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PAAS Welcome! This is a page for people suffering from alcohol addiction and dependency.

07/25/2026

Sometimes pressures in life bring us to a point where we need to escape...
This also is genetic as drinking can have a genetic component. Also if you have a parent, sibling or family member that drinks to cope while you are young, well that is learned behavior as well.
Once our plate is overflowing those with above components will tend to hit the bottle more so than others. The stress continues, people in your life, situations in your life, an abusive relationship that you feel trapped in.
Anything...can make you grab the bottle. Again, a reward system to alleviate the stress, anxiety, panic, feeling overwhelmed.
Please acknowledge these issues before you become physically dependent! Because once your body needs it? And your mind is saying NO! You can not function without it on a physical level at that point!

So you drink enough to alleviate the physical symptoms. Even if you "think" you have it under control for example: you work hard, you drink at night or just the weekends? It will eventually get to a physical dependency before you know it!
These people? although they hate to admit it? are called functional alcoholics and they are the MOST judgmental on actual alcoholics!

Why? Because they are seeing there future selves.

Be careful, acknowledge your triggers before it gets out of hand, seek help!
Contact us and we can help you!

07/14/2026

Are you drinking alone?
Are you drinking when emotional such as angry, sad, frustrated?
Are you drinking on an empty stomach?
Are you drinking as a reward system...ex: I worked hard today I deserve a drink!
Are you drinking one or two drinks but keep having one more and another?
Ask these questions to yourself and if you answer yes to just two of these questions?
You have a problem.
Please seek help!

06/22/2026

People sometimes say "once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic" that is a misnomer. Not everyone turns into an alcoholic and stays that way forever more. It's an individualistic narrative that a person creates to escape something in their own lives, or for many other reasons.
A professional has to assess the age of onset and what is going on in one's life that is making them drink. It's usually to escape, but again it's not a one size fits all treatment.
As I have said before if this is seen as a disease and we take that model of treatment than one should receive a liver transplant if that person is at a point in their lives where their liver is not functioning but yet you can't! Until six months later as per the medical model. So therefore how does AA work? As it's seen as a disease? I am not against it but I am not for it as it's a contradiction in its own creation.
Please contact me if you need help!

02/05/2026

Although I personally do not believe in AA, again because the disease model claims that alcoholism is a disease and again if so? Why does one have to wait six months for a liver transplant? They should get it right away! I'm not in any way shape or form saying don't go to meetings if it HELPS you! You have to do whatever it takes to NOT drink! And if that is an AA meeting? Go for it!
I believe it's more of an individual problem and I also believe it runs in the family. Whether conditioned of what people see there parents do, or genetics. If you are at a point where you are questioning if you have a problem? Please look into your family history! Most likely there is a grandfather/Mother and uncle a cousin, and more that are or were struggling. It helps you put things in perspective and alleviates some of the shame and guilt that goes along with drinking. Please seek help! Contact us for any help you might need!

02/05/2026

As alcohol is the most sneakiest drug...one must be careful what is a functional alcoholic and a non functional alcoholic. There is one difference...functional alcoholics can drink at night usually, go to work and function on life activities. However non functional alcoholics drink whenever, usually all day, binge, stop, repeat, etc as it depends on the person. Also non functioning alcoholics always get hangovers. Really bad hangovers. Functional ones usually do not. Emphasis on usually! But when does one crossover? It sometimes just takes a trigger, trauma, event or life itself spiraling. For example loss of job, loss of a person, loss of relationship or marriage etc. loss has a huge impact. People drink to escape as they don't have the correct or healthy coping skills to grieve or move on eventually. So, someone who is a functional alcoholic, and I had many clients who would say well I can stop whenever! Well, they have to be careful because all it takes is one traumatic event in life and the scales tip to the non functional behavior from functional. You are not exempt because you think you can "handle" it. Please be aware of your own behaviors and triggers. Please contact us if you have a problem or are even questioning that you do! Seek help as your liver can only take so much!

01/08/2026

What happens to the body when you are a full blown alcoholic and your liver is functioning at a low level...let's say at 10%.
At this point your bilirubin is at high levels when it should be at below 0.1 it can go up to 30! Your skin turns a sickly yellow. Your eyeballs actually turn yellow. You start losing severe weight. You have to be in the ICU and hooked up to machines because you are in severe pain from your liver and now what happens is your kidneys have to do the work. But your kidneys are not made to work so hard to detoxify that's why we need our liver. So your kidneys eventually need dialysis to clean them out so they can filter whatever they can. Unfortunately they can only do so much. Dialysis stops working. Then there is nothing anyone can do. You can stay hooked up to machines but in a few days? Your heart will go...it's awful...the Doctor will tell you what to do get off machines and go peacefully and say goodbye to your loved ones or not. If you get off all machines? In one hour your belly becomes so swollen! In two hours? Your feet become swollen like balloon's and that is because your body is retaining all this water. You can not urinate because everything has stopped working. Within four hours you are now experiencing severe pain from your whole body shutting down. Then you need Morphine. That is the end as one falls asleep and that's it. It's a very very horrible way to go and tragic. Please seek help! Contact us here for help! Or refer someone you love who really is struggling.

01/08/2026

When people are young, we all have been there! where we go out on the weekends and party it up! I sure did! I traveled and always went out clubbing. That was just a normal part of life...Fridays, Saturdays were party nights! Not all the time but most of the time. We went to clubs or lounges etc and have drinks. Sometimes we drank more than other nights. Then Monday? Back to work. Not an issue right? Well, sometimes it unfortunately gets you...and even though those party nights were just that and you never thought about alcohol during the week or at work or needed it, others struggled. Others started needing it...where it becomes a Monday night drink and so forth. Once it becomes an every evening type of drink than one must question that. But what happens is the reward system. The reward system being "I worked hard therefore I can have a drink or two or three to relax" or "Today was really stressful and I deserve to unwind". People make excuses and live in denial when deep down they know the truth. Please look deep down before it gets worse and your body unfortunately starts needing it more and more. Your tolerance levels become higher so one drink doesn't do it. Sometimes a second drink doesn't either...you don't feel that same effect as you would with one drink and need three or four to get to that point. Then you know you are in trouble. Please reach out here for help! Or refer someone who needs help and save a life! It is so important! Thank you!

01/08/2026

When people are alcoholics they do things they normally would not do. Shame and guilt sets in. Then you drink again to forget what you did the night before questioning your own mind and not remembering what exactly happened as your memory fails you. So you have bits and pieces of what possibly occurred! So whatever it is you remember? Are things you would never participate in normally. Again the cycle begins as you feel that darkness of pain, shame, guilt, distraught and low self worth. So you drink again. Why? To forget. You drink alone at home thinking you will not participate in these things and you start loathing yourself. However the cycle begins again...you go out you have fun you say I will not become obliterated again...and yet you can't help it. The shame starts again. Vicious cycle. Please seek help!

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