Am i turning into an alcoholic?

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Lately, I've been drinking way, way too much mostly out of boredom and it has me a bit concerned. I basically will sometimes just get utterly shitfaced for no reason at all, like a couple times a week but I have been drinking A LOT when I get drunk, like I'll just randomly go to bars on payday and spend like 30 bucks or more sometimes or just randomly kill a fifth and then have some beers when I have nothing really to do. Every party or event I go to, I wind up getting utterly shitfaced and I think it's negatively effecting me socially. I used to get stoned all the time and I stopped that, but now I think I'm basically doing the same thing with drinking. I don't need to drink, but my tolerance has gone up a good bit too which has me concerned. Like nowadays, I can drink like 10 beers in a night and still act relatively sober sometimes.

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  • GinaHead
    9 years ago

    You said it's negatively affecting your social life. That's your answer, right there.

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  • Dulse.
    9 years ago

    You should stop before it's too late. Soon you won't be able to enjoy yourself without it. That would suck.

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  • Theexpandable1
    9 years ago

    Yes your turning into a alcoholic.. I personally don't find alcohol that good of a taste, but some people love it.. Must be acquired taste.. Listen if you drink 4-5 times a week Consistently for months than yeah it becomes the "norm"

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  • DoctorAngelDust
    9 years ago

    Alcoholism is one of the most difficult addictions to diagnose and treat. Drinking is more socially acceptable than say, doing meth, and you will almost always be labeled as an addict when you do drugs regularly rather than drink regularly.

    My advice to you is, if you can, lay off. If you find that you seriously can't live without drinking, then see an MD. I am only licensed as a therapist so I can't really explicitly recommend that you try medication. I'm just not qualified to do that. What I CAN say is that I have had patients who suffered from alcoholism see success with using medications and report that those medications reduced the cravings and the anxiety they feel when they can't access alcohol.

    You probably already know that you have a genetic predisposition to alcoholism but just using that as a basis for my recommendation, I would highly suggest that you avoid alcohol on a regular basis. Drinking is a normal thing to do for adults, but if you don't think that you can restrain yourself from drinking too much, then you really need to avoid it altogether.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      9 years ago

      Your a therapist and your username is doctor angel dust? You know angel dust is probably about the worst shit out there that somebody can take, probably worse than crack even. A therapist probably wouldn't find the stuff funny because it isn't. You can't make jokes about PCP, that shit's too fucked up to be made fun of

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      • DoctorAngelDust
        9 years ago

        Hahaha, it was my semi-affectionate nickname from when I was a drug dealer. PCP is no laughing matter but the nickname and the circumstances of the nickname still crack me up when I think about it. It was what all the old hippies called me.

        Believe me, there are worse things out there than PCP.

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        • Anonymous Post Author
          9 years ago

          Yeah I guess, it isn't addictive or anything really, it just makes a lot of people do really crazy stuff under the influence it seems.

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  • Anonymous Post Author
    9 years ago

    Your all right, I gotta lay off for a good while, I'll mess myself up if I keep drinking like this. Most of my dad's family did, some more severely than others, but my grandfather especially went off the deep end. He basically drank himself into a stupor whenever he could and after years and years he started flipping out on people like a crazy person, yelling at clocks and stuff, conversing with himself, seeing stuff, and basically getting like this almost every time he'd drink. Basically just went loony whenever he'd drink after a while, but kept chugging liquor every night

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    • perfectxsilence
      9 years ago

      My cousin destroyed his liver and died at 39 from his excessive drinking. Please, please try and lay off it as much as possible.

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      • RtF
        9 years ago

        Holy that is young. Was he a 24/7 guy? Just asking because the youngest person in my family to die of alcoholism was 62 and he downed 2 fifths every day since the age of 10. Guess my family must have strong livers.

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        • perfectxsilence
          9 years ago

          Yeah, it is young. From what I can remember, he had 9-10 beers on most days and some days, he'd have a few more so about 12 total. He started drinking heavy at 21 and tried to slow to 5 beers a day for 6 months but couldn't.

          Maybe your family do have strong livers. It's all down luck, really. Like although most smokers get lung cancer or heart attacks as a result of smoking, some never do. Still, 62 is young. That's sad as well!

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    • -_-
      9 years ago

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_uGbckfpCw

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  • realwerewolfgirl3
    9 years ago

    Stop buddy your a grat person please stop I'm baeging you PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE STOP if you like it then just drink on special acashons!

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  • green_boogers
    9 years ago

    You already are an alcoholic. If you get treatment immediately, you may be able to have a normal life in the long run.

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  • -_-
    9 years ago

    Yes, you are.

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