You know you are an active alcoholic if.......
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If you are surprised that others dont black out as often as you do.
Rotating stores out of shame.
To bring a little humor to this thread, I'll quote robin Williams. "You know you're an alcoholic when you wake up after a night of drinking and someone else has crapped your pants"
Rotating stores out of shame.
To bring a little humor to this thread, I'll quote robin Williams. "You know you're an alcoholic when you wake up after a night of drinking and someone else has crapped your pants"
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Originally Posted by Deluxe 
You spend considerable energy trying to act "normal" so those around you wont notice you've been drinking (the eye contact is the hardest part)
You can't eat anything without having almost instant diarrhea
Washing your hair in the shower with your eyes closed results in head spins and loss of balance
You say things to the people you love that you would never dream of saying when sober
You have no time on your hands and yet never actually get anything done
Your electricity gets turned off because "they never sent me a bill" (yea right)
You hide bottles so well that you can never find them and then spend forever looking for them.
People you've never met before say to you "are you all right" or "you know you drink to much"?
You forget your words mid sentence and in an attempt to fill the void blabber on about nothing
You are short of breath when speaking
Your idea of just one drink requires the purchase of a whole 750mm of Vodka
You know that bile is a slightly fluorescent green colour and that your teeth feel like sandpaper against each other after vomiting
You have to take care going down stairs the morning after a hard night because your knees feel like they are going to give way
You feel elated when you discover more booze left in the bottle than you though would be there
You have a whole collection of DVDs and you have no idea how the movie ends despite having watched them all
You ask 3 Women out on a date in a single day and then forget to turn up for any of them
You scramble to check if your Credit Cards are in your wallet the next morning and that you are wearing your watch...and them feel enormous relief when they are there
You tell taxi drivers at random that you are an alcoholic just to see what sort of response you get
You feel furious that liquor stores open at 10:00 am on some days and even then employees will open them 7 minutes late
Your hand shakes so badly that you hope they wont notice your absurd scribble of a signature bears no resemblance to the one on the back of the card
You creep downstairs in the morning acting casually waiting to see if you screwed up and who you owe an apology to
Your sheets don't get changed and grow slightly brown with sweat in no time at all
I say "you" but that is all stuff that happened to me....all the time.
You can't eat anything without having almost instant diarrhea
Washing your hair in the shower with your eyes closed results in head spins and loss of balance
You say things to the people you love that you would never dream of saying when sober
You have no time on your hands and yet never actually get anything done
Your electricity gets turned off because "they never sent me a bill" (yea right)
You hide bottles so well that you can never find them and then spend forever looking for them.
People you've never met before say to you "are you all right" or "you know you drink to much"?
You forget your words mid sentence and in an attempt to fill the void blabber on about nothing
You are short of breath when speaking
Your idea of just one drink requires the purchase of a whole 750mm of Vodka
You know that bile is a slightly fluorescent green colour and that your teeth feel like sandpaper against each other after vomiting
You have to take care going down stairs the morning after a hard night because your knees feel like they are going to give way
You feel elated when you discover more booze left in the bottle than you though would be there
You have a whole collection of DVDs and you have no idea how the movie ends despite having watched them all
You ask 3 Women out on a date in a single day and then forget to turn up for any of them
You scramble to check if your Credit Cards are in your wallet the next morning and that you are wearing your watch...and them feel enormous relief when they are there
You tell taxi drivers at random that you are an alcoholic just to see what sort of response you get
You feel furious that liquor stores open at 10:00 am on some days and even then employees will open them 7 minutes late
Your hand shakes so badly that you hope they wont notice your absurd scribble of a signature bears no resemblance to the one on the back of the card
You creep downstairs in the morning acting casually waiting to see if you screwed up and who you owe an apology to
Your sheets don't get changed and grow slightly brown with sweat in no time at all
I say "you" but that is all stuff that happened to me....all the time.
A big one for me is my housekeeping goes to hell rather quickly.
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Originally Posted by FlyerFan
You have fights with your coffee table.....
To add..
When your sole purpose in life is to get home from work, shopping, etc to have a drink because they were SO stressful.
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Originally Posted by GracieLou
At least you picked something. I just bitched in general to the open air.
To add..
When your sole purpose in life is to get home from work, shopping, etc to have a drink because they were SO stressful.
To add..
When your sole purpose in life is to get home from work, shopping, etc to have a drink because they were SO stressful.
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When you spend a night in the pub with friends. They go home to bed, you go home and drink a bottle of wine.
When wine is your best friend and your worst enemy all at the same time.
When you cannot understand friends who can drink two small glasses of wine over the course of an evening.
When people refer to your drinking a lot...in fact It is the thing you are best known for
When you wake up and your boyfriend has finished with you and you can't remember why.
When you are so hungover you are counting the hours til your kids go to bed so you can crash
And on, and on and on...
When wine is your best friend and your worst enemy all at the same time.
When you cannot understand friends who can drink two small glasses of wine over the course of an evening.
When people refer to your drinking a lot...in fact It is the thing you are best known for
When you wake up and your boyfriend has finished with you and you can't remember why.
When you are so hungover you are counting the hours til your kids go to bed so you can crash
And on, and on and on...
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Originally Posted by DG0409
I thought FlyerFan meant the coffee table was the one picking the fights. Didn't yours ever reach out to trip you on the way through the house?
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Originally Posted by Coolmel
You find an inner voice that try's to convince you that the 6 or so pounds you gained a couple of months after quitting should be worrisome and that going back to drinking 6 to 12 beers every single day is probably better for you than sobriety because at least you weren't becoming a fatso.
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Originally Posted by GracieLou
At least you picked something. I just bitched in general to the open air.
To add..
When your sole purpose in life is to get home from work, shopping, etc to have a drink because they were SO stressful.
To add..
When your sole purpose in life is to get home from work, shopping, etc to have a drink because they were SO stressful.
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You need three shots of whiskey in order to be able to get the ladder out to climb up on the roof to fix something.
You are probably actually safer on the roof after the three shots of whiskey because then at least you don't have the shakes.
You are probably actually safer on the roof after the three shots of whiskey because then at least you don't have the shakes.
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: Raleigh, NC
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You always have gum, breath mints, cough drops on you and in your mouth to try and hide the booze smell....
You own 6 or more bottles of eyedrops and you can never find them so you buy another because your eyes are glassy and red.....
You can put two coherent thoughts together because you are so hungover.
You own 6 or more bottles of eyedrops and you can never find them so you buy another because your eyes are glassy and red.....
You can put two coherent thoughts together because you are so hungover.
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Join Date: May 2013
Location: London
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You're simultaneously attracted to and repelled by alcohol.
You promise yourself 'this time will be different'
You feel resentment towards people who can just have a couple of drinks and then stop.
You drunk text/dial/facebook exes and people you haven't spoken to in ages.
Drinking just ain't what it used to be.
You promise yourself 'this time will be different'
You feel resentment towards people who can just have a couple of drinks and then stop.
You drunk text/dial/facebook exes and people you haven't spoken to in ages.
Drinking just ain't what it used to be.
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