No amount of AA alone could have relieved my alcoholism; not even five meetings in a day at one point could have relieved my polydipsia, which caused my being a dipsomaniac. "Polydipsia" simply means "excessive thirst" and "dipsomania" means "alcoholism."
In order to make one year possible for me after 25 years of drinking beer excessively where one is too many and 12 is not enough: it was a combination of AA, a doctor who prescribed a sleep aid and ginger ale.
AA enabled me to think differently enough to try ginger ale a year ago and at first not liking it thinking it tasted like medicine, I have now acquired a taste for ginger ale. I acquired a taste for beer when I was twelve years old and was told that beer is an acquired taste: instilling in me the desire to acquire a taste for beer at twelve.
Having tried many different "soft" drinks including: Cola, water, fruit juice, beer shandies, etc., and finally trying ginger ale with a splash of lemonade and ice last year never having tried it as a "drink of choice:" I have found the magic elixir to relieve my dipsomania.
I now treat my polydipsia with ginger ale, which has electrolytes and does not cause fatality as does excessive water drinking or the "runs:" as does Cola and fruit juice.
"Drink Canada dry" is my new motto along with AA's "Think think think," although 7-11 sells "Schweppes" at 1.06$ for a refill 40 oz "double gulp" where I buy my 2-4 "double gulps" of ginger ale per day.
Still, I am not averse to AA or doctors or help of any kind to stop drinking and will be going to a meeting soon to pick up a year chip and announce my program of "drink Canada dry" in order to carry "the message" to "the still suffering alcoholic."
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