monty wrote:
Molecularly alcohol is poison. It's not medicine. Chemically alcohol is a pure toxin the body immediately works to eliminate. It's not supposed to be in the human body period. \\\ The problem with this is you could say it about every drug people take for mental stuff. Alcohol is not meant to make the body feel better, it is for the brain. It is how the human race has been self medicating since the first bread batch went sour. I think if we did look at it like "medicine", then we could get a much better handle on it with those that abuse it, and those that have real physical problems with it.
I cut down a couple years ago to one beer a night, maybe once a week or so. During the holidays I have gone just about every night, but just one beer. Feel like that is a good place to be, not burdening myself with total abstinence, and giving myself permission to have a beer once in awhile and stopping after one..I think a lot of folks could also do good with diets and food eliminating using this method, but what do I know...
It's dangerous to look at it as medicine because it's not. It's even worse cause it disguises itself as medicine because initially it takes away anxiety and leaves us feeling with a peace of mind. But it's a false peace of mind and over time you need more and more of it, and eventually it stops working but you still need it and your body needs to be detoxified.
My 12 year old daughter's best friend was run over and killed by a drunk driver. I can't express the damage that did to my daughter, our community and the family of the child killed. My biological father was an alcoholic and died and early death because all his organs failed. And I never knew him. Their are holistic methods, Easter and Western medicines new and old to relax and treat depression and anxiety. Alcohol should never be one of them.
There are a percentage of people that have an allergy to alcohol that creates a phenomenon of craving that leads to a mental obsession and eventual physical addiction. It's a progression that is very slow in some and faster in others. Sometimes it takes a life altering event like a loss of a loved one; loss of job; or a pandemic and that accelerates the progression and you suddenly find you cannot function without it.
If you're one of the normal people who can have one drink and put it down without issue. More power to you. My wife of almost 20 years has a drink or two once in a while -- and I'm fine with it cause she doesn't abuse it, she doesn't have the allergy, and she doesn't use it as a coping mechanism. And she can easily go months without it. IMO the world would be a much, much better place if it never existed.