Answer by The Big E
We all know that a dog lapping up spilled antifreeze in a driveway puddle will not stop injesting the poison contained within it as long as it is there to be consumed. The dog doesn't know it is poison that will lead with immutable certainty to its death. It just knows that it tastes good. So the dog does not stop. In the end, it dies unnecessarily and prematurely; a victim of its own excess.
The alcoholic, like the dog, will not stop injesting his particular poison as long as it is there and readily available to be consumed. The alcoholic knows it is poison and, if not stopped, will eventually lead to his unnecessary and premature mental, emotional, social and even physical death.
We can excuse the dog as it knows no better. But the person?
An alcohol saturated prefrontal cortex loses its ability to think clearly or logically and an alcohol overworked liver cannot hope to stave off becoming cirhrotic to the point of death. Emotional regression to a more baser instinct within us cannot help but negativise us beyond our ability to control how we see ourselves in any way other than self destructively proactive and loving it. Socially, all those who might actually want to help the alcoholic back into the society from which alcohol exiled him are turned off in their effort by the subject's opposition and intransigence. For the helper, it is a heart rending sadness to witness. For the alcoholic, it is a matter of no concern.
How ironic of human nature that, in the pouring of a drink, the roles of the helper and the alcoholic can so easily be reversed to the point of lowering oneself to the status of a dying dog.
Orignal From: How dose alcohol effect your mental,emotional and social health?
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