Powerful stuff. Richard Burton describes alcoholism.

Powerful. The boxer analogy is spot on. One never knows what, when or where the knockout punch is until it is too late, most times.

I really enjoyed his movie Nightmare Before Christmas, it all sort of makes sense now

Same for me

Thank you for this.
Really.

Excellent

"It's always November, rainy and 3:00 am, got the shakes, ashamed of what we've become.. "

There's nothing like those late night moments when you feel sick, ashamed and want it all to end, yet the only thing getting that takes those feelings and that pain away is amother drink. Nighttime was always when the demons came out. ..and the mirror was my worst enemy

We all believe that dependency is another day or week away and somehow we will beat it before it's too late, but that's always wrong.

Some profound stuff there.

Real good friend of mine who battles it says how beer and booze seems to be everywhere things people like to do in south louisiana. Name it, festivals, parades, Crawfish boil, tailgating and now inside tiger stadium. I have another friend who went totally sober as a judge and it's astounding. It seems harder to do here than many places. God be with anyone going through such things because it is serious.

Southeast Louisiana is about the worst place to be a recovering addict of alcohol. Alcohol is so pervasive that people frown if someone doesn’t drink.
Alcohol is suppose to be an occasional thing. In SE louisiana, occasions are all the time.

You know, I’m not dependent, and I certainly know that I’m not immune to alcoholism, especially since it’s well rooted in my family, I do notice that it’s been used by said family to be a treat of sorts for all kinds of things like having a bad day, cooking dinner, or feeling lonely, or for every celebration or get together under the sun that comes up. I try to keep my consumption of it to once a week or once every couple of weeks, and in real moderation like one or two and that’s it. That being said, I can certainly see how difficult it must be to live in South Louisiana with that disease. There’s always a drink to be had in every situation it seems. I do a lot of entertaining in business, and except for lunches perhaps, alcohol is always the center of attraction, so much so that it takes a lot of discipline and planning to moderate and/or abstain even in order to remain sociable but also remain in control.


GREAT find BTW.... Thanks for sharing.