If I was in your place and I rolled over my car and feel asleep at the wheel because of alcohol, that would have been my ' I'm done with alcohol ' point. I know you don't wish that more damage was done to u or someone else for then u think about weather you have a problem or not. Again, you only get so many chances, I would not start up again for something to end up haunting you. Consider your self lucky.

12 questions only you can answer from AA

http://www.aa.org/lang/en/subpage.cfm?page=71

I don't know what I am either...but I know that I also had a hard time stopping when I had the first one. I didn't roll a car, or get arrested...but I knew I did not like where I thought I might be heading.
So I stopped.
it was easy, not detox (my son was medically detoxed) and I went on my merry way for a while. 6 months later? I tried one glass of wine. Bad idea. I quit then for good.
Labels don't matter. The choice to realize that this is not good for us (intoxicated comes from the word toxic) and stopping is all that matters.
If you are trying to analyze it? I think it is your brain trying to trick you into thinking it is ok to drink again. There are plenty of folks out there who never drink...normies too. Why risk it? why label it? just don't drink.

In truth, only you can declare yourself an alcoholic. If yuo have no problem not drinking - or only drinkig one or leaving that 1/2 glass of wine behind then you may well not be one. Here's a series of questions you can ask yourself: http://step12.com/alcoholic-20-questions.html
The questionaire notwithstanding, if not using mind altering substances is easy for you - that is a good thing. Don't be confused, just be happy, clean and sober...

Hugs,
Dennis

The book Alcoholics Anonymous has a very simple rwo questions test. Here they are:

If, when you honestly want to, you find you cannot quit entirely, (Can't manage your most sincere decision to not start drinking) - the un-manage-ability insidious insanity - mentally powerless

or if when drinking, you have little control over the amount you take, (Can't drink without getting drunk) - the allergy the craving - physically powerless

If you answered "No" to those two questions, you are a chronic alcoholic - an alcoholic of the hopeless variety

I didn't write the Big Book, I've carefully studied it and followed the directions therein. 48 years of life because of Alcoholics Anonymous ain't no bad deal.

thank you for reminding me of the insanity of alcoholism. Its mine, and it certainly appears to be yours.

As to quitting, I quit all the time. For a few days, a few weeks, a few months, even a few years 2x. Didnt matter. I drank again and when I did I quickly drank myself into obvlivion each and almost every night.
That's alcoholism.
And you...
you BROKE your neck. Hello...

Here is your old post: Read it please.....

"Well I think I really hit rock bottom this time. I thought I had before, but this is pretty bad. I don't drink every day but when I do, after I have one, I can't stop. It's like the alcohol makes me a different person. A person I don't like, yet I kept going back to drinking anyway. Well, I made a bad, bad decision last night and decided to drive home after having a few too many. I ended up rolling my car 3 times and I sit here in a hospital bed with a broken neck. I really am lucky to be alive, it could've been a lot worse. Call it a wake up call, call it a miracle, call it rock bottom, whatever you want to call it, but I know that I never want to touch alcohol again. This is it. I could've died, but I didn't. Now I need to go and live my life a little better. I hope that maybe this will reach someone and that they will think twice before they drink and drive. It is a BAD decision. The doctor's said if I hadn't had my seatbelt on I probably wouldn't have made it. As it is, I'm lucky it's just a broken neck and I'm not paralyzed. It was so scary. I've never had such a scary, but eye opening experience in my life. I didn't know my drinking was so out of control, but obviously, it is..."

Thanks Stickywick, I think I needed to see that again. Blueviolet, you are right, why should I analyze it? The truth is, things have been going much better since I quit drinking. My relationship is better. My health is better. And my schooling is better. Plus, I am happier! Whether or not I am an alcoholic or not, I am better off not drinking. It is easy for me not to drink. But, if I had one, would it be easy to stop at one? I am not willing to find out, I'd rather just stay away from any alcohol. I can be a permanent Designated Driver.

My sister never was a drinker and still doesn't drink. She always said nothing good ever came from drinking. I'm starting to see her point of view. Maybe drinking is fun temporarily but really, what good does come out of it?

I can't think of a good time (or bad time for that matter) that cannot be made far, far worse through a liberal application of alcohol...

:-)

Brooklyn, have a read back over what you have posted here at DS and ask yourself what is in the best interests for you, your family and the people around you each day. Why do you think you may be an alcoholic?

Well, because usually when I do drink I can never just have one or two and always seem to drink to the point of getting drunk. Not EVERY time, I mean plenty of times I have just had one, but the majority of the times I had too many. Also, I've gotten in trouble because of alcohol. In fact, if I never drank, I never would've gotten in most of the predicaments I was in in the past. Also, because I just think my life would benefit if I were to not drink.

Sounds like a good way to go Brooklyn :}

Just the fact that you're trying to find a loophole where you may not be an alcoholic tells me that you're trying to set yourself up for a drink.

If you decide that alcohol is a step up again, please stay off the road. Hurting yourself is one thing. You don't have the right to gamble with other drivers' lives.

Gr8ful2b, I don't want to drink. I have no desire to drink. I was just wondering if i'm an alcoholic but decided to stop analyzing it and just be glad I've chosen not to drink. And I will never drink and drive again.

The one thing I would not advise is to test out whether you are an alcoholic or not by picking up a drink. A friend of mine quit for a year, found it easy, so she picked up a drink -- maybe she wasn't an alcoholic after all. You can probably guess what the next year was like -- she had a great deal of difficulty figuring out how to get that sobriety back, and had a hellish year trying to get there.

Just be happy that you have quit and you don't miss it. And that makes sense, after all, when you really think about it, there is nothing to miss and everything to gain when we quit.