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Are You an Alcoholic?
Wall Street Journal ^
| 8 January 2008
| MELINDA BECK
Posted on 01/08/2008 7:59:30 AM PST by shrinkermd
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To: Lurker
We meet at the local bar a lot.....
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posted on
01/08/2008 8:06:06 AM PST
by
Rick.Donaldson
(http://www.transasianaxis.com - Visit for lastest on DPRK/Russia/China/Etc --Fred Thompson for Prez.)
To: Puppage
Nothing like a little rationalization to keep one goingA wise man once told me:
Rationalizations are more important than sex ... think about it, when was the last ime you went a week without a good rationalization.
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posted on
01/08/2008 8:06:28 AM PST
by
tx_eggman
("Believing without loving turns the best of creeds into a weapon of oppression" Eugene Peterson)
To: shrinkermd
Here’s the simple rule of thumb: If you’ve ever wondered if you’re an alocohlic...you probably are.
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posted on
01/08/2008 8:06:33 AM PST
by
Hildy
(You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep cause reality is finally better than your dreams)
To: shrinkermd
We need to get rid of the term. There are no alcoholics. If the problem gets to be that bad you are a drunk. Face up to it.
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posted on
01/08/2008 8:06:33 AM PST
by
ontap
(Just another backstabbing conservative)
To: shrinkermd
Eventually, everyone who has been drunk ever will be declared an alcoholic. There aren’t enough smokers left to demonize, so it’s drinkers and fat people next.
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posted on
01/08/2008 8:07:22 AM PST
by
mysterio
To: shrinkermd
I read once that if you could not give up alcohol (go dry) you were an alcoholic.
If I never had another drink I would not care so I guess I’m not an alcoholic.
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posted on
01/08/2008 8:07:35 AM PST
by
svcw
(There is no plan B.)
To: shrinkermd
This was brought up on the season premiere of The Wire (Best Show on TV EverTM) a reporter said 120 people were evacuated from a building and her editor had to tell her that was incorrect. In fires buildings are evacuated not people.
And yes this post was mostly to pimp the criminally underwatched TV show mentioned above. :)
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posted on
01/08/2008 8:07:39 AM PST
by
Mr. Blonde
(You ever thought about being weird for a living?)
To: shrinkermd
Yikes. Maybe I should no longer participate in our games of taking a drink every time a dem says the word, “change”.
To: Lurker
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posted on
01/08/2008 8:08:41 AM PST
by
joe fonebone
(When in danger, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout)
To: ontap
It is really no laughing matter. I know!
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posted on
01/08/2008 8:09:06 AM PST
by
gunnedah
To: shrinkermd
I've been working in a non-professional capacity with recovering alcoholics and addicts for years. This is a pretty good article, except that the following language seems somewhat too rosy. The incidence of relapse is much higher than the numbers described in the article.
"The encouraging news from the NIAAA's recent research is that many people do cut down or quit on their own. "That's the real mind blower," says Dr. Willenbring. "Only about 15% of the people who develop alcohol dependence in their lifetime have the severe, relapsing form. Most people -- 72% -- have a single episode [of addiction] lasting on average three or four years and then they go into remission and stay there. A lot of them are abstaining." For many people, that spate of heavy drinking happens in college -- the peak years are 18 to 24, says Dr. Willenbring. "Then they mature out of it and get on with their lives.""
To: shrinkermd
I was in my youth, but having a family has the unlikely side-effect of there not being enough time to enjoy a good buzz anymore, and this combines with being "calorically gifted"...it takes too much alcohol to get a buzz, and I don't need those calories. Funny world, eh?
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posted on
01/08/2008 8:09:15 AM PST
by
50sDad
(Liberals: Never Happy, Never Grateful, Never Right.)
To: ontap
alcoholism is a sham.. its not a disease..if its a disease then so is crack and heroin.
so we need to start diagnosing crackheads with crackism. let the mknow that it isnt their fault and then get them help.
To: ElkGroveDan
Here’s the deal..if you’re suspected of being an alcoholic, even if you haven’t crossed that line...chances are you will. And if you stop before you cross that line...your life will be infinitely better. There’s really no down side.
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posted on
01/08/2008 8:09:35 AM PST
by
Hildy
(You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep cause reality is finally better than your dreams)
To: mysterio
God help me! I guilty on both fronts!
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posted on
01/08/2008 8:09:48 AM PST
by
ontap
(Just another backstabbing conservative)
To: shrinkermd
Is a person who murders a murderer? Who golfs a golfer? Who works on cars a mechanic?
We are defined by what we do. Tough world.
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posted on
01/08/2008 8:10:16 AM PST
by
ExpatGator
(Extending logic since 1961.)
To: shrinkermd
After this election all all the Live threads of debates, I may be:)
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posted on
01/08/2008 8:10:56 AM PST
by
TornadoAlley3
( UNITED BY OUR CORE BELIEFS Fred08)
To: shrinkermd
I love booze, but it’s fattening.
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posted on
01/08/2008 8:11:13 AM PST
by
Poser
(Willing to fight for oil)
To: ontap
alcoholics are merely the drunks that goto meetings.
and the majority of the alcoholics will go back to being just drunks after their court ordered meeting attendance is fulfilled.
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posted on
01/08/2008 8:11:13 AM PST
by
absolootezer0
(white male christian hetero married gun toting SUV driving motorcycle riding conservative smoker)
To: Poser
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posted on
01/08/2008 8:12:27 AM PST
by
ontap
(Just another backstabbing conservative)
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