BBC2 Drinkers Like Me

This is really for those who may have a alcohol-related condition.

This isn't an advert for the BBC, but more of raising awareness.

At 9:00pm next Monday (27 Aug 18) over on BBC2, Adrian Chiles admits, and talks about his problem with alcohol and how he believes that the word, "Alcoholic" is outdated and misused .

I for one shall be watching, and I hope that plenty of others shall be too: bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/progi...

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Thank you for letting us know about the programme.

[Shazza59]

Thank you Richard. Going to make sure my husband watches this.

[Isabelle2]

Sounds like a date. Spouses of people with alcohol problems might also find it interesting.

[Babycow]

Thank you Richard for making this awereness, I will be watching

[LAJ123]

Thanks Richard,

I saw him talking about it on Friday morning on the BBC Breakfast programme and I admired his courage in talking about his own drinking.

As someone who had a transplant due to alcohol related liver disease, I hope the programme and his frank and honest discussion of his drinking will help.

Someone asked how much I drank and for how long before I became so ill that I needed a new liver. I said the same amount and for the same length of time as all the people that I drank with, who don't have liver disease.

Hopefully the programme will squash the idea that you are rolling around in the gutter and insensible most of the time before your liver decides its had enough and fails.

I'm not rationalising, saying I was just unlucky and its unfair. Obviously the truth must be that over the years I used more alcohol than was good for me and that is why my liver reached the point of no return. We live in a world where alcohol is the norm and those who don't drink are the ones who stand out, yet when we become ill we can find ourselves vilified.

Looking forward to seeing the programme and I hope a healthy discussion comes from his courage to bare all to the public.

Jim

[Sunshineflower in reply to LAJ123]

Hi LAJ123 your post says exactly what I have been thinking.

I am currently being assessed for a liver transplant and have had a couple of the people I used to drink with ask me if I will then be able to drink again! Drinking alcohol is so socially acceptable that you do stand out if you chose not to drink, I have been called boring and had people try to persuade me to have a drink rather than respect my decision not to, even when they know I am now unwell due to the alcohol I have consumed in the past. The social acceptance of alcohol consumption and the stigmatising of people who are ill due to alcohol consumption are at odds with each other. Hopefully programmes such as this will lead to more discussion and wider understanding.