The first test when asking yourself if you're an alcoholic is to see if you can take 3 days off. See how that goes?
Have a drink (alcohol) once
Joshua Gonzalez
Jonathan Wright
yup
Asher Garcia
people smoking weed and drinking alcohol are retarded man, i dont get why people dont just eat codeine/trams
Adam Allen
>Alcoholism is an illness
Nah senpai, it's not. The reason they tell you this in AA is to strip you of the responsibility for putting yourself where you are. To be fair, it also makes AA quite effective in the way that it unites everyone against one common enemy - the disease - rather than having the enemy be yourself and your non-existant power of will.
It's an old, outdated way of thinking about addictions. Certain people are genetically predisposed to get addicted to things to a higher degree than others. That doesn't mean that the addiction is a disease. It still comes down to the individuals choice in the matter.
My personal belief is that surrendering personal responsibility isn't helping, but rather worsens the situation, and drastically heighens the probability of a relapse.
>I couldn't help myself, it's a disease
The reason most people drink and, eventually, become alcoholics is to escape their miserable lives. Alcohol makes one feel content during intoxication. It's a coping mechanism for unhappiness.
Jacob Garcia
>Have depressing shit in your life / chemical imbalance that makes you feel depressed
>Drink alcohol and it makes you not care about any of your problems at all (or at least it feels like that)
>Feel even worse the next day so drink again just to feel better
>Continue this for a few days / weeks
>Break the cycle
>One week goes by
>Fucked up addict brain tells you that you can control it this time, why not have a few drinks?
>Repeat initial cycle
>Repeat total cycle once or twice a month
That's kinda how it happened with me. I'm not chemically dependent on alcohol because I force myself to take breaks in which I completely detox.
I feel like I'm psychologically dependent on alcohol though because I can't deal with any kind of emotion without alcohol any more. I took a month off of drinking recently and I was crying at fucking everything.