2007-02-05 20:10:09 · 16 answers · asked by Avsky 3 in Health ➔ Other - Health
Alcoholics: 1. Can go for days, weeks, months, even years without a drink, but when they have the next drink they will be right back to the level of dependency they left off at.
2. Tell themselves they will "only have one", but continue to fill it up, in other words...they can't stop at one drink.
3. Have good jobs, high (or low) IQs, lots of friends, etc.
4. May be chemically dependent or emotionally dependent on having "a drink".
5. Always find a reason to "celebrate" or a social occassion to be at - to have a "justified" reason to drink.
6. DENY that they have a problem. ("I can quit any time")
7. If left to their own devices will move from having three martini's in the evening, to having straight vodka instead.
Alcoholism IS a disease, but a treatable one, if you or someone you love is having a problem get help. "In house" programs are the best approach, and never try to do it alone!!
*Withdrawal from alcohol is very dangerous, it is more dangerous than withdrawal from Heroine. Always consult a professional trained in this area! Hope this helps.
2007-02-05 22:38:14 · answer #1 · answered by tra 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
An alcoholic is someone who drinks alcohol all the time and prefers to be drunk rather than sober. An alcoholic is someone who lets alcohol mess up their lives and refuse to admit the problem. An alcoholic is someone who feels like they cant function properly if they dont have twenty beers, etc. An alcoholic is someone who begins drinking as soon as they wake up, all the way until they go to sleep. Get the point? Sometimes alcoholics can go a couple days without drinking because they want to stop the habit, but they can start drinking again and be right back in the whole. So, I guess, if the person youre talking about used to be an alcoholic and stopped drinking for a few days...they are what is a called "a recovering alcoholic". Good luck.
2007-02-05 20:17:29 · answer #2 · answered by jayfreeze18 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That depends entirely on the circumstances. A person can be an alcoholic and drink every few days or a person can drink everyday and not be an alcoholic at all. It depends on the situation. You can drink everyday and not be an alcoholic if you just have a nice glass of wine with dinner or a drink after work with some friends. You can resist drinking for days at a time and still be an alcoholic if you overindulge on the other days. If you drink at inappropriate times, just for the pleasure of drinking, you might be an alcoholic. For example, if you go to the bar on your lunch break, that's inappropriate... if you're drinking while doing your homework, that's inappropriate. If you go out with your friends on the weekends and drink so much that you don't remember your name or where you are, that's inappropriate. It's all about knowing the limits of what's acceptable and what's not.
During my first week of law school, an attorney named Scott Mote came to speak to us (his lecture is actually required by the Ohio Bar association... you can't take the Bar without going to his lecture). He explained that he thought he was perfectly fine... he'd go out with friends on the weekend and get really drunk, but he was really smart and did well in school and everything, so he thought it didn't matter. But he explains that he was just a functioning alcoholic and there's a lot of people like him. You can do well and succeed and still be an alcoholic if the alcohol controls you during the time that you choose to use it.
There's no reason that you can't go out and have a good time once in a while, but don't make it a way of life. If you're compelled to go out and be drunk out of your mind every weekend, you're an alcoholic even though you get through the week fine. For Mote, the problem was that he didn't know how to stop drinking... every time he started drinking, he'd invaribly get drunk. There's a lot of different ways alcohol can control you from forcing you to drink at all hours of every day, to forcing you to drink at inappropriate times throughout the day, to forcing you to drink more than you should even though you can control yourself not to drink except for certain days. It's all about your circumstances.
2007-02-05 21:06:15 · answer #3 · answered by kmnmiamisax 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There are many different forms of alcoholism and not all of them require you to have a drink before 10:00 every day! The well known organisation "Alcoholics Anonymous" says that there is no such thing as an ex-alcoholic. If you have a tendency towards alcohol abuse, it's not something that you can ever completely be free of... but it is possible to keep it under control at all times. If you find it difficult to control your drinking, you may like to speak to them... there's no shame in it, it's a lot easier to pretend that a problem doesn't exist than confront it and deal with it.
2007-02-05 20:17:54 · answer #4 · answered by Sam G 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Is this question for yourself or someone you care about. I think it really deends on whether alcohol is controlling their life rather than them having a drink every day or so, depends on the persons behaviour and how they react with no alcohol, and the liits to which they drink and would go to for a drink. Check out alcoholics annymous, they have alot of info for families as well.
2007-02-05 20:14:48 · answer #5 · answered by wil petal 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I hate that you're going via this. One piece of advice i will grant you, once you concentration on that you're 12, is to look ahead to an afternoon at the same time as he comes residing sober and tell him that you purely opt to speak to him about what he's doing to himself and the relatives and the way it really is hurting each man or woman including himself. maximum alcoholics do not word that they finally end up to be one better guy or female when they drink and to that end harm those round them with no regard. in case you do this and it does not artwork, then inspect entering into contact with a counselor. many of the time, they're going to propose what you may ought to do. I didnt have an abusive father, regardless of the indisputable fact that, I had about 4 less than the effect of alcohol uncles that i grow to be round distinctive my kids. I comprehend the abuse, no matter if it were verbal or actual. i'm sorry that you're going via this extremely.
2016-12-03 19:09:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can go 40 days and 40 nights during lent and I’m not a practicing catholic. But I am an alcoholic.
2007-02-05 20:15:47 · answer #7 · answered by Joe 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes... some people are only alcoholics on the weekends
2007-02-05 20:16:04 · answer #8 · answered by Czech_Mark 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Addiction is not measured in time; it's measured in dependency. A person that has to have alcohol once a day is addicted. A person that has to have alcohol once a week is also addicted.
2007-02-05 20:22:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I would say no....unless after those few they feel like they have to go out and get Really drunk.....and on those days all they do is think about when will be the next time
2007-02-05 20:21:11 · answer #10 · answered by Chris B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋