Beachway Therapy – A Quick Reference Guide to Help Determine If Casual Drinking Has Become a Problem
It’s 2 PM and it feels like the workday should be over; long meetings, brusque interactions with colleagues, and the guy from tech took over your PC for 2 hours: But, hey, soon you will have a chilled glass of sauvignon blanc in your hand, and then another, and then…
Huh. Do you have a drinking problem?
Perhaps you’ve always enjoyed drinking alcohol but lately it seems to be more about escaping from stresses of life, alone, than sipping vodka tonics with friends on a Friday night. If you think that you may be addicted to alcohol, or that it is assuming a larger presence in your life than you’d like, why not use this quick reference guide to determine if your casual drinking has …show more content…
Do all of your hobbies involve alcohol?
Do you golf, and then drink at the club? Or play darts while nursing craft beer all night? Or go clubbing, but only when drinking? Or invite your friends over to watch The Walking Dead and drink tequila?
If your drinking is not problematic, you would probably have hobbies and interests that do not involve alcohol – do you?
If reading through this list of questions has made your realize that you likely do have a problem with alcohol, be kind to yourself. Addiction to alcohol is a complex condition and it is only through treatment that you will begin to understand how your addiction developed and how you can live a healthy, full life of passion without drinking alcohol.
If you are curious to learn more about your drinking habits, and how they might indicate a health problem, it is the age of the Internet, and you can take an online quiz:
Rehabs.com offers this assessment tool.
One more thing
As you are reading this article and thinking about whether you have a drinking problem, you should know that you are not alone. Many human beings develop an addiction to alcohol, reach out for help and then begin the process of healing. You can
It’s 2 PM and it feels like the workday should be over; long meetings, brusque interactions with colleagues, and the guy from tech took over your PC for 2 hours: But, hey, soon you will have a chilled glass of sauvignon blanc in your hand, and then another, and then…
Huh. Do you have a drinking problem?
Perhaps you’ve always enjoyed drinking alcohol but lately it seems to be more about escaping from stresses of life, alone, than sipping vodka tonics with friends on a Friday night. If you think that you may be addicted to alcohol, or that it is assuming a larger presence in your life than you’d like, why not use this quick reference guide to determine if your casual drinking has …show more content…
Do all of your hobbies involve alcohol?
Do you golf, and then drink at the club? Or play darts while nursing craft beer all night? Or go clubbing, but only when drinking? Or invite your friends over to watch The Walking Dead and drink tequila?
If your drinking is not problematic, you would probably have hobbies and interests that do not involve alcohol – do you?
If reading through this list of questions has made your realize that you likely do have a problem with alcohol, be kind to yourself. Addiction to alcohol is a complex condition and it is only through treatment that you will begin to understand how your addiction developed and how you can live a healthy, full life of passion without drinking alcohol.
If you are curious to learn more about your drinking habits, and how they might indicate a health problem, it is the age of the Internet, and you can take an online quiz:
Rehabs.com offers this assessment tool.
One more thing
As you are reading this article and thinking about whether you have a drinking problem, you should know that you are not alone. Many human beings develop an addiction to alcohol, reach out for help and then begin the process of healing. You can