Sentences with phrase «like alcoholic»

I buy clothes and stash them — like an alcoholic and their four - litre flagons of sherry — in all my cupboards and drawers.

The entire family continues to avoid the problem, much like the alcoholic.

Sexual addiction is more like an alcoholic or drug user who are addicted to the chemical high.

much like an alcoholic / drug user medicates pain.

It's like an alcoholic trying not to drink, it's easy to fall off the wagon.

It's like the alcoholic being in denial, can't face the facts, but it's there just the same.

It's like an alcoholic who says he'll leave the vodka in the kitchen cupboard, but first just take «one little sip.»

This is seeming very much like an alcoholic admitting he / she has a problem.

Gary compares his dilemma to being like an alcoholic in front of an open bar!

Just like an alcoholic or any other drug addict must keep taking more of their chosen substance to feed their urge, a trading addict needs to keep trading... almost all the time, in order to feel fulfilled or «in control».

As the House was passing its version of the stimulus package (see Figure 1), Frederick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute noted that most of the money simply gave states dollars to keep intact the programs of the past: «It's like an alcoholic at the end of the night when the bars close and the solution is to open the bar for another hour,» he told a New York Times reporter.

They were shaking; they looked like alcoholic girls.»

After all, the sensations that come from cardio are addictive sensations just like an alcoholic or drug addict experiences... yet our culture likes to make it okay because it fits into our work hard, play hard ideas.

It is like your an alcoholic working at a bar, why put yourself in that situation?

I'm like an alcoholic with coffee.

It's a bit like an alcoholic trying to drink just one glass a day — extremely tough (which is why abstinence is the recommended approach for overcoming this kind of tendency).

But like an alcoholic that takes a drink after a period of abstinence, give in to sugar again and it's doesn't take long before the regular need for it overwhelms your will power once more.

«I'm like an alcoholic with an unlimited supply of booze everywhere I go,» she says.

They're like an alcoholic family.

Arsenal is almost like an alcoholic in denial.

It made me feel a little bit like an alcoholic who tries to beat his addiction to whiskey by turning to wine.

It's easy for us turn to laughter like an alcoholic turns to whiskey.

It's like an alcoholic.

It's like the alcoholic who can't go into a bar and drink orange juice.

Just like an alcoholic can give up booze and live a sober life so can the GLBT if they truly want to seek Christ and His salvation but you simply can't have it both ways.

Like all alcoholic beverages, the Bible prohibits abusing beer (Isaiah 5:11; 28:7; Proverbs 20:1; 31:4).

There's a reason in the late 70's and 80's when we wanted to try and prevent drunk driving we did it by education and things like Alcoholics Anonymous.

So secondly, you could enroll yourself in a secular based, self - help program like Alcoholics Anonymous.

Yeah Wow thanks, that is such a shame I really thought there would be hope for you to lead a normal life but I guess just like alcoholics some do relapse.

Stage two groups for those who have found help in psychotherapy or self - help programs like Alcoholics Anonymous, Alanon, etc..

But it's a bit like Alcoholics Anonymous: «Hi.

Like alcoholics, however, molesters can be treated (generally with drugs that diminish their libido), and like all addicts, they are cautioned to stay away from that to which they are addicted — in this case, children.

I had begun getting acne on my nose and thought it was an overload of vit A resulting in liver problems (like alcoholics get red nose) But liver functions were all good and the acne persisted after going off cod liver oil — and on the low fat diet.

Christo, an artist known for appropriating vast unlikely packages, has called the Vogels «compulsive collectors, almost like alcoholics», and the artist Pat Steir has said that they «bought work as though they were starving for art».

Programs like Alcoholics Anonymous can provide a valuable support group that will be valuable not only in life, but to your life insurance.

If you or a loved one is having difficulty with alcohol or drug use, know that help is available through therapy and / or a 12 - Step program like Alcoholics Anonymous.

The goal of treatment is the eventual active participation by the affected family member in a self - help group like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) or Narcotics Anonymous (NA).

Not exact matches

It's kind of like the old saying about churches: Cities with more churches tend to have more alcoholics.

The other one turned out almost exactly like his father... abusive, alcoholic, bouncing from job to job, with no real priorities.

A new study has concluded that processed red meats like bacon, hotdogs and salami are «carcinogenic to humans» — a categorization shared by formaldehyde, asbestos, alcoholic beverages, air pollution and tobacco smoke.

The $ 1 focus might seem like a departure for a brand that's been trying to boost its single - digit sales gains with things like fancier locations that serve alcoholic drinks.

100,000: The number of new places to buy an alcoholic beverage in the U.S. that have been added since 2007, according to Nielsen, which notes the expansion of drinking outlets in places like dart clubs, movie theaters, and social ping pong establishments.

Athiests, like anyone in need, turn to God and religious organizations to fix their problems, their alcoholic problems, their marital problems, their cancer problems, their health issues, their job problems, their drug problems, their x-husband problems, their x-wife problems, their money problems.

Also, as noted, I apologized for those times when my anger got the better of me but in hindsight, I see I was exhibiting signs of prologued trauma and abuse not signs of mental illness (like most of NYC I got tested post 9/11 and there's no signs of mental illness though my childhood growing up with two alcoholic parents who died before I was 18 does produce some triggers that I now know how to manage so I don't let my anger get the better of me).

I disagree that Christians can not be possessed, that's like saying Christians can't be alcoholics or drug users.

The definition of a destructive religious cult is like alcoholism - if booze controls you instead of the other way around you are an alcoholic.

The sense of a Power greater than myself at work was overwhelming, and I was instantly consumed with a desire to bring a like release to other alcoholics.

But, like the fact that not everyone who drinks is an alcoholic, not everyone who lives has trouble controlling themselves.

In some cases, the alcoholic may give subtle clues that he is on the verge of discussing his problem and would like to do so, but is having trouble «breaking the ice.»

Some people have raised the question as to whether teaching an alcoholic that his drinking is an illness will not give him a heavy weapon to use against those who are trying to persuade him to stop that drinking; saying that he might then be able to shrug the whole thing off with some statement like «How can I help it — it's a disease, isn't it?»