Find the best financial services for you at: SMARTFINANCESOLUTIONS.NET – Am I an alcoholic? Need advice from recovering or families of recovering…? – Please before I start, only serious answers. I feel that I may need help and don’t need negative feedback.
I guess I’ll start by saying that I’ve been drinking since I was about 14. And when I say drinking, I mean drinking until I am drunk and beyond. Even though I am a small woman, I could easily down 6-8 shots and a 12 pack within a 6 hour period and make the stupid decision to drive myself home…thinking that I was ok. And I know that I could have killed innocent people and not only hurt other families but my own. I know how stupid that was and knew it every time I would wake up and wonder how I possibly made it home.
I have suffered from depression since I was a teenager and any medications my Dr. has prescribed to me has never helped. I have visited a counselor (my insurance said I had to visit her first and she would have to refer me to a psychiatrist if I needed it) and she said she felt I would be ok in life…which I don’t know how she determined with 3 – 1/2 hour visits. I feel useless, unloved and depressed about 99% of the time. Alcoholism runs in my father’s side of the family.
I have caused major problems between my husband and myself and missed out a lot on my daughter’s lives. I used the money my husband earned for us to pay bills to drink, causing us to lose our home and file bankruptcy. I was being selfish and stupid.
What I want to know is, how you are diagnosed as an alcoholic. My family and I both feel that I have a problem –
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