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Are you worried about your drinking?
If someone's worried that they're drinking too much, there's this binary, you'r either a normal social drinker or your an alcoholic (drinking every day, drunk all the time, drinking 1st think in the morning). That's a pretty unhelpful criteria in my view. I think there's three important reasons to really give this question a look into;
I define alcohol dependence by 4 threshold criteria;
A more severe degree of dependence would include withdrawal symptoms. This doesn't have to be in the form of the shakes, this can be things like hangover-like symptoms persisting more than the hangover day, feeling more anxious than normal & getting sweats. The most severe degree of dependence is when you get withdrawals that are so bad, that you drink specifically to avoid experiencing withdrawal symptoms; 'relief drinking'. This is what many people think of when they think of an alcoholic; drinking in the morning. All the core criteria are checked. Other signs of dependence might include (based on DSM criteria);
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