You know you're an alcoholic when...

[crimsons]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

...your name is Michael Lohan (Lindsay's dad). Did you guys see the news story today? After landing in jail Wed. in FL for violating his domestic violence restraining order, the judge said "if you even dream about her, you're going to jail." So what did he do? Immediately get bombed, went karaoke singing, called the woman in question and left a message, and then jumped off a hotel balcony and landed stuck in a tree trying to elude police! Sheesh!

[K9Lover]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

crimsons;1199089 wrote: ...your name is Michael Lohan (Lindsay's dad). Did you guys see the news story today? After landing in jail Wed. in FL for violating his domestic violence restraining order, the judge said "if you even dream about her, you're going to jail." So what did he do? Immediately get bombed, went karaoke singing, called the woman in question and left a message, and then jumped off a hotel balcony and landed stuck in a tree trying to elude police! Sheesh!

...not only ALL of that...while the police were AT her house, he was psychotically calling over and over and over. Did anyone see him on Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew? He has some serious mental issues fueled by drugs and alcohol. Now it's clear to see why his daughter is such a mess. Sad.

Oh, and you know you're an alcoholic (me) when you "groom" your cocker spaniel and he ends up looking like a Sphynx Cat (BALD), and everytime you look at him you are reminded that you can't ever, ever safely drink alcohol anymore.

[WastrelWallow]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

When the only booze you've got left is some cheap sherry and some Baileys, and you pour it all into a pint glass, it curdles into this sickening broth, a clotted, foamy ooze, and you manage to neck it down without puking.

When you wet your bed five times over the Christmas period because you've been on the lagers 24/7 and stop feeling embarrassed about it.

When you wake up in a bush in the middle of some wasteland, minus your wallet, coat, and the photographic negatives your possible girlfriend-to-be *needed* you to get developed for her 'breakthrough art project' (last I ever saw of her).

[mama bear]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

Ouch Wastrel...

[mauritiusdodo]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

When you feel so anxious and paranoid you feel like you can't cope with life anymore and you know it is just the fact you drank two bottles of wine the night before!

[patrice]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

When you tell yourself that morning shaking and shivering is the cold... yet you live in the tropics and its 35c

[slowly sinking]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

I'm reading all these posts, and as funny/sad as they are...Why did so many of you do these things and your spouses still stay??? Why did mine leave me after only less that 2 years together?? I did some bad things but some were way less than what I read here...and my spouse left me...without a word...I didn't even know he was gone until the next day..no argument, no fight..just gone.....

I guess I answered my own question...he wasn't really a spouse...if I had a terminal illness, he probably would have left too...I'm really happy for those of you that have spouses that have stuck with you through this...you have no idea--or maybe you do---how important to recovery that is....

Good luck and warm hugs to all of you....xxx...SS

[Lost Soul]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

In my early days...

Would be trashed in a bar with friends, go up for a coke, order a triple vodka, down it, then return to the table with my coke...

...Does anyone else think this thread, although entertaining, could be full of triggers?

[RedThread12]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

You know you are an alcoholic when, as a self-employed person, you don't even call to re-schedule appointments - I posted notes on the front door, "sorry, emergency, will be in touch soon."

You know you are an alcoholic when you wake up at 5 am, hands shaking, and drive to a friend's house to fill a water bottle with vodka (before he wakes up) to bring home and drink. There was nothing in my house from the night before because whatever there was, I would drink, so that's how I "limited" my drinking. Such brilliant strategy!

You know you are an alcoholic when, like Saffie, you lock yourself into a hotel room and drink your way through the entire min-bar stock each day when the maid fills it. I did this in Delhi, India. I over-stayed my reservation, got pulled out of a total black-out by police banging on the door, and was saved from going to an Indian jail only because my travel agent, who had booked my room, was friends with the hotel manager and my credit card covered the expenses. Oh, and because he was able to persuade the police to wait outside while he found clothes for me to put on for the first time since I'd checked in.

You know you are an alcoholic when you drink your way through a friend's fine wine collection while he is away. We keep an empty bottle of Lafitte Rothschild on his mantle in honor of that fine display of my utter inability to not not drink. That was also the time he found a package of bacon under the bed which I had taken out of the freezer to put across my nose and eyes after I had descended them heavily into his counter-top.

And you know your an alcoholic when one day, somehow, from somewhere, deep in your gut, you absolutely know that you will do anything. absolutely. anything to come out of the madness of this addiction

My Way Out has not been a straight path, nor are most. I am so fortunate because I didn't lose friends or family and we can and often do laugh about my insanity (actually, I'm still pretty nuts but it doesn't get confused with drunk!) And now I ALWAYS have the perfect response when I don't remember an event or story . . . I just say, "Dunno', I was drunk!"

I could add volumes to this thread. It's a great one to keep bringing back so we remember, and help new people identify with, just how gruesome it gets. It's the day after Thanksgiving, but not too late to say how grateful I am to be free from the tyranny of alcohol, and for the amazing, astounding, incredible resource that is the My Way Out Forum.

OK - last one - you know you're an alcoholic when you find My Way Out on the internet, create an account and sign up, and have absolutely no recollection of it until the next time you stumble across it and find out you're already a member :H

[RedThread12]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

Oh, and to Lost Soul. I am whatever the reverse of triggered is, when I read these posts. Un-triggered? De-triggered? But I hear your point and hope that, if that is the case, those folks will just move on to another thread.

There is SO much to learn here, and a lot of it can go back quite a long way in time. I'm a huge advocate of encouraging people to find threads of interest and follow them back for years. Such a treasure we have here.

[Irie]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

When your first thought every morning is about alcohol. How much did I drink? What did I say or do? How bad am I going to feel today? Even on days I don't drink my first thought is about alcoholl as in "Hurray, it's day (fill in the blank) AF".

[sunshine_gg]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

You know you're an alcoholic when you finish the bottle of single malt scotch your partner has around for special occasions, you go spend an ungodly amount buying another one to fill up the bottle you just emptied.

Twice.

[Struggles 106]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

Hey RedThread

Good stories! I uses to travel a lot so I have a lot
of hotel stories too. And of course airport bars.

Also I agree that this thread is the opposite
of a trigger. The maim thing that is keeping me
sober is the memory of various awful shenanigans.
I do not want to go back there.

[DriftyAlison0]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

hart;353441 wrote: When there is always a reason to drink, you're sad, happy, bored, sick, ...........you can always find an excuse.......

I am going back reading this and man this was so me. I would use some of the stupidest things to celebrate. Glad those days are over.

[sunshine_gg]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

DriftyAlison0;1215789 wrote: I am going back reading this and man this was so me. I would use some of the stupidest things to celebrate. Glad those days are over.

Sheepishly raising hand.
Me too.