Define An Alcoholic... Am I One?

What definition you want to label yourself with doesn't matter. What matters is the effect your alcohol abuse will have on your health and family. But if the label will inspire you to do something about it, here you go - I think you're an alcoholic. You know it's wrong, it's doing your head in, but you're unable to stop - I think you earn the badge. Important thing is getting whatever help you need to break the cycle which may start with identifying why you feel the need to get wasted two days every weekend. I'd echo drunkenmaster's sentiments - doesn't sound like your family life/marriage can be that happy and unaffected if that's all you do every weekend.

Edit: Sigma beat me to the same sentiment.
 
if you can't get out of the routine you have a dependency.try going to a bonfire with your family tonight and not having a drink, see how you feel.

i will go out and drink to much tonight but wont touch a drop until next saturday. i have stayed in on saturdays before and not touched a drop though it wasn't much fun!
 
I could easily drink more than 8 cans in one sitting, drank 15 bottles of coors not so long ago. Thing with me is, if I know there is more in the fridge I get greedy.

The flip side of this is that I could easily go for weeks without wanting a drink. I know if it wasn't for this bloody broken hip and mountain of meds I would be having a good old game of bf3 and many cold ones tonight.
 
I would say the amount is irrelevant. Try and stop drinking for a month or so, if you can then you're fine. If you can't go a few weekends without a drink you might have a problem.
 
I have just recently started seeing someone because of an alcohol dependency that has grown over the last few years due to my living circumstances and other mental health issues, I drink around 4-6 tins a day, that may not seem like a lot to some and even my Doctor said it wasn't really a serious problem but I know that I can't live without it atm so imo it is a serious problem, one that effects my health and costs money.

I had my first session about a week ago, one on one, but I left feeling quite disheartened, they want to help you stop drinking and give you various ideas as to how you can gradually break the habit but they don't seem to want to deal with why I'm actually drinking in the first place, I have a number of metaphorical thorns in my side that causes me to drink and they expect you to stop drinking while those thorns are still there, there is know way a sane person could deal with the stuff I've had to deal with and am currently dealing with without needing a crutch or some kind.

This is what gets my goat, I asked to see a therapist to help deal with some of the issues I have, issues that lead me to drinking in the first place but they say I'm not allowed to see a regular therapist while I have a dependency to alcohol, you must deal with the alcohol issue first, seems back to front to me.
 
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rz30 said:
Doesn't sound like it to me, i would have thought an alcoholic would drink everyday, waking up to a drink etc...
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Actually you have 2 types of alcoholics

One has to drink every day

The other can go days or a couple of weeks without a drink but once they have just one drink they can't stop and end up legless.
 
Justin said:
Sounds fairly normal to me, 8 cans is a bit excessive, but most people drink at the weekend.
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Aye, most people have a few at weekends. But most people don't knock back 8 cans every Friday and Saturday apparently without other people drinking with them week after week.
 
A real man would drink those 8 cans of Stella then beat the missus for not hoovering properly! Seriously though 8 cans on a Friday and Saturday? That is just a man who enjoys drinking nothing less nothing more.
 
Why do people in this thread think that a person with a alcohol problem drinks to excess and does it everyday, that is not the case.
 
i cant drink wife beater, nasty beer!

if your worried just cut one of the days out, or start doing something on a friday / sat night. i know you have kids, but still.
 
OldCoals said:
Why do people in this thread think that a person with a alcohol problem drinks to excess and does it everyday, that is not the case.
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Quite simply because the vast majority don’t have any knowledge or experience of alcoholics. It’s really not that surprising.
 
Dimple said:
If you were alcoholic you'd be doing it every day and you would NEED it.
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We've been here before this isn't true. Alcoholism is about how alcohol is broken down in your system, a non-alcoholic breaks down alcohol differently to an alcoholic, an alcoholic can go without a drink however when they do have a drink they don't stop until they pass out, this could be days. The trick as said before is not having that one drink in the first place which is why they go to AA as society in this country seems to be centred around alcohol and the meetings give them chance to be with like minded people when the urge to go and have a drink which is normal becomes too strong.

I can go to the pub and have 2 beers and come home happy, an alcoholic could never do that. Look it up, it's all to do with the body breaking down alcohol.
 
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