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.

Remember the Last Drunk Experience As the name suggests, we mean "drunk" rather than "drunk."

For most people, "having a glass of wine" has long meant a happy time spent with friends chatting and laughing.

Depending on our age, and on the circumstances which surrounded our first experiences with alcohol, we all have various memories and hopes (sometimes, anxieties) aroused by the thought of a cool beer, a cocktail, a gin and Quartz.

Ninja water, whiskey and beer, a sip of wine or something like that and so on.

Over and over again, in most people's early drinking experience, their expectations for alcohol always match the amount they actually need to drink.

If it happens just right every time, we will naturally think of "a drink" as a pleasant experience that not only meets our own needs but does not go beyond the limits of religious customs.

At the same time, it satisfies desires, caters to the etiquette of social occasions, and helps us relax, cheer up, and achieve our various pursuits.

For example, it is a 55-year-old Finn, when someone offers him a drink, it will immediately remind him of the negative emotions that experienced when he drank a glass or two of brandy or vodka on a cold day in his youth.

Waves of warmth.

If she is a young woman, she may immediately think of a gorgeous crystal glass filled with champagne, fragrant clothes, a romantic atmosphere of people rubbing their hair together, or a young man with a beard and long hair dressed in jeans at a rock concert.

, taking out a bottle of booze from a bag full of bottles, flashing lights flashing, smoke everywhere, everyone screaming and screaming, it was an exciting sight.

One AA member said: "Have a drink" is almost synonymous with eating pizza and drinking beer.

A 78-year-old widow said she was often reminded of her habit of having a glass of sherry at bedtime in a nursing home.

Although this image of drinking in our minds is extremely natural, in our current situation, it is misleading, and it is how some of us start drinking.

If this is all we do with drinking, we are less likely to develop an alcohol problem later on.

Yet a fearless look at our complete drinking record, however, shows that in the last years and months our drinking never created those perfect, magic moments again, no matter how hard we tried.

Instead, over and over, we wound up drinking far more than that, which ended up in some kind of trouble.

Maybe we're simply guilty, secretly, of drinking too much.

But sometimes it can turn into violent quarrels, affect your work, and even lead to serious illness, accidents, or legal and financial problems.

So when the suggestion of "a drink" comes to us, we now try to remember the whole train of consequences of starting with just "a drink" and ending with our last miserable drunk and hangover.

An invitation from a friend to have a drink with us generally refers to a purely social interaction and a casual drink or two.

But if we are careful to recall the full suffering of our last drinking episode, we are not deceived by our own long- ago notion of "a drink."

Today we can honestly admit that in terms of our physiological reality, we are pretty sure that a drink means that sooner or later we will get drunk again, and that will bring about a series of troubles.

Drinking no longer means music and joy to us, but the memory of illness and regret.

An AA member once said: "I know that if I go to a bar and have a drink now, it will never be the same as before, just a little time and some money. This drink will drain my bank account,

It was too much of a risk to my family, my house, my car, my job, my sanity, and my life." He remembered the last time he got drunk, not the first.

A drinking experience.

Eliminating self-pity is a feeling so unpleasant that no one in this state would be willing to admit how they really feel.

Even after sobriety, many of us remain adept at concealing the fact that we are a mess and distraught because of the obsession with self-pity.