Originally Posted by
ay100 
Not everybody in this forum is a full blown alcoholic. Some are troubled and disturbed by their behaviour and come here to seek advise. I speak on behalf of those people who are not yet alcoholics.
Seek answers does not make a person an alcoholic.
What an alcoholic is... someone who is affected by alcohol to a point of it being an addiction OR a control that they can not handle.
Full blown alcoholic?
There are no degrees of being an alcoholic. You either are or you are not.
My body<<< put alcohol inside>>>> alcohol
You end up with someone who can not say no to more alcohol. My control is gone when alcohol is added. I do not need be sleeping in the gutter before I become an alcoholic. There is no caste system with alcohol. It can have the same affect on the rich as well as the poor. Male as much as female. Young as much as old.
Originally Posted by
ay100 A behaviour modification can work.
"If" you are not an alcoholic.
An alcoholic in denial is still an alcoholic.
An alcoholic that has never had a drink so they don't yet know if they are an alcoholic is still an alcoholic.
Alcoholics can not moderate.
If you find that you can moderate... you are not an alcoholic.
If you find that you "can not" moderate... well we could help you find solutions.