Giving up Alcohol.. Have you had to do this to save your relationship and your own self?
posted Friday,
11:15 pm
I haven’t been diagnosed as an alcoholic… but when I drink I over do it and cant handle it. It has caused several break ups and big fights between my boyfriend and I. The other night I over drank so much that I blacked out and got very very sick. We are hanging by a string, and we have both decided, and my counselor said, that I shouldn’t drink anymore.
Have you been Thur a similar situation? How did you deal with not drinking anymore when others around you are?
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I don’t think anybody will "diagnose" you as an alcoholic until you believe you are first, and make the decision to do something about it. I am an alcoholic, sober for 5 years, who had to first realize it for myself, before I went on and got help. An alcoholic is someone who has no control over the amount they drink. Period. There are no other valid definitions. There are people who drink daily who are not alcoholics, but people who drink intermittently, and binge every time they do. Control is the difference. If you have to think "why have a drink or two….why not have 9?", you are an alcoholic.
Some people have to lose everything they have to come to this realization, before they do something about it. If you feel you have a problem with your drinking, you probably do. Seek out Alcoholics Anonymous, and go to a local meeting. Listen for a while to people’s stories. Decide for yourself. It saved my life, my marriage and my job.