Sentences with phrase «as an alcoholic who»

Even when Giovanni Ribisi shows up to chew all kinds of scenery as an alcoholic who is waaaaay beyond repair, it doesn't seem to be in the service of anything.

It stars Will Ferrell as a alcoholic who returns home after losing his job to find that his soon - to - be-ex-wife has put everything he owns on their lawn.

Not exact matches

He grew up with a mother who has been described as an abusive alcoholic and a pill user — plus a series of stepfathers and father figures.

As a pastor I've been getting help for years, from a psychiatrist, from a clinical pastoral course I took years ago, from small groups over the years, from dear friends who are honest enough to speak into my life, from my medical doctor, from the elders in my church, from my wife (mostly) from an adult children for alcoholics group I started only because there was nothing in place in my community.

Most importantly, note this: I am a Christian, I'm gay, I'm a recovering alcoholic, I believe in Evolution, I believe the universe is 13 billion years old and that the Earth is 4.5 or so billion years old, I believe man evolved from lower primates and that Adam was the first man who God gave a soul and sentience, I do not believe in hell but I do believe in Satan, I do not believe the Bible is a book of rules meant to imprison man or condemn him but that it is rather a «Human Existence for Dummies» guide, I believe Christ was the son of God but I do not believe Christianity is the only «valid» religion, I do not believe atheists will go to hell, while the English Bible says God should be feared, the Hebrew word used for fear, «yara», such as that used in the Book of Job, actually means respect / reverence, not fear as one would fear death or a spider.

There are some who would argue that it is wrong to say you are an alcoholic, just as there are some who would argue that it is wrong to say you are a homosexual.

Also, as noted, I apologized for those times when my anger got the better of me but in hindsight, I see I was exhibiting signs of prologued trauma and abuse not signs of mental illness (like most of NYC I got tested post 9/11 and there's no signs of mental illness though my childhood growing up with two alcoholic parents who died before I was 18 does produce some triggers that I now know how to manage so I don't let my anger get the better of me).

Closed meetings are for alcoholics only; open meetings welcome nonalcoholic relatives, friends, and anyone else who is interested, as well as the alcoholics themselves.

Since the Emmanuel approach was dependent on professionals, the number of alcoholics who could be helped was quite limited as compared to AA.

These are low - bottom alcoholics who are constantly in and out of jail as a result of repeated drunkenness - related arrests.

If a minister is known as a militant advocate of prohibition and temperance, and if he treats alcoholism in a moralistic fashion in his public pronouncements, it is likely that some alcoholics who might otherwise seek his help will give him a wide margin.

One of the more outspoken alcoholics I interviewed told of a young minister who apparently tried to use the AA group as a means of obtaining members for his church.

He should see himself as the coordinator of the team in providing help for those alcoholics who come to him, unless there is some other persons or agency which can fulfill this function more efficiently.

If this is true, it is a most convincing answer to those who feared, as well as those who hoped, that AA would render the church's ministry to alcoholics unnecessary.

It is important, as well as comforting, to recall that Giorgio Lolli has said that individuals who are relatively free from basic anxieties can have a beneficial influence on alcoholics, regardless of training.

In such facilities the «clinical team» consists of various combinations of the following — an internist, a psychiatrist, a psychologist, a social worker, and, in a few clinics, a pastoral counselor and a recovered alcoholic who serves as a counselor.

As a recovered alcoholic, who is a devoted churchman, put the matter: «Many people find so much more acceptance in AA than in the church, they make AA their church.»

Worcester tells, for instance, of treating a very difficult alcoholic with homicidal tendencies who had been given up as hopeless by the doctors.

Some people have raised the question as to whether teaching an alcoholic that his drinking is an illness will not give him a heavy weapon to use against those who are trying to persuade him to stop that drinking; saying that he might then be able to shrug the whole thing off with some statement like «How can I help it — it's a disease, isn't it?»

After a time the same judge who had fired him invited him to help as a court consultant for alcoholics.

Lolli points out that a physician who would be eager to help a tuberculous patient after his twentieth relapse often labels an alcoholic as hopeless after two or three minor relapses.

Just like someone who has a predisposition to be an alcoholic, as long as they don't become drunk no problem.

As a college chaplain, I have known college students who were, heavy drinkers but who matured into adults who drink only moderately — because, I believe, they avoided the stigma of being diagnosed as «alcoholics.&raquAs a college chaplain, I have known college students who were, heavy drinkers but who matured into adults who drink only moderately — because, I believe, they avoided the stigma of being diagnosed as «alcoholics.&raquas «alcoholics.»

As a scientist and Christian, who knows alcoholics, I choose to believe that conscious life is a sort of test of its ability to submit itself to something which can never in this Universe be proved exists with empirical evidence.

I do have a brother who is also a recovering alcoholic and he does believe in God as his higher power, so to each his own and whatever works!

However, he is out of the woods now, for last summer the Vatican directed that a Roman Catholic priest who has been diagnosed and treated, as an alcoholic may request permission of his Ordinary on concelebrating.

For one thing, as many as 60 % of those who die from alcohol related causes do not identify themselves as alcoholics.

For the purpose of this book, an alcoholic is defined as a person who has become dependent on the drug alcohol, consequently drinking more alcohol than the socially accepted norm for his culture; his excessive drinking damages his health and his relation to his family, friends and job.

The first group did in fact have its share of alcoholics who wandered by; but the «real» alcoholics who «really tried» (as Bill Wilson described them) were a sturdy band of «last gasp» alcoholics who had stayed sober for about two years since A.A.'s founding days of 1935.

Just as well - meaning individuals who «cover» for an alcoholic's absences from work unintentionally enable the alcoholic's addiction and often delay the seeking of help by the alcoholic, individuals who «cover» for an abuser often delay the abuser's seeking help and unintentionally allow either the abuse to continue or others to be victimized.

In light of what some would argue is an «innate orientation,» would it be wise for a liquor store manager to hire an alcoholic who does not see that condition as a problem and is not, therefore, working toward recovery?

The pastor who feels it is his bounden duty to act as a spiritual mentor to an alcoholic who comes to him could perhaps succeed if he could recall out of his own experience some time of deep crisis or personal suffering in which he found comfort from his faith, and could tell that story simply and directly.

Why is a person who once drank excessively then quits or kicks the habit, one who no longer desires to get intoxicated still referred to as an alcoholic?

The alcoholic with his low self - esteem catches this feeling of being manipulated and reacts to the counselor in the same way that he would to a mission worker who gives the alcoholic the impression that he is interested in him as an opportunity to save a soul.

It is important that the alcoholic know that the counselor, who accepts him as a person, does not approve of his irresponsible behavior.

Conveying this is important because the alcoholic tends to see the clergyman as one who reaches down rather than out to him.

When discussing the subject of guilt, it is well to bear in mind that an appreciable percentage of alcoholics comes from the clinical group known as «psychopathic personalities,» who are unable to experience either guilt or responsibility.

In the case of the alcoholic who has not achieved sobriety as yet, the appearance of openness to help may hide an underlying resistance; it may be a passive - aggressive way of defeating the counselor by seeming to agree and comply.

If they are illegal then there is the constant fear of living as an «outlaw» afraid to report abuses, even rape or other crimes, to the authorities, but then the same fears arise for drug users or alcoholics; the authorities are not perceived as being sympathetic to someone who needs to «shoot - up» or drink regularly, whose only source of income is to sell drugs or their bodies.

This conflict often operates in the alcoholic's marital relationship, where he will marry a dominant, mothering woman (who protects him to an absurd degree) and then so resent the dependency as to turn the marriage into a civil war.

The minister's role is to assist the alcoholic to «connect» with a doctor who accepts alcoholics as patients, knows the latest methods of treating the problems associated with alcoholism, and is appreciative of the contributions of AA and pastoral counseling.

Many alcoholics, particularly those who have not yet reached the lower levels of the disease, are extremely ingenious in concocting stories as to why they need money.

This lets the alcoholic know that the minister has problems, is aware of his fallibility, and is speaking as one who shares the foibles and limitations of the rest of the human race.

One of the two alcoholics interviewed who classed themselves as atheists described the problem when he spoke of what he called «my cockeyed philosophy of life»: «A fellow sleeps to get strong, so he can work to get money to eat and have a place to sleep, so that he can get strong and be able to work to get money, and so on.»

Third, the minister can arrange for him to get acquainted with an experienced and accepting AA member who may serve as a bridge to feeling at home in an AA group [In a study of factors which produce «readiness» for affiliation with AA, Harrison M. Trice discovered that alcoholics with the following characteristics tend to relate effectively to AA: Before contact with AA, they often shared troubles with others, had lost drinking friends, had heard positive things about AA, had no relative or friend who had quit through willpower.

The alcoholic who has developed trustful relationships — with himself, others, and God — is able to «die living rather than live dying,» as one put it:

As one who is professionally trained to be a spiritual growth enabler, the clergyman can fulfill a unique role in helping alcoholics.

There was pathos in the experience of the alcoholic interviewee who recalled: «When I reached a certain point in a drunk, I felt as though I were on the edge of a beautiful land.

Hayat's father is a philandering alcoholic neurologist who wears his atheism proudly, scorns the local immigrant Muslim community, and regards all religions and Islam in particular as backward and embarrassingly crude.

Derived as it is from their experiences, it includes many practical suggestions as to how one may approach alcoholics who are in different stages of the illness and who have varied attitudes toward getting help.