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Going Sober?

yoyo50

yoyo50

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I've really been drinkin' Muthafucka, I really bee
Well my first post in a while (few months anyway), any ex drinkers around and quit? i was at worst doing 6L frosty jacks and 3-4 beers or a 35cl vodka not the worst but over 60 units a day so not the best, i have tried reading etc gone all the courses the dole are giving out (yeah i can now legally kill people with my forklift licence) ;).

problem is when im bored i will always turn to drink and after a days work a few beers is normal right, so im just wondering how you can give up drinking and keep busy enough to stay away from it, i can keep busy with mates etc but that will always end up with drinking and probably other stuff, i know alot or most of it is down to self control but it seems i don't have that so im looking for ways to occupy time :)
 
if you're drinking 6L frosty jacks and 35cl voddy a day then that is quite a lot. maybe try gradually reducing it, as your nerves might be screaming for drink at the end of the day and could be what's making it hard to stop. is this the case? also, frosty jacks is poison btw.

what do like doing, man? something you have to sober for like sports or exercise is always good, and has the added benefit of being good for your mind and body.
 
I was at my worst drinking 14 special brew a day ended up in my mums spare room with a black n white TV (2/channel) shitting and puking blood until my misses called the doc and I did a home detox 12 lithium reduced by 2 everyday until finished the first 4 days were the worst I ain't gonna lie but then the cravings and anxiety comes in waves which shitty are rideable then I was sober I had to COMPLETELY change my life but after a year it was bearable and now five years on I aint touched a drop I still think of it most days and family gatherings and new years eves are a cuntish time but on the whole my life's better I'm now working prob gonna live a longer life and my mental state is better (the memory of my mums bedroom and the dark time is is what I hold onto whenever tempted) that was some dark shit!!!!!.......fuck drink.....do I miss it? Fuck yeah
Can I live without it?yes and I'm better for it
I feel your pain mate but when you get sober it ain't all bad....Try and get a medical detox of some sort free your body from it.... Then work on the mental side which is long and difficult BUT not as hard as living life ruled by drink.
 
My ex n i used to drink frosty jack n brandy all day. Turned us fkn mental. I ended up trashing his place cause he was obsessed with the net n he decided it was a good idea to take four blokes on n get banned from the pub. Of course it werent his fault no it was his mate's fault for existing lol the joys of alcohol :)

Years later after opie addiction I then started drinking 2-3 bottles wine / bottle spirit (jin / vodie) per night.

Have you been to your local drug n alcohol place for help? You have to really want off tho. There's times I still want it but wasn't an addict like real alcoholics. Good luck.

Edit: please dont instantly give up without medical help it can be dangerous.


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lithium>? do you mean librium (which is usually used to taper off booze) anyhoo its tough thats for sure and with cross addictions and replacing one thing with another its can get very confusing. First just try and cut down as much as you can comfortably do even if its a glass a day, a week ..its not importent, just by lowering your intake your health will start to improve both physically and mentally and you may find your thoghts are more positive with less of an alchoholic haze to push through.
GL mate
 
blondin said:
lithium>? do you mean librium (which is usually used to taper off booze) anyhoo its tough thats for sure and with cross addictions and replacing one thing with another its can get very confusing. First just try and cut down as much as you can comfortably do even if its a glass a day, a week ..its not importent, just by lowering your intake your health will start to improve both physically and mentally and you may find your thoghts are more positive with less of an alchoholic haze to push through.
GL mate
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Yeah mate my bad librium.........tbh it could of been powdered unicorn horn for all I knew I was pretty much delirious for 4 days
 
Cheers for the advice, yeah i didn't stop i did taper down from drinking that to skols/tennents etc not done any drugs in like 6 months, just finding it's actually the drink which is really hard to go t-total mainly because it's legal and fairly cheap and about 24/7.
Anyways should be starting gym with a mate tomorrow so hopefully that will keep me busy and make me sleepy (it's too fucking hot right?)
 
Yeah I gave up drinking in 2011 and haven't touched a drop since. I was drinking maybe 2 bottles of wine a day, no spirits. I ended up being detoxed off it with benzos in hospital which didn't take long and I barely remember.

Stopping booze was probably the best thing I've done for my mental health and also for my health in general, it was a bit difficult for a few months at first but now I don't miss it atall and certainly don't miss the hangovers or the expense. I don't get cravings or any temptation to drink atall really now.

It is definately more of a problem if lots of your social life revolves around drinking (which just about everything in the uk seems to) but to be honest, I've never liked being around drunk people anyway.

I drink a lot of tea these days!

Good luck with it, stick it out and you will feel a hell of a lot better for it eventually.
 
What's frosty jack?

@Ceres was two bottles of wine your minimum drink, while its obviously not good for you, it doesn't seem bad enough for a hospital detox, "land the plane slowly" is what they say round here, meaning you have six cures the first night after a binge, then 3 cures the night after then two, the next day you feel great and sure feck it's Thursday the official start of the weekend let's celebrate feeling good by having a drink and before you know it you are out of it again. Done that for years. Still drink too much but swerve hangovers, mate is home from Sweden wants to go out for food and beers tonight, but I am going to duke it, can't be fucked dying a death tomorrow and iin the process cueing myself up to go on the tear for the weekend, making calls to get the beer accessories in then owing that money next week, with me nerves all frazzled and me resolutions in tatters.
 
gannetsarewe - it was more that I was drinking that every day, without fail, and it is enough to saturate the metabolic pathway meaning the alcohol level builds up pretty high in your blood over time. It was really complicating my life.

I was actually in hospital after breaking my arm so they took the opportunity to do the rapid benzo taper detox while I was there anyway. It worked, I think sticking to the notion of not even touching a sip of alcohol is what helped me stay away from it in the long run, I can imagine how people could lapse back into drinking heavily & regularly again after going off on a binge, slippery slope etc. Same as any drug.
 
I find I can keep saying "Probably again one day soon, maybe, when I'm properly ready, just not right now" for a lot longer than I can keep saying "Never again". The latter sounds too much like setting myself up to fail; whereas the former way, the only way I can fail is if I die before I have another drink / line. And then I'm not going to care. And of course, the guilt trip is much reduced -- you always knew you were going to, now just tidy up as best you can and see if you can't stay off longer next time.

But, everyone is different. And I have learned (the hard way) the difference between "enjoyable (once any accrued tolerance has worn off)" and "dangerous".
 
If I went out with £200 in my pocket and came home skint, I can be sure it wouldn't be whisky I'd been spending it on. And I wouldn't expect to be back within 4 days. As for the recovery -- well, when I was doing that sort of multi-day missions, I actually got by on surprisingly minuscule amounts of drink and drugs (refused to let myself ever get a tolerance), so maybe one more day before going back to work.

This could point to some sort of fundamental difference between us. Possibly me being a complete goody2shoes.
 
that's the thing £200 is around the right amount for both drink and drugs if i hit stuff hard but if i am just drinking at home a good meal first then 2 bottles of scotch is a nice mashed out 24 hours sort of
 
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