"I'm an alcoholic"

1. 2015-11-21 at 7:03 AM UTC

   #1
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   ...and i'm not quitting drinking until this year is over...
2. 2015-11-21 at 7:04 AM UTC

   #2
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   ^ but then I really will quit, for real...
3. 2015-11-21 at 7:53 AM UTC

   #3
   

   SBTlauien African Astronaut
   Actually, I'm going to quit through 2016. I quit through 2013 and half way into 2014 and then started drinking again. I'm also considered an alcoholic by US standards. Quitting really not that hard if your put your time into some else.
4. 2015-11-21 at 8:05 AM UTC

   #4
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage
   I drank for the first time in two weeks tonight. Booze is cheap and it's never caused me a problem so I'm really trying to quit but I find an alcohol tolerance has a tendency to mess with better drugs so I'm trying out a dry-out period followed by a drinking period and so forth. Not drinking for a year seems... exorbitant. Like they say, all things in moderation.
5. 2015-11-22 at 12:11 AM UTC

   #5
   

   AngryOnion Big Wig [the nightly self-effacing broadsheet]
   Alcohol sucks so bad,its hard to quit at least for me.
   I quit cigs no problem after 20 years,I had a real problem with amps in high school quit that no problem,well it was hard but not as bad as cocaine.
   I did coke on a daily basis for about 4 years shits fun but not really.Well it has its place.
   Booze is cheap and easy and very hard to quit,harder than so called hard drugs.Heroin is hard to quit I never tried it I'm glad I didn't.
   Time for another drink.
6. 2015-11-22 at 2:14 AM UTC

   #6
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage
   I do find that it's a lot harder to talk myself out of a drink than just about any other drug but I think part of the reason for that is that it's so unintrusive in your life. Like pot makes me pretty useless, benzos put me to sleep or make me want to watch TV for hours, psychedelics require like a full day and planning and shit and even stims which basically make me better at everything fuck up my sleep schedule and make me feel like ass on the comedown. But booze man, I can drink just short of blackout and do basically anything I usually do, maybe a little clumsier but sometimes significantly better and I don't think I could physically drink enough for it to be a real financial problem. It's hard to give up drinking because there's really not many reasons to stop, at least before a certain level of alcoholism where it starts fucking you over, but then you can do a lot of drinking before that happens.
7. 2015-11-22 at 2:41 AM UTC

   #7
   Malice Naturally Camouflaged
   Lanny, do you take NAC/N-acetylcysteine? May legitimately prevent hangovers if used properly, a lot of the negative after effects.
   
   https://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/...are_my/cqpu4lm
   
   You can find other information about it related to this. Not sure if I've mentioned this before.
8. 2015-11-22 at 8:51 PM UTC

   #8
   RestStop Space Nigga

   Lanny, do you take NAC/N-acetylcysteine? May legitimately prevent hangovers if used properly, a lot of the negative after effects.
   
   https://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/...are_my/cqpu4lm
   
   You can find other information about it related to this. Not sure if I've mentioned this before.

   
   
   Once you become an "advanced" drinker hangovers become nonexistent/subtle enough that it's not really a problem at least that's my experience with it after drinking 3-4 nights a week for a decade. Alcoholism is really kind of a joke as a medical term and as an "incurable disease" well that's a fucking joke and a bad one at that. If anyone wants to know what happens when you stop drinking after an entire decade? Nothing....at all. Nothing changes...at all. It's just you no longer drink...there is alcohol lacking from your diet and that's it.
9. 2015-11-22 at 11:15 PM UTC

   #9
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   Yea I rarely get hangovers. I wake up drunk far more often than I have hangovers.
   
   *Pours himself a glass of vodka*
10. 2015-11-23 at 12 AM UTC

    #10
    Malice Naturally Camouflaged

    Alcoholism is really kind of a joke as a medical term and as an "incurable disease" well that's a fucking joke and a bad one at that. If anyone wants to know what happens when you stop drinking after an entire decade? Nothing….at all. Nothing changes…at all. It's just you no longer drink…there is alcohol lacking from your diet and that's it.

    
    Not everyone's the same, a lot of people do have incredibly severe lifelong problems with alcohol and destroy their lives, themselves, because of it. Some innate deficit, something wrong/broken within them, the result of very sad lives, often a combination of the two.
    
    From the Grant Study:
    
    

    The single most important factor in all the study participants’ divorces was alcoholism – either the men’s or their wives. 57% of the divorces could be traced to it. While the wives were usually open about their husbands’ drinking problems, the husbands were often reluctant to talk about their wives’ alcoholism, and it thus took almost 70 years for this finding to emerge.

    
    Pretty sad how it takes the love of their life, their family, from so many people, leaving them alone, an empty shell in a much worse position without people to support them.
11. 2015-11-23 at 12:26 AM UTC

    #11
    RestStop Space Nigga
    Well sure there's no question on whether or not it causes relationship/legal/financial/health issues etc... I just don't think it's accurate to call alcoholism an "incurable disease" that's mostly AA propaganda anyways not sure if they coined it or not but they sure love to really push that definition at the meetings. An incurable disease is something that cannot be possibly stopped by any means whatsoever. It's not THAT hard to stop drinking, it's entirely possible and within means of reality. There's a reason why drug and alcohol counselors don't walk into hospices and go "Just quit dying, faggots!".