You asked how and why people become alcoholics...
It's been my observation that they start out drinking for fun and because it's so much fun they start doing it more often. Then they go through a rough patch of life and drink a little more to ease the anxiety, pain, or suffering. I think even at this stage, it would still be easy for someone to recover.
Graduating from this stage to full-blown dependency, takes just one shitty life-experience (ie. divorce, foreclosure on a home, death in the family, etc.) to throw the person over the edge of oblivion.
For others, they always had a general dissatisfaction with their lives and the drinking steadily increases overtime without any catalyst to speed the process along.
So many young people go through a "drinking phase" in their late teens and early twenties, but they grow out of it once they realize it's really not as cool as it first appears.
How and why do people become alcoholics ?
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You asked how and why people become alcoholics...
It's been my observation that they start out drinking for fun and because it's so much fun they start doing it more often. Then they go through a rough patch of life and drink a little more to ease the anxiety, pain, or suffering. I think even at this stage, it would still be easy for someone to recover.
Graduating from this stage to full-blown dependency, takes just one shitty life-experience (ie. divorce, foreclosure on a home, death in the family, etc.) to throw the person over the edge of oblivion.
For others, they always had a general dissatisfaction with their lives and the drinking steadily increases overtime without any catalyst to speed the process along.
So many young people go through a "drinking phase" in their late teens and early twenties, but they grow out of it once they realize it's really not as cool as it first appears.