Originally Posted by
Anna 
If you can moderate your drinking, then you're not an alcoholic.....
I'm not sure it's quite as black and white as that.
For many years I gave myself effective examples of 'ability to moderate'.
The belief that 'ability to moderate' meant I didn't 'have a problem' enabled me to throw away many years of my life.... Until it became bad enough that I could no longer delude myself with alleged 'moderation'.