The answer is “yes” and here’s why
You can be a hard-on-your-luck, drinking first thing in the morning, get the DTs kind of drinker.
Or you can be questioning whether or not your daily wine habit is healthy or not.
Chances are, if you think about your drinking use as a possible problem in your life, it is a problem.
But does that mean you are an alcoholic?
Nope, though you certainly can call yourself one if you find it helpful.
Most of us don’t wake up one day and say, “Jeeze, I wish I could become addicted to an ethanol-fueled, carcinogenic beverage of my choice today.”
Yet it happens to more people than we know. Whether caused by generational or situational trauma, the result of a bad habit that got out of control, bad luck or just bad choices, addiction to alcohol is a vast and varied experience that’s a result of individual circumstances — not necessarily a disease.
