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I quit drinking today.

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DigDug

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I've known for a while, but only yesterday did it really hit me. I have a drinking problem. I can not drink for months, and never have a calling for it - but when I decide to drink, I can't control myself. I always say to myself, just have two or three, and then next thing I know, I'm convincing myself that 5 or 6 or 7 or 8 won't hurt. Its so incredibly pathetic to me that I can't control myself in this aspect of my life. I make a fool of myself after getting so drunk - though much less than most, since i've been told that I am an extremely funloving and adffectionate person when I'm bombed - but, see, I have to be told, because I don't remember. I have various parts of the night that are simply missing - and the feeling of someone explaining to you what you did, is THE worst feeling ever. I'm tired of suffering the neurosis the next day of wondering whether I did something that I'll come to regret. Its making me sick, and I'm done with this shit.

Since I don't have the classic addiction, I don't think it will be much trouble to stop - everytime I get blasted its because I've decided beforehand to let myself drink that night. I have no problem turning down a drink, even if I'm in a bar with my friends. So I'm done.


Can anyone else relate? I think I've gone on so long without addressing this issue because it doesn't seem to be the normal "alcoholism" that I've read about and is in the common lore, you know?
 
Can't you just train yourself? Go to the store, buy 2 beers and bring them home. Drink those after the store has closed. You'll have had your 2 and won't be able to get any more...
 
"I'm serious, not just a hangover statement." <----lmao!

all jokes aside, i am happy for you. I am also happy you were able to realize you have a problem while you sitll have time to change it and before you did anything terribly bad to others or yourself.
Hope all goes well for you
 
Can't you just train yourself? Go to the store, buy 2 beers and bring them home. Drink those after the store has closed. You'll have had your 2 and won't be able to get any more...
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Dude, I've tried. And when I do have a drink in a setting that requires control, I can exercise it - at a company meeting for example. But unless I am completely obsessed about not getting out of control, I will. Like when I'm with my friends, I'm not focused on how much I'm drinking, although I start out that way. With a corporate event I am in "company mode" and am not really enjoying myself, so its not like I'm letting my guard down in anyway. Know what I mean?

I've tried. I've tried to train myself so many times. And just when I think I can say, I can casually drink - I'll go out with some friends and I'm blasted, then it's the next day all of a sudden - and sometimes I'm not remembering how I even got home.

See, the thing is - I'm going to start work in the fall, and in my profession (the law), alcoholism is RAMPANT. And, if I don't stop myself now, I WILL be in trouble. It's not if, but when. Being around a bunch of alcoholics is not going to make it easy for me if I'm still new to the struggle at that point.
 
13 years ago I woke up the day after St Pats Day. I had a hell of a hangover and I was broke. I called it quits and never looked back. It's the best thing I have ever done. 🙂
 
I drink excessively when I go out (12-18 beers a night) and I get totally messed up so much that I'll just pass out on a couch anyhwere I'm at. The (serious) question I have for people here is how the feck do you forget the night before? I can remember every detail up until my head hits the pillow. And how can people get so silly when drunk? I never find myself able to act an ass even after all that beer. Mostly I just feel super tired and warm (fever-like) by the last beer and I'll just pass right out.

It is good you quit though. Drinking is a pain in the ass the next day. I don't feel sick just get hardcore headaches have beer taste implanted in my gums and feel groggy for the next 24 hours. Not to mention you will save money and face by the sounds of it :thumbsup:
 
Good for you for recognizing your problem. If you realize that you can't control it, the resposible thing to do is what you're doing.
 
Originally posted by: silverpig
Can't you just train yourself? Go to the store, buy 2 beers and bring them home. Drink those after the store has closed. You'll have had your 2 and won't be able to get any more...
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Unless they are two 40oz's.

R
 
...yup...nothing worse then waking up the next day to blood on the floor and brass shell casings and have no idea wtf happened...
 
congrats, I quit drinking when I almost died from alcohol poisoning. (became a christian shortly there after too.
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Every Saturday I endeavor to drink as much sauce as I can, always 20+ drinks.
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that's how I got alcohol poisoning, be safe and designate a driver.
 
I quit a lot of things this year, but a quitter never wins...suffice it to say I've also unquit a lot of things 😀
 
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