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Why Don’t They Change?
How many times have you kept quiet when deep down inside you knew there was a problem? It can be excruciatingly painful when you don’t trust what you know. You become ambivalent; it can be contagious. When you don’t trust yourself in one area, the ‘not trusting’ can spread to other areas of your life.
If this sounds familiar, I’m guessing that you have some very good reasons -
Recognizing a family drinking problem is not always easy. When you see a problem, there’s a tendency to want to fix it. Perhaps you have already tried to fix the drinking problem. How’d it work out? As you probably know, it’s not an easy fix! Learn more about what you can do when you want the other to change.
Level of Risk with Problem Drinking.
Because it’s difficult to determine the matters of degrees when the drinking is prevalent, there’s a continuum of risk associated with different levels of drinking. Like the frog metaphor, it can be difficult to discriminate degrees of change until we’re boiling. Learn the subtulties of risk for problem drinking.
Why you should know these Warning Signs of Problem Drinking?
Maybe you’re not sure if drinking is a problem in your family. Alcohol can be in our lives without it being a problem. But can you tell when it goes from “no problem” to “problem”? Learn more about the warning signs of problem drinking.
Three defensive mechanisms that cause us to doubt drinking problems, and what to do about them.
You may see the drinking problem. You may think you have good reasons to not bring attention to it:
- “It’s not that big of a deal yet.”
- “They’re improving.”
- “If I confront the drinking, it will make it worse.”
- “I can avoid difficult arguments by not talking about it.”
It may seem easier for you when you doubt a drinking problem!
Learn the thinking distortions that are problematic.
What if you were letting the problem drinker off easy?
You may feel ambivalent about initiating a conversation about their drinking. Or maybe you have already expressed how you’ve been affected and what you’d like them to change.
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How to stop biting your tongue when someone you love is drinking.
How many times have you kept quiet when deep down inside you knew there was a problem? It can be excruciatingly painful when you don’t trust what you know. You become ambivalent; it can be contagious. When you don’t trust yourself in one area, the ‘not trusting’ can spread to other areas of your life.
If this sounds familiar, I’m guessing that you have some very good reasons - click here to read on
