Alcohol Abuse Advice

Question by SS: Am I becoming an alcoholic or am I at risk ?
I am male 24 years old. I study and work. I cannot say I am extremely bothered by this possibility, but I keep constantly thinking about it.

My problem is in drinking habits for beer. Let me explain. I have not drunk heavy alcohol drinks for about 5 years. Simply I do not enjoy them. I don’t like the taste of vodka or whiskey. The only times I drink those – when I am flying, as I am freakishly afraid of flying and I simply get drunk before take off. I also do not care about wine or champagne. But I enjoy beer very much.

The thing is, even though I do not feel urge to go and buy beer, if I have one I’ll keep drinking until I it’s gone. Most of the time I like Stella, but occasionally enjoy Heineken or Corona. As they are sold in packs of six, if I have beer in the fridge, I’ll have it.Usually I will have 2 bottles a night, sometimes three, and will keep doing this every night until beer is gone. But then when it is gone again, I can simply live without it as long as I want, until my wife will buy me another pack. As I asked her to do the judgment for me, and I try not to buy beer myself anymore. My wife is really good with alcohol, the 6 pack she bought for herself is still a 4 pack in our fridge two weeks later.

Not long ago I was drinking beer again, and run out of Stella, the only thing left, was my wife’s beer, blue with taste of lemon. Strangely even after 2 bottles of Stella I did not like her’s and did not continue drinking.

I also feel a need in beer when I am hungry, maybe because it fills me up. But if I had a chance to eat before drinking, I do not really care about beer anymore. But as I said, if I have it in the fridge I might as well have it.

My father and both of my grandfathers are alcoholics.

SS

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That is simply called “binge drinking” and you seem to think it is a problem so to even ask this question I would say something bad is going on.

The point is whether you CAN stop or not. It’s fine to like alcohol but we need to use our common sense and stop it because we know it’s not healthy, no matter how genuinely we just like the taste of it.
If you drink every night you have a drinking problem although I know many who do the same and see nothing wrong with it. Whether it is a bad habit or not is not the point. It is very unhealthy to the point of dangerous to drink every night, so not an alcoholic but you do need to change. If you find you can’t then you are an alcoholic.

If your wife is buying you beer basically every night she doesn’t have very good judgement (no offense) and is what is known as an ‘enabler’. Just because someone else is buying it doesn’t mean you escape responsibility for the drinking though. Cut it down to buying drinks once a week or cut down your drinking to just the weekend (or a few days of your choosing, say mon and tuesday) and see what happens.

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