who here has been drinking recently?

yummy. one of my favs

 

I agree and disagree at the same time. The biggest factor is the individual. Iv read quite a few posts here saying of you do blah blah blah your an alcoholic. And in some cases it may be true. In others, it's not.

Iv said it before. I drink almost daily. Beer. I enjoy beer. Brew my own beer. It's usually 1-2 a night, sometimes 3 but usually not. Now i respect allot of the guys here and there opinions/life experiences. According to what others have said here, if be considered an alcoholic. So i started thinking about it. Am i being delusional or am i in denial? I came to the conclusion that no I'm not, and im not an alcoholic either.

Look at what you said about people who drink everyday. Not even close to true for me. I stay away from liquor even though there's usually a few bottles in the cabinet that rarely get touched. If i run out of beer, i don't grab the liquor to get my fix. If I'm to tired after work to stop and get beer, i don't get it. And you know what? I Don't sit there craving it or wanting it or even thinking about it. I just drink water and am completely happy and content with it. Not even a thought in my brain that id rather have a beer.

Now that's me. Someone else who drinks the same as me may crave it if they dont have it. Maybe. Depends on the person.

I realize its a touchy subject. Allot of people have had there own problems or loved ones with substance abuse....as have I. But people need to stop generalizing no matter how against something you are

 

Bassmon, if you are able to stop at 2 or 3 then you are not an alcoholic. Now an alcoholic is my neighbor. He drinks from the minute he wakes up to when he sleeps. Always has a beer in his car and sneaks alcohol at work. In those rare moments he is sober he is frantic to get to the store if out. And the worst thing is that he has heart failure and won't quit. He is 60 and looks 85.

 

Exactly. My moms an alcoholic. Although a pretty damn good functioning alcoholic. Doesn't drink at work or anything like that. But after work and on the weekends she drinks. But she doesn't stop till she passes out. Even once she's nice and wasted, she don't stop. I consider that any alcoholic.

 

Heineken??!!?? Fock that sh!t!!! PABST BLUE RIBBON!

Moderation is key. I overindulged way too much when I was younger and learned my lessons the hard way.
I admire my pops now, he was a bad drinker in the day but has changed dramatically. His favorite pastime is making moonshine from grapes, and he's damn good. We owned a big chunk of property close to Temecula and he grew grapes, not for wine, but for the still. It would be a nightmare sometimes visiting because we would spend up to ten hours in the damn desert cooking up his sh!t. Even the meth cooks looked at us like we were nuts. And my dad would barely try his product, he just liked to make it and watch people who like that stuff light up when he busted out a bottle. He knew how to control the proof by controlling the temps, ect.. I'm just home from work, wouldn't mind a tumbler right now.

 

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt

 

what I refer to as the term "alcoholic" is someone who is dependant on alcohol.

just because u drink everyday doesn't mean ur an alcoholic lol,some might argue.if u can function daily without a buzz then u are normal I guess

 

I surf I work I get ****ed up. Keep the preachers on the beache.

 

It's not the drinking that's bad, all humans drink. It's what your drinking and for what reason that matters. You have to ask, do you feel protective of your drinking? Do you get defensive if someone says your drinking too much? Alcoholism reminds me a lot of liberal progressivism. It can't survive on its own in the real world in the light of day. It needs to be protected from conflicting views and silence like political correctness is used to stifle dissent. So ask yourself this, do you hide your drinking? Do you use emotion to get others to back off the subject. Do you hide behind that emotional wall that you built by scaring others away that wanted to breach it? Or do you surround yourself with drinkers to mask the problem.

That said of course there are people that can handle it, but many more that cannot and it ruins so many lives. I actually believe weed is a far less destructive drug than alcohol. Alcohol ingratiates itself into a biological need and rewires your brain. At the very least smoking pot is an unnatural act and has to be deliberate to make it happen.

 

Over the past month or so, at least going back to Bubs' thread, there's been fair amount of interest on this topic.
Labels and definitions, rationalizations, drink counting and other forms of hair splitting aside, if you think honestly to yourself that you might have a drinking problem, then you very likely do.

 

Pretty interesting. To your point my neighbor gets pissed when others won't drink, even if it is 8am. And he always rationalizes it. Will drink when the Red Sox win, when they lose to make it better, will drink to celebrate the doctor telling him his heart failure hasn't gotten worse in the last couple months. Everday he gets wasted it is tied to some made up thing to celebrate.

 

You either got the gene, or you don't.

Look at your family history, and be reasonable about the risk.

 

I like the taste of beer probably too much also like to "cut loose" every now and then. Not ashamed or proud (today)

 

If you're not drinking solo now, you will be soon.

You'll lose interest in your gf (sex), and eventually she will bail, either through cheating or her telling you, in the rare event that she's a great gal, that you no haven't met her sexual needs in a long time. You'll blame this event on her character defects & 'she doesn't understand me.'

 

Above all else
DO NOT DRINK and DRIVE..