Poll: Anyone alcohol dependant ?

How often do you drink?

  • I binge drink and worry about my drinking

    Votes: 34 8.9%

  • I binge drink and don't care

    Votes: 66 17.3%

  • I drink every day and worry about my drinking

    Votes: 21 5.5%

  • I drink every day and don't care

    Votes: 23 6.0%

  • I've had medical problems through drinking and worry about my drinking

    Votes: 1 0.3%

  • I've had medical problems through drinking and don't care

    Votes: 1 0.3%

  • I don't drink / drink rarely.

    Votes: 235 61.7%
  • Total voters
    381
I drink every day. Usually it's a few beers and a dram or two. Though there are plenty of blowouts, fair few cans, bottle of vodka, wine, etc.

Am I dependent? Unsure. I function fine without drink, I just like the stuff.
 
Over the past few months I've found myself going through about 4 cans on most weeknights, and I have started to get a bit concerned about it.

I'm making an effort to stop drinking during the week, and I did well last week but on Monday and last night I went through another 4 pack each night. Not good; I just enjoy chilling out in the evening playing games, watching films, browsing the net, etc. with a beer.
 
Surely 4 cans a night is going to make you pretty podgy pretty quickly right? That's like 1000kcals. :\

:edit: I guess you're likely to be slightly less hungry due to consuming cals through drink, but surely not to the tune of 1000kcals?
 
I haven't had alcohol for over 10 years now, so can safely say im not dependant on it :)

I can see why some people like to unwind with a drink after a stressful day, or use it as an excuse to go out over the weekend, but for me, personally, I don't really like the taste of it.
 
lowrider007 said:
I can actually pinpoint the very day I became depended on alcohol due to a thread I made on here many years ago,

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17637307

It's interesting having it logged, you can see how it all began, the simple act of being stressed in work leading to just 1 tin of beer a night, sounds perfectly innocent, but when I look back at that thread I think even then I must have known I was going down a bad path, the thread was just blatantly asking for peoples permission to drink so I could excuse myself.

My advice is if you feel your becoming depended on alcohol no matter how little you drink then listen to yourself, you are having those feelings for a reason, don't ignore them.
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Did it expand from 1 can a day to more?
 
Ahleckz said:
I drink every day. Usually it's a few beers and a dram or two. Though there are plenty of blowouts, fair few cans, bottle of vodka, wine, etc.

Am I dependent? Unsure. I function fine without drink, I just like the stuff.
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That does sound like quite a lot, I'd drink every day if it were of no consequence but that can't be ideal!

As Zefan said, surely drinking every day is a good way to get... chubby? :o
 
Never really drink myself into a stupor, but on a night out at the weekend I'll drink maybe the equivalent of around 6-8 pints over the course of the night. While I'm aware this counts as binge-drinking I think/hope it isn't overly excessive.

I very rarely touch a drop of alcohol during the week.
 
Nitefly said:
That does sound like quite a lot, I'd drink every day if it were of no consequence but that can't be ideal!

As Zefan said, surely drinking every day is a good way to get... chubby? :o
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Meh. I enjoy it, and I'm not a big fatty. Also, I have liver tests every month or so to make sure my liver is fine because of the medication I have to take. It's totally fine. :)
 
Used to drink most days but now only on a Friday,sat and sunday. Probably 6 bottles of wine between me and the wife over those 3 days.
 
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