Oct
31
What is it About Alcoholism?
I have a good friend who used to be an extraordinary general manager of top restaurant, but who now is unemployed and hiding because he was found passed out behind the bar of the restaurant he had just opened himself.
Just another example of how alcoholism ruins lives in a major way, I guess. The saddest thing about it is of all the various kinds of addicts I have known in my life, alcoholics are the ones who are most commonly in denial - often right up until it’s too late to help.
Anyone else know someone who’s lost it all, but still doesn’t get it? I know I’m not the only one.
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My Dad is an alcoholic. He has gone through recovery (and then relapsed) so many times I have lost count. The longest he has gone without alcohol in his life is 10 years, and it isn’t a coincidence that his relapse caused his marriage to fall apart and caused him to lose his job. He is in denial - he was ‘laid off’ because of the economy (uh-huh - nothing to do with being an hour late, at best, everyday) and he is getting a divorce because my Mom ‘isn’t understanding or kind.’ I am 32 (his daughter), and I am just SO very tired of having these ups and downs. He has lost everything, but he NEVER seems to get it! Does anyone out there have an answer to this question: are some people truly hopeless cases?
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This may be a really stupid question, but if someone consumes a large quantity of alcohol on a regular basis, are they automatically an alcoholic? At what point is it a problem, if they don’t ever seem drunk and function ok?
I married two years ago and my husband has a 23 year old daughter. I noticed the last time she visited, that she consumed quite a bit of beer. She only drinks Miller Lite, nothing else. When she came to visit last week, I had just purchased two 12 packs of ML. She arrived at dinner time on Saturday. She had a beer and we had dinner. Then we went out with friends to a bar and i noticed that she had at least two more tall beers. We came home and I went to bed.
The next morning, we went to a football game that started early with a tailgate. I don’t know if she drank there, but at the football game she had a few more beers. Then we stopped at a local restaurant on the way home and she had at least two more.
We came home and I went to bed. When I woke in the morning, twenty one of the beers I bought were gone and she was the only one drinking them. That means that over the course of two nights, starting from when I went to bed till she went to sleep, she stayed up and drank while watching the TV and consumed twenty one beers.
Today, I returned from work to find that there was a new six pack of beer in the fridge. So, as I am writing this, there are nine beers in the fridge and she and my husband are out at a bar drinking beer and playing darts. I have no idea what to do or how to brooch the subject. Is there any question as to her having a problem? I can’t imagine how she drinks that much and doesn’t get drunk!