My alcoholism.

[Pawporri]

A social drinker or hard drinker may be able to build their coping skills and triumph over
problem drinking. The third type of drinker is the "real alcoholic."

Approximately 10-15% of the US population (a minority) are classed as "real alcoholics" and they
cannot stop the phenomena of craving once they take the first drink. That is the secondary problem.
The primary problem of the real alcoholic centers in the mind, not the body. This mental obsession
prevents real alcoholics from seeing the truth in the matter of drink by utilizing a mental process
called denial. Most real alcoholics, without treatment are doomed. They can develop all the "coping
skills" in the world but they will still have no mental defense against the first drink.

Self will and self knowledge are useless for the real alcoholic just as much as self will and self knowledge
are useless against terminal cancer.

[McGowdog]

Originally Posted by cindersslipper

Alcohol is the worst drug there is, seriously. Ask any ER medic.

I'd agree... but only for those who abuse alcohol, aka alcoholics, hard-drinkers, and occasionally the binge college drinker who may be neither and will either die of acute alcohol poisoning or will hopefully just outgrow it.

Originally Posted by cindersslipper

They are in the minority I believe.

Yup. Why? Because most probably die off and some are incarcerated.

[Aptor hours]

Originally Posted by angrymillionaire

Good luck OP. I worry that you start drinking in the morning. Try to curb it down to at least night time & ONLY drink at home alone. You don't want to get into trouble with the law. Then gradually quit. You need to go to AA.

That is not the answer at all. My husband would get drunk all by himself and of all things call 911 .....third call I had to pick him up from the local jail It only gets worse.

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by cindersslipper

Some drinkers just biologically cannot stop craving alcohol. They are in the minority I believe.

They are not in the minority; those would be alcoholics, having inherited the genetic predisposition to alcohol. http://www.uofmhealth.org/News/alcohol-mbni-0412

Most just use it to feel good and are "accidental" alcoholics.

Those would be social drinkers who could stop on their own. If one can do this, h/she is not an alcoholic.

I know how this happens, I had a very high stress job once and found myself craving wine at 3pm every day. Solution? I quit, the job and the wine.

That's wonderful, but you were a social drinker, and quite possibly had developed a dependence on--not an addiction to--alcohol.