Sentences with phrase «becoming alcoholic»

How can you tell if you're becoming an alcoholic?

Becoming an alcoholic can alter a person's personality or it can worsen a trait, like his criticism - as you've seen.

The market is full of addiction memoirs, but Michael's story was unusual because he himself was an addictions therapist before becoming an alcoholic, so he has experienced both sides of the addiction recovery system.

Becoming alcoholic d - bags does help them experience a summer of wild escapades, but predictably, neither is especially happy.

Having a glass of wine to ease the tension of a stressful day doesn't necessarily put a person at risk for becoming an alcoholic, of course.

Between that and the potty training, I'm thinking about becoming an alcoholic this week.

Usually I don't pay particular attention to dates, but these smelled so strongly of wine I have a feeling they may have fermented into becoming alcoholic.

If one lives in a culture or closely knit social group in which there are strong sanctions against heavy drinking and drunkenness, the chances of becoming an alcoholic are relatively small, even if one is markedly disturbed psychologically.

Rudy, David R. Becoming Alcoholic: Alcoholics Anonymous and the Reality of Alcoholism.

The latter definitions are definitions of phenomena as social problems while the former is a sociological definition (Becoming Alcoholic: Alcoholics Anonymous and the Reality of Alcoholism [IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986], pp. 99 - 100).

His daughter had died, his company had gone bankrupt, his reputation had been ruined and he was becoming an alcoholic.

One who drinks exposes himself to the danger of becoming an alcoholic.

The spark that was to become Alcoholics Anonymous had been struck.

I was a drunk until I became an alcoholic, exactly how, where and when the transformation took place I do not know.

But what if the only reason that person became alcoholic is because all in the same month, he lost his job, his wife died in a car accident, his son fell off a cliff and broke his neck, and his house burned to the ground?

No, a person doesn't just wake up one day and decide to become addicted to drugs or become an alcoholic.

We got him off the street and into an apartment (unfortunately he couldn't sustain it... he had been a big time actor and became an alcoholic... turned out he was bipolar and was self medicating.

According to this school of thought the process by which one becomes an alcoholic is simple and direct.

Why is it that of the eighty million people in our country who use alcohol, at least seventy - four million do not become alcoholics?

The reason why the 94 percent of drinkers have not become alcoholics is that they haven't been at it long enough.

The fact that so few use alcohol now and, more important, that most of them have established adequate personal lives would seem to give good reason to expect that few, if any, would become alcoholics.

They concluded that there is not satisfactory evidence that justifies the belief that emotionally disturbed persons of one type are more likely to become alcoholics than those of another type.

They found that a lower percentage of the boys who had experienced overt rejection by their mothers eventually became alcoholics than those whose mothers were alternatively loving and rejecting.

A follow - up study of 510 of these, in 1956, revealed that approximately 10 percent of the group, now in their early thirties, had become alcoholics.

If one bears this in mind, then ft is valid to say that «normal» people can become alcoholics.

Roman Catholics are realistically operating some special treatment programs for priests who become alcoholic or otherwise mentally ill.

People become alcoholics because of a childhood trauma they can't remember?

Now why do most alcoholics become alcoholics?

If you are born with a tendency toward alcoholism or losing your temper, that predisposition may always be there but you have «overcome» it if you refuse to become an alcoholic or become abusive when you're angry.

For instance, the person who freely starts to over-drink may become an alcoholic and so, like any addict, lose his or her freedom.

The danger is that, having heard that «emotionally healthy people don't become alcoholics,» the individual will assume that he is not a potential candidate for the sickness.

We know that there are factors other than the possession of healthy personalities which help prevent some people from becoming alcoholics.

It is true, as those who advocate total abstinence hold, «If you don't drink you won't become an alcoholic.»

Conversely, if one lives in a heavy - drinking culture or group, one can become an alcoholic with relatively minor psychological problems.

No one can know how many people might have become alcoholics but didn't because of the faith and fellowship which they found in their church.

If a substantial share of the religious organizations in our country would undertake an enthusiastic and realistic program of prevention, America's fourth largest public health problem could be brought under control and hundreds of thousands of persons would be protected from becoming alcoholics.

We know that if a person lives in a group that encourages the use of alcohol to excess and as a means of interpersonal adjustment, he may become an alcoholic even if he has a relatively adequate personality.

Blackouts can be considered danger signals in that they occur approximately three times as commonly among pre-alcoholics as among drinkers who will not become alcoholics.

It is possible, Lisansky speculates, that there are other subgroups — e.g. unmarried middle - aged women who become alcoholic because of feelings of loneliness and diminished self - esteem.

De Blasio paused at times when he recounted the absence of his own father, who lost a leg in World War II during the Battle of Okinawa, and returned a broken man who became an alcoholic and eventually split with his mother.

A remarkable NIH study says you're just as likely to become an alcoholic from a bad childhood as from bad genes

Another risk of drinking is that a woman may at some point abuse alcohol or become alcoholic (alcohol dependent).

The most implausible addict since Phil Mitchell became an alcoholic.

Williams not only became an alcoholic, but he suffered from spina bifida, a painful condition that worsened as he grew older.

I don't think people become alcoholics because they like the taste of alcohol, there's a driving force involved.

He kept a mistress, became an alcoholic and died in a tragic car crash; she aided his career while she struggled to establish her own reputation.

They may become alcoholic worry - warts.

Some borrowers become alcoholics or gamble away the mortgage.

Not exact matches

Or what if you get a tenant who is abusive to their spouse, is an alcoholic, becomes a hoarder or files bankruptcy?»

After immigrating to Vancouver in 2000, Guo spent nearly 10 years working to become a successful Chinese entrepreneur — a specialist in the Canadian alcoholic drinks industry.