Alcoholics are drinking to feel normal.

Alcoholics will increasingly try to cope by drinking more alcohol to take away the pain of their perception of being isolated in thinking and behaviour. They slowly adopt an attitude of denial to their real condition, which they eventually believe is reality for them.

The alcoholic drinks more alcohol due to a different brain chemistry and metabolism, has cravings for more alcohol due to cell alteration and organ damage, and drinks more to cope with the effects of their changed thinking and behavior. They are drinking to feel normal.

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