Okay, for my blog post today let's learn something...
If you drink enough booze on any given day, you get high.
And then you become tame again the following day.
If you constantly get high with half a pint of booze, it gets to a point you'll need 1 full pint to get as high as you usually get with half.
You increasingly are able to TOLERATE more booze. This is called tolerance.
If you keep up drinking, the chemicals in your brain become constantly used to the fact that it is propped by booze and so, they rebalance their quantities to accommodate the extra kick you get from booze.
Those chemicals are Glutamate and GABA.
Glutamate normally EXCITES you when you need to be
GABA DEPRESSES you when you need to be.
Now when you constantly drink, GABA( which depresses you) increases to keep you sane as the booze tries to make you high.
When you depend on booze to keep your mind sane, you are DEPENDENT ON ALCOHOL. We call that dependence. And that means you are addicted to it.
If you suddenly grow a conscience, develop a moral code or get born again, and you decide to stop your drinking habit...
No booze to excite you. There is still raging GABA in the blood trying to depress you, thinking that booze is coming soon to excite you.
Sleeping glutamate in your brain then wakes up vigorously to excite you since you blatantly refuse to drink.
You start shaking because you don't want to take booze.
If you insist on not taking booze, you will have a seizure and you can die from it.
Very bad things happen without booze.
This is called Alcohol Withdrawal syndrome.
I know we like to hear testimonies like: I preached to him. He got born again and he stopped drinking immediately after 10 years of addiction. Barring the miraculous, it is dangerous for the individual to stop drinking immediately.
He might be born again, but he'll most likely die in a matter of days from not drinking.
He needs therapy to wean him off the booze and rebalance the brain's chemicals with medications.
Until he gets it, he needs to drink.
It is ironic, I know, but never stop drinking on your own if you are addicted to booze and want to quit.
The way to quit isn't by quitting.
Get help. Be helped.
Class dismissed.
I really hope this helps someone...
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