You know you are an active alcoholic if.......
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Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: Adelaide, Australia
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When you take the cask wine bladder out of the cardboard out at the bottle shop at the front counter. No one gives a sh.t, you live there anyway. Careful planning means that getting the bladder in the backpack needs padding around it- to muffle the sound when you refill your coke can in public- also so it does not burst. It is also important to you to make sure the spigot is carefully aligned so you can get the wine into the coke can without having to make the back pack look weird. Of course you go into the public toilet first (disabled- more room ,privacy and no one can hear you) to organise the bladder. Plus you can have some predrinks before filling up the can so you time every thing just right.
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Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Maine
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(when you're a weekend warrior)
It's Monday and you're already anxious for Friday to get here so you can drink.
You plan and invite everyone to Happy Hour acting like it's so you can see everyone when it's really just to create an "event" so you can drink.
At that Happy Hour, after a few drinks most friends will be declining when the waitress comes to see if more beverages are needed. You, however, order another and will be looking for those who do the same and planning how you can get them to stay when everyone starts leaving. This is up to and including siding up to them and whispering that you need someone to talk to and give them some excuse as to why, making it as dramatic as necessary to secure that they'll stay. Slight tears are helpful. Of course, none of this is really about needing someone to talk to, it's about needing someone to DRINK with.
(ugh: I look at the above and realize just how deeply selfish I was when I was actively drinking) So thankful that's not me anymore.
It's Monday and you're already anxious for Friday to get here so you can drink.
You plan and invite everyone to Happy Hour acting like it's so you can see everyone when it's really just to create an "event" so you can drink.
At that Happy Hour, after a few drinks most friends will be declining when the waitress comes to see if more beverages are needed. You, however, order another and will be looking for those who do the same and planning how you can get them to stay when everyone starts leaving. This is up to and including siding up to them and whispering that you need someone to talk to and give them some excuse as to why, making it as dramatic as necessary to secure that they'll stay. Slight tears are helpful. Of course, none of this is really about needing someone to talk to, it's about needing someone to DRINK with.
(ugh: I look at the above and realize just how deeply selfish I was when I was actively drinking) So thankful that's not me anymore.
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Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: New England
Posts: 155
When you are at one of the liquor stores you rotate and enter your pin # wrong and after three tries (because you're drunk), your bank locks your account. The cashier actually offers to give you an IOU because "you're here EVERYDAY and we know you'll come in tomorrow and pay us"...
After I sobered up, I was mortified remembering this. However, on that drunk day at the liquor store, I was grateful that they were so trusting. I didn't even think about WHAT she was implying at the time...
After I sobered up, I was mortified remembering this. However, on that drunk day at the liquor store, I was grateful that they were so trusting. I didn't even think about WHAT she was implying at the time...
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Keeping one bottle in the fridge, which stashing 3 others so your GF doesn't see it
Saying you're "getting another beer" from the fridge, then sneak in a shot or two while you are there
Contemplating a far drive to the next county because the bars are open an extra hour
Calling every bar in the area to see if they have package booze at 1am because the liquor stores are closed
Making out with ugly girls
Running out of money so you scour the house looking for, and buying booze with change
Standing in line at 7am at the convenience store holding a 6-pack, while everyone else has coffee.
Saying you're "getting another beer" from the fridge, then sneak in a shot or two while you are there
Contemplating a far drive to the next county because the bars are open an extra hour
Calling every bar in the area to see if they have package booze at 1am because the liquor stores are closed
Making out with ugly girls
Running out of money so you scour the house looking for, and buying booze with change
Standing in line at 7am at the convenience store holding a 6-pack, while everyone else has coffee.
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Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: Adelaide, Australia
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when you go to an addiction specialist and knowing 'how it works' tell them everything they want to hear. Then getting affirmation that alcoholism is very difficult and receiving sympathy and confirmation that you are trying (what more can I do?) so you can give your partner a glowing statement to string them along- while justifying buying more alcohol because you have had a good day- and home is once again a safe place to drink.
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Originally Posted by PhoenixJ 
when you go to an addiction specialist and knowing 'how it works' tell them everything they want to hear. Then getting affirmation that alcoholism is very difficult and receiving sympathy and confirmation that you are trying (what more can I do?) so you can give your partner a glowing statement to string them along- while justifying buying more alcohol because you have had a good day- and home is once again a safe place to drink.
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Your first thought when you're invited to do something social: Will there be alcohol?
If yes: you look more forward to the drinking than the actual event and people.
If no: you either don't go or you're an anxious mess full of fear socializing without it.
If yes: you look more forward to the drinking than the actual event and people.
If no: you either don't go or you're an anxious mess full of fear socializing without it.
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Location: Adelaide, Australia
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You feel clever at a social event because everybody else do not have a single clue that you are drunk- because you are high functioning (?) and handle it better than most.
When shopping, excuse yourself from your partner 'to go to the toilet' and run to the bottle shop at the mall- but making sure she cannot see you, skull a bottle of wine in the toilets and then causally go to another bottle shop on the way home for the day's drinking.
When shopping, excuse yourself from your partner 'to go to the toilet' and run to the bottle shop at the mall- but making sure she cannot see you, skull a bottle of wine in the toilets and then causally go to another bottle shop on the way home for the day's drinking.
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Location: United States
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You know you are an active alcoholic if.......
Every morning you help the liquor store owners open shop, they know you by your first name and your their favorite customer.
Been there done that LOL
Hugs and prayers
TB
Every morning you help the liquor store owners open shop, they know you by your first name and your their favorite customer.
Been there done that LOL
Hugs and prayers
TB
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Location: Boston, MA
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When you heard in an AA meeting that mouthwash will do if there's no alcohol in the house...so at 3am, when you wake up shaking and sweating, you decide to drink 1/2 a bottle of listerine to hold you over til the liquor store opens.
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Originally Posted by PhoenixJ
when you go to an addiction specialist and knowing 'how it works' tell them everything they want to hear. Then getting affirmation that alcoholism is very difficult and receiving sympathy and confirmation that you are trying (what more can I do?) so you can give your partner a glowing statement to string them along- while justifying buying more alcohol because you have had a good day- and home is once again a safe place to drink.
I've been on the phone with lots of "addiction specialists"..which is mainly them trying to get me to sign up to their rehab!
I'm really confused! But I'm also feeling like maybe this is the start of me getting better, because I'm at least asking?
We have taken out a loan to fund a 28 day rehab for me. But I've wasted the last two weeks by trying to choose the right one. Am terrified of making a wrong decision. Husband says I'm stalling because I want to keep drinking.
I'm worried he might have a point.
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: California
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You have more than a handful of excuses for why you look the way you do.
Tired
Glassy eyes
Red eyes
Red face
Sweating when nobody else is sweating.
These were mine:
Tired/baggy eyes. "I had the worst insomnia last night."
Red face: "this happens when I get nervous."
Sweating. "I just ran up a flight of stairs."
Red eyes. "My contacts are bothering me. Allergies."
On a side note, I've made it my life's goal to never be that person who says "You look tired." What an awful thing to say to someone. It means "you look terrible."
Tired
Glassy eyes
Red eyes
Red face
Sweating when nobody else is sweating.
These were mine:
Tired/baggy eyes. "I had the worst insomnia last night."
Red face: "this happens when I get nervous."
Sweating. "I just ran up a flight of stairs."
Red eyes. "My contacts are bothering me. Allergies."
On a side note, I've made it my life's goal to never be that person who says "You look tired." What an awful thing to say to someone. It means "you look terrible."
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Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 77
Brushing teeth in morning leads to gagging and dry heaving. Glance at face in mirror and vaguely remember falling and splitting head open, luckily didn't knock eye or teeth out. Should have gone to er for stitches but too drunk to drive and didn't want cops and ambulance at house. Afraid to fall pass out because I remember that is how the actor William. Holden died.Was. this black eye and 3 inch gash on forehead enough to make me stop boozing.... HELL NO.
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: California
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You are relieved you threw up that bottle of wine because now you can drink another!
You keep a secret stash in your closet during family get togethers so you can drink twice as much and no one will know.
You are so dehydrated in the middle of the night you literally start dreaming about water, sprite, anything that will quench that thirst.
You keep a secret stash in your closet during family get togethers so you can drink twice as much and no one will know.
You are so dehydrated in the middle of the night you literally start dreaming about water, sprite, anything that will quench that thirst.
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