Identifying Alcohol Abuse

The most important questions to ask yourself are; why do you drink and? And above all do I have to drink? The obvious reasons could be due to loneliness, frustrations or the need to cover some embarrassing or disturbing emotions. You should learn to deal with your problems soberly rather than trying to cover them or push them forward to sort them later. Once you identify your causes of alcohol abuse you will have made a great step to recovery.

Check your Drinking Schedule

The next step will be to identify your common time of drinking whether it is in the morning, afternoon or in the evening before you sleep. Try hard to recreate in your mind the feeling you have just before you sip down the drink; is it that you lack courage to face the day or you have some emotional disorder that you feel would affect your day, sleep or work. Some people have difficulties in sleeping and would invoke the power of alcohol to gain sleep. Scribble down all these on a piece of paper and try to think of alternatives. .


Dig deep into every point written down gathering everything you can from your experiences. This is another essential step towards kicking the addiction.

Scrutinizing the Causes

To understand the causes you need to look into each carefully so as to expose some bits you may have missed. A person who drinks before sleeping may be as a result of various factors as; lack of natural sleep initiation, fear of break-ins, to mask unwanted environmental factors such as noise or constant nightmares due to work or experiences. The analysis of these factors will stop you from putting that drink into your mouth and give you solutions to your problems. Different people have different types of addictions thus the factors must be dealt with at personal level. Sometimes addiction is due to boredom while you think you are killing time you end up developing a habit, which is hard to stop. Try to get other activities to fill your unoccupied time safely.

Dealing with alcohol addiction is tough for some people who even refuse to acknowledge their problem. When you acknowledge that you have a problem and initiate the first steps to healing be sure not to drink alcohol in the near future.

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