Take this questionnaire it's what I use professionally to identify problem drinking
https://www.cafcass.gov.uk/media/215145/alcohol_use_tool.pdf
https://www.cafcass.gov.uk/media/215145/alcohol_use_tool.pdf
Sorry to be blunt but this won't work, "once a week" and "special occasion" will turn into "crap day at work" and "it's Friday" and before you know it is 3 times a week and you will wonder why you bothered and then all bets are off and you'll just drink everyday again.
You are giving yourself loopholes before you even begun.
, why on earth else would we consume a poisonous substance so religiously?
Normalisation of drinking, ease of purchase and corporation profits.
I can't make sense of it but they seem to be implying that 50% of a&e visits are alcohol related.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35151246
Normalisation of drinking, ease of purchase and corporation profits.
I can't make sense of it but they seem to be implying that 50% of a&e visits are alcohol related.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35151246
Sorry to be blunt but this won't work, "once a week" and "special occasion" will turn into "crap day at work" and "it's Friday" and before you know it is 3 times a week and you will wonder why you bothered and then all bets are off and you'll just drink everyday again.
You are giving yourself loopholes before you even begun.
It isn't clear the OP is a full on addict or is someone who has been overdoing it socially...
We like a drink, quite a bit and more than is healthy and boarding on the destroying. We like wine / beer etc and let us put it this way, too much and it has to stop before it destroys us. We love each other so much, but this devil is always there and will destroy us. It is the only thing that we must defeat before it wins and destroys us.
Can you not work out for yourself when to stop? I don't mean this in a nasty way as I come from a home where my dad was an alcoholic so I don't think any of this is funny in the slightest. But surely after a few drinks it's not hard to work out that it's probably best to go on to soft drinks? [..]
And I guess it's harder for us with no addictions to understand. [..]
Isn't clear the OP is a full blown alcoholic like you, no reason why someone who has been overdoing it can't try drinking in moderation. Frankly trying to drying sensibly is quite a reasonable approach even if groups like AA have spread the myth that you have to completely eliminate alcohol.
Being Straight Edge is easy, anyone that says it's difficult is either easily influenced or isn't strong willed. I've not touched s drink in 9 years, never smoked and never done any drugs
First thing to understand is, it is your problem. No one else can dig you out. Sure you can get help.
But at the end of the day its down to you and you alone.
So stop going to the pub, tell all your friends you have a drinking problem and if they dont support you. Cut the cord and move on, the future is always more important that the past.
Moderation is fine, but if a person is routinely taking 10 times the relatively safe dose of a recreational drug and that usage is having adverse effects on their life and they don't have control over their drug usage, that person is almost certain to find moderation difficult or impossible. The safest thing for them to do is stop using entirely. That's not a myth.
Demanding abstinence too soon may just end up driving away a patient who is at the brink of dealing with addiction more directly. When a patient expresses a desire to moderate drinking, it can alert the clinician to a teachable moment. Patients who try to limit drinking for a while and find they are unable to do so may then realize that they have already developed dependence. This may be enough to motivate them to try to abstain.