What is your definition of an alcoholic?!


Question: What is your definition of an alcoholic!?
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Interesting Question, I deal with one everyday!. My father has been an alcoholic ever since I can remember!. Its a disease that passes down from generation to generation!. My father's father also was one!.
My Def!? He drinks from 11am until he passes out in the evening!. Sometimes its hard liquor, sometimes its wine!. Other times its beer!. He gets mean and can't control his anger!. He also has crazy mood swings!. Half the time I have no idea what he's talking about!. He was abusive physically and mentally during my youth!. When he drinks, he gets mean, very mean!. He also needs to have it everyday!. I once tried to hide all the alcohol in the house, he had a fit!. He is able to function during the afternoon when he first starts, but late in the evening he is hardly coherent!. Living with one is not easy, and my father will never admit to having a problem!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

If you exhibit 3 or more of these you are an alcoholic

1!. 5 or more drinks per day 4 or more days per week
2!. Drinking to cope with problems
3!. Drinking until you lose bodily functions
4!. Inability to remember events happening more than two hours before you fall asleep
5!. Having drinks in the morning to take the edge off
6!. Becoming excessively emotional or violent while drunk
7!. Excess weight gain due to consumption
8!. ANY liver problems arising from consumptionWww@Answer-Health@Com

Generally, I think of an alcoholic as someone who is addicted to alcohol!. By addiction I mean someone whose body has a physical dependance on alcohol, i!.e!. the person experiences withdrawal symptoms like irrational behavior or irritability after a certain period of time without having a drink!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

my friend asked me to pick his son up from the pub because he wasnt allowed in the pub so i said to my friend come get him when you pull yourself together well 2 years later i still had his son he had a choice alchole or the pub i guess the pub won the boy lives with his mum now sad so i guess to me its someone who chooses alcohole over anything elseWww@Answer-Health@Com

my defination is a person who has no control!. his life is a mess and drinks to try and make it better or they do it to have fun!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

alcoholic to me is someone who can not think or do anything phsycial without being liquiored up!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

Any person who consumes an average of 7 or more alcoholic drinks per week!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

someone who is dependant upon alchohol to escape dealing iwth reality and feels unable to function without it and cannnot stopWww@Answer-Health@Com

Someone who has no control over their alcohol consumption!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

Anyone who is dependent on alcohol!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

someone that chooses alcohol over an 8 year friendship!.

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if a person feels like they need to drink!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

someone who cant control the amount of alcohol the drink!?Www@Answer-Health@Com

SOMEONE WHO DRINKS BEFORE NOON!!!Www@Answer-Health@Com





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