Alcoholism & The Art Of Using Peace To Understand Their Pain
The reality of continuing to drink alcohol after knowing someone who passed away as a direct result of alcoholism is a complicated one.
When someone passes away because of drinking too much alcohol, it is common practice to have a drink in their honor and memory.
To grieve, we drink in the hopes that it will dull the ache caused by the love we feel for them.
It is of the utmost importance to us to gain an understanding of the mental state of heavy drinkers, more specifically alcoholics.
Alcoholics don’t drink because they don’t care about anything.
They drink because they are concerned about everything.
Alcohol, over time, becomes their medicine and how they process their own thoughts and perceptions.
This is how they take in and make sense of the world and themselves.
They take in information about other people, and they use the sensation to validate who they are and where they are in life.
If they find themselves in a difficult situation, all they will do is drink.
If they are in a good environment, all they will do is drink.
Alcoholism and heavy drinking are not diseases but rather concerns related to one’s mental health.
Even if it is a disease, there are treatments available to cure that disease.
So, when someone we know passes away because of heavy drinking, whether it be from cirrhosis, a car accident, or liver failure, we sometimes punish ourselves by drinking more heavily to get a subconscious sense of what they were going through.
We don’t want to admit it, but the fact of the matter is that to give the friendship or the relationship legitimacy, we are putting ourselves through emotional distress.
Emotional and physical trauma caused by consuming a poison.
The question is: do you truly want to comprehend their anguish and the reasons behind why they went to such extremes”?
If you want to understand someone better, drinking more alcohol and putting yourself through emotional anguish is not the way to do it.
Bringing peace to yourself is the first step toward comprehending something else’s pain.
They were looking for peace, but it was something that they could never truly achieve.
When you have achieved inner peace and happiness in your own life, you will have a better understanding of how unbearable their lives were for them to drink to such extremes.
