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@rajk999 said
Most people are happy drunks [for want of a better word], some are quiet drunks, some are noisy drunks, but only a handful are abusive drunks. As long as you are not in the last category you are fine. Im more the quiet type and mind my own business.

I become even MORE FMF-like.

@very-rusty said
You've obviously never been to an AA meeting. You'd be quite shocked and surprised at the professionals that you would see there! Surgeons have the highest standards of tobacco use, and female surgeons have the highest rates of alcohol abuse than other healthcare workers. Attorneys also have some of the highest rates of addiction than other professional industries.

-VR

Why would I want to go to an AA meeting or know who is addicted and who is not? An alcoholic has a special definition. Someone who drinks alcohol is not an alcoholic.

@fmf said
I become even MORE FMF-like.

Well Im going to assume that is good.. 😀

@rajk999 said
Why would I want to go to an AA meeting or know who is addicted and who is not? An alcoholic has a special definition. Someone who drinks alcohol is not an alcoholic.

Whether you know it or not, any one who drinks can become an Alcoholic, and you're not an Alcoholic until you admit to yourself you are one. If people around you are telling you that you may possibly have a drinking issue, may be a good idea to listen to them.

-VR

@fmf said
I become even MORE FMF-like.

Or what you like to be in the real world?

-VR

@very-rusty said
Whether you know it or not, any one who drinks can become an Alcoholic, and you're not an Alcoholic until you admit to yourself you are one. If people around you are telling you that you may possibly have a drinking issue, may be a good idea to listen to them.

-VR

I think you have a fixation on alcohol. Someone with a fixation about food might sound like this :

Whether you know it or not, any one who eats can become fat, and you're not a fatty until you admit to yourself you are one. If people around you are telling you that you may possibly have a eating issue, may be a good idea to listen to them.

Lol .. 😀

@rajk999 said
I think you have a fixation on alcohol. Someone with a fixation about food might sound like this :

Whether you know it or not, any one who eats can become fat, and you're not a fatty until you admit to yourself you are one. If people around you are telling you that you may possibly have a eating issue, may be a good idea to listen to them.

Lol .. 😀

I don't have a fixation on alcohol, I am not the one misses the Friday night drinks.

You have to get past the denial, unless like I said you're a sociable drinker. I called myself that for years.

You never answered my question about others around you telling you that you may have a drinking issue?

You see how you try and change the subject to food? 😉

-VR

@very-rusty said
I don't have a fixation on alcohol, I am not the one misses the Friday night drinks.

You have to get past the denial, unless like I said you're a sociable drinker. I called myself that for years.

You never answered my question about others around you telling you that you may have a drinking issue?

You see how you try and change the subject to food? 😉

-VR

Others? Denial ? You are a funny guy.

@very-rusty said
I don't have a fixation on alcohol, I am not the one misses the Friday night drinks.

"Friday night drinks" is a social thing. It's about a dangling carrot, a light at the end of the week's working tunnel, it's about friends, letting off steam etc No one can develop an addiction problem with alcohol if they only drink once a week.

@fmf said
"Friday night drinks" is a social thing. It's about a dangling carrot, a light at the end of the week's working tunnel, it's about friends, letting off steam etc No one can develop an addiction problem with alcohol if they only drink once a week.

That is where you are wrong fmf, you know nothing about Alcoholism obviously.

Anyone who drinks can become addicted. You tell yourself it is about letting off steam or any excuse you can come up with. There are also different forms of Alcoholism. Just because you have a job doesn't mean you're not an alcoholic. There are many Professional who are alcoholics, Doctors, Nurses, Lawyers, Policeman, Fireman, Teachers, and list goes on and on.

-VR

@rajk999 said
Others? Denial ? You are a funny guy.

I don't consider alcoholism to be a funny topic.

-VR

@very-rusty said
That is where you are wrong fmf, you know nothing about Alcoholism obviously.

You're going to make a fool of yourself. No one can develop an addiction problem with alcohol if they only drink once a week.

@very-rusty said
I don't consider alcoholism to be a funny topic.

-VR

You are obsessed. Get a grip. Your personal negative experience with alcohol. is YOURS.... I dont want it. Thanks ... 😀 Its like fat person telling me what I should or should not eat. Its ridiculous.

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