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Take this 20 question test to help you decide whether or not you are an alcoholic.

Answer YES or NO to the following questions.

1. Do you lose time from work due to drinking?
YES __ NO __

2. Is drinking making your home life unhappy?
YES __ NO __

3. Do you drink because you are shy with other people?
YES __ NO __

4. Is your drinking affecting your reputation?
YES __ NO __

5. Have you ever felt remorse after drinking?
YES __ NO __

6. Have you ever got into financial difficulties as a result of drinking?
YES __ NO __

7. Do you turn to lower companions and an inferior environment when drinking?
YES __ NO __

8. Does your drinking make you careless of your familys welfare?
YES __ NO __

9. Has your ambition decreased since drinking?
YES __ NO __

10. Do you crave a drink at a definite time?
YES __ NO __

11. Do you want a drink the next morning?
YES __ NO __

12. Does drinking cause you to have difficulty in sleeping?
YES __ NO __

13. Has your efficiency decreased since drinking?
YES __ NO __

14. Is drinking jeopardizing your job or business?
YES __ NO __

15. Do you drink to escape from worries or trouble?
YES __ NO __

16. Do you drink alone?
YES __ NO __

17. Have you ever had a complete loss of memory as a result of drinking?
YES __ NO __

18. Has your physician ever treated you for drinking?
YES __ NO __

19. Do you drink to build up your self-confidence?
YES __ NO __

20. Have you ever been to a hospital or institution because of drinking?
YES __ NO __

What's your score?

If you have answered YES to any one of the questions, there is a definite warning that you may be an alcoholic.

If you have answered YES to any two, the chances are that you are an alcoholic.

If you answered YES to three or more, you are definitely an alcoholic.

(The test questions are used at Johns Hopkins University Hospital, Baltimore, MD, in deciding whether or not a patient is an alcoholic).

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You didnt say what we were if we answered YES to every question!!!! haha

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there's a lot of questions missing from that list like

21.) ever walked into the wrong apartment at 3 am and triped over the furniture in the dark?

22.) have you gone to jail on every holiday in the calendar and twice on your birthday?

23.) have you ever blacked out in Va. and came to at Mardi Gras dancing with a very large woman?



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I answered YES to all 20, by simply inserting the words "DID" and "WAS". Thank God for AA!

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Ever go on a merchant sailing ship from canada with your girlfriend and wake up in the morning on the ship with like 500 sailors!!!!!!!!

We dont even want to get THAT thread going.......

HMMMMMMM, might be fun!!!

Lani

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DAMN! 17 outta 20, passed again! biggrin


Ever miss a Grateful Dead concert cause you 'lost' your ticket only to buy one off the street and find out it was fake only to discover the next day the ticket was in your pocket the whole time! hmm

Ever come to wondering how you got home then realizing your car was missing ? ..... and 20 yrs later still dont' know what happened to it weirdface


-- Edited by Doll at 11:22, 2008-02-26

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Wow -- I only said yes to 18 out of 20. Maybe I wasn't so bad...

Here's my question: ever wake up to learn that you blacked out, performed karaoke with your spouse's boss (but replaced most of the lyrics with profanities), told the boss' husband his wife is a bitch, then puked and lost your shoe?


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You are all insane!!! Utter lunatics!!! I knew I was in good company, lmao

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Ever go to a xmas work party and call your boss a pussy cuz her choice of a xmas shot (she had one to my many) is peach schnapps!!!!

I like JC's tho: Sounds like something Id do!!!

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Woo Hoo! Actually I did lose a shoe!!! After downing a bottle of Jeigemeister I rode this gyro scope thingy that was in the parking lot of the bar - spins you around and upside down... puked down the side of my VW and lost one of my sandals! Never found it either.....Guess it's with the lost car!

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Doll, I cant even believe you got on a spinny ride after drinking! They make me sick just looking at them sober!!!!!

How come now that Im sober I still lose socks while doing laundry!!!!

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For number 12, I answered no but that's only because I always passed out .... initiate flashback sequence ..... {{{{{{{

Like the time I woke up buck naked in Stanley Park, face planted over the front seat of my car, my face inches away from somebody's vomit (probably mine) and my poor dog whining for me to let him out of the car. And of course when I opened the car door to do so, there were all kinds of people milling around, you know regular people, like parents steering their children away from the police officer talking to a bewildered and still drunk, naked woman who was using my leather jacket to cover herself.  And without being too obvious standing naked in the middle of the parking lot on a beautiful Summer Sunday afternoon, I guzzled some JD straight from the bottle and asked the cop if he'd be wanting my ID.

At the end of it all, I even had to borrow money to bail my dog out of the pound too ... and it STILL took me years to sober up cry

Thanks for letting me be here today biggrin


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OMG Sept!!!!!! I had similar circumstances too, but I will not mention them, as I am a lady now.... LOL (And you all are not my sponsor, or therapist, for that matter!!!)

I am just really glad that today I never have to hear the words from my family members,
"HOW in the HELL does someone LOSE a 3,000 pound AUTOMOBILE?????????"

One of the scariest things that ever happened to me was waking up on someone's front lawn in a bad part of town about an hour away from home, not knowing where I was, with a female police officer trying to help me!! She let me just keep going... I wobbled and stumbled down the sidewalk and then I have no idea what happened after that.... it remains a mystery..... people, we really NEED to stay sober!!!  One Day At A Time!!!!!!

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