I think i'm not an alcoholic but i'm not convinced?

Try not drinking for 3 months and see how you do. What do you have to lose?

Alcoholic convinced he’s not an alcoholic.

No way, like that ever happens 🤣

OP appears to be a troll. Every goddamn week i'm seeing a post that deals with someone who is an alcoholic in denial. Troll harder.

You have a problem it sounds like. Most people black out maybe once or twice a decade. Not normal to do it several times a week. You'll end up dying from this I suspect.

Seriously, how does this make sense in your brain? You just said you think you're an alcoholic, then you say you don't think you are? Dude, do you think you're an alcoholic or not? Pick a side. But it's fine because these posts are obviously bullshit. It's weird how everyone thinks you're actually being serious lol.

if you know what time you hafta be at the liquor store before it closes you might have a problem

if you know what time you hafta be at the liquor store when it opens you definitely got a problem

If it's not to the point where your body becomes dependent on alcohol then you're technically not an alcoholic, but you may have a drinking problem. If you even have to ask if it's a problem then that's a sign to get help.

You need to rethink your self assessment. What you described is the classic alcohol abuser. Call a substance abuse hotline if you still have doubts.

I guess it's nice that you do at least know the difference between needs and wants; lots of people have huge problems with that.

But if you require booze in order to be the person you like to be and to enjoy being alive, then that makes it sound like more of a "need" than a "want" to me.

It's your life, your body and your money, and you're free to do whatever the hell you want with all three. If living a good part of your life in a drunken stupor floats your boat, on you jolly well go. Alcohol is a toxin, and it screws up various organs in all sorts of ways, but if you want to abuse your body by drinking until your blood alcohol level is so high that your brain shuts down, go ahead and do that. If you can't think of anything better than booze to spend your money on, then fine, do that.

You apparently don't fit whatever personal definition you have of alcoholism, and maybe that would apply to how others define it too. But that label is irrelevant. The fact is that you really do not have a healthy, take-it-or-leave-it relationship with alcohol. It is a fact that if you keep this up, you're going to pay for it in various ways. You'll end up looking older than your peers who don't drink a lot. Your organs will end up permanently damaged in various ways, maybe not in a way that directly results in illness or death, but at the very least you won't be as healthy as you would be if you didn't drink at all. And you will have suffered lost opportunities from all the money you've literally pissed away.