To ask if it's still a "problem" even if you don't do it often

[LovelyPrep]

If you rarely drink but when you do it's 5+ bottles of wine to yourself, possibly spirits if you run out of wine and you get tearful/angry/sloppy etc. and everyone around you is kinda pissed off by it, is it ok because it's only 4/5 times a year? Or would you say even though its not frequent, it's still not acceptable?

[Aquamarine1029]

It's a problem. Potentially a very big problem.

[WhatwouldAryado]

4/5 times a year IS often.
Binge drinking is a huge problem.

[MonaChopsis]

5+ bottles of wine / spirits?! Sheesh I'd be needing to get my stomach pumped. Yes that is a serious binge drinking problem and I would find it totally unacceptable.

[OyyVeyy]

5+BOTTLES? Seriously???

[Ploppie4]

Totally unacceptable. Who drinks 5+ bottles in one go anyway? That’s a minimum of 45 units of alcohol in one sitting. Three weeks worth in one night. Totally stupid

[FeedMeAndTellMeImPretty]

Probably worse, as your body isn't accustomed to it and is obviously struggling to process that much booze in one go. Binge drinking is a big problem and in quantities like that surely it could be fatal.

[Squirmy65ghyg]

It is not okay. In any way. Is it you or another person?

[Bubblebubblepop]

4/5 Times a year no problem.

It's not normal to drink 5 bottles of wine in a night though. And I am a big drinker. That could poison you fairly easily I'd imagine. I've never even heard of someone drinking that much, and I can drink 2 bottles on a big old night.

[Ploppie4]

Why can’t this person just have a couple of glasses?

[FiveShelties]

5+ botles of wine for one person? That is a serious problem - I think anyone who can drink that amount must be drinking regularly, I like a glass of wine or two, but five bottles is insane.

[Phosphorus]

Surely the person is drinking more frequently, if they can remain conscious after 5 bottles of wine!?

That suggests an amazing tolerance.

[Crumbs1]

You don't mean 5 bottles, surely?

[OlennasWimple]

Yes, that is problem drinking by anyone's definition. Particularly the implication of not being able to stop once starting to drink

[FairyDogMother11]

Yes, that's a problem. If it affects other people around you and you're doing it every couple of months, then I would call that an issue. That amount of alcohol would probably kill me

[AdalindSchade]

Of course it's a problem!

[Bubblebubblepop]

Actually OP unless it's you drinking 5 bottles I think you're (unintentionally) exaggerating that

[HipToBeSquare]

5+ bottles in one sitting once a year is still a problem.

[LovelyPrep]

Sorry not me, my mum. Yet another nice family meal has turned into her drinking loads and getting maulding. If you tell her to stop she says she doesn't drink every night and it doesn't matter. Last time she fell out of bed, cried at my dad apparently until the early hours and woke up covered in bruises from the fall.
I just dread anniversaries, Christmas etc. Because it descends into this every time.
And yes I mean 5. She's on bottle 4 now and last time she ran out of wine so she started drinking Disaronno (not envy!)

[sweatylemon]

That is a huge amount in one go!
I drink a glass of wine a few times a week (maybe 3-4 days a week)
After 2 large glasses I can feel it. A bottle and I would feel very sick. 5 bottles and I would be in A&E

[LovelyPrep]

I can take a photo of the ones she's drunk so far but I could take a photo of any old bottles so it wouldn't prove much. She used those big ikea (i think) wine glasses so a bottle is gone in about 2/3 glasses.

[Bubblebubblepop]

Well you don't need to prove it.

I bet she is ashamed.

[anotherdayanotherdinner]

That's a huge amount for someone who doesn't drink regularly. I would guess she is drinking more often than she's letting on. Is that a possibility?

[LovelyPrep]

After the event she just gets defensive and carries on the argument that she rarely does it. It does make her ill, she throws up and everything and she won't be able to do anything for a few days.

[WickedLazy]

That's a stupidly dangerous amount of alcohol. Even drinking that much once, ever, is too much! Do you not really suffer the next day? That must lead to one hell of a hangover. Sloppy and emotional is standard drunk behaviour, but being nasty, violent or destructive isn't acceptable.

[RefuseTheLies]

Sorry op, but your mum must be drinking more often and in larger quantities than she's admitting to. Five bottles of wine would, at best, render an infrequent drinker near enough unconscious.