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Never drink more than enough...
also i hear the church frowns on sodomy
Then what would the church give out after Sunday morning mass if we use up all the stale donuts?
Traveling for business always makes me look like a lush at the hotel bar
. So what? It's my life
Rev.
Do you go to AA meetings? or are you court ordered to so? if so, you may be an alcoholic...
I tend to drink 1-3 beers a night on weeknights, a couple more on weekends. I feel like I'm pushing it slightly on the alcohol consumption, so I'm looking to brew more low ABV session beers, so I can enjoy my beverage of choice while keeping the total alcohol lower. I wanna be able to have my three beers a night and still keep my girlish figure and my liver happy.
I consult this site to figure out how to brew better beer. I am on it every day.
When I start reading I want to reach for a beer. Even though I say I won't I end up having one in my hand and drinking it!
I consult this site to figure out how to brew better beer. I am on it every day.
When I start reading I want to reach for a beer. Even though I say I won't I end up having one in my hand and drinking it!
No, you have OCD.
Some key factors in determining if you are an alcoholic are:
1) Can you stop drinking alcohol before you are completely wasted? Do you keep drinking alcohol until it is all gone? In other words, do you have voluntary control over your alcohol consumption? If you do control how much you drink, that is a huge point in favor of not being alcoholic.
2) Is the amount of alcohol you drink having a negative effect on your life? Are you missing work or school due to hang-overs? Do you plan your activities around drinking opportunities? Are you being isolated from your family by being drunk or hung-over? In other words, is drinking alcohol becoming the most important thing in your life?
3) Do you drink alcohol at inappropriate times? Are you drinking while alone with your young children? Drinking and driving? Drinking at work? This shows an increasing disregard for your own safety, and that of others.
If any of these factors are present, then you are strongly at risk of a problem. If two factors are present then you do have a problem.
In my experience as a counselor, people with the self-awareness to ask such questions as you are asking rarely get into deep trouble, since they can see where they are going. Most alcoholics have an extraordinary capacity for self-delusion and denial and therefore never figure out what is happening to them until things are far out of control.
If you really want to know if you are an alcoholic, or at risk, you might ask those around you what their impression is. But since you are concerned about your own behavior, and since you admit to being a little out of control with the drinking, i.e. saying that you don't want to have a beer but having one anyway, that would be enough for me to say to chill out on the alcohol for some time and figure out what is going on and what role you want alcohol to play in your life.
Take care.
I don't drink unless I'm alone or with somebody.
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