Drinking while alone

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117942599#Comment_117942599

Isn't the judging usually done in relation to when it's affecting the drinkers' health though?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117995801#Comment_117995801

Not in the case of the OP, apparently.

JupiterKid

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117995311#Comment_117995311

There is just so much wrong in this post in terms of ignorance and denial that I don’t know where to even begin...

Recovering alcoholic myself, nearly 3 years sober at this stage. I would have made a post with a similar opinion about a decade ago when my own drinking was spiraling out of control.

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117995311#Comment_117995311

Then again there are people and cultures who drink daily and as many or as more units per week..

the french even it’s not looked down on to have a couple of glasses of wine with your lunch in the canteen and go back working... the global organization I worked for there had bottles of wine beside the cokes.

Parachutes

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117997200#Comment_117997200

Well that’s your experience, not necessarily me or anyone else.

Apart from culture, there’s a lot of genetics involved in alcoholism, and like a selection of other areas in the world, Ireland seems to have a generous distribution of these genes.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190402124314.htm

It’s not that enjoying a drink on one’s own leads to alcoholism per se, but that people affected by alcohol use disorder will inevitably drink on their own if they get any alone time to drink. They will seek that alone time whenever possible or when social drinking opportunities (where others are drinking a fair bit too) are denied as there will be nobody there to pass comment on how much is being consumed. The predisposition is already there, although I have heard it said by medical scientists that starting heavy drinking young increases the chances even in those less predisposed as the brain is still developing.

My great-great grandfather died of alcoholism in his 30s, leaving a widow and family. His son, my great-grandfather, took his first drink in his twenties and was noted to say “I liked that way too much, that’s my first and last drink or I will turn into my late father”. Wisely he never did touch another drop and spent his life running the business empire his widowed mother had created in desperation to feed her children.