alcoholism

[styleee]

i've been thinking about this subject for a really long time, and i want to know what everyone thinks.

do you feel like you or your friends drink too much? like, do you drink every night? do you get blasted every week? and if you do, do you think that you are abusing the boos? do you think it's phase and you'll grow out of it?

cause i think that 80% of my friends, including myself, are alcoholics. but i'm not sure if i'm just being stupid, cause i've seen too many people turn into addicts, and i dunno where the limit is.

(if that makes any sense at all?)

[pennypinch]

Well, hold up. Theres a difference between drinking every night, getting blasted on the weekends, and getting blasted every night.

I'd characterize the first two as just a thing you do. I know 50 year olds that no-one would characterize as alcoholics that have a nip on a daily basis after work. I like to drink on the weekends, and occasionally a glass of bourbon by the pool at night.

However, if you're waking up, covered in someone else's vomit, headfirst into a dumpster, then yes, I'd say you have a problem.

It's only an addiction if you can't NOT drink every night, if you MUST get torched every Friday or Saturday. Addiction, to me, is the loss of control.

[chrissy]

Coming from a family that has alcoholism in it, I can say that you don't have to be an alcoholic if you drink everynight.

My Dad didn't. My Grandfather (I barely knew) did. Both were alcoholics. My dad has been sober for 13 years or so now. My Papa J died last year of liver disease.

My dad was a binge drinker. We never knew when he would drink. Some paydays he just wouldn't come home. Then when he would come home he would pass out in our only bathroom with vomit in the tub cuz he sat on the toliet. Once there was a fair in town and they had the beer tent going. The park was only 4 straight blocks from our house. He couldn't find his way home and slept across the street on our neighbor's racecar hauler.

Questions to ask yourself if you are thinking you are an alcoholic are found here.

http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org/...ts/P-3_d1.html

There is also more info listed there if you are interested.

[ProMinx]

Originally posted by pennypinch
However, if you're waking up, covered in someone else's vomit, headfirst into a dumpster, then yes, I'd say you have a problem.

Damn...maybe i do need help then. Actually, what if you aren't sure whose vomit it is? and what if you aren't headfirst in the dumpster, you're just rightside in...?

ProMinx

[BADFlSH]

I think the best definition I have heard for an alcoholic is a person who continues to drink even though it has negative consequences. For example, you drink until you are sick over and over. Or you consistently become violent when you drink yet you continue to do it.

[topane]

Originally posted by pennypinch
It's only an addiction if you can't NOT drink every night,

That's not enitrely true. An alcoholic is someone who, once they take a sip, cannot stop drinking until they physically can drink no more. It could be daily, weekly, once every five years, but it's really the loss of control once a drink is taken which defines an alcoholic.

[theorangeone]

i come from a family of alcoholics.

my sisters will admit to having a problem, but not really caring. they drink every weekend, and they usually drink until they puke or pass out. they don't drink during the week, only on weekends.

my father is an alcoholic. he drinks whenever he can, and when he drinks, its a lot. he drinks until he physically can't. my mother says hes not an alcoholic because he gives up drinking for lent. but he has no control once he starts drinking. its actually getting kind of scary, but he won't do anything.