Excruciating story of filly’s booze life

Excessive booze is having a devastating impact on a filly’s life and her struggles are gut wrenching, she has a story of love, hate, co-dependency and entrapment. The pain in her life is palpable.If only she would acknowledge that she can do something about the problem by tackling the availability of alcohol. Recently, filly narrated how she was verbally abused by a bloke they were drinking together and just two months ago was physically hurt after being exposed to violence as a result of her abusing alcohol.The incidents include her being severely injured as a consequence of violence against her by particular drinkers in the friends she hangs out with and despite being in a well paying job, she is likely to suffer long-term problems including a lack of success at her career and social problems.Whether it’s an indifferent attitude to the excess consumption of alcohol, or her ignorance when it comes to the effect it has on her body, filly’s socially accepted drug is indeed destroying her life.An attractive, 20-something filly is an alcoholic, but nothing about her gives away her dark secrets. "The only time I relax is when I am asleep or drunk," she says. The child of an alcoholic father, she began drinking as a University student. Since then she has become more and more dependent. Her cheeks flushed slightly as she described the embarrassment of sleeping with multiple men, and often more than one at the same time including many occasions when they would take it in turns just for the free drinks they give her.She has even failed to control her problem with 10 drinks a day. Her sorrowful trouble is that she doesn't have that inner switch that tells her when to stop, and sometimes after work she needs a “relaxer” as she calls alcohol so she can face the next day at the office.As a person, she think of people with alcohol problems as those others, down and out, intractable. She believes the binge-drinking youths in the nightclub precincts are the real alcoholics. It's not her problem. A female medical profession i contacted to try and help her is profoundly concerned that the harms of her alcohol consumption are getting worse ranging from depression to violence.As I told the filly, it is time for her to deal with the epidemic, and her denial will only allow it to get worse.The affect alcohol has had on her health is only part of filly’s story.

Alcohol is such a huge part of her life that drinking daily and at every social gathering she’s invited is her widely accepted norm that has seen her drop from her masters degree studies.She admitted as we had a chinwag that the only way she takes a break from drinking is when she’s at the office but sadly hasn’t realized how damaging and unnecessary it really is for her health and overall wellbeing.The filly whom your blogger knows from childhood, grew up with an alcoholic dad who was more than a typical outback beer-drinking alcoholic. My wish is to see her recover and even if she drinks, does it in moderation. As we spoke, her view was that growing up with his alcoholism involved attempted suicides and often herself, sister and brother leaving the house to stay at neighbors in the hope to just get away from the drama caused by father’s erratic behavior which included beating their mother. It also resulted in her developing personality traits that are characteristically common when growing up in with any addicted parents environment. “As a lady, Contador Harrison, I need to be doing all I can to reduce the incidence and severity of the harms,” she said. Her struggles shouldn’t be related to her upbringing and urged her on the need to regulate taking alcohol otherwise her life will be ruined.Her life was going well before she fell in love with alcohol and she is now more of a train wreck waiting to happen and unless she changes, it will just be a matter of when her job will be no more. Few employers would entertain her drinking habits and hopefully i’ll be one of those who will help the filly navigate through and adjust to a less alcoholic life if quitting won’t be possible. Alcoholic addiction may not sound like a problem, but it is one.For a filly who performed excellently at school, the alcoholic problems is outweighing her past achievements. Listening to her, helping her survive emotionally is a priority than worrying about what she is drinking tomorrow. In the past, she had many friends and while she was growing up, your blogger can say she looked like a very responsible girl and not the type that would go and have fun. Filly took life pretty seriously and when she graduated everyone was impressed with her performance. Fast forward now her life is being destroyed by alcohol and as one of her friends said, even family members are always expecting for something terrible to happen to her. I feel sad for her situation but grateful that I escaped that life, been existing in this world for three decades and have never tasted alcohol. As a teenager I would often wonder if I would grow up and be an alcoholic, because there were times where like most teenagers or young adults do, I got temptations. However, as I got into my mid-twenties I realized I didn’t feel the compulsion to ever take alcohol and like my father am a living example of millennial who has avoided the trap filly’s has found herself in. Alcohol, at its worst has disintegrated many friends before my very eyes. I’ve often looked back and thought, “how lucky was i to escape this?.”Before she becomes directionless and start to feel like she had no purpose, will do the best i can to help filly avoid problems that overshadow more joyful opportunities rather than living with alcoholism and dysfunction.

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