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Jan 18, 2011, 02:02 PM
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Member Since: Oct 2010
Location: Michigan
Posts: 6,543
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Hi ~ I'm a recovering alcoholic ~ I started out drinking only on weekends - I would get drunk and black out. Then I started drinking every few days -- then it progressed to every single day. I drank like that for over 20 years. 
I can't say you're an alcoholic ~ it doesn't matter how much you drink or how often you drink -- it's what the booze does to you. Even if you only drank on weekends, but the booze made you black out and you did crazy things - you could be an alcoholic. Only YOU can decide if you're an alcoholic -- but it sure sounds like you have a problem.
You need to get some help before you cross that invisible line between social drinkers and alcoholism - unless you already have. The only way I could stop was by going to AA. They have the best success rates for recovery. They saved my life because if I had kept drinking like I was, I would be dead now. If I make it to July of this year, I'll have 18 years sobriety - I pray to God I make it. I just take it a day at a time cause that's all any of us have. I'm as close to a drunk as you are -- it only takes one drink to get drunk.
I hope you'll try some AA meetings ~ you can take what you like and leave the rest. I'm sure you'll hear some things that you can relate to. Best of luck and God bless. Hugs, Lee
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