Drinking too much
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A high intake of alcohol causes severe brain damage such as Wernicke encephalopathy. It's about the most toxic drug there is.
I got brain damage before i started drinking! Lol
Its easy to turn to drink after work. Stresses of the day plus life. For me, at the lowest point ever in my life, which is NOW, drink can be an escape. Stupid i know. But, when you at your lowest point you need an escape from reality. Sad i know.
Not the route to go down mate, trust me
Alcohol will not make you feel better long term
You say, lowest point ?
Lowest point is when you are dependant on the stuff.
Your life revolves around the next can/bottle of wine
You wake from being drunk covered in urine, only to go out to buy more
You become a recluse
That is not an escape, that is a life style i would not wish on anyone.
I've lived it, don't make the same mistakes i have
I’m being absolutely serious here, maybe you were drinking the wrong booze.
I can only guess that you were drinking something which had a taste that appealed to you, and why not, you’re hardly likely to get enamoured of something that you don’t like the taste of.
I started off, at 17 or 18, drinking beer like my peers, I can’t remember having hangovers, but it made me feel bloated.
Eventually, around 21 or 22, I moved on to whisky, still don’t recall bad hangovers, but my mouth tasted like a camel driver’s armpit in the mornings.
And the world rolled on, and yea, I suffered whisky, all over the world, until the fateful day in Poznan, Poland, in 1974, when my Polish girlfriend said, “Hey, Jean-Francois, try this local stuff, we call it vodka.”
I never looked back, sure, it took me a few months to learn how to balance my intake, and there were times when I couldn’t walk more than two paces without desperately clutching the wall, but I fought my way through, and never once had to pop a Paracetamol, but I surely learned that I could sleep like a champion.
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Me and the Mrs tend to have a couple of glasses of wine whilst watching a film at weekends. I guess we probably get through three bottles between us each week.
We enjoy it though and try not let it slip into the weekdays.
We enjoy it though and try not let it slip into the weekdays.
Today i am going to make a new start. No more alcohol. Good to really try this time. As i said before, i dont drink every day anyway. Maybe a few days a week. But i sometimes drink more plus, when i do drink it makes me REALLY down.
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Alcohol is a funny thing, a small amount makes you feel great and want more. But too much and it brings you down.
If you know you can stop after just a drink or two then no problem. But if you're the sort of person who cannot stop once they've started, the only thing to do is just not drink at all.
Good luck, hope you sort things out. Knowing there's an issue and wanting to do something about it is half the battle.
you need to want to stop in order to actually stop. your posting history tells me you're making excuses and justifying your drinking. really not good signs. coming on here and posting you're going to stop is fooling no one, least of all yourself. you need to get proper help fella.
if you think turning to alcohol is the way to deal with what you perceive to be a **** life then you are in for a hell of a big shock. you only think your life is **** now. you keep drinking the way you are and what you'll get to see what a **** life is really like - and that's if you're lucky.
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Just focus on the day in hand
Don't think about doing a whole week without drinking, but rather one day, and it'll soon turn in to manyThis, it's quite clear with just this thread that you're going to struggle to do this without any proper help.
I think I've got a good relationship with alcohol, I really enjoy it and I don't feel like I drink too much on the whole. I used to go pretty hard at it back at school and uni, but these days (29 now) I do probably one big night every 2 or 3 months, and most of those are stag do's/weddings. To be fair at most of these occasions I'll go quite overboard, physically decimating hangovers.
But I do drink in the evenings more often than I'd like to. It is so easy to grab a beer after work from the fridge, and even though I normally will only have 1 or 2 on probably two weeknights a week, I'd like to have less. Typical weekend consumption if I don't have a large night as above would be ~3 bottles of beer and a small whisky.
I'm doing dry January just for the discipline challenge but failed twice so far. Once was drinks after work with a couple of people I wanted to get to know better (and what better way than beers), the other a Sunday lunch with friends where I should have resisted but even the mrs. was pushing the red my way.
It's a funny thing that I feel like I have a comfortable relationship with it, yet feel like I need to try dry January and still fail! Reading this thread is a good reminder to anyone who ever drinks, what can happen if you aren't mindful of how much you get through.
But I do drink in the evenings more often than I'd like to. It is so easy to grab a beer after work from the fridge, and even though I normally will only have 1 or 2 on probably two weeknights a week, I'd like to have less. Typical weekend consumption if I don't have a large night as above would be ~3 bottles of beer and a small whisky.
I'm doing dry January just for the discipline challenge but failed twice so far. Once was drinks after work with a couple of people I wanted to get to know better (and what better way than beers), the other a Sunday lunch with friends where I should have resisted but even the mrs. was pushing the red my way.
It's a funny thing that I feel like I have a comfortable relationship with it, yet feel like I need to try dry January and still fail! Reading this thread is a good reminder to anyone who ever drinks, what can happen if you aren't mindful of how much you get through.
Where do you drink this bottle of whiskey to be social ?
Sounds like it is drunk at home, which is not social.
Your last line is probably the most accurate.
