is this the 1st step to becoming an alcoholic? Mind you I've never even sipped beer before turning 25.
I've found myself drinking alone lately
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when you drink alone you get to listen to any music or watch any movie you want and as loud as you want
tartanterrier
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Nah.There's nothing wrong with having a quick swig now and again. 
blue ballz 22
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George Thorogood drinks alone
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ysXMAOgEIq4
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ysXMAOgEIq4
Hell yeah- exactly what I was thinking...
With his pals Jack Daniels and Jimmy Beam... :beer:
Drink alone, with nobody else, baby!
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I drink alone ..cos I live alone ..I drink everyday too .. I can stop anytime I want .. keep a watch on it and maybe even ask yourself why you drink alone ..
Nah, the first REAL step to alcoholism is losing your job.
the first REAL step to alcoholism is when your location says: at the liquor store.
really though, there is no single criteria for it. the biggest factor is how it impacts your life. If you see it as being a potential problem than that is a sign that it is. I'm not saying if you DON'T see a problem, than there isn't one. But I'm just saying, you should listen to your gut instinct.
as people have pointed out, there's nothing wrong with kicking back and listening to some tunes or watching the game and having a cold one. But if you find that you are feeling depressed, or that you are particularly lonely when you are drinking, than that is another thing, and not too good. Also of course, if your drinking just to get drunk, that is also a symptom of the same condition. All things to be careful of.
I myself have had problems with alcohol in the past, but I have the presence of mind to keep myself in check and see that it doesn't become a problem. It's been almost a year since I last had a drink.
really though, there is no single criteria for it. the biggest factor is how it impacts your life. If you see it as being a potential problem than that is a sign that it is. I'm not saying if you DON'T see a problem, than there isn't one. But I'm just saying, you should listen to your gut instinct.
as people have pointed out, there's nothing wrong with kicking back and listening to some tunes or watching the game and having a cold one. But if you find that you are feeling depressed, or that you are particularly lonely when you are drinking, than that is another thing, and not too good. Also of course, if your drinking just to get drunk, that is also a symptom of the same condition. All things to be careful of.
I myself have had problems with alcohol in the past, but I have the presence of mind to keep myself in check and see that it doesn't become a problem. It's been almost a year since I last had a drink.
I got in from the office, had tea, and now have a nice glass of good wine in my hand, the house is empty and this is me time... I call it peace and quiet prob best not to get plastered though.
prob best not to get plastered though.
Theres nothing wrong with having a beer while watching a ball game, or having 1 or 2 when you get home from work. But if you are just sitting around in a room with nothing else going on drinking and getting drunk everyday it could be a bad thing
Transdurmal
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Aww, it's always so cute when someone opens that fateful door and steps into the room of the professional drunk.
Hope you enjoy the thought of an excruciatingly painful death before you're 50.:nanner::nanner::hatsoff:
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sputnikgirl
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I don't think there's anything wrong with drinking alone. However, there is a problem with hiding it from others.
Well, since everyone else has already said what I was gonna say, I'll just tell you about my former roommate. He started off by getting drunk on weekends when we had friends over, or when we just sat and watched a movie. Not too long after, he progressed to getting up late for work because he was hung over, and coming home early because he wanted to drink beer. A few weeks later he went on to taking advantage of the fact that his department had no direct supervision and no way of knowing exactly who showed up and at what time, and he convinced a coworker to sign him in and out while he sat at home drinking. His next step was to quit his job altogether, justifying this by saying that he didn't make a lot of money anyway, and would lay on the couch drinking beer and smoking pot, which he had recently discovered. For the last 3 months that my other roommate and I had to put up with this deadbeat piece of shit, he would literally not get off the couch for days. He would lie on it all day, drunk and stoned off his ass all the time. Even the landlord, who came to the house to pick up the rent one day, remarked how disgusting he was; when the landlord arrived, my roommate was sitting on one side of the couch, with the other half of the couch being occupied by dirty dishes (which he also used as ash trays, even though we constantly asked him not to smoke inside the house), clean t-shirts, dirty socks, a blanket, and several empty beer bottles. As the landlord was leaving, our live-in parasite (he stopped caring if the food and beer in the fridge had been bought by him, he started to simply help himself to whatever he wanted, when he wanted it, and would justify it by saying that he had been drunk and didn't know if it was his or not) decided that it was bed time, and he simply pushed what had been on the couch to the floor. Boy, was he a mistake as a roommate!
It's always sad to hear stories of people hitting rock bottom, knowing that it will more than likley not get muchbetter for them. Of course these results arent typical for everyone.
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