I remember taking this test 8 years ago and answered yes to every question. I wasn't surprised. I never really considered not being an alcoholic; I sort of always knew I was. I just figured it'd be something I could more or less manage. And I was wrong about that.
I think if I went on at about that same level I was 8 years ago I never would've gotten sober. Things had to get very bad. And they did.
I think the ones who die out there are either extremely tough or don't have the constraints that're imposed on them by the drink: the money constraint (I lost my job) and the health constraint (I end up in the ER after every bender) were my big ones. If I was rich, didn't have to work, and didn't have severe withdrawals after my benders I never would have stopped.