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Alcohol Dependency
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Also known as: alcoholism · alcohol addiction · alcohol use disorder · Äthylismus · Dipsomania · alcohol problem · compulsive drinking · inability to stop drinking · dependence on alcohol
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Alcohol numbs. That is its mechanism of action — on the chemical level and on the soul. It dampens fear, shame, emptiness. It makes the unbearable bearable. For a few hours life feels less painful. And then the next morning comes — and with it everything you numbed, only stronger.
Medicine describes alcohol dependency as an addictive disorder with a neurobiological basis. And it is. But BodySignal asks an additional question: what is so unbearable about your sober life that you must flee it? What is missing inside you that you are trying to fill with a substance?
Alcohol dependency is not the problem — it is the attempt to solve a deeper problem. And that attempt fails every time.
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