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The old one has been archived due to size and can be found here.

Feel free to continue the previous discussions.

Good luck to everyone that's struggling with cutting back/quitting. <3
 
Drinking-wise or in general? The former bad, the latter good. :)

I have cut back though, which I guess is an improvement.
 
I didn't buy/drink alcohol yesterday (friday)

took kratom instead :)
 
Now drinking... This is still better than last weekend.

And yeah, I have been diagnosed as alcohol addict.
 
since i've been on suboxone, my drinking has been cut by half.. the good effects of alcohol seem to be gone and i'm feeling sick after 2 beers now. thats a good thing for me however, because alcohol has always been a thorn in my side.
 
Madmike said:
And yeah, I have been diagnosed as alcohol addict.

May I ask whom diagnosed you? Also, would like to hear what lead up to the diagnosis.
 
I'm beginning to worry about my alcohol intake now.
It varies week by week, but the more I drink, the more I feel the need to drink and the earlier I start.
I don't think this situation is sustainable, so am going to have to do something about it.
It doesn't seem as bad as issues I've had with other stuff, though.

For those that know a bit more about the actual mechanics (psychological and neurochemical) is it true that an addiction to any substance will make you dramatically more likely to end up addicted to something else or is the initial addiction just an indication of your predisposition?
 
BlackOut said:
May I ask whom diagnosed you? Also, would like to hear what lead up to the diagnosis.
GP

Alcohol withdrawal syndrome lead to that diagnosis.

Now I don't have that diagnose anymore thought.
 
I realised today I was definitely an alcoholic. I awoke at 3.30am, having passed out around 11pm, before long I started having strange auditory hallucinations (voices) which I found myself replying to. Then the shakes, sweats, panic attacks and sheer terror arrived on cue later on in the day. What perturbs me the most is that all this was a product of only one day's drinking. This is the product of previous withdrawals in the past. I was sobre all week except Saturday, although I did drink all day long and probably had about 50 or so units. I'm starting to feel a little better now I think.

So...biologically I'm an alchy and psychologically I am as well. I hate socialising sobre. My girlfriend and best friend apart, people bore me when I'm sobre, and I include myself in that. Without a good drinking session to look forward to, there's very little that's special about a typical week for me.
 
glad to see this thread continued.

anyways...i still drink every night, but i'm better than when i started the original thread. no liqour for me for the most part.
haven't blacked out in awhile either.

hangover aside, i really just can't drink liquor any more. i black out w/o fail and lately, i've gotten very unpredictable when i black out.
before i'd just act goofy and pass out, but now it's a toss up if i'll be mean as hell or all emo or weird....

so i'll stick to not blacking out. i'm liking not having to piece the night before together the next day.
 
yeah i'm with you on the blacking out- if im going to drink that much i make sure im not around anyone else because i may end up breaking down and crying or yelling at one of my best buds.
 
Sorry to say i've hit the bottle again lately .. it's no way to make it through the day, but it swallows up enough hours to seem worth it some days.

I hate everything about it .. but at this point I hate everything around me, with no escape, so down it goes.
 
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ever been drinking and reached the point where you know you had enough and stopped, only to realize there's still at least 2 drinks still going through your system? yeh i had that last week... wasn't pretty. was making myself some food when BAM the dizzyness kicked in. and i mean dizzyness like if i threw up my mind thought it would float away rather than land anywhere. so after falling over twice just trying to make it to bed i'm now on a diet. i like being a little tipsy, but i aint going back to topsy-turvy. that shit was nasty
 
I was last drunk on Friday night - which is good going for me.
 
I went from drinking a lot every day to drinking only a little bit every few days within the past month.

I am not an alcoholic anymore... but I do love the booze...
 
Spurs_1882 said:
I hate socialising sobre. My girlfriend and best friend apart, people bore me when I'm sobre, and I include myself in that. Without a good drinking session to look forward to, there's very little that's special about a typical week for me.

Yup, been there. Back when I drank several days a week, I couldn't conceive of a life without the rewarding feeling alcohol gives you. "Alcohol is a good thing, so lots of it must be better". I wish it was so!

It's like a fog that dissipated when I stopped drinking that much. I still drink, and in the days following a session, I have to be very disciplined not to fall into that mindset again.
 
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