“There are two steps. Drink, for example, two beers, you’re relaxed, everything is fine, then another breath opens and you want more and more, and you can’t leave anymore. When you can’t stop anymore, you drink everything one after the other until you don’t remember anything.
It all started on Friday, Saturday, then continued on Monday, Tuesday and so on day after day. You wake up in the morning with a headache, it’s gross and you’re reaching for a cold beer. If there is no cold beer, you reach for something warmer.
That day, when I reached for something cool at eight in the morning, and if there is no ale, I take a Germeiter, and if there is nothing to drink, I pour it into the clean one, I realized that I had to stop here. Thinking: what am I doing with my life. I was young – I was 25 at the time – a beautiful girl, I had so much energy at that time, but I gave all my energy to the bottle, and that’s not good,” Violeta shares her experience.
“Why did I stop drinking? I met two people who were real alcoholics and they told me how they managed to stop drinking. I mean – this is so cool! I considered them gods. I think – if they can, why can’t I?” that Violeta.
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Violeta says that at that time she admitted to herself that she was an alcoholic, but did not say it out loud. “I was ashamed to talk about it out loud on TV or in interviews, because I believed that it was my problem and that no one should know about my problems, because until I have solved my problem, I will not talk about it out loud,” says the star of the show.
On the site esparveselibu.lv collected signs that indicate that a person is addicted to alcohol: gets into arguments and fights when drunk, increases the amount and frequency of drinking, does not remember what happens while intoxicated, is unable to give up the next drink, is late for school or work because of alcohol. Violet admits that she can sign under all but the last one. However, her inability to remember what she did while drunk and her aggressiveness hindered her life the most. “When I drank alcohol, I became very aggressive. I could just go and fight with a woman, with a man,” admits Violeta.
Violeta did not visit specialists in her battle with alcoholism. “I work with myself. I somewhat isolated myself from the world around me. It was a downside because now I have social phobia, I have anxiety states, anxiety, and it’s very bright, but I’m struggling with it. Of course, you can’t notice it, but everything inside me is shaking,” says Violeta in the talk show “Zilonis studiuė”.
When asked if it has occurred to her to reduce anxiety by forgetting with alcohol, Violeta says: “Not in my case. I’ve been there, I’m going the other way now. My life will be alcohol-free and I will continue to do so.”
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2023-09-04 06:54:34
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