Getting Help

I used to lie to doctors on a regular basis. Lots of alcoholics do that--maybe all of us do. But as an active alcoholic, I spent a lot of years wanting to stop drinking. So I would take my symptoms to doctors--physicians, psychiatrists, even dentists--hoping against hope that they would say "Your symptoms come from your drinking. You must stop drinking." And with that medical command, I believed, I would be able to stop.