Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
Emotional Intelligence is now a fairly popular term, it refers to your ability to understand and deal with your feelings in an adaptive and mature way. When we let our emotions dominate our behaviour without any awareness, it can become a huge problem.
Alcoholism and addiction are fundamentally rooted in an inability to effectively deal with your emotions, a lack of understanding about where they have come from, and what to do with them.
As such, people turn to alcohol or drugs to anaesthetize their emotions, to hide from them. But of course, merely dulling them or hiding from them does not make them go away. In fact, it often makes them worse.
So one of the key elements in beating addiction is to develop your emotional intelligence. By becoming more aware of your feelings, what has caused them, and the best way to deal with them, you can hopefully reduce your dependency on drink or drugs.
My 43 year old son is a chronic alcoholic. I am afraid he is going to die, if
something doesn’t happen. What can I tell him, To help him.