I am having a tough time. I am pre-dispositioned to drinking on both sides! And it seems I have quite taken to it.
Things aren't working out well for me in life. But than again there are things I can not complain about.
What makes me nervouse is that when I get hyper I want to calm down and have a drink. I can't sleep so I will drink all night. I have severe insomnia. I suffer from exterme headaches and am on (non-narcotic) meds. I am so sick of this aggitation and severe stress in my life that has nothing to do with drinking. But the genetic factor looms large. I know that if I stayed like this and never moved on from it. (I am living in intense stess) it would make me nuts.
I don't think I am addicted to drinking because I can go over a week without a drink but I am hyper and it makes me want to calm the heck down.
I have never done anything sexually while drinking that i would not do sober. i think my equal problem is insomnia. If I am working out I will harldy drink. But when I do forget it because I am up all night as usual even if I am not drinking. This is bad for me. My father and grandfather x2 died from this. maybe insomnia had something to do with my father's problem.
Help..not getting it.
J-a
Hi Julieanne,
If you do not think you are alcoholic try some controlled drinking.
For me, it was the thinking about booze all the time. I did not drink everyday and could go a week with out it too.
But when I started I could not stop.
I would tell myself that this time I would be good and not have so much... and as always I could never stop once I started.
Lots of alcoholics didn't do risky things sexually, get arrested, lose jobs, or relationships.
Many of us didn't crash cars, or do any of that stuff.....YET.
There is always the chance that these things can happen.
Read these message boards, try an AA meeting.
If you think you have a problem with drinking, you probably do.
Good luck and God Bless,
Carolyn
If you do not think you are alcoholic try some controlled drinking.
For me, it was the thinking about booze all the time. I did not drink everyday and could go a week with out it too.
But when I started I could not stop.
I would tell myself that this time I would be good and not have so much... and as always I could never stop once I started.
Lots of alcoholics didn't do risky things sexually, get arrested, lose jobs, or relationships.
Many of us didn't crash cars, or do any of that stuff.....YET.
There is always the chance that these things can happen.
Read these message boards, try an AA meeting.
If you think you have a problem with drinking, you probably do.
Good luck and God Bless,
Carolyn
Carolyn, All that I can say is you got it right, that's exactly how it was for me....most of it...didn't have to hit the lowest bottom - yet ...but I just absolutely could not stop drinking when I started!
