Hi,
I'm 18 years old, and I've recently been asking myself some questions about the quantity of alcohol my mother drinks.
I'm not really sure of the definition of alcoholism, but I do feel like she has some sort of dependance to alcohol. She drinks after work and on weekends, typically 3 to 4 beers an evening (don't know about the weekends). She's pretty depressed these days so that might be why.

I have tried to talk to her about it but she just got angry.
She has also already gone out just to buy alcohol quite a few times (even at night).

I've always had a problem with her drinking, because seeing her drunk at parties as a child traumatised me, I'm now phobic of drunk people, so I guess that's why she got angry (I'd ask her not to drink too much (and insist) every single time she drunk alcohol).

Anyway, I don't know what to do. She might end up really becoming an alcoholic..

I saw somewhere that some experts of an international organisation said that drinking over 2 classes of alcohol a day (for a female) is considered as excessive drinking.

What do you think?
Thanks in advance for your guidance, have a nice day/evening.