Comments on: How To Find Out If I Need To Cut Down On My Alcohol Drinking http://www.recoveryconnection.org/blog/2007/01/how-to-find-out-if-i-need-to-cut-down-on-my-alcohol-drinking/ Addiction treatment, drug rehab, substance abuse prevention, sober living information and much more! Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:22:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: vikki http://www.recoveryconnection.org/blog/2007/01/how-to-find-out-if-i-need-to-cut-down-on-my-alcohol-drinking/comment-page-1/#comment-1477 vikki Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:27:24 +0000 http://www.recoveryconnection.org/blog/2007/01/how-to-find-out-if-i-need-to-cut-down-on-my-alcohol-drinking/#comment-1477 Well it all sounds like good ideas to me and I do want help but I don't want to quit drinking all together and I know that is what everyone thinks I should do but its not that easy. Plus does AA cost money because my mom supports me and I can't tell her I have a drinking problem...she doesn't even know I drink. I know I have the stregnth to quit its just a matter of when I feel ready to make the decision. I don't drink and drive or anything like that so the only person I'm hurting is myself. Well it all sounds like good ideas to me and I do want help but I don’t want to quit drinking all together and I know that is what everyone thinks I should do but its not that easy. Plus does AA cost money because my mom supports me and I can’t tell her I have a drinking problem…she doesn’t even know I drink. I know I have the stregnth to quit its just a matter of when I feel ready to make the decision. I don’t drink and drive or anything like that so the only person I’m hurting is myself.

]]> By: Frank http://www.recoveryconnection.org/blog/2007/01/how-to-find-out-if-i-need-to-cut-down-on-my-alcohol-drinking/comment-page-1/#comment-1476 Frank Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:25:19 +0000 http://www.recoveryconnection.org/blog/2007/01/how-to-find-out-if-i-need-to-cut-down-on-my-alcohol-drinking/#comment-1476 In my opinion, having once been a heavy drinker myself (read: alcoholic), you are an alcoholic already by your own words because you: Make resolutions to stop, but don't Panic when no alcohol is available Have blackouts - a very dangerous phenomena Use alcohol as a social crutch Admit you can't drink in moderation Fear the future Next year? Worse than this year. And even worse the year after that; and the one after that, and the one after that, and so on until you have lost everything, including your self-respect for the many things you will have lowered yourself to do in order to obtain alcohol. There are more features to alcoholism than are presented in the above list. But don't worry, you will eventually experience them all. And when you do you will be at the very bottom of a very deep, very dark pit with UP the only place to go because you will have sunk to the very bottom of human existence. I suggest you rent the movie "The Days of Wine and Roses" and also get yourself to an AA meeting. You don't have to say anything there, or even to admit you're an alcoholic. Just go and listen. I believe if you do this, you will discover a place where no sane person wants to go. You have the strength inside you to emerge victorious from this confrontation with your demons. I do hope you can find it. In my opinion, having once been a heavy drinker myself (read: alcoholic), you are an alcoholic already by your own words because you:

Make resolutions to stop, but don’t
Panic when no alcohol is available
Have blackouts - a very dangerous phenomena
Use alcohol as a social crutch
Admit you can’t drink in moderation
Fear the future

Next year? Worse than this year. And even worse the year after that; and the one after that, and the one after that, and so on until you have lost everything, including your self-respect for the many things you will have lowered yourself to do in order to obtain alcohol.

There are more features to alcoholism than are presented in the above list. But don’t worry, you will eventually experience them all. And when you do you will be at the very bottom of a very deep, very dark pit with UP the only place to go because you will have sunk to the very bottom of human existence.

I suggest you rent the movie “The Days of Wine and Roses” and also get yourself to an AA meeting. You don’t have to say anything there, or even to admit you’re an alcoholic. Just go and listen. I believe if you do this, you will discover a place where no sane person wants to go. You have the strength inside you to emerge victorious from this confrontation with your demons. I do hope you can find it.

]]> By: Elaine http://www.recoveryconnection.org/blog/2007/01/how-to-find-out-if-i-need-to-cut-down-on-my-alcohol-drinking/comment-page-1/#comment-1475 Elaine Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:23:06 +0000 http://www.recoveryconnection.org/blog/2007/01/how-to-find-out-if-i-need-to-cut-down-on-my-alcohol-drinking/#comment-1475 Dear Vikki: I do believe you have a problem with Alcohol. Having "Black Outs" is one of the most common problems Alcoholics have. I have been in the AA Program for over 8 and 1/2 years now. I never drank to be social. I always drank to get drunk. Has your drinking caused you problems with family, your job, or school? If so, I do hope you contact your local AA in the white pages of the telephone book. They will be able to help you and yes dependence upon Alcohol is part of the Disease. There is help if you sincerely want it. Good luck in your venture. It is never to young or to old to be Alcoholic. Sincerely, Elaine, a fellow Alcoholic. Dear Vikki:

I do believe you have a problem with Alcohol. Having “Black Outs” is one of the most common problems Alcoholics have. I have been in the AA Program for over 8 and 1/2 years now. I never drank to be social. I always drank to get drunk. Has your drinking caused you problems with family, your job, or school? If so, I do hope you contact your local AA in the white pages of the telephone book. They will be able to help you and yes dependence upon Alcohol is part of the Disease. There is help if you sincerely want it. Good luck in your venture. It is never to young or to old to be Alcoholic.

Sincerely,

Elaine, a fellow Alcoholic.

]]> By: vikki http://www.recoveryconnection.org/blog/2007/01/how-to-find-out-if-i-need-to-cut-down-on-my-alcohol-drinking/comment-page-1/#comment-1473 vikki Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:19:30 +0000 http://www.recoveryconnection.org/blog/2007/01/how-to-find-out-if-i-need-to-cut-down-on-my-alcohol-drinking/#comment-1473 I am a 20 year old and I'm 5'6" weigh 100lbs and I have become a bottomless pit when it comes to drinking. I made a deal with myself not to drink anymore during the weak because everytime I start drinking I drink until either the beer is gone or I just get tired and go to bed. I have literally drank 18-20 beers a night without even "feeling" intoxicated. If I run out of beer before I get tired I get furious and panic trying to find more. Sometimes I have black outs and can't remember parts of conversations when I drink. If I feel uncomfortable in a class or social situation, alcohol is where I turn. I don't want to quit all together but I also cant drink in moderation. I'm not even old enough to buy my own alcohol yet.. so I can imagine what next year will bring. Do you think its possible I might be or become an alcoholic or just dependent? I am a 20 year old and I’m 5′6″ weigh 100lbs and I have become a bottomless pit when it comes to drinking. I made a deal with myself not to drink anymore during the weak because everytime I start drinking I drink until either the beer is gone or I just get tired and go to bed. I have literally drank 18-20 beers a night without even “feeling” intoxicated. If I run out of beer before I get tired I get furious and panic trying to find more. Sometimes I have black outs and can’t remember parts of conversations when I drink. If I feel uncomfortable in a class or social situation, alcohol is where I turn. I don’t want to quit all together but I also cant drink in moderation. I’m not even old enough to buy my own alcohol yet.. so I can imagine what next year will bring. Do you think its possible I might be or become an alcoholic or just dependent?

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