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How long has Cobes likely been an alcoholic for?
Thing is alcoholism is less about how much or how frequently you drink and more about why you drink/ of course alcoholics drink all the time and become drunks and let it get out of control but I’d argue from the beginning he was an “alcoholic” in a sense that he was drinking “for the wrong reasons”. He drank to cope with difficult emotions, he drank to improve his mood when he felt down, he enjoyed drinking alone. Hell the guy doesn’t even like alcohol or drinking and never has, he’s always cornering on liking when he tastes liquor, it’s just been a means to an end which is getting drunk. Regardless of if it’s every day , every week, or once a month if you’re only reason for drinking is to get drunk because getting drunk improves your mood, helps you deal with negative emotions, numbs pain, gives you confidence etc then you’re an alcoholic in a psychological senseThis is an interesting question. For as long as Cobes as been on Youtube he's been a binge drinker. Even back in the way old days in the OG apartment he would drink to the point of being hungover. The thing of it was he didn't have enough money to be a an alcoholic back then. He'd drink when he had the money to drink but most of the time was broke. I think it was around 2018-2019 when he started to get paypigs regularly donating booze and sending him cash for booze that he began drinking nearly daily and by the time he moved into his new apartment in 2020 he was a full on drunk.
Theres like alcoholism in a sense of literally having a physical dependency to alcohol and there’s alcoholism in the sense of psychology. Some people are alcoholics before they ever drank, some people are alcoholics and have never and will never drink. It’s like they’re sitting on a case of dynamite and alcohol is the flame that ends up lighting the fuse. Recovered alcoholics are the same way, the fuse went out but they’re still sitting on the dynamite if they drink again it’ll light the fuse.
So Josh has always been an alcoholic it’s hardwired in his mind how he’d treat alcohol. When did he start being an alcoholic? I’d say high school when he was caught stealing liquor from his parents liquor cabinet and sneaking drinks from their bottles.