define "alcoholic" for me please without using a dictionary. i want your definition.
>>767345620
Someone who can't get through a single day without hitting the sauce.
>>767345620
Containing alcohol
>>767345745
cheeki breeki
>>767345620
an alcohol
>>767345620
This photo is from a hospital in my city. Holy shit. I go there a lot.
If you shake when you don't drink. That's about it.
You just need a better coping mechanism if you drink all the time.
You're an alcoholic if it's affecting your nervous system.
I define it as anyone who drinks a 1/5th or more per day and generally can't function without it. I have 2 24s a day and am light years away from alcoholism.
someone who is dependent on alcohol in order to function.
Someone who is powerless over alcohol, whose life has become unmanageable
>>767345620
Do your own retard-level homework.
>>767345620
alcoholic, n. - OP's mom.
>>767346123
You'll get there
Drinky drinky dead
>>767346294
Just stopped by to say AA is a cult.
>>767346966
>dubs of truth
how so?
Needs alcohol to feel normal
>>767345620
you're not an alcoholic until you're 26. after that its not reasonable to get drunk on a weekday and you can't drink for more than 2 days consecutively. Also you can't get blackout anymore
>>767347044
It makes people dependant on sponsors and meetings, worshipping the god of sobriety.
>>767345620
Drunks know what time the liquor store closes, alcoholics know what time it opens.
Does your repeated consumption negatively affect your job, your social life or your overall achievement of your life goals?
In your honest estimation would limiting or eliminating alcohol from your daily routine improve your situation?
Are you addicted? When you go out or if you have a drink at home can you really, truely limit yourself to an amount of your choosing? Or do you end up saying to yourself "fuck it, what could one more hurt?"
>>767347342
wow. that's the type of answer i was looking for
>>767347706
Quoting myself here,
For me, alcohol was added empty calories in my day that I did not need. I would wake up dehydrated and in turn I would use that as an excuse to not go to the gym.
Not to mention it's money that I didn't NEED to be spending.
So from the health and financial standpoint I decided that I didn't need alcohol in my life. I haven't had any withdrawal symptoms or any strong cravings so I don't believe I was addicted. I was able to go out with friends and have 1 drink at a bar without and I'll affects.
Me
>>767347118
so if i went to the doctor and said i need alcohol to feel good otherwise i feel awful, i would diagnosed alcoholic?
someone who drinks to get rid of a hangover
If when you drink you cant control how much you drink.
Also, non-alcoholics probably dont sit around wondering if theyre alcholics.
>>767345620
Unable to go 72 hours without consumption of alcohol and/or unable to stop consuming alcohol prior to vomiting or becoming incoherent.
>If you're asking, I guarantee you qualify.
Drinking more then 10000 standards your entire life.
To be fair, smoking more then 50kgs of pot in your life likewise,
Or smoking more then 1000 cigarettes in your life.
>>767348392
Depends on the person though. I'd give away whatever's remaining of my alch and cigs for weighted pot equivalent in a new York minute. Probably still got about 120kg of pot left. Good life.
>>767345620
Having been unable to end your drinking habits, regardless of how willing/wanting you are; we admitted we were powerless over our addiction and our lives had become unmanageable.
>>767345620
Never saying no to any booze, no matter day or time
>>767347221
Bump
It's very simple:
If you can go one week without alcohol, you are not an alcoholic. If you cannot go a week without alcohol, you are an alcoholic.
Honestly, try this. It is the simplest test around.
>>767345620
Sit down, drank, stand up, drank
Pass out, drank, wake up, drank
>>767345620
def for 'active alcoholic' and 'early sobriety alcoholic'
anyone for whom the response to any life problem is to think of having a drink of alcohol, whether they drink or not.
>>767346123
>>767346123
>two 24s a day
>not an alcoholic
sure kid