Comments on: 3-Steps to evaluate whether you might be a problem drinker http://www.counselinginchicago.com/2008/10/24/3-steps-to-evaluate-whether-you-are-a-problem-drinker-or-not/ Exploring counseling & psychotherapy, what works, and the research that supports it. Bill Martin, LCSW 312-409-0632 Bmartin222@aol.com Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:53:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Tim Hansen http://www.counselinginchicago.com/2008/10/24/3-steps-to-evaluate-whether-you-are-a-problem-drinker-or-not/#comment-18854 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:43:57 +0000 http://www.counselinginchicago.com/2008/10/24/3-steps-to-evaluate-whether-you-are-a-problem-drinker-or-not/#comment-18854 My experience has been that one can determine if he or she is a problem drinker by considering these four statements: 1. If, when you drink, you have no control over how much you drink and/or: 2. If, when you decide to stop for any period of time, you find you cannot stay stopped and/or: 3. If you find that you are spending any amount of time at all promising yourself you are not going to drink, or that you find yourself justifying why you deserve to drink again, or: 4. You find yourself taking a lot of tests to determine whether you drink too much or "Are you an alcoholic?", etc. If this sounds like you, then you are probably an alcoholic. Non alcoholics never give their drinking much consideration at all. Alcoholics on the other had are obsessed by their alcohol intake in one way or another. If you fall into any of the above categories you should probably quit altogether. Tim Hansen My experience has been that one can determine if he or she is a problem drinker by considering these four statements:

1. If, when you drink, you have no control over how much you drink and/or:

2. If, when you decide to stop for any period of time, you find you cannot stay stopped and/or:

3. If you find that you are spending any amount of time at all promising yourself you are not going to drink, or that you find yourself justifying why you deserve to drink again, or:

4. You find yourself taking a lot of tests to determine whether you drink too much or “Are you an alcoholic?”, etc. If this sounds like you, then you are probably an alcoholic.

Non alcoholics never give their drinking much consideration at all.

Alcoholics on the other had are obsessed by their alcohol intake in one way or another. If you fall into any of the above categories you should probably quit altogether.

Tim Hansen

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