newpower

You check the alcohol content of vanilla essence when shopping and think about making a cake lol or just doing the math to see if its cheaper to drink than v beer lol.

Stimmed

You know you're an alcoholic, when YOU know that you are an alcoholic. Why? Because, before you do realise, no one else can help you to help yourself. Even then, it's difficult.

GracieLou

...... you go to an AA meeting and you find yourself nodding in agreement because you can relate.

jazzfish

"...you get drunk, call all your friends and threaten to kill yourself, and then the next morning you join a gym." (A favorite and a paraphrase of Dina Kucera's book)

caboblanco

you forgot what it is to have a normal day. Sound mind, sound body, normal sleep, and no diarrhea. I didn't have that for 2 years

LadyBlue0527

.......when you have to "try" to abstain from alcohol.

A non alcoholic doesn't have to try to abstain. My husband, who loves beer as much as the rest of the normal people, stopped drinking for a while to support me. He hasn't given it a second thought and it's no big deal for him. We've spent the last 9 weekends (this will be the 10th) alcohol free and he couldn't care less.

to add to my first thought of you know when you're an alcoholic when..

....when you're mesmerized by someone who isn't drinking in support of you because he CAN drink and he DOESN'T

Stimmed

Love, without a doubt - is a remarkable thing. Throw it away and one might never know it again. Alcohol, couldn't even begin to compete but addiction is sometimes very strong. However, addiction has a unique way of blinding every sense we could possess, testing to limits, in a very sad way, Love's ability to exist; we need only to acknowledge that Love is far more powerful and has far more meaning than anything we could allow ourselves to be consumed within.

1undone

When you can't stop drinking alcohol. I'm serious.

Stimmed

@1undone:

Because, at the moment, I'm addicted?

Sobersunshine

You know you're an active alcoholic when you don't even enjoy drinking anymore, yet you keep doing it.

So glad those days are over.

courage2

You're afraid to walk to the mailbox because it's in sight of a liquor store.

courage2

The first drink is just to stop the shakes.

courage2

Ice and a glass just get between you and your drink.

courage2

One more:

You know you're an alcoholic when

alcohol = best friend = only friend = lover = abuser = medicine = fix = addiction

UnixBer

When that question is bothering you.
When drinking is on your mind during a working week.
When you have difficulty stopping drinking.
When you cannot moderate your drinking after trying it for multiple times.

pinkdog

Hi newpower. I did drink the vanilla flavoring and the mouthwash. Literally. Can't have either one in the house. Ever. Alcohol is alcohol. I know someone who drank rubbing alcohol. Luckily, I don't want that one. Sober wishes to you dear.

hail

When bartenders don't know your name but they know your go to drink off the top of there heads.

MrDavid

You wake up on a subway platform at 12 a.m. in the morning drenched in booze. How I got there, I don't remember.

visch1

When I tried to control what was out of control> BE WELL

dwtbd

pretty sure you just know, admitting it... 'nother story
doing something about , better story(great story)