The symptoms of alcoholism can vary from person to person. A few or all of the symptoms of alcoholism listed below may be present in an alcoholic.
Early Stages:
- Activities are planned around drinking
- Sneaking drinks or hiding alcohol usage
- Drinking occurs to relieve stress
- Blackouts, the inability to recall or remember events or parts of time that happened while drinking
- More and more thoughts about alcohol
- More and more alcohol is required to feel drunk
Middle Stages:
- Lack of ability to keep promises
- Refusal to admit a drinking problem
- Drinking more than planned
- Drinking immediately after awakening from sleep
- Personality changes or mood swings
- Attempting to control drinking with mind games (ex. Telling one’s self not to drink prior to noon)
Late Stages:
- Severe withdrawal symptoms, such as delirium tremens
It’s better that at early stage, you know your responsibilities in drinking. Let your people around you know about your problem so they can help if you’re uncontrollable.
-mike
Comment by Mike — March 31, 2009 @ 5:38 pm