Should I be concerned with the way I drink?!
Question: I don't really think so, but I want some outside opinions. This year I've been getting drunk (and I mean wasted) pretty much every weekend. I cut back the past couple weekends just because of extra schoolwork and some drama that needs to settle. However, after this week I fully intend to go back to my pattern of being drunk every weekend (esp. since my 21st is coming up). My sister and two of my friends have suggested cutting back and said they were concerned about it. However, other friends and my mom have said they don't think it's anything to be concerned about. I go to college and I live in a building that's notorious for being insane on weekends. There's always something happening and I'm almost also walking around being offered drinks and I take them. I think the main concern my sister has is that my dad's an alcoholic and she doesn't want it to happen to me. Do you think I should be concerned at all? Or just enjoy my time in college.
Answers: I don't really think so, but I want some outside opinions. This year I've been getting drunk (and I mean wasted) pretty much every weekend. I cut back the past couple weekends just because of extra schoolwork and some drama that needs to settle. However, after this week I fully intend to go back to my pattern of being drunk every weekend (esp. since my 21st is coming up). My sister and two of my friends have suggested cutting back and said they were concerned about it. However, other friends and my mom have said they don't think it's anything to be concerned about. I go to college and I live in a building that's notorious for being insane on weekends. There's always something happening and I'm almost also walking around being offered drinks and I take them. I think the main concern my sister has is that my dad's an alcoholic and she doesn't want it to happen to me. Do you think I should be concerned at all? Or just enjoy my time in college.
theres nothing wrong with a FEW beers but if you have to get wasted every weekend to have a good time then you have a problem, you can have an equally good time just drinking a few and partying you dont have to get hammered
Yeah I'd be concerned. You're a binge drinker, and that carries some serious health risks.
it's not about enjoying college, if you HAVE to drink in order to have fun, then it's a problem. If you have to drink every week, because you can't figure out something else to do, or can't party w/o it. It's a problem.
That's all there is to it, and it's not some secret code to break to figure this out.
Just be good to yourself. Some people who believe they are just enjoying college find themselves in AA years later.
I would first be concerned about your personal safety. Then I would think about the damage you are causing to your liver.
just like know when your doing something you don't have to stop drinking all together just know your limit and stuff
hi ,
when u binge drink its dangerous for yr health in the long wrong alot of things can and will go wrong liver damage is one thing and if you r wasted all the time life is passing you by and drinkin is addictive it is a drug .. college is studying and making decisions on wat careers u want to do not just partying hard make the most of it and when ur drunk dont u feel your personality is different? ur not your self your only young once and time doesnt stop make the most of wat life has to offer
If you think you may have a problem, you probably have a problem.
A tendency toward alcoholism is an inherited genetic trait -- if your dad is an alcoholic, you will have a greater likelihood of becoming one yourself.
You don't want to end up like Francine Fishpaw, who would drink gasoline if it came it a bottle.