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I enjoy beer myself. I think what determines whether you are an alcoholic is the level of your addiction. If your life revolves around your habit or if you can’t drink for some reason, how does it effect you? If every picture ever taken of you has you holding a beer, maybe that’s a clue.
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Poinsetta
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We are not responsible for our disease, but we are responsible for our recovery.
To help you decide whether you might have a problem with your own drinking, AA prepared these 12 questions:
questions, maybe it’s time you took a serious look at what your drinking might be doing to you.
https://alcoholics-anonymous.eu/meetings/
To help you decide whether you might have a problem with your own drinking, AA prepared these 12 questions:
- Do you drink because you have problems? To face up to stressful situations?
- Do you drink when you get mad at other people, your friends or parents?
- Do you often prefer to drink alone, rather than with others?
- Are you starting to get low marks? Are you skiving off work?
- Do you ever try to stop or drink less – and fail?
- Have you begun to drink in the morning, before school or work?
- Do you gulp your drinks as if to satisfy a great thirst?
- Do you ever have loss of memory due to your drinking?
- Do you avoid being honest with others about your drinking?
- Do you ever get into trouble when you are drinking?
- Do you often get drunk when you drink, even when you do not mean to?
questions, maybe it’s time you took a serious look at what your drinking might be doing to you.
https://alcoholics-anonymous.eu/meetings/
we. all, have fallen short. I dont judge you. Most people would be horrified at the things ive done.
Drinkin being one of the least.
Drinkin being one of the least.
I hear you brother. Those whose sin debt was massive have more to be thankful about because of Christ’s sacrifice. I am counted among the most thankful.
I would say two beers should be enough.. But again that depends on if you are a small person or a large person..
I would also test yourself and go without any alcohol for two weeks.. If you can do that without any withdrawal troubles then that means you are not addicted to alcohol..
A recovered alcoholic would call that being a drunk
The difference being:Alcoholics have dealt with their drinking problem. Drunks have not.
My name is Magenta, and I am a recovered alcoholic. I have not had a drink for many years.
My name is Magenta, and I am a recovered addict. I have not used drugs for over eight years.
Alcohol is a drug. I first got clean after crying out to God for help over 24 years ago.
I'm praying that God will surround you with His infinite love, give you wisdom and guidance, Umzza.
I'm responding directly to your first question before I read any responses.
2 beers an hour or 3 in 2 hours is near the threshold of being under the influence in most states, which is a nice way of saying being drunk. Escalating tolerance is an early warning sign of addiction. Alcohol is a drug and alcoholism is an old fashioned term for alcohol addiction.
Alcoholism is a disease. Don't let anybody tell you different. I'm not saying you are an alcoholic but you're on the wrong path if you are becoming one. It's a comorbid metabolic and mental illness, as in 2 lesser diseases that become a 3rd disease worse than the two put together.
Drinking alcohol beverages is not a sin but getting drunk is. Being a drunkard is a bad habit to have and being an alcoholic is a sickness you may acquire through practice and or genetics and or by self medication aimed at relieving emotional destress/mental illness.
The safest thing to do is quit if you can, while you can. Getting help is always a good idea. If you are beyond the point of self control getting help to overcome is necessary. Self will and stubbornness fails 99% of the time. There are many Christians who have dealt with these issues and are overcoming. I use that worded guardedly because contrary to some popular belief once occasional drunkenness crosses over into alcoholism the bridge has burned down. WE CAN'T GO BACK. Even an occasional beer or champagne flute is enough to trigger a full blown relapse. We are addicted to something toxic that causes mental illness resulting in a craving for something we are allergic to. Good intentions usually fail and relapse is more common than lifetime recovery. Abstince is the goal and preferable method and relapse is another symptom. Just another sin to repent (turn away from).
There is help. The Lord understands better than we do. The first 3 steps in a nut shell are accepting the FACT that we have a problem beyond self control. Realizing God has the power to save us from this often fatal disease and seeking his help most of all.
Celebrate Recovery was not designed for what we call "normies" (normal people) and it is not a substitute for regular fellowship. It is a Christian version of the more common step programs focused upon Faith above all else. Work and fellowship go hand in hand. Others are recovering from the same and otherwise similar diseases there. Putting Christ at the center of recovery first for Christians is several leaps ahead of the agnostic 12 step programs.
They will try and sell you some books and take a collection. It costs money to run a program just like it cost money to drink. You might consider participating in your own recovery and give them some of the money you would otherwise had spent on beer or whatever.
The wise builder built his home on a rock. Recovery is your new home and Jesus is the rock on which to build. That's my two cents worth. Grace be with you.