Can they go a week without drinking out of choice?
Can they “quit any time they like” but make the “choice” to drink alcohol?
If the answer to the first question is no or the answer to the second question is yes or both then they have a problem.
It’s a serious problem when it impairs functionality, or, more importantly, when loved ones get angry, agitated, or violent when alcohol is taken away.
When their liver approaches strangers on the street begging them to harvest and transplant it in their bodies.
I had a formal friend that drinks vodka on a daily basis. He always wants me to drink with him. I didn’t minded it at first till it became too much.
He tends to be a very emotional everytime he drinks. He puts me down for any reason, almost always talks about his problems about his past and he even one time try to commit suicide by taking a lot of sleeping pills while wash it down with his vodka. Luckily he didn’t died.
I feel like a horrible person for cutting him out of my life but he was too toxic for me to continue our friendship at that point.
He’s the reason why I almost became an alcoholic. I rarely drink vodka anymore, especially alone. I now moderate my drinking anytime I go out drinking with friends or coworkers.
Everyone has problems in their life but alcohol only amplified those negative thoughts, especially alone. I had to learned that the hard way.
People who drink every single day, who cannot go anywhere or do things if they cannot be positively assured there will be a drink there waiting for them. I know that I’m now going to hear from some that they have one or two drinks everyday and they’re fine and certainly not alcoholics…well here’s the question for you: when those occasions arise that you can’t have your daily drink how much do you dwell on it, how much does it bother you? I’m no teetotler and we have friends who definitely are alcoholics or working on it and they look at me with incredulity when I tell them that yes I can in fact go weeks, sometimes months without having or even thinking about having a drink. It the very thought of that fills you with dread you need to take a good hard look at yourself.