You Might Be An Addict If

When you’re trying to buy more alcohol, but you are to drunk to enunciate what’s you’re trying to buy and have to point at the case of 48 beers and hope they understand.

When you have your keys but have to sleep in the hall of your apartment building because you are too drunk to get them to open the door.

When you wake up and your entire room is somehow miraculously covered from top to bottom in greasy Chinese food. Including your brand new bed sheets you just got as a gift.

When you’re buying your alcohol with Coinstar money.

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If you refuse to leave your house and do anything because you know that will cut into your drinking time

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When you’re home alone on Christmas day, on Google desperately trying to locate a bar that was open.

When you can drive through Boston and count 5-10 bars, all in a row next to each other, that you’ve been physically escorted out of on more than one occassion.

When you’re already thinking about that next line when you’re not even halfway through the current one.

CONSTANT pill counting. I was obsessed.

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you wake up hungover overwhelmed by post-drinking anxiety, then take serious time thinking about how much you should quit, read about sobriety and thinking of a serious commitment, then by the end of the day you’re thinking how to get drunk without being too much hangover the next day so you can start your journey to sobriety tomorrow.
Repeat the next day, until you get a such terrible hangover that makes you stop for 1-2 days. Then repeat.

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When all your memories remind you of drunken episodes

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When youre afraid to let other people use your phone, because of the irrational fear that somehow the loads of porn youve consumed through the years on it will suddenky pop up as soon as they get ahold of it.

When youre in the middle of binging on your laptop in the bathroom and get a call from your wife. You answer it and do your best to speak clearly while controlling the convulsions through your body.

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Took a selfie to remind myself that I don’t want to look this way, feel this way…

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Took a video of myself hungover telling me how I couldn’t live like this anymore and told myself I should look at it when I felt like drinking.

Same night bought a 6 pack and 2 bottles of wine.

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I am laughing so hard because I can relate to almost every single one of these that are referencing alcohol. Man it’s so sad in hindsight but gives me some comfort that I wasn’t alone in my alcohol addiction behaviors. 44 days sober here :blush:

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If your response to “What is your favorite wine?” is “…an opened one”.

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When you decide to become a regular at another bar so you can only use cash and feel like that makes it better. Then you realize that despite the huge shots and free drinks your new favorite bartender gives you, you are still blowing way more money than you were at the bar where you used your credit card. THEN you realize you are really at this cash only bar because you can get way more drunk for about the same price and everyone there is a drunk and you feel “normal.” AND, you drive straight there form work so that you don’t cut into your drinking time (because, you know, stopping time is 6pm, because that means you can control your drinking and being a functioning alcoholic is so much better than being a raging drunk (even though you really are a raging drunk)) even though the bar is only 3 very small blocks away from where you live.

Then, when you get sober you have no clue what to do with the $1200+ a month that you suddenly have.

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I wish we would have had a chance to terrorize the bars in Greenfield together lol

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I stuck around Bloomfield. You know, home of the blue collar drunks. Armonds was my place these last few years, because of the cheap (cash) drinks, the bartenders who loved me (and my massive tips) and poured what was well over a two shots even if they weren’t charging me, and the fact that I was one of the least disastrous drunks in that hole. I do miss some of the people there sometimes, but yeah, no.

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Sorry, I meant Bloomfield. To many damn neighborhoods.

I know, right? And too many damn bars in all of them!

When you ask your spouse to hide those wines because there are people invited for dinner next weekend.

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And the winner is Bootz :joy:

I did this often too :pensive:

You like wine but “hydrate” with beer.
You buy wine in bulk.
You put rumchata shots in your morning coffee.
You black-out before lunch.
You often fall down.
You blame everyone else for all your problems.
You’re not grateful.
That was me before I got sober. So grateful to be sober 1 year and have a chance at a better life.

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You might be an addict if you buy 2 bottles of brandy at the liquor store. One large bottle to put in the liquor cabinet for “official” drinking, and one smaller bottle to hide somewhere in the house so you can keep your glass topped up and no one will notice that you’re drinking a lot more than you should be.

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