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20 Questions about Drinking
If you are wondering whether there is a drinking problem in your family, check it out by answering the following questions:
- Do you lose sleep because of someone's drinking?
- Do you think a lot about problems that arise because of that person's drinking?
- Do you ask for promises to stop drinking?
- Do you make threats?
- Do you have increasing bad feelings toward the person?
- Do you want to throw away his or her liquor? Or hide it?
- Do you think that everything would be okay if the drinking situation changed?
- Do you feel alone, rejected, fearful, angry, guilt, exhausted?
- Are you feeling an increasing dislike of yourself?
- Do you find your moods changing as a direct result of his or her drinking?
- Do you try to deny or conceal the drinking situation from friends?
- Do you cover for and protect the person?
- Do you feel responsible and guilty for the drinking behavior?
- Are you beginning to withdraw from friends and outside activities?
- Have you taken over responsibilities that used to be handled by the other person?
- Are there arguments because too much money is spent on drinking?
- Do you find yourself trying to justify the way you feel and act in reaction to the drinking behavior?
- Do you have any new physical symptoms like headaches, indigestion, nausea, shakiness?
- Do you feel defeated and quite hopeless?
- Is your work suffering because of the drinking problem?