You know you are an active alcoholic if.......
You know you are an active alcoholic if.......
You check your toilet paper after #2.........
You check your cell phone messages as soon as you wake up......
You constantly google for health problems you have.....
add yours...
You check your cell phone messages as soon as you wake up......
You constantly google for health problems you have.....
add yours...
Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 30
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.
Member
Join Date: May 2013
Location: east coast
Posts: 1,332
you check the number of beers left before you grab the halfnhalf for your first cup of coffee for the day.
before you go to bed you rearrange the beers in the fridge so it looks like there are more left than there really is.
before you go to bed you rearrange the beers in the fridge so it looks like there are more left than there really is.
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Canada
Posts: 4,580
You check your facebook or outgoing cell logs for drunken posts/texts/dials...
You look outside to see if your truck is there
You think you can manage alcohol despite blackouts, previous trips to SR and AA...and a trail of failure in your wake
You look outside to see if your truck is there
You think you can manage alcohol despite blackouts, previous trips to SR and AA...and a trail of failure in your wake
LOL HAHAHA!
You hate throwing out that watered down drink left from the night before because hey, waste not want not.
When you don't have to look at the bottle to see how much is left. How heavy it is tells you what you need to know.
You hate throwing out that watered down drink left from the night before because hey, waste not want not.
When you don't have to look at the bottle to see how much is left. How heavy it is tells you what you need to know.
You look out the window in the morning to see if your car is there;
The phone guy knows your password because you keep having to buy a new cell phone because you "lost it again";
You stop wondering how you got the black and blue marks on your body because you don't want to know;
You take milk thistle because you think it will make a difference to your liver.
The phone guy knows your password because you keep having to buy a new cell phone because you "lost it again";
You stop wondering how you got the black and blue marks on your body because you don't want to know;
You take milk thistle because you think it will make a difference to your liver.
Guest
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: The Deep South
Posts: 14,636
The laws in my state changed a few years after I got sober. They started selling liquor in all the stores. I was mad for about five minutes about that.
Member
Join Date: Jan 2013
Posts: 1,949
you go barhopping alone.
you drank more on some random Wednesday night as you did at your own bachelor party
you get heartburn so bad you vomited
you go to the liquor store 3 times in one day because you lie to yourself and buy only a twelve pack and you think that will satisfy you
you drank more on some random Wednesday night as you did at your own bachelor party
you get heartburn so bad you vomited
you go to the liquor store 3 times in one day because you lie to yourself and buy only a twelve pack and you think that will satisfy you
you don't know where your money goes
you don't keep a budget
you don't admit that you don't keep a budget because you don't want to see how much you spend on alcohol and couldn't stick to a budget because of how much you spend on alcohol
you don't trust yourself with your wallet
you wake up on the bathroom floor, then vomit
you're unhappy and it's all your significant other's fault
you can't remember anything
you wake up feeling like s*** and think it's normal
you wake up at 10 am, and suffer through until noon with 4 pots of coffee until you can 'legitimately' have 1 beer with lunch
you find that one beer with lunch turns into another and another and then a nap before a night of heavy drinking
you find yourself drinking while driving despite never approving of that before
you get the majority of your calories from alcohol
you have to sneak alcohol into the movie theater in order to sit through the movie
you don't keep a budget
you don't admit that you don't keep a budget because you don't want to see how much you spend on alcohol and couldn't stick to a budget because of how much you spend on alcohol
you don't trust yourself with your wallet
you wake up on the bathroom floor, then vomit
you're unhappy and it's all your significant other's fault
you can't remember anything
you wake up feeling like s*** and think it's normal
you wake up at 10 am, and suffer through until noon with 4 pots of coffee until you can 'legitimately' have 1 beer with lunch
you find that one beer with lunch turns into another and another and then a nap before a night of heavy drinking
you find yourself drinking while driving despite never approving of that before
you get the majority of your calories from alcohol
you have to sneak alcohol into the movie theater in order to sit through the movie
Member
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Sydney, NSW
Posts: 104
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.
You sometimes think about robbing a liquor store... for the liquor
You get so drunk you have to crawl up the stairs... feet first
You pour beer in the orange juice and the vodka on the cereal... simply because you got the bottles mixed up
You watch TV with the sound turned all the way down... and the power turned all the way off
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You get so drunk you have to crawl up the stairs... feet first
You pour beer in the orange juice and the vodka on the cereal... simply because you got the bottles mixed up
You watch TV with the sound turned all the way down... and the power turned all the way off
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