Do you subscribe to the AA view? Am I an alcoholic?

Ok so long story short, for a year and a half after I turned 21 I drank very heavily. I would get very plastered at the very least 3 nights a week (I went for more than 3 months straight of heavy drinking everynight). Ok so I finally got help & quit drinking for 6 months.

After six months I started drinking again, & I have been for the last year. But now I very rarely drink more than once a week (usually only a couple of times a month). Being honest, I still drink very heavily when I do drink & oftentimes drink alone.

Does this make me an alcoholic?? (in your opinion)

Personly I don't think I am. Do you think I'm in denial? Please be honest & kind seeing as this is very personal to me. Thanks

 

So??

 

So, yours is the only opinion that counts here. You did describe what you received before your 6 months of sobriety as help. Only YOU can decide what you want. Only YOU can make it happen. My opinion doesn't matter.

Springfling

 

i consider myself a alcoholic although i havent drank a drop in a year and a half.
to me the signs that i was and am a alcoholic were that i never could just drink one,that and i drank daily basically self medicating.to achieve a different mindset.

are you a alcoholic? only you can answer that..

do you have to be conscious of often you drink when you do drink?

do you have to say im not going to drink today because i dont want to wind up back like i was?

if the answer to either of them is yes then id say you probably are by definition..

 

I think once you start worrying like you are about it then you should stop. I don't know but it sounds like that would be a sign of alcoholism. Something like a few drinks shouldn't breed extra worries or stress. I only say this because I fear it for myself. The only difference is I drink every night and I have for years. I am ony 22 but it scares me. The only step to recovery I have taken has been to stop drinking whiskey(as much). It is a problem though. It takes at least six beers for me to feel "normal" and not even buzzed. If I drink liquor I don't know when to stop, I black out and turn into a completely different person. Im lucky to have an amazing boyfriend that wants to help me because if he wasn't so understanding then I would have lost him a few thousand drinks ago. If you only drink once a week and you feel it could become a problem then please please please stop. I know now how serious it can become. Being an alcoholic is selfish and destructive. I don't know if you are an alcoholic but if you have to ask yourself that then I would stop if possible. sorry this was so long but I mean every word of it and I hope this helps,
with love,
Rachel

 

i don't even know man.. I just turned 21 a week ago and have drank a few times since i turned. i didn't drink at all from the time i was 18-21, because i had some pretty worrisome times in high school.

So I don't know. I'm "responsible", I have job and a 4.0 in my first 2 years of college and just got a big scholarship to study graphic design. I work my ass of in a one hundred degree kitchen for 8 hours a day, its summer here. After I get off I'll admit lately it's been nice to walk down to the river with my buddy, bring some beers and smash. Drinking is fun and it feels good.

But I do not want to turn alcoholic cause that would suck. It would mess up my life. I mean, alcohol definetely drains my creative energy, but it sure makes me funny!

All I can say is if you're really worried, get a serious girlfriend. Mine keeps me in check!

-Ben

 

I think only if it starts to affect your everyday life.

 

i've taken courses in alcoholism when i thought i wanted to be an alcohol counselor... what you'd be considered is a problem drinker, but not an alcoholic. meaning you having bad drinking habits, but aren't an addict. that's what the textbooks would say. but if that's true, then 90% of my friends would also be problem drinkers. i don't think it's a problem unless it affects other parts of your life. do you think about drinking often on the days you aren't drinking? if you're not preoccupied with alcohol i wouldn't really worry about it. and drinking alone can be fun, i know i've done it. i wouldn't worry,

 

word for word man

as soon as it starts to affect your everyday life your in trouble and need some help. from the way you described it you seem to b keepin it under control only doin it once a week.

best of luck and keep it the way you got it. its always good to indulge every now and then.