Manmademan
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This.
If you hate yourself after drinking, perhaps the problem is you, and not alcohol per se. Well adjusted people don't turn into assholes after a couple of beers.
Seek therapy.
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Gaf let's quit drinking.
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This.
If you hate yourself after drinking, perhaps the problem is you, and not alcohol per se. Well adjusted people don't turn into assholes after a couple of beers.
Seek therapy.
Android18a
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I'm 28 and I only really just started having the odd drink in social situations. Luckily for me, I don't like most boozy drinks!
Stealth Editor
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WanderingWind
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Well, yeah. He's young and admits to not drinking. Bound to happen...heh.
way more
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GAF in a nutshell. OP, dont' get advice on how to quit drinking from from this forum. Everyone is either a badass because they know how to cure depression on their own or they pretend their sodie-pop addiction is like alcoholism and will try to give you advice.
Haha.. Yeah, I guess that's usually the case :<
But I'm one of those people who don't give a damn. They sometimes feel bad for me about how they can be a pain when they are drunk.
Just let me tell you this, smartphone table tennis is fun, sober or not.
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yep! once I get my new house, I'm going to go pretty dry, also hit the p90x quite hard. the benefits are astounding (I'm same age as you). Right now I live in a house with 7 people and good intentions are just bollocks as there are 4 bottles of wine being opened every night... Don't like it (although I love 1 glass of wine with dinner) but I really wanna go with out booze for a decent length of time.
I did it last year for around 10 weeks, lost 5 kilo and got really fit.
Never been a heavy regular drinker, except maybe my senior year of college. I've always felt I could take it or leave it. Might not drink for a couple of months, then have wine with dinner several times a week. As I got older, the one or two glasses of wine became more of a regular things several times a week. Had my gallbladder out in 08, didn't drink for a long time after that, then started up again. I had a scare last summer, felt like a gall bladder attack again, but I don't have one. It was after Friday of several glasses of wine, one beer the next day, and one more on Sunday with a big plate of German food....I took off another 4 months of no drinking, started up again in the fall, but just last week went to a new doctor, told me to cut the out alcohol and caffeine to see if it helps with chronic aches and pains.
Cutting the caffeine so far is much harder than alcohol, I've been a regular coffee/tea/cola drinker for 20+ years.....
Cutting the caffeine so far is much harder than alcohol, I've been a regular coffee/tea/cola drinker for 20+ years.....
drugstore_cowboy
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Quitting drinking wasn't so hard imo but after a few months when people stopped asking me out for a session it became pretty depressing, the weekends which used to be something to look forward to are now shit.
just drink at the weekend! problem solved man.
TemplaerDude
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I'm still drunk from last night so this thread is clearly not for me. I think you should cut down though, OP.
drugstore_cowboy
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It's been too long now, apart from a funeral just before xmas I hadn't been anywhere near a pub in months and a club in like 5 years.
I don't really like what many pubs have become either, I liked the dark and smokey places, they are all white walls and laminate floors now, more like a dentists waiting room.
Maybe I'm past it, I do miss the laughs and women though.
I don't really like what many pubs have become either, I liked the dark and smokey places, they are all white walls and laminate floors now, more like a dentists waiting room.
Maybe I'm past it, I do miss the laughs and women though.
What depression lol, i'm the happiest more relaxed person i know, it's just for some reasson i've been feeling gulty after a night of drinks with my friends, most of the times i drink at home btw. Btw, my newborn is only 20 days old so i think it's about time i focused 100% on being with my family and that means no sunday mournings with a hang over or just tired to odo stuff with my family, it's not always that way but i think i've had enough alcohol for a lifetime already.
Horse Detective
Why the long case?
Gaf lets quit eating
Alligatorjandro
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Quitting now might save your liver.
Horse Detective
Why the long case?
More wine
Wark
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Anti-drunk thread? Anti-drunk thread.
Though, to be serious, I still drink from time to time, but not nearly in the excessive amount that I used to. I would drink a lot a couple of years ago - during high school and my college years - but I've really slowed down and rarely drink unless I'm out with my friends at a club - or some other social events.
Though, to be serious, I still drink from time to time, but not nearly in the excessive amount that I used to. I would drink a lot a couple of years ago - during high school and my college years - but I've really slowed down and rarely drink unless I'm out with my friends at a club - or some other social events.
What do you mean?
Exactly. If you're getting shit faced plastered everytime you drink you're doing it wrong. Some reason all the anti-drinkers always think that's the end conclusion when you drink.
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Steve Youngblood
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Think back. Did you ever associate with anyone who drank but didn't end up puking or moaning about being hung over? Why did they drink?
I'm so correct its unbelievable
once that shit kicks in you crave social contact more than a junkie craves junk
Yep. Couple of workmates. But it was a rarity. In uni everyone drank simply to get smashed.
Chittagong
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I am 32 too and almost exactly in the same place as the OP. I have felt for a year or two now a growing resentment towards drinking.
I am getting to about 3 pints being the maximum I can drink without feeling remorse the next day. Even then, I don't like anymore the loose lips and exaggerrated optimism that comes with being drunk. I don't like the slowness of thought and lack of focus. Plus hate the stupid amount of calories from it all.
I really do love and look forwards to my Friday afternoon pint and the first relaxing buzz, but hate everything post that. Maybe this is what growing up feels like.
I am getting to about 3 pints being the maximum I can drink without feeling remorse the next day. Even then, I don't like anymore the loose lips and exaggerrated optimism that comes with being drunk. I don't like the slowness of thought and lack of focus. Plus hate the stupid amount of calories from it all.
I really do love and look forwards to my Friday afternoon pint and the first relaxing buzz, but hate everything post that. Maybe this is what growing up feels like.
Oops sorry I just realized that what I wrote can be interpreted in more than one way!
I meant when I drink alcohol, my body kind of shuts down. I get extremely sleepy and just pass out randomly (I'm sure you can understand how this can be dangerous even in a "safe" environment). At first it only happened after drinking excessively but more recently it's been happening after barely getting through one beer and that feeling is magnified, like, 10 times what it's ever felt like before. I've never been a big drinker so genetics may be at play here, but whatever the reason, as I was saying, it just isn't worth it to drink anymore. I have no idea what your experience will be like but for me the hardest part was dealing with the social pressure to drink. I don't just mean your obnoxious frat buddies who want to do a shot with you at the bar, I mean even from something as innocuous as toasting at New Years or having a glass of wine at dinner. I haven't really drunk anything since around New Years by the way. Having a partner who doesn't drink has helped a lot in those social situations.
wormstrangler
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I'm so correct its unbelievable
once that shit kicks in you crave social contact more than a junkie craves junk
Sitting with your girl on the sofa on MDMA. Good times!
I'm so correct its unbelievable
once that shit kicks in you crave social contact more than a junkie craves junk
Yeah I came here to suggest mdma. Mdma is also found in most xtc pills. I recommend trying pure mdma first so you recognize the distinct taste it has. Then you will become very good at guessing if your pills contain mdma.
I don't get drunk ever. I hate being drunk and I hate drunk people. I love to drink a beer or a glass of wine, but not to get drunk. But I do mdma on a regular basis because it's just much better and you don't act like an idiot. (maybe the first few times your behavior will be a bit weird, but when you get experienced you will be 'normal')
My wife doesn't drink so that should help but all my friends drink except one who had bigger issues and has strugled with it on and off, he's actually picking me up later today to go to his AA group which alse makes it easier for me, having a close friend there, might be good for him too.
AceBandage
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26 years sober and counting!
I'm not a huge fan of drinking. I hate the taste, and I'm a lightweight so sometimes it makes me sick. I only drink occasionally at parties, and usually not that much.
Smoking weed, on the other hand, is great. It really helps me relax and relives stress without all the negative side affects of drinking.
Smoking weed, on the other hand, is great. It really helps me relax and relives stress without all the negative side affects of drinking.
Diprosalic
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i never started.
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