How to help an alcoholic overcome alcoholism
I am not so sure you can convince an alcoholic to enter treatment if they are not ready unless they are forced to by a court or probation officer or something similar. Here’s why unless the person in question has had enough and is ready to surrender it will do little good for them to go to drug and alcohol rehab anyway.
Stop drinking and drugging
I know that I new when I was ready because I was beaten down and tore up from the floor up I wanted to stop drinking and drugging in the worst possible way the problem was I did not know how. So what I am saying here is there is nothing you can do for the alcoholic that refuses to surrender to the fact that the booze and drugs have won. They need to admit complete and utter defeat then they may have a chance of a lifetime to actually change their life and Overcome addiction in Drug and alcohol rehab.
How to help an alcoholic overcome alcoholism
Now once someone has gotten to this point there is not a lot that you can not do that will not help them stop drinking or enter rehab. In other words anything you do or say to them about going to treatment may just help at this point. If they have not reach this point of surrender then nothing you say is going to matter it will basically go in one ear and out the other.
In my opinion this person is still struggling with trying to control their drinking and everything else. They will swear up and down that they do not have a problem and more than likely will lay the blame for their drinking on anything at all.
The best way to how to help an alcoholic like this is to quit helping them period. Do not loan them any money they will only drink it up and it will inevitably delay any chance of help for them. Another thing while I am talking about this subject do not bail them out of jail. They will call and tell you a sob story about how they are though drinking this time for real. Let me repeat that again do not bail them out but tell them you will drive them to treatment when they do get out. This is the best way I know to how to help an alcoholic overcome alcoholism.
How do can you actually tell when they’ve surrendered? Again I would have to say when the person asks for help. This pretty much means that they agree to run the show your way and give up on there ideals. When they throw up their arms like this they may say something like the NA basic text talks about I’ll do whatever is asked of me. I need someone to show me how to live. This is what I mean by surrender. That is what I would say is a great starting to stop drinking and overcome alcoholism.
I got clean and found a new way to live by going to drug
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Thanks for your comment these are some great suggestions and you are absolutely right the person has to want to have a new lifestyle which means living without the use of alcohol and other drugs.