve to crush us and serve no purpose. There is no need to hold on to something until it has been proven to work and actually still works.

We can now use very specific criteria to measure an idea’s current practicality and authenticity. We can say to ourselves, "That's what I often think when I'm drinking. Is this thought pattern helping me stay sober now? Is this thought good for me today?" Many of the old beliefs we have in the past— —especially those thoughts about alcohol, drinking, drunkenness, and alcohol dependence (or alcoholism, if you prefer that term)—are either worthless to us or actually self-destructive , it will be a great relief to get rid of those thoughts.

Perhaps a few examples are enough to illustrate the benefits of abandoning these outdated and useless concepts. When we are teenagers, for many of us, drinking is a way of proving that we are no longer children, or that we have grown up and are smart, sophisticated, worldly, or adequate. Being strong can defy parents and other authorities.

In many people’s minds, drinking is always inseparable from romance, sex, music, success, a sense of superiority, and luxury. If schools teach anything about drinking, it's usually just about the health hazards and possible driver's license suspension - not much else.

At the same time, many people are still quite convinced that any drinking behavior is completely immoral and leads directly to crime, pain, shame and death. Whatever our feelings about drinking may have been, positive or negative, they were usually intense and far more emotional than rational. Perhaps our attitude toward drinking is simply unconscious, accepting the opinions of others without thinking.

For many people, drinking is a necessary and innocuous part of social situations, an enjoyable leisure activity carried out between friends in certain places and at certain times.

Others may view wine as a necessary accompaniment to their meal. But now we ask ourselves: If we don’t drink, are we actually unable to enjoy friendship or good food? Does the way we drink help improve our social relationships? Does it improve our ability to enjoy delicious food? Whether we are for or against the idea of ??getting drunk, what are the consequences? The reaction was even more extreme. Drinking too much may be seen as just fun or just embarrassing.

The idea of ??getting drunk is off-putting to many people for a variety of reasons. But for some of us, it's a state of longing, and getting drunk is not just about meeting other people's expectations, but we also enjoy the feeling ourselves. But at the same time, there is another influencing factor, which is the blatant neglect by celebrities in society.

Some people are completely intolerant of people who have never been drunk, others despise people who get too drunk. Given what is being discovered about today's health care, the impact it can have on changing these attitudes is still quite limited. When we first hear the term "alcoholic," most of us think of someone who is old, ragged, shaky, or obnoxious, begging, or drinking in the ghetto. Drunk people.

Now anyone who knows enough about this issue knows that this is all bullshit. Yet despite this, vague notions of our past linger in our minds as we first try to stay awake.

It obscures our vision and makes it difficult for us to detect the truth of the matter.