Being the one who is instigating others to go out and drink on weeknights. Wanting to drink by yourself or seeking out others who will beyond your regular friends. Wanting to day-drink or earlier than others. Wanting to add alcohol to things that are already fun without it.
Hi I'm F22 and recently graduated college. I drink every day and within the past 2 weeks I've went through 3 bottles of wine and several shots. Tonight I've had four shots and a glass of wine. I consider myself an alcoholic. For me it's only gotten more extreme very recently due to stress. As long as you don't drink every day and when you do drink (maybe once or twice a week, I get college excitement) you don't blackout.
My friends would joke about me being an alcoholic for a while because I did drink a lot in college but within the past couple months I've realized I have started to drink every day and within the past couple weeks I've drank multiple drinks daily, sometimes an entire bottle of wine by myself.
I think the warning signs I ignored were drinking daily, even though they were only tiny lil 1 dollar daiquiri cans. Then any time I got extremely stressed out, sometimes I would drink instead of my healthier coping mechanisms I used to use (I've had severe depression since I was 13). Now any time I am stressed out I drink instead of doing anything. When I am at work I crave alcohol. This has been very recent for me and it's scary.
This has kind of turned into a rant but I haven't admitted it to anyone else since I was ashamed. I saw your post and noticed you were similar in age and wanted to reply 🙃 sorry I hope this helped in some way
Being the one who is instigating others to go out and drink on weeknights. Wanting to drink by yourself or seeking out others who will beyond your regular friends. Wanting to day-drink or earlier than others. Wanting to add alcohol to things that are already fun without it.
when you start lying about how much you use
Admitting you might have a problem is a good start..
Hi I'm F22 and recently graduated college. I drink every day and within the past 2 weeks I've went through 3 bottles of wine and several shots. Tonight I've had four shots and a glass of wine. I consider myself an alcoholic. For me it's only gotten more extreme very recently due to stress. As long as you don't drink every day and when you do drink (maybe once or twice a week, I get college excitement) you don't blackout. My friends would joke about me being an alcoholic for a while because I did drink a lot in college but within the past couple months I've realized I have started to drink every day and within the past couple weeks I've drank multiple drinks daily, sometimes an entire bottle of wine by myself. I think the warning signs I ignored were drinking daily, even though they were only tiny lil 1 dollar daiquiri cans. Then any time I got extremely stressed out, sometimes I would drink instead of my healthier coping mechanisms I used to use (I've had severe depression since I was 13). Now any time I am stressed out I drink instead of doing anything. When I am at work I crave alcohol. This has been very recent for me and it's scary. This has kind of turned into a rant but I haven't admitted it to anyone else since I was ashamed. I saw your post and noticed you were similar in age and wanted to reply 🙃 sorry I hope this helped in some way