Alcoholism-boy that’s a dirty word

Alcoholism…boy that’s a dirty word. I mean, it doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. In fact, when you hear that word you can’t help but think terrible things about the person it’s describing. Why? Because that person is an alcoholic! Everyone knows that alcoholics are bad people. Well, that’s what I always thought. I guess that’s why it took me so long to admit that I had a problem. Even now, hearing that I’m an alcoholic and that I suffer from alcoholism makes me feel dirty. It’s hard to shake that feeling. Even though I know that alcoholism is a disease and that suffering from it is not my fault, it still takes strength from my innermost core to admit that I am an alcoholic. But I am an alcoholic. I suffer from alcoholism. My counselors at the alcohol treatment center say that coming to terms with alcoholism and admitting that you suffer from it are the first steps to recovery. I am an alcoholic. I suffer from alcoholism. There, I said it. I know it, I believe it, and now I’m going to do something about it.