You know you're an alcoholic when..
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Join Date: May 2017
Location: SoCal
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When you think no one can smell the booze on you cuz you brushed your teeth
When you decide to skip work to drink but you manage to get to the liquor store before it opens
When you complete a five day detox and buy a bottle on the way home
When you decide to skip work to drink but you manage to get to the liquor store before it opens
When you complete a five day detox and buy a bottle on the way home
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Join Date: Nov 2016
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That is funny if you’re one of us, and really sad all at the same time. Yeah, I figured my wife would not smell the scotch on me if I showered and brushed my teeth. Never mind the slurred speech and glazed eyes.
I know it might be helpful for the people that are secure in their reovery. But it is helpful for me because I remember when and so don't want to revisit it.....anyhow I know I am an alcoholic when I tell the guy at the liqour store that I start a full time job next week and Im not allowed to drink on the clock and he agree's yeah !!
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Having an employee picking me up for work because I lost my DL after wrecking my truck. This guy is a single parent of 3 young kids and depends on me to survive/work. Then telling him to hit the store so I can get some beers/booze. Really 'cool/caring' guy I was wrapped up in my addiction. This guy is now my jobsite manager and is a blessing of an employee! Wish I could clone him. LOL
Walking to the liquor store in a hurricane - water up to my knees - 'cause no way would I make it through the day without my supplies.
Filling a cleaned out hairspray bottle with vodka to have in my purse at work. Drinking it all by noon & going out to lunch for more. Arriving back at work very late, and sloshed. Of course no one knew - after all, I was sucking on breath mints, used perfume & eyedrops.
Filling a cleaned out hairspray bottle with vodka to have in my purse at work. Drinking it all by noon & going out to lunch for more. Arriving back at work very late, and sloshed. Of course no one knew - after all, I was sucking on breath mints, used perfume & eyedrops.
You tip a little bit out of a bottle of vodka before drinking the rest. The little bit tipped away was you cutting down and actually made you feel better.
You drink bottles you've been given as presents and refill, then drink and repeat!
You drink bottles you've been given as presents and refill, then drink and repeat!
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Join Date: Feb 2012
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Sorry about the graphic content but, after the usual morning vomiting because of the out of control drinking the day before, forcing myself to drink whiskey from a dirty glass then throwing it up back into the glass because I was so afraid that I would run out before the liquor stores opened. I cannot say enough how grateful I am that those days are behind me!!!
This can be such a lonely disease that it helps to read such similar stories.
This can be such a lonely disease that it helps to read such similar stories.
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Join Date: Feb 2018
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....when you always drink to forget, but never forget to drink......
...when someone asks you what your favorite drink is and you reply, 'the next one,' and are surprised that the person you're talking to thinks that you're joking....
...when someone asks you what your favorite drink is and you reply, 'the next one,' and are surprised that the person you're talking to thinks that you're joking....
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