When did you know you need to stop drinking?

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I knew I needed to quit many years before I actually did, that's just how alcoholism works in my experience. People that don't have a problem don't ask this question, and every single alcoholic that I know had to have life get pretty bad before finally conceding to get help.

If you have little or no control over how many and/or how often, it might be a good idea to.sit through a few meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous and see if you identify with anything being said. It's not a cult, the doors don't lock, and many of us are super friendly and there's zero judgment in the room.

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“Need to stop” and “want to stop” are two different things. And for me, I actually didn’t want to stop at all…I just wanted to control it and to stop having consequences.

It took me stumbling into AA pretty much by accident to hear what I needed to hear, and then it took me sticking around to be convinced that I am indeed an alcoholic (i.e. I often can’t stop after I’ve started, an no matter how bad it got, I always started again). Once I understood what it meant to be an alcoholic I started to believe that AA was the best possible solution. Thankfully, for me, that’s proven to be true. I’ve been sober 7+ years and my life is so much better. It was a big change and it wasn’t easy, but I didn’t have to do it alone.

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This is what I needed to see

When you ask this question.

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As they say, when you are sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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I knew I needed to stop drinking when I was 20 and couldnt go to class sober. I didn't want to stop drinking til I was 34, suicidal, and had damaged most of the relationships in my life.

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Mine was very similar to this. I knew it was a problem in college, but was in denial until my mid 40s. I actually had to relapse 43 days after completing an outpatient rehab before my ego had no arguments left.

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