It is worthy of note to bring up something that family members who have been negatively affected by the alcoholism of another family member obviously do not know. It seems that by protecting the alcohol dependent person with untruths and deceitfulness to those outside the family, these well-intentioned family members have essentially created a condition that makes it easier for the alcohol addicted individual to persevere and go forward with his or her damaging, detrimental style of life.
Undeniably, instead of helping the alcohol dependent individual and themselves, these family members have in truth become enablers who have unintentionally helped negatively affect the alcohol addicted individual’s drinking problem even further.
Relapses Can and Do Occur From Time to Time
Another key alcohol dependency issue involves alcohol relapses. Relapses take place when an alcohol addicted person has successfully gone through alcohol addiction treatment and then returns to drinking a number of weeks or months later. At first thought, this predicament seems contradictory to sound thinking and appears to be so doubtful that it forces one to wonder why anyone who has lived through the dreadfulness of alcohol addiction can return to drinking a short while after successful alcohol treatment and in turn after reaching recovery. There are, for sure, numerous reasonable reasons for this.
It should be mentioned, however that alcohol addiction research that has centered on the long-term outcomes of alcohol dependency has shown that long after the alcohol addicted individual has quit his or her drinking, significant modifications in the way in which the alcohol addicted individual’s brain works are still present. As a consequence, all a recovering alcohol addicted individual has to do to involve himself or herself in actions that correspond with the changes that have taken place in the brain is to start drinking again.
A Requirement for A Critical Lifestyle Transformation
There are other reasons why many recovering alcohol dependent individuals return to drinking a few weeks or a few months after achieving sobriety. According to the alcoholism research literature, to make a successful recovery, the alcohol addicted person needs new ways of reacting and thinking in order to deal more successfully with difficult alcohol-related circumstances that will take place.
Circumstances such as returning to the same alcohol addictive environment or to the same geographic location; interacting once again with friends from the days when the alcohol addicted person was drinking excessively; or familiar songs, smells, or activities—all of these situations can bring forth memories that can prompt psychological anxiety or push hot buttons that influence the recovering alcoholic to engage in abusive drinking once again. Sadly, all of these circumstances may not only work against long-term sobriety for the alcoholic but they can also result in relapse and thus negate one’s alcohol recovery.
Conclusion
In an attempt to “protect” the family alcohol addicted person, family members can essentially cause unintentional destruction by enabling the negative drinking behavior of the alcohol addicted person.
The addiction research literature confirms the fact that most people who effectively complete alcohol treatment go through at least one relapse. Alcohol addicted individuals and their family members need to know this so that they do not get crestfallen or overwhelmed when a relapse occurs.
Fortunately, taking part in support groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous and follow-up rehab and training have resulted in more effective, long-term alcohol abuse and alcohol dependency rehab results, have helped diminish alcohol relapses, and have helped recovering alcohol dependent individuals attain long standing alcohol recovery.
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