I think everyone is welcome, but you won't get too much advice about how to cut down because as alcoholics we don't know how to do that.

Hi Angie I had to cut down so I could quit. I had no insurance. So no rehab. I used to look at my watch during work just thinking about opening that beer. If you had a child that asked you the same question you aked us , what would you say to her. If you worry about getting drunk. It must put questions in your own mind. I hope you stay here on this site and talk to every one. They are a big help. Good luck

Ummm, first you have to figure out if here is a problem~~ Quote: not an alcoholic but have a drinking problem?? You might want to do a little research.

Ah, now I can relate to that struggle with getting drunk on the second night. The only way I could get around that little glitch in the routine was to stop drinking on the previous one-- and the previous one and the previous one and the previous one and the previous one and the previous one and the previous one and the previous one and the previous one and the previous one ....

I also had a drinking problem and they call it alcoholism.......
If I didn't have a drinking problem, I wouldn't be an alcoholic.
When I used to drink and get drunk, I'd always stop for the night too.
I never struggled with the next night so I guess that's where we're different.(?)
I always knew I was going to drink to get drunk the next night and the one after and that and the one after that.....


I never had the advantage of wondering.....I just always KNEW.

currently biting my tongue

you belong here too...i once said i was not an alcoholic but had a drinking problem,i did not want to asscoiate with alcoholics....they were sik people...till one day i became one of those sick people because i had a drinking problem.....

You will find much support here. I just finished extensive out patient rehab., and was coined out this morning. When I put myself in out patient rehab. it's absolutely the best thing I've ever done in my life, and many in rehab. have no ins., but where there's a will, there is always a way if one wants it. I wish you the very, very best. Good luck to you.

Perhaps you could do some reading out of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. It couldn't hurt. I'm sure that if you don't relate to what it says in there then you probably are not an alcoholic. But if you do then you have a whole lot of knowledge about yourself. I would read it when you haven't been drinking though.

There is an online version and an AA Central Office and most book stores also carry them.

Lemme ask........Discribe your Image of an ALCOHOLIC????

how do you cut down when you cant sop???
I still could'nt find the answer to that exact dilemma -it is a real mystery hey good luck with that one!
what about shitloads of sex on the second night????
or some cronic-you know like what snoop doggy dog goes on about-???
a good book??
maybe you just have to reallly exercise self restraint??
handcuffs could be fun??
gOOD LUCK ANYHOW!!!

"drinking problem" "struggle"?

These are the words that I started out using. I thought I could still turn around and go back to the good old days and came to find out the good old days were too old to learn new tricks.

Hi, I'm Karen. I'm the 'Real Alcoholic' as discribed in the BB.

You could go to this web site and start reading page 20. It gives some discriptions of different types of drinkers.

http://www.aa.org/bigbookonline/en_bigbook_chapt2.pdf

(Boleon, I did read that the other day...thanks)

Me, I don't have a problem with alcohol when I'm not drinking it. Hmmm....maybe I'm not alcoholic either.

If you are trying to find out whether you actually are an alcoholic, then of course this is an appropriate site for you to be on. But, look at the title of it 'Alcoholism Support Group'. This means support for those who suffer from alcoholism or those who believe they may do.

Someone else suggested reading the AA Big Book and that is a good suggestion.

The most succint way of finding out is to be able to answer this question for yourself:

'If when you honestly want to, you find you cannot quit entirely or if when drinking you have little control over the amount you take, you are probably alcoholic. If that be the case you may be suffering from an illness which only a spiritual experience will conquer.'

If drinking is a problem for you and it appears that is true, then you need to find a solution; if you want to just cut down and can do that successfully, you won't need to be on this site, because the problem will have been sorted.

I guess that there is probably a big part of you that has a horrible suspicion that you ARE an alcoholic, but at the moment, you cannot bear the thought of it.