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 alexithymia
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 One Month of Sobriety Starts Today... 
#12400303 - 04/15/10 08:28 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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From alcohol that is..
Wish me luck. Tomorrow night is my friend's birthday party, I know it's going to be really hard to pass up a drink then but I need to learn how to engage in social environments without a drink in my hand. Some background information on me, I'm a 19 year old female and I binge drink about 4 times a week consuming anywhere from 6-12 drinks a night. I at least partially blackout about 75% of the time, I drink on nights when I have obligations the next day, and I can literally not stop drinking after I've hit about the 4 drink threshold. I made the biggest mistake of my life hammered and I went out and drank 2 nights later. I try to convince myself that "this is college, it's just a phase" but I sometimes worry that it's really not. Only time will tell I suppose..
Anyway, so I'm giving it up for a month. I want to see if I can do it, and if I can how difficult it is. I think that'll be a pretty sure sign of how much of a problem it really is.
Has anyone else gone sober for a period of time just to see how much of a problem they really have? What were the results?
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 Re: One Month of Sobriety Starts Today... [Re: alexithymia]
#12400346 - 04/15/10 08:34 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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your 19. there is no reason for you to have to stop drinking. shit i drink more than you do and manage to get along just fine.
i get bitched at all the time by friends and family but i don't care. i make horrible decisions. you know shit happens. ive woken up several times in jail and have no idea how i got there. shit happens.
life goes on. keep drinking. party on. you will have time to worry about consequences when your old.
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Cascadian
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Re: One Month of Sobriety Starts Today... [Re: alexithymia]
#12400382 - 04/15/10 08:40 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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While I disagree with TrippinNutz...
a month is a long time, and you are indeed young.
Take a break, a boundary is good. However the tough part is to drink moderately rather than fluctuate between binges and 'clean periods'. My friends and I did this alot when we were in college. Honestly its unhealthy and a 'break' only makes you feel better.
Its better for you to have three drinks a day, every day than to save up and black out every weekend and go sober during the week.
Blacking out hurts you. You'l be in this body for a long time, treat it right! Yeah youre young and you can take it, but know that you'll feel it for the rest of your life.
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Re: One Month of Sobriety Starts Today... [Re: TrippinNutz]
#12400392 - 04/15/10 08:42 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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TrippinNutz said:
your 19. there is no reason for you to have to stop drinking. shit i drink more than you do and manage to get along just fine.
i get bitched at all the time by friends and family but i don't care. i make horrible decisions. you know shit happens. ive woken up several times in jail and have no idea how i got there. shit happens.
life goes on. keep drinking. party on. you will have time to worry about consequences when your old.
That's the stupidest fucking post I've ever read 
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Re: One Month of Sobriety Starts Today... [Re: TrippinNutz]
#12400394 - 04/15/10 08:43 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
TrippinNutz said:
your 19. there is no reason for you to have to stop drinking. shit i drink more than you do and manage to get along just fine.
i get bitched at all the time by friends and family but i don't care. i make horrible decisions. you know shit happens. ive woken up several times in jail and have no idea how i got there. shit happens.
life goes on. keep drinking. party on. you will have time to worry about consequences when your old.
this guy is an idiot
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 Re: One Month of Sobriety Starts Today... [Re: ApJunkie]
#12400419 - 04/15/10 08:46 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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ApJunkie said:
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TrippinNutz said:
your 19. there is no reason for you to have to stop drinking. shit i drink more than you do and manage to get along just fine.
i get bitched at all the time by friends and family but i don't care. i make horrible decisions. you know shit happens. ive woken up several times in jail and have no idea how i got there. shit happens.
life goes on. keep drinking. party on. you will have time to worry about consequences when your old.
That's the stupidest fucking post I've ever read
is it really?
or did it make more sense than anything you have ever read in your entire life ?
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Re: One Month of Sobriety Starts Today... [Re: Cascadian]
#12400425 - 04/15/10 08:47 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Your drinking habits seem high and if they are causing problems it's probably time to evaluate things. A month is a good goal, best of luck! 
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Cascadian
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Re: One Month of Sobriety Starts Today... [Re: TrippinNutz]
#12400446 - 04/15/10 08:51 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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TrippinNutz said:
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ApJunkie said:
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TrippinNutz said:
your 19. there is no reason for you to have to stop drinking. shit i drink more than you do and manage to get along just fine.
i get bitched at all the time by friends and family but i don't care. i make horrible decisions. you know shit happens. ive woken up several times in jail and have no idea how i got there. shit happens.
life goes on. keep drinking. party on. you will have time to worry about consequences when your old.
That's the stupidest fucking post I've ever read
is it really?
or did it make more sense than anything you have ever read in your entire life ?
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alexithymia
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Re: One Month of Sobriety Starts Today... [Re: Cascadian]
#12400448 - 04/15/10 08:51 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
TrippinNutz said:
your 19. there is no reason for you to have to stop drinking. shit i drink more than you do and manage to get along just fine.
i get bitched at all the time by friends and family but i don't care. i make horrible decisions. you know shit happens. ive woken up several times in jail and have no idea how i got there. shit happens.
life goes on. keep drinking. party on. you will have time to worry about consequences when your old.
But it's starting to interfere with my life. It certainly impacts my school work, it's damaged several friendships, and it's most certainly harmed me. Not to mention alcoholism runs in my family (which isn't terribly uncommon, but still).
You can't have the attitude of "shit happens" every time you screw up. You will get no where in life with that mindset.
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Cascadian said:
While I disagree with TrippinNutz...
a month is a long time, and you are indeed young.
Take a break, a boundary is good. However the tough part is to drink moderately rather than fluctuate between binges and 'clean periods'. My friends and I did this alot when we were in college. Honestly its unhealthy and a 'break' only makes you feel better.
Its better for you to have three drinks a day, every day than to save up and black out every weekend and go sober during the week.
Blacking out hurts you. You'l be in this body for a long time, treat it right! Yeah youre young and you can take it, but know that you'll feel it for the rest of your life.
Yeah, I most certainly fluctuate between period where I drink moderately and am responsible about it, and then there are periods (like the one I'm just coming out of) where I'm blacking out 4-5 times a week.
I just need a break from it. I need to focus on school (finals are coming up) and it'd be best if I just gave it up completely for a bit. Like I said, that'll also be a telling sign of how dependent I really am on it based on how difficult it is, if I even last that is.
I just really don't know how worried I should be. I'm in college and drinking a lot seems to be the norm. I don't know if it's just a phase and I'll grow out of it once I enter the "real world" or if I'll be the girl that passes out after too many martinis at a business dinner and gets fired.
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Re: One Month of Sobriety Starts Today... [Re: Deekay]
#12400451 - 04/15/10 08:51 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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take it from someone who was drinking that much at 16... it's not a phase if it's on your mind this much...
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Re: One Month of Sobriety Starts Today... [Re: TrippinNutz]
#12400452 - 04/15/10 08:51 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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No, it was fucking retarded. You admitted that your life is going to shit because of your drinking problem, but you don't care because "oh well I'm young so I can do whatever I want." Then you encouraged someone (MUCH fucking smarter than you) who knows they have a problem and who wants to better themself, that they should drink even more because your sorry excuse for existence isn't homeless (yet).
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alexithymia
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Re: One Month of Sobriety Starts Today... [Re: Deekay]
#12400460 - 04/15/10 08:52 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Deekay said:
Your drinking habits seem high and if they are causing problems it's probably time to evaluate things. A month is a good goal, best of luck!
Thankyou! 
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Re: One Month of Sobriety Starts Today... [Re: alexithymia]
#12400472 - 04/15/10 08:54 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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alexithymia said:
But it's starting to interfere with my life. It certainly impacts my school work, it's damaged several friendships, and it's most certainly harmed me. Not to mention alcoholism runs in my family (which isn't terribly uncommon, but still).
You can't have the attitude of "shit happens" every time you screw up. You will get no where in life with that mindset.
That's exactly the correct mindset. Since you realize how your abuse is negatively affecting your life and you're determined to fix that I have no doubts that you will be successful in your journey and a much happier person because of it 
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Re: One Month of Sobriety Starts Today... [Re: ApJunkie]
#12400483 - 04/15/10 08:56 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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ApJunkie said:
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alexithymia said:
But it's starting to interfere with my life. It certainly impacts my school work, it's damaged several friendships, and it's most certainly harmed me. Not to mention alcoholism runs in my family (which isn't terribly uncommon, but still).
You can't have the attitude of "shit happens" every time you screw up. You will get no where in life with that mindset.
That's exactly the correct mindset. Since you realize how your abuse is negatively affecting your life and you're determined to fix that I have no doubts that you will be successful in your journey and a much happier person because of it
Thankyou
My only question is, what's the next step? Let's say I do last a month and it's exceptionally difficult? Do I go cold turkey? Do I just work on drinking in moderation?
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Re: One Month of Sobriety Starts Today... [Re: TrippinNutz]
#12400488 - 04/15/10 08:57 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Obviously if you think you have a problem (if it is negatively affecting your everyday life and interfering with your basic responsibilities) then you should stop, or at least take a break.
I think it's a good idea to try and refrain from drinking at your friend's party, if only to prove to yourself that you have self control.
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Re: One Month of Sobriety Starts Today... [Re: alexithymia]
#12400489 - 04/15/10 08:58 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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I would say quit while you're ahead...
just my opinion.
If you have an addictive personally, you're gonna be addicted to something. Start working out or something...
AA works for a lot of people. I stayed sober for a while in there but not forever...
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Re: One Month of Sobriety Starts Today... [Re: alexithymia]
#12400501 - 04/15/10 08:59 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Best of luck! I just did a 3-day water fast for the first time in my life and gave up smoking, my willpower amazed me and I was so proud of myself for not cracking.
 Here's to you having the same satisfaction. GOOD LUCK!!!
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Re: One Month of Sobriety Starts Today... [Re: Cascadian]
#12400502 - 04/15/10 08:59 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Re: One Month of Sobriety Starts Today... [Re: alexithymia]
#12400505 - 04/15/10 09:00 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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I'd say that's something for you to decide when you get there. If the month ends and you're still fiending for a drink then I'd say go another month, or a couple more weeks at least, but if you feel like you've made serious progress and that you've learned to manage cravings then I'd say learning how to drink in moderation would be a good step. You don't want to go the entire rest of your life without ever having another beer or anything right? so I'd say practice drinking say once a week, or once every 2 weeks and if you can successfully do that then you're out of the woods.
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Re: One Month of Sobriety Starts Today... [Re: TrippinNutz]
#12400516 - 04/15/10 09:02 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Once i went cold turkey on klonopin + alcohol...i passed out had some crazy hallucinations and woke up at my parents house a few weeks to a month later, wtf? ...also im not sure if this was separate from another time when i was smokin alot thizz so much that i passed out again on my bed and imagined my friend circling the building with a knife..turns out he was, i was kidnapped this time as well..also during one of the trips i was brought to a hospital where the doctor uh...felt me down below which creeped me out to the max im not sure why he needed to do that but im sure it was for a test, they apparantly shot me up with alot of geodon, the doctor looked like ek. the other one i remember is sitting on a couch with my old friend h and him walking up stairs with someone i knows sister...bareback lol. during this time there was another friends sister there staring at me with her brother, another kid was coming up and so i was shipped back...they had pansy stems haha. they apparantly though i was annoying even though i wasnt saying anything..i was in a daze, i guess there jealous or envious so it was probably for the best. now im apparantly with someone else though im still not 100% sure. after arriving at my parents house after all this i began popping purples every day sometimes 5-6...got my heart pumping quick and opened it up for good, while this was happeneing my friend and its friends focused their attention on me for days...kinda freaked me out when they sat on the other side of the wall listening to every little movement and sound i would make...in the end company is always welcomed. later after more thizz had been consumed i was messaging a anonymous buddy at 6am when my dad somehow knew or got a jealous feeling because of the messages i sent...they were related to extended family and oral sex...i thought it was funny i knew when i witnessed nothing...my dad thought this was unfair i guess and so kicked me out, now im doing nothing and getting almost 0 help except for random food, i cant work and the system delays their aid. 99% of this is true, but the details are all schemes set up to see how my heart will react to proximity with other people and circumstances...i dont really care so much and if i did it was because i already knew and because of that the principles of your actions, the anger created in me because you would dare to test me as if to fool me. the whore was paid for to make it seem like she wasnt a whore to test, then to show that she is a true whore, the friends were there for...whatever... and its because they have a fairly good idea of who i was in my previous life, i just simply dont care though, you change in your time between worlds which is what they have learned...most people anger me most people i hate enough to stay away from and im mostly content with that...drugs are good drugs will always be your best friend, i wasnt the one you were describing i was completely calm, just because one person feels themselves more deeply doesnt mean you have to right to be a dick because you wish you could be the same way, like i would care about cops i would kill myself before i let one touch me ..the irony of how people think someone is boring but want them so close because they dive into aura emanation, then discard...thats real smart...you should get ur facts straight before you use someone u never know what friends they have that you dont know about, and people can only hide so much before theyre found...on new years eve i had nothing to do so i downed a small amount of dx, this turned out to be a bad idea..i was on the bed got a bad feeling and so lied down on the floor...after that i started receiving thoughts of d trying to fuck me, while w closed it...just means that you dont take dx in h, now though i have this feeling in my balls of tingling and soreness and it appeared after that incident, i have no idea how thats possible but its really annoying...before all that i was tripping on 6 pills on the bed when i received a aura of someone...this person attached herself to my dick and from there rose to ecstatic blinding flashes of light and intense otherworldly orgasms..crazy stuff....and actually it might have been the other way, a small signal and then replication of the feeling to allow rising even higher..it works
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