re: Let's talk about what are some true signs of alcoholism (longish)

These threads always seem to get bumped at night.

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If you are at work, and you are thinking about getting off and getting that drink --- your fricked.

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If you have a shitty job and can limit yourself to 3 or 4 drinks, I don’t think so. It’s when it comes between you and that job that it’s the issue. A lot of people (I’m going with 25%) love getting off work and winding down with a drink or two and are perfectly functional. It’s when you can’t limit yourself is when it’s problematic.

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5 beers after work is standard

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I have a tenuous relationship with alcohol. There are times when I want to live life without it..and I do. I love being sober.

There are also times when alcohol becomes the focal point. That is bad. I will meet friends at a bar, but I'm not there for them. I'm there to get fricked up, and they just happen to be there. That's when I know I'm in the sunken place.

I still keep my head above water, but it's a dangerous game for me...the addiction runs in my family, but I don't like to blame it on genetics. That seems like a cop out.

All in all, I've had great times fricked up, and I've great times being dry. The Great times I've had not drunk are more special to me.

Someday I will give it up altogether. I hope it's tomorrow. The hangovers get much worse as you age. I'm 34, and I feel weakened by hangovers infinitely more than when I was 24.

Your mileage may vary. Stay thirsty, my southern football friends

If you’re drinking 5 beers a night, that’s a problem regardless of what you think. Shouldn’t need 5 to unwind or de stress. Also, it’s a myth that alcohol helps you sleep.

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some true signs of alcoholism

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I had a roommate who drank quite a few drinks every day after work and all weekend.

I would say he was an alcoholic but unless he had a genetic disposition to alcohol, there didn't seem to be any obvious outside triggers to make him drink as much as he did.

When I was overseas, everyone drank. And everyone drank to excess. Every single day.

I'd run through a 12 pack of local beer before 7 pm before switching to rotgut bourbon and be back at work for 5 am fresh as a daisy.

I realized it was a problem when I came back to Louisiana and even old friends who I considered to have a drinking problem were questioning it.

I was 1000% an alcoholic, but in the environment I was in, I wasn't even an outlier.

I backed off the liquor and tapered down to nothing. Dried out for 6 months.

I still drink. Hell, you could say I drink to excess, but I haven't been drunk in 3 or 4 years, and I intend to keep it that way.

Damned near exclusively a bourbon and wine drinker these days. Usually drink 1-2 bottles of wine a week. And typically 1 bottle of bourbon. If there are any restaurant nights tossed in there, I'll have a random beer before dinner.

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I don't have the recurring and life altering problems alcoholics might have, but I can tie a few "problems" a year to drinking too much. We discussed this in another thread, but things that didn't bother anyone in college aren't so easy to shrug off as a true adult.

For example, if a couple of times a year you get so drunk that you're worried about what you said/did for a week, it's a problem.

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Yea I'm not alcoholic but I definitely have a drinking problem on the weekends. On the first of the year, I am seeing if I can go 100 days without drinking.