You could just be self medicating and not an alcoholic. Or like me it could be both. I self medicated for depression and I am for sure an alcoholic. Drinking when depressed didn't help but drinking to cope with life prevented depression for a long time until it didn't work anymore.

The AA definition is a mental obsession coupled with a physical craving.

There are different types of alcoholics but the most common symptom is that once you get three or four beers or drinks in you it is game on. Once the pump is primed you can't stop. Everyone else is passed out and you are looking for more. Just this overwhelming craving to keep drinking. It doesn't happen every time but often enough. It has to do with how alcoholics metabolize alcohol.

If you have that symptom your a dead ringer.

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