Online Alcoholism & Addiction Counselling

There are many ways to quit drinking -

• you can check in to a rehab if you’ve got the time,
• you can try taking ‘Antabuse‘ (which will make you feel very ill if you drink anything alcoholic),
• or maybe just try white-knuckle will-power,
• you could go to AA meetings and meet a few people with similar problems,
• then maybe work through the 12 steps?
• you could become a gym bunny and spend all day working out to distract yourself (not going to happen, right?),
• you might want to try Kudzu (a herbal supplement which helps you cut down how much alcohol you want to drink),
• best of all though, you can try the most convenient help available - online one-to-one counselling.

Online counselling will help you to quit drinking by encouraging you to change some aspects of your lifestyle, by getting you to look at the emotional and cognitive aspects of your habit, helping you to deal with anxiety or stress a bit better and by giving you some easy, practical tips to cut down the amount of alcohol you drink on a daily basis. It is probably the best option for those who are abusing alcohol, but who are not dependent alcoholics. (see: Am I an alcoholic?)

To quit drinking you first have to ask the question - “WHY am I drinking so much?” Our counselling service will help you to answer that.

This is the best account I’ve ever read of an alcoholic going through rehab and struggling with his subsequent recovery. It’s honest, compelling and darkly humorous.

It’s not for the faint hearted though - he graphically details his most debauched binges, his most horrific withdrawals and embarrassing bed-wetting episodes. But he balances this with some wonderfully insightful thoughts about the recovery process, about Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and of course, about his time in a detox and rehab centre.

Augusten Burroughs is a very clever writer, and he engages you from the first page, by the end you feel like you know him inside out. If you’re struggling with alcohol, or you’re thinking about going through rehab, you seriously should read this first.

If you fancy a copy for yourself, here’s the page on Amazon.com where you can get it.