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Drug Sabbatical Support & Appreciation Thread Mk. III: New Beginnings

Fuck off out of the sabbatical thread, people who aren't taking sabbaticals. It's not fair. :|

I'm only having a couple of weeks break, though sobriety is starting to annoy me now.
 
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swampdragon said:
Fuck off out of the sabbatical thread, people who aren't taking sabbaticals. It's not fair. :|
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Agreed. We're very lax in EADD about off-topic posting but there are a handful of threads which we do like to keep on-topic and this is one of them. Take the boot-sniffing talk to Gibberings or get a room please, folks.

In sabbatical news, have agreed with another EADDer to aim for four weeks without booze throughout August. Would certainly be for the best I think cos booze is not good for me. Four weeks does seem a bit daunting but from memory it's mainly the first week which is tricky. Have my assessment for going back on a script on the day this booze sabbatical starts though which is a bit of a concern. Bridge to cross at the time...
 
I'm sure you'll cross that bridge no bother when the time comes.

Now that I'm in the correct thread...

I've decided not to take any drugs until September. I've enjoyed sampling some new & old drugs recently but I think really that using too often will interfere with the effectiveness of my SSRIs. I'm sure the goodies I have will be all the better for having a break when I do get around to sampling them. :)
 
On topic this time (back so soon? yeah I got bored).

I couldn't imagine giving up alcohol for a month which is probably a sign I need to take a break too. As I've said before, I only have a glass of wine a night, rarely more unless I'm going out but it's not a particularly good habit still so I might have a few days off soon. When I'm taking drugs I tend to drink a lot less but I don't think that's really a good alternative :P

After August I'm going to attempt to lay off meph until I start uni again so I can have a good first time MDMA sesh during fresher's week. Can only have one first time after all and it'd be a waste at the moment with how much meph I've been taking recently. Ideally I'd have an even longer break than (not quite) a month I know and ideally I'd stop with the coke in that time too but hey, I'm not that sensible (plus I openly admit that I actually couldn't do it).
 
I couldn't do a week without alcohol (I binge drink quite heavily - not daily but a lot on the days that I do). Managed three months with barely any effort last summer somehow. That was unplanned though - it's the planning in advance bit which makes it feel harder I think.
 
I've just chalked off month number four. That's after a long period of reduced drinking, followed by seeing the results of lifelong heavy drinking up close and (very) personal. Doubt I'd have made it this far without the latter, but the former certainly helped.
 
I've known endstage alcoholics and it is a truly pitiful (not to mention horrific) sight. I'm a long way from anything like that but we all know how much damage heavy drinking does and that endstage bit can last a surprisingly long time. All of it deeply, deeply shitty from what I've seen :|

And congrats on the four month :)
 
I used to drink a lot more than I do now, again because of drugs (see? they do have their benefits!). Since I got properly into drugs alcohol always feels lacking somewhat and makes me crave other stuff if I drink enough of it :P I've never been into the drinking 'just for the sake of it' anyway or just to get drunk if I'm not going out, I drink because I like the taste of it which is why I never have shit alcohol. Longest I've gone without drinking at all this year is only like, 3 or 4 days I think which doesn't sound great but could be worse, don't think I'm drinking enough to do any lasting damage to myself at least so it's kind of alright.

Four and three months is a great effort you two, must've been hard especially if you were drinking a lot before. Guessing it gets easier after a certain point though?
 
Shambles said:
I've known endstage alcoholics and it is a truly pitiful (not to mention horrific) sight. I'm a long way from anything like that but we all know how much damage heavy drinking does and that endstage bit can last a surprisingly long time. All of it deeply, deeply shitty from what I've seen :|

And congrats on the four month :)
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Yeah, wasn't pretty, wasn't fun, was very much inevitable. Still can't think about it too much, but that's life.

And thanks. Good luck in your own endeavours. :)

SummerSerenade said:
I used to drink a lot more than I do now, again because of drugs (see? they do have their benefits!). Since I got properly into drugs alcohol always feels lacking somewhat and makes me crave other stuff if I drink enough of it :P I've never been into the drinking 'just for the sake of it' anyway or just to get drunk if I'm not going out, I drink because I like the taste of it which is why I never have shit alcohol. Longest I've gone without drinking at all this year is only like, 3 or 4 days I think which doesn't sound great but could be worse, don't think I'm drinking enough to do any lasting damage to myself at least so it's kind of alright.

Four and three months is a great effort you two, must've been hard especially if you were drinking a lot before. Guessing it gets easier after a certain point though?
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Even if you're not drinking every day, it pays to give your body a proper rest from time to time. Helps you stay beautiful, y'know?

And yeah, it does get easier. From week 3 (for me) the cravings start to fade, and that's half the battle done. Still would love to get a bottle of whiskey and be sensible with it, but that isn't happening.
 
Three and four months is very good indeed, congrats

Been a heavy weekend binge drinker for many years, through my late teens and early 20s had rebound, mild w/d or whatever it is quite a few times from the amount, tolerance has been right up for years, a month off would do me good.. would be an effort to manage that though. but giving up/massively cutting down on spirits is a start i guess. far less brutal on the body and vodka doesnt seem to get me nicely pissed anymore. barley drank last weekend which is a nice start. felt more fresh and clearheaded on monday. havent noticed much problems from heavy drinking though, bar kidney aches a few times. would be interesting to get a blood test and find out what state my livers in. less booze, beetroot and milk thistle for now

Same here summer, booze on its own feels lacking.. has done ever since i first tried stims. mixing them is a beauty of a combo. used to love booze on its own, feels far too sloppy and dull now. i'll probably always like it tho, have done ever since i first got drunk as a young teen. compared to other stuff i've tried its fairly shite though, but still
 
First week was hard, second week not so hard, after that it became surprisingly easy. I actually started to prefer being sober of a night... boozeless anyway - did still take proper drugs obviously. I'm not deranged.

If I could go to the shop and buy real drugs at a reasonable price I'd drink a lot less than I do. I can't though and living where I do it's not like I can just call somebody and get whatever tickles my fancy - everything has to be acquired from online more or less which means advance planning, waiting on deliveries, certain options not really open to me (cos I don't use the TOR sites) and so on.
 
I'm knocking around two months clean of opiates now I think, reducing on diazepam. Alcohol consumption reduced to a couple of beers a few times a week although I did get pissed on Saturday.
 
Sammy G said:
Even if you're not drinking every day, it pays to give your body a proper rest from time to time. Helps you stay beautiful, y'know?

And yeah, it does get easier. From week 3 (for me) the cravings start to fade, and that's half the battle done. Still would love to get a bottle of whiskey and be sensible with it, but that isn't happening.
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I do drink every day at the moment, just not in large quantities :P First part was exactly what I was thinking though, even though I never feel bad from it in any way it can't be good to get used to drinking all the time. Should be relatively easy for me to have a break so I don't know why I don't really. It's not like I ever crave it in the sense of thinking 'fuck me I really need a drink', it's more that I just think 'well, I'm having a nice meal so why not have a nice glass of wine to go with it'. Which I suppose is still kind of craving but like, I wouldn't be bothered if I happened to be somewhere where I couldn't have a drink if you see what I mean. It's just because it's available and I can never see any major reason not to.

ColtDan said:
Same here summer, booze on its own feels lacking.. has done ever since i first tried stims. mixing them is a beauty of a combo. used to love booze on its own, feels far too sloppy and dull now. i'll probably always like it tho, have done ever since i first got drunk as a young teen. compared to other stuff i've tried its fairly shite though, but still
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This exactly, even though I still didn't drink a lot before I got into stims I used to enjoy it an awful lot more (in the getting drunk sense, I still enjoy it just as much in the taste sense). I didn't really get properly drunk until I was 18, late getting into that like everything else :P Been drinking in gradually increasing quantities since I was like, 12 though (as in, having a small bit of wine at Christmas and other special occasions... thinking about it I'm not sure how common that is, might just be a posh person thing haha). I think it's good getting used to alcohol gradually, stopped me going mad with it.
 
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