Nothing is wrong with drinking alcohol as long is it is taken moderately and occasionally. However, alcohol is known to be a great way for fun and resort when a person has a problem. When this happens too often, dependence or alcohol abuse starts. This makes drinking alcohol bad.
If you think your level of drinking alcohol becomes greater than before, you may decide to seek medical help. It is not hard to identify alcohol-related problems. Symptoms are very much easy to characterize and determine. Despite this fact, many people all around the world often fall into alcohol abuse without them knowing it. At first, they think that they just feel like drinking or they feel like drinking more. It may happen and this is common however, if you think your tolerance for alcohol is increasing gradually and the need for alcohol becomes too often, you may be starting to have symptoms of alcohol abuse.
Symptoms may not be enough to help you identify if you are suffering from alcohol abuse. Basically, if you are starting to abuse yourself by drinking too much alcohol, you tend to forget necessary things that you are supposed to do, those with more importance than your drinking binge. You drink persistently that you already neglect other things. What makes it worst is that because of your persistent drinking, things such as work, family, social, health and legal things are exacerbated.
Another thing that shows abuse of alcohol is the repeated intake of alcohol under certain circumstances despite the fact that these circumstances pose danger to the person. An example of this is driving under the influence of alcohol. No matter how much others tell you about the danger of drunken driving may bring, it seems that you could not believe it and you tend to be stubborn continuously doing this thing. Another example of these circumstances is going to work under the influence of alcohol. Although you know that it is very dangerous for your professional life to be working after drinking, you still persist.
Alcohol-related problems, when not yet so severe are still easy to overcome. Surpassing the stage of denial and listening to the advices of people around you will help you overcome the negative effects of alcohol abuse. If you think your tolerance for alcohol is going beyond the normal, try to lay low, rest for a while and try to discipline yourself and monitor the frequency of your drinking. Remember that nothing is wrong with moderate drinking, what makes it bad is when you do it excessively.