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10+ beers a day, i think , i know i have a problem
#7661373 - 11/21/07 12:51 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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yeah. ive been drinking alot. i drink every day, and sometimes, hell usually its 10+ beers. and most of those i drink late at night in quick sussession. i have a problem, and its been going on for quite some time.
yet i know all of this, and still do it over and over again.....
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Re: 10+ beers a day, i think , i know i have a problem [Re: Anonymous #1]
#7661419 - 11/21/07 01:22 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I'm in the SAME boat as you, man. Sad thing is I don't turn 21 until Dec. 10 and this has been goin on for a while.
I keep justifying it by the fact that I'm in college it's alright, blah blah blah. Other than that I feel the same way as you... I get pretty buzzed just before bed so I can just pass the fuck out and not stay up thinking about shit.
Thing is, whenever I see my friends drunk, they act like morons stumbling and slurring and throwing up, while I'm just in it to keep up a buzz over a long period of time.
Either way, I'm at the same point as you I suppose... I understand
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Re: 10+ beers a day, i think , i know i have a problem [Re: Anonymous #1]
#7661428 - 11/21/07 01:27 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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wtf how did you make your thing anonymous?
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Re: 10+ beers a day, i think , i know i have a problem [Re: TurntableJunky]
#7661770 - 11/21/07 07:25 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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There's an anonymous checkbox when you make a post in this forum now. There's a sticky thread about it up top.
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Re: 10+ beers a day, i think , i know i have a problem [Re: Anonymous #1]
#7662403 - 11/21/07 11:21 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Stop drinking and get new friends. Quick. It's probably the only way you'll be able to save yourself. Co-dependancy is really tough.
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Re: 10+ beers a day, i think , i know i have a problem [Re: Anonymous #1]
#7662618 - 11/21/07 12:09 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I know many people like you, man. its quite common. I have a friend who is diabetic and drinks about what you're drinking give or take. weeks where he has made much money he spends his paycheck on beers and gas. Expensive high alcohol 12-packs and drinks them fast until they're gone. He blacks out and while he acts really funny sometimes, i'm a bit worried what it could do to him.
atleast try to cut back. I get the alcohol craves every now and then but I totally limit myself but I don't weigh more than 130 lbs. I feel alcohol does give me bad after effects: cranky, tired, etc
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Re: 10+ beers a day, i think , i know i have a problem [Re: Anonymous #1]
#7663482 - 11/21/07 03:23 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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You know you have to stop. You know it will only get harder. See somebody about it now. There's no reason to wait.
I have friends who drink that much. They spend about $500 a piece on beer a month. Health issues aside, imagine what a person could do with that money. Nicer place, a nicer car, travel, early retirement. They're great people but they're fucking idiots for throwing their lives away.
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Re: 10+ beers a day, i think , i know i have a problem [Re: Anonymous #1]
#7663540 - 11/21/07 03:40 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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As dull and common as it may sound, there's no other to quit but by quitting. With no preparation, easy steps and other things which only help a person lie to themselves that they're making progress.
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Re: 10+ beers a day, i think , i know i have a problem [Re: Anonymous #1]
#7664059 - 11/21/07 05:48 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I like beer too, alot. I don't drink hard alcohol or mixed drinks much ever, but I do like my brews. I've been through periods of my life since I was a teen when I would get smashed every night with friends. Once I turned 21 I started drinking alone more often. Its all in your head tho man. Now a days I only drink beer once a week and only socially, never alone. I never go to bars alone anymore either, only with friends, and only on occassion.
Most likely you are not physically addicted to alcohol yet, just mentally. Do you get the shakes after a night of drinking? That is a pretty good indicator of addiction setting in.
Anyways, you're probably just bored and can think of nothing better to do than get drunk on beer every night. Or your hanging with friends who drink too much, or a maybe living with a lousy girlfriend who makes you want to drink more than usual. Enviromental kind of stuff like that.
I've considered myself an alcoholic at times in my life when I drank too much. I probably am, because if I want to I can drink a 24 pack and still walk in a relatively straight line afterwards. But, alas, I only drink on occassion now a days, maybe once a weekend, and not too much other than a six pack or less of good beer.
Once your drinking gets to the point where it messes with your life, like a dui, drunken fights with strangers, missing work because your too hungover, domestic violence, not being able to pay your bills because you spent it all on beer, than yes, you are developing a problem. If so, then just sober up man, simple as that, find something better to do with your time.
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Re: 10+ beers a day, i think , i know i have a problem [Re: Anonymous #1]
#7664160 - 11/21/07 06:17 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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what is it you're trying to do? and why? are there other ways more fun ? maybe you ask these questions?
i drink but i stay healthy, ya? sometimes a liter in a night is still healthy, sometimes a a glass is unhealthy.
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Re: 10+ beers a day, i think , i know i have a problem [Re: Anonymous #1]
#7664291 - 11/21/07 06:42 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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yeah i m just bored.... i recently quit smoking pot as well, and i think that im just filling one addiction with another.
i mean, really, im just bored. i dont have a car, or a license, as i got a DUI. i cant really bike anywhere because of the cold rainy weather.
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Re: 10+ beers a day, i think , i know i have a problem [Re: Anonymous #1]
#7664430 - 11/21/07 07:03 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Contrary to MushroomTrip's advice, I think steps might be beneficial. Rather than trying to quit absolutely, try for a certain amount of days (a month for example). Give it all you've got to reach that goal and when you do make it you will be able to have an experience to help you through the rest of it. I've never really been a drinker, but I know I have been into habitual marijuana use at certain points and having the memory of how it felt to be 'clear headed' after a period of abstinence definately makes things easier for a second attempt.
Don't be too hard on yourself if you do relapse. The important thing, in my opinion, is that the conscious intent to quit remains. Slowly but surely, if you don't give up, you'll make headway. It is your body and your mind. A bottle of liquid will not have dominion over you. All the best.
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Re: 10+ beers a day, i think , i know i have a problem [Re: WScott]
#7664486 - 11/21/07 07:13 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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WScottsdale said: Contrary to MushroomTrip's advice, I think steps might be beneficial. Rather than trying to quit absolutely, try for a certain amount of days (a month for example). Give it all you've got to reach that goal and when you do make it you will be able to have an experience to help you through the rest of it. I've never really been a drinker, but I know I have been into habitual marijuana use at certain points and having the memory of how it felt to be 'clear headed' after a period of abstinence definately makes things easier for a second attempt.
Don't be too hard on yourself if you do relapse. The important thing, in my opinion, is that the conscious intent to quit remains. Slowly but surely, if you don't give up, you'll make headway. It is your body and your mind. A bottle of liquid will not have dominion over you. All the best.
well said.
Good luck!
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Re: 10+ beers a day, i think , i know i have a problem [Re: Anonymous #1]
#7664757 - 11/21/07 08:32 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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i mean, really, im just bored. i dont have a car, or a license, as i got a DUI.
Ahh yes, getting a dui were we?
Back when I when I was younger and still living in Florida I got a wreckless driving with alcohol involved charge. I drank one beer that night and got sent through the shitstem, it was not pretty.
They court ordered me to do 80 A.A. meetings. I can honestly say that I honestly hate A.A.:) If I was an major alcoholic I just wouldnt drink, and I would stay far away from those meetings. I suppose it works in some silly way for some of those people, but I for some reason literally hated it.. that is just me tho. Those people just switch from drinking a gallon of whiskey each day to going to meetings 5 times a day and drinking a gallon of coffee and 20 cookies and chainsmoke cigarettes instead of boozing. One thing was clear tho, the booze and drugs really fucked up those peoples lifes and they claimed the meetings helped them. I can honestly say I hated listening to every single one of their stories. And then they hand out those sobriety chips... I'm just rambling i guess, but AA and NA were not for me, I couldnt stand it. More power to somebody who thinks the meetings and 12 steps work, but Ive seen people on their 12th step talk even more pathetic and heavy depressing sh.t than the people on their 1st step....I guess this reply wasnt too helpful.
Just lay off the sauce man. Go buy some different juices and some healthy food, just lay off the sauce. Didnt getting busted for a dewy open your eyes up enough to realize that you might be a problem drinker?
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Re: 10+ beers a day, i think , i know i have a problem [Re: Anonymous #1]
#7664848 - 11/21/07 08:56 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Anonymous said: yeah. ive been drinking alot. i drink every day, and sometimes, hell usually its 10+ beers. and most of those i drink late at night in quick sussession. i have a problem, and its been going on for quite some time.
yet i know all of this, and still do it over and over again.....
been there done that.
cept I liked to drink beers in the morning too... so I was at more like 15+ beers a day... 'cept days when I drank whiskey or Colt 45's instead 
My advice... get a girlfriend. Worked for me. I still drink, just not nearly as often. 
But don't get an alcoholic girl! That'd be a very bad combination.... I've had one of those too. 
That.. and smoke more weed!
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Re: 10+ beers a day, i think , i know i have a problem [Re: GGreatOne234]
#7666814 - 11/22/07 12:16 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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They court ordered me to do 80 A.A. meetings. I can honestly say that I honestly hate A.A.:) If I was an major alcoholic I just wouldnt drink, and I would stay far away from those meetings. I suppose it works in some silly way for some of those people, but I for some reason literally hated it.. that is just me tho. Those people just switch from drinking a gallon of whiskey each day to going to meetings 5 times a day and drinking a gallon of coffee and 20 cookies and chainsmoke cigarettes instead of boozing. One thing was clear tho, the booze and drugs really *** up those peoples lifes and they claimed the meetings helped them. I can honestly say I hated listening to every single one of their stories. And then they hand out those sobriety chips... I'm just rambling i guess, but AA and NA were not for me, I couldnt stand it. More power to somebody who thinks the meetings and 12 steps work, but Ive seen people on their 12th step talk even more pathetic and heavy depressing sh.t than the people on their 1st step....I guess this reply wasnt too helpful.
I don't think it's just you. In my experience with na and aa (yes I have experience with them) I felt very similar about it. I realized that aa was one of the worst places I could be if trying to quit drugs. It was just this sorrowful pathetic get together where everyone talks about their experiences with drugs. Why do I want to hear that? If I'm trying to quit something, why would I want to hear people's stories and experiences with drugs? It was like they were torturing themselves. I think for a lot of people, it was like their religion because it was really the only thing that keeping them from going back. The program teaches you to quit drugs and make new friends but when you leave an old lifestyle behind you have to replace it with something else. The only thing it did was teach you to take hold of some higher power. But obviously people arn't just going to turn to christianity or some religion just to make it in aa. And even if they did that doesn't mean they'll change their ways. It was just so depressing. It was a big reminder to me that people can be sober and live more miserable lives than a person who abuses drugs. No aa books no stupid little chips no empty soulless prayers and deathly sorrowful stories and stories that ruin your day and put you to sleep.
And the crazy thing about it is that so many people in aa relapse again and again, but they keep coming back to the same agony, never addressing whether perhaps the program has some problems. There's this fear of criticizing the program because they've been programmed into a religious belief system and if they criticize it they are "apostates" . They love to get around a person and convict him of denial, but they never take a look at themselves.
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Oh and don't forget that just about none of them are sober anyways because they smoke so many cigarettes it may be enough enough to kill a small animal.
Edited by jonathan_206 (11/22/07 12:20 PM)
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