How can I stop abusing alcohol?
I have bipolar II disorder, I'm addicted to alcohol and weed, and I'm hopeless. I keep drinking even though it's harming myself and others.
Addiction,Substance Abuse
<p>Anyone who wants to change their life path, eventually will be successful in this. &nbsp;</p><p>How to stop abusing alcohol involves a few steps, most of them time consuming, with slow progress and very often with tremendous emotional pain.</p><p>The basic path is to figure out what motivates you to drink too much and be addicted to weed. &nbsp;Almost always, addictions are rooted in the person having suffered feeling deeply ignored, humiliated, shamed, invisible, nothing very pleasant, since a very young age, usually starting around 18 months.</p><p>Most often addicts are sensitive people who have been emotionally overburdened by the grownups in their family.</p><p>With no outlet for emotional expression or nurturing, the frustration goes inward until the emotional pain feels very big and without an outlet.</p><p>So, people mask and numb by substances, whether this is food, chocolate, work, alcohol, weed.</p><p>Therapy that is humanistic based, is a better fit than one which is drug oriented and diagnosis oriented.</p><p>If you'd like getting serious about knowing who you are, including any unfair treatment of you during your growing up years, you can do this.</p><p>Once you have a stronger self-respect and awareness, you would naturally avoid substances because they harm people. &nbsp;Harming oneself is the opposite of self-respect.</p><p><br></p><p>Also, about your diagnosis, it may not be true at all. &nbsp;the US healthcare system loves selling drugs to people and clinicians in agencies and clinics are encouraged to find something wrong with people in order to find a new customer who will take drugs.</p><p>See if you can find a therapist who is independent minded, and therefore free to interact therapeutically with you as a human being, not as a potential customer if they are able to label you as having something "wrong".</p><p>This simply continues the long line of being shamed by others that created the addiction problem in the first place.</p><p>Good luck!</p>