to love drinking by myself?

[sallysparrow157]

Apparently drinking alone is evidence you have a problem and you must be all sad and miserable and stuff. I love the occasional solitary evening of getting wasted - I read crap online, listen to music on youtube, watch awful films and cry at them and generally have a lovely time alone with my wine - getting pissed alone is a little treat! So... do I have a terrible alcohol problem???

'waddle', pmsl! Ok, got it now.

'Americas next top wine' MrsJay

Thanks Amazing that is correct

As I said, if you can drink a whole bottle of wine and not feel drunk I'd be concerned.

It doesn't really matter what someone's 'opinion' of binge drinking is, You don't have to be falling over puking, it's a simple fact. "The NHS definition of binge drinking is drinking heavily in a short space of time to get drunk or feel the effects of alcohol.

The government advises that people should not regularly drink more than the daily unit guidelines of 2-3 units of alcohol for women (equivalent to a 175 ml glass of wine). ?Regularly? means drinking every day or most days of the week.

Binge drinking for women, it?s drinking more than 6 units of alcohol, equivalent to two large glasses of wine. "

That's from NHS. So NHS defines binge drinking as 2 glasses of wine. You say you have 4. I don't care how much you drink, I don't know you.

but seriously, those are the facts, and Yes, I think defensiveness is also a worrying sign.

As for drinking alone, I don't think that's a sign or not of a problem - people who live on their own for example, you can live with someone and the pair of you share a bottle of wine a night every night can think well, we're not drinking alone and sharing so we don't have a problem, while if they HAVE to drink every night they probably do. imo.

I agree it's not really about how you feel. I personally would feel drunk (and probably be sick ) if I drank a whole bottle of wine on my own - others may have built up more tolerance and feel fine, but that doesn't as far as I know make it any better for their liver, blood-pressure etc.

If you're confident that you're not drinking too much, then fine. It's worth taking an honest and objective look at it though, because excessive drinking is something that's become very normal/acceptable in our culture, and it's easy to kid yourself i.e. it's 'only' 4 glasses, without considering how big a glass is and how many units it adds up to.

whosgotmyhairytoe by that I was meaning that they are not considered to have the same kind of binge drinking problem as the UK.

The French, who often enjoy wine with lunch, have the worst rate of drink-driving deaths in Europe, IIRC, so it's not necessarily helpful to look at what is 'normal' in other countries wrt drinking behaviours.

Agree re drinking alone- having a glass or two on your own on the odd occasion (with plenty of alcohol-free days in between) is no different to having an occasional drink if you live with someone. But getting pissed regularly, whether alone or in company, isn't very healthy.

Yes it's Tuesday, I knew that
And this is me NOT drinking