2007-06-23 07:43:20 · 12 answers · asked by Jacks036 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Yes. Several. Seriously. They are -all- highly functioning, smart, successful, charming people. They -all- hold jobs, excel in their respective fields, and -I have no idea how! This seems to be a self-medicating retreat for them all. Some of them have stopped drinking. (Actually, all but one-I've lost track of him, so I don't know; but I seriously doubt he's quit...) One of them is my closest friend-I knew he drank on weekends, (not during the week) but I had NO idea he was/is (his diagnosis; not mine) an achoholic until he told me he had joined AA. (It was the '70s; we were all twenty-something; EVERYone drank to one extent or another...) I personally stopped drinking when I discovered that (bad) drunks are VERY annoying to me; I decided I might-just might...}:> be annoying also, when drunk...(I am certainly annoying when sober; I just thought I'd do myself and my friends a favor...) One friend told me the first time I went out with him that he's an alcoholic-he wasn't kidding...He grew up in a family where BOTH his parents were alcoholics-He is the oldest of 13 children; all but one of them is an alcoholic. (wow) Gary began drinking at the age of eight years. He says that until the first time he slept over at a friend's house,(he was 12-13 years old then); he honestly didn't know that EVERYone didn't get up and have a six-pack for breakfast. -Again; WOW! While we were together he went into rehab- his Dr. told him that in his case it is a genetic allergy and inherited- Some tribes of Native Americans have this allergy. One drink= instant addict. (Also wow.) All of these people are "drunks" in the sense of being addicted to alcohol; none of them are "drunks" in the sense of falling-down-stupified. I am assuming that the reasons they drank were as many as the drinkers themselves... It is a sad serious mystifying problem. These people were able to help themselves get help. So many are not/do not. Good luck with your situation. My experience has led me to suspect that many, many more people that we come into contact with -every day! are in this same situation. We just don't know it.
2007-06-23 08:34:29 · answer #1 · answered by Ja'aj };> 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sure! I was a drunk the year after my divorce. I used to work, get off, go to a bar immediately and stay until closing every night. I didn't get more than 3 hours sleep per night that entire year and I rarely ate anything. That qualifies as being a drunk, I'd say. But I wasn't a bum. I never missed work.
2007-06-23 14:48:53 · answer #2 · answered by Candidus 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe the term is "functioning alcoholic" I know several. They go to work every day, just like the rest of us, but are lonely and sad, so they sit in a bar/at home and drink the night away.
2007-06-23 14:51:07 · answer #3 · answered by kriend 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes, I do. they drink to much, sober up and always go to work the next day. pay their bills and keep a roof over their familys heads. Just drink to much.
2007-06-23 14:54:02 · answer #4 · answered by fuzzykitty 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I used to have a teacher who was a hard core alcoholic. I really do believe it's a disease and they can't help it.
2007-06-23 14:47:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yea I do know someone like that
2007-06-23 14:46:36 · answer #6 · answered by ♥Sabre♥ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No to both
2007-06-23 14:47:24 · answer #7 · answered by Nico 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah i know someone
2007-06-23 14:46:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, several
2007-06-23 14:46:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
huh?
2007-06-23 15:08:55 · answer #10 · answered by Icey 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋