Pooja Bhatt On Recovering From Alcoholism Openly: People Stigmatize Addictive Behavior, Without Attempting To Understand

Pooja Bhatt has time and again been quite vocal about expressing her opinions on her social media handle. Recently, she shared a post in which she talked about fighting alcoholism as she completed 3 years and 9 months of being sober and penned a lengthy caption describing her journey. She wrote, how it was important for her to share her experience so that others too could initiate heir own journey of sobriety.

Pooja Bhatt shared a selfie on her Instagram handle, with a long caption, in which she wrote,  ''Three yrs & nine months sober today. One more quarter and I will be four. As someone who drank openly, I chose to recover openly. I truly felt it was important to share my journey to tell others, women especially, who might be struggling that they are not alone & if I could do it so could they. Was ridiculed by some but lauded for being courageous by most. I wondered why people termed speaking openly about addiction issues courageously. And also why there is an ‘anonymous’ attached to groups that help you recover. I understand more than ever today that it’s because people simplify/stigmatize addictive behavior & tend to criminalize it without attempting to understand why someone used a substance, to begin with.''

She further added, 'Alcohol is a drug, and was my drug of choice. Just because it is socially acceptable does not mean it is not. I have had to make more excuses for NOT drinking in the last few yrs than I ever have for drinking-to friends, foes, and ‘well’ meaning acquaintances alike. A fractured society can only heal & evolve when we attempt to ‘understand’ instead of constantly standing in judgment. When we empathize instead of vilifying. Until then and even beyond, I will continue to speak from a place of compassion & truth, in the hope that there is ONE person out there I could goad to start on their own journey of sobriety and stay on their path. So help me God!  #sobrietyrocks #eachonereachone #eachonehealone #onedayatatime #onestepatatime #youarenotalone''

Earlier, Pooja Bhatt had also tweeted about dependence on an illegal substance in economically weaker sections of the society, She wrote that as a defense mechanism, people may turn to intoxicants. However, instead of looking down at them, people should help them recover