Define An Alcoholic... Am I One?

No, nothing wrong with drinking at the weekend or when you are off work but

If you have to ask, then you feel their is something wrong, 16 cans over 2 days and every weekend is would be considering a binge. Plus you are putting away 3500 calories a weekend by drinking stella.

franco_22 said:
Indeed, only scum drink from cans.
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You're obviously not a fully fledged alcoholic, but if your drinking is concerning you then you seriously need to take a break.

If you can't not drink then you have a problem, just give it a go for a fortnight, and then if you decide to have a few beers, get less and in smaller quantities.
 
8 cans? Jaysus mate. In all honesty, that's probably a fatal amount for me.

I'd say for the sake of your health, try to stop drinking on Friday or Saturday. After some time on the lash you need to give yourself a couple of days to recover.
 
See a GP before cutting the booze out completely if you genuinely drink a lot. I know Amy Winehouse probably brought it to the front pages but your body won't thank you if you go cold turkey as a heavy drinker.
 
8 cans of stella does not = alcoholic.

I'll have easily 5-6+ before going out, then drinking my way through whatever cash is in my sky rocket.
 
albert said:
I know i drink too much. Fact.

On a Friday night I'll have 8 cans of Stella. On a Saturday night I'll have 8 cans of Stella. I can't get out of this routine, it's the weekend. It happens every weekend.

I''m happily married with two daughters 6 and 8 and my drinking binges do not interfere with their lives whatsoever, on my days off we go for days out and have a great time , but when they go to bed .....

It hasn't affected my family life. It hasn't affected my job , but i do binge drink at the weekends and it's doing my head in .....
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Personally i would be concerned about driving on the Saturday and Sunday, if your drinking 24 units on Friday night then the same Saturday night you run the risk of being over the drink drive limit for practically the whole weekend.
 
God, modern society, anything deemed not normal, by usually arbitrarily anal people who are "below" normal anyway, is somehow wrong.

Most "alcoholics" don't have a problem with alcohol, they have a problem, and they use alcohol to hide from it. It's rarely dealing with the alcohol intake, but talking about their actual problem that helps them reduce/cut out drinking.

But people can't ask for help, its a universal thing, we don't talk about what troubles us, society makes up a new problem, that's somewhat socially acceptable, to enable people to get together to talk about their problems and "get better".

IE, your average guy at work is seriously depressed but wouldn't ever talk to friends/co-workers about it, nor go to group therapy. Same guy drinks to get away from his depression, becomes alcoholic, and its almost completely socially acceptable to go to "group therapy" under the guise of AA, and talk about all the same problems, and feel better but still pretend its not depression or whatever else they are really fixing.

Society is so ****** up and stupid.

To the op, several things jump out from what you said, your apparent heavy drinking doesn't effect you daughters at all, or your wife? How and why not, what are you doing on friday/saturday nights, are you drinking at home because you are bored, unhappy, have nothing better to do? Why aren't you going out with the wife with a few friends for , a meal, the cinema, whatever else?

The statements seem completely contradictory, in your downtime starting friday night, you get hammered and it doesn't effect anyone in your family, this only says, you aren't spending friday and saturday nights with your family, and probably hangovers may be an excuse to sleep in and also not spend much time with them on sat/sunday. None of that screams happy, most of that screams hiding and not spending time with them, or simply being bored and being in a rut of doing nothing either with your friends or with your family on those nights.
 
I don't drink in the week as I don't like feeling tired at work, but I can eaasily consume a litre of vodka on the weekend if staying in and gaming.

I do not think that is a problem as I can easily go without if I am doing something with the missues etc. I just like getting drunk on good vodka.
 
My old man was exactly the same - 8 cans of stella on Friday and Saturdays. My mother left him because he just sat there drinking, thinking everything was alright.

Let me give you a fact albert; your daughters likely thinks you're a ***** and this will get worse when they grow older. Your drinking affects everyone else deeply and you don't know it. I'm speaking from personal experience here of having a father who just sat his sorry arse down drinking and watching the telly thinking it does no harm.

Cut it out or lose everything.
 
Does your wife drink with you? I'm guessing she doesn't. I'd also be very concerned about your daughters seeing you drink. 16 cans of strong lager in 48 hours every weekend sounds like a dependency forming. Thus I'd do a reality check and give up the booze for a while and talk to your wife. The "happily married" statement could be in your mind.

I've seen people in your situation thinking all is well and they've had the rug
Ulled from under them and their lives ruined. Drinking socially and in moderation is fine, I enjoy a few pints of real ale, but your drinking isn't in moderation.
 
Have you considered at least trying to scale back the amount you drink? Maybe next weekend only drink 6 cans each night. And the weekend after that only drink 5. And so on.
 
There shouldn't be a need to consider, am I an alcoholic, am I this, am I that.

It either is a problem or it isn't.

The fact that this thread has been started would suggest that it is a problem. I would start by speaking to someone about it, namely your wife!

I get the feeling that some of the comments on here are suggesting that because you're not technically an alcoholic then it's fine - this is so wrong.
 
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