What the???
are u only an acholic when u got to bars or neglect your family? i enjoy beers in the evenings.. then i take my sleep pill, eat and go to bed. someone once told me, here on this site, that i was way too hard on myself if i only drank at home and did not shuck my responsibileties. but then i think, if am i useless to who made need me while i am at home enjoying my beers it puts guilt in my soul. i was raised by the super queen of guilt trips, so any enjoyment i get out of life makes me feel guilty, tho most of the time i can overcome that and be healthy. but when it comes to beer, i feel as if i have done wrong even tho i enjoy it. Do I truly have a problem or does raising make me feel as if all i do that is fun is wrong.
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Meh, a couple of beers in the evening isn\'t a problem UNLESS it\'s EVERY evening and you can\'t relax without them. And YOU KNOW!!! Personally, I never hit ROCK bottom either but when I started to ask myself IF I had a problem is when I SHOULD have quit. But I pushed the envelope until a friend pointed out she thought I had a problem. I think on some level you KNOW that it\'s a problem. Do yourself a favour and skip the \"rock bottom\" part.
Oh yeah, alcoholism is a PROGRESSIVE disease, so it only gets worse, NEVER better.
No one can decide if you are an alcoholic but you - for me it means I couldn\'t say no to drinking (until I could admit I had a problem and needed help to stop and came to and stayed in AA and work the AA program). I think when you have trouble stopping when you think you should (even sometimes) or if when you drink you do things you normally wouldn\'t do. If you have to ask if you are an alcoholic, you probably are, and denial is part of the disease.