>>34378167
Semaglutide, I haven’t drank in 2 months. Was putting down probably 60 a week for years previously, secret drinking etc. had one challenging day where I was with my bbgirl at a beer garden on a sunny day but I had a couple non alcoholic ciders and it was fine. Just turned the noise/cravings off pretty much. Doesn’t seem to work for everyone, but it does for a lot

>>34378167
Starting to. I drink a lot more often and on a whim more but I've been able to cap it and even dial it down. Just like a pint or two every couple of days. I think I'm becoming dependent on it because I lack an outlet for stress. Wasn't like this before could go months without it. I think the stress of moving after 8 years is just so profoundly uncomfortable for me it's driving me to this in the absence of actual medication.

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i used to daydrink moonshine when i was 20, i had three huge containers of sugar wash going off for distillation
guess going way overboard helped to make me just quit one day, thinking of drinking booze now makes me sick. 5 years later now, still have the still but now just drink a beer once in a blue moon.

>>34378168
You're taking it just for alcoholism?

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>>34378170
Dude that fox is fucking cute. Is it AI?

>>34378167
yeah, I got a problem without alcohol

>>34378173
How much are you drinking sweatie?

>>34378174
~8 beers 2-3 times a week

>>34378175
That's nothing man. Hardly a problem.

I just woke up and cracked open a beer i dont have a lift or jog for today but i do have to paint a wall

>>34378167
i was having 10-16 drinks a day ages 22-28, with some odd breaks here and there
naltrexone helped reduce intake by 40-50%, but never was enough to curb it for me. it is worth looking into the sinclair method, though
change of scenery where i was in a much more controlled environment (work+living conditions) brought me down to only drinking about once a week on average, but still problem drinking whenever i did imbibe
what really did it for me, funnily enough, was getting prescribed adderall/vyvanse. now, i used to take adderall back in my drinking days at times just to function, and i even took it for fun as well. but taking that shit daily forced me to lock in and take my day-to-day health more seriously, because adderall is not to be fucked with in this regard.

i'm currently just letting the stims stockpile, haven't taken them in 2 months because they fuck with sleep and appetite. i'm about 9 months drink-free and will get to a year, maybe 18 months before i consider having a beer here and there again. it's really a shit-tier drug in appreciable amounts, but when you're hooked, you're hooked.

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>>34378179
Yaya paint job or did u wanna see me drinking in bed

>>34378180
Wanna see the beer down bad man.

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>>34378167
Most of my mates are married with kids now. That cured my drink problem because we never go out anymore. Never really drank much at home but on nights out I always smash it like a retard and fuck myself up

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>>34378181
Cheers m80

>>34378167
>alcohol
yes
>problem
no

life is kinda objectively fucking terrible without alcohol. alcohol is the solution, not the problem

>>34378184
Fuck that looks good.

>>34378185
You just haven't had enough for it to become a problem I guess.

>>34378186
At one point in my life this was a go-to beer. I still like the 32 oz cans but often prefer corona familiar 32 oz though it is maybe double the price. Got into craft beer for a bit too but i cannot rationalize the cost atm. I actually only occaisionally drink anymore, but there is still nothing like waking up to a cold one from time to time.

>>34378172
>leaves the stopper in
rookie mistake

>>34378187
Europeans are way better at being a functional adult while using, but not abusing drugs
Americans always overdo everything

>>34378167
My father had a booze problem. He was in the pub EVERY single day of the week from the age of 25 to 50+ before he died of numerous alcohol-related conditions. It was very rare to see him in person (or sober) when we were kids, as he typically returned home when we were in bed. Alcohol never looked tempting after watching it destroy him. If you have children, they'll never forget you are an alcoholic.

>>34378167
Drank far too much for years - coping mechanism. Used to be a reasonable athlete but stopped due to poor health. Several failed attempts to get back, decided to have one last go while drinking to excess during lock down. Now only drink with food at family gatherings and in my best shape for decades.

I fixed mine by not drinking

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>>34378178
>sinclair method
I do the high T method of drinking alcohol like it's coffee

I used to drink heavily every Friday as my post work week relaxation ritual and then once every couple months I'd be invited somewhere socially and inevitably get shit faced with varying levels of bad consequences.
I've been sober since July last year. Initially I very much missed the Friday drinking, but over time it has become apparent that it wasn't doing me any favours. I don't really miss it.
Nicotine was the harder substance to give up.
Socially I just drink zero alcohol beers or soft drinks. Honestly after every one has had a few drinks and the vibe has loosened up it basically feels no different except that I can actually converse coherently, drive home, spend hardly any money and perform sexually if the need arises, which it does more often being sober.

>>34378167
Yeah, I just stopped. For me it was easy

>>34378167
>drink rest of alcohol
>liquor store closes in 8 minutes

>>34378192
How do you just *stop* after years of being reliant on the stuff?

>>34378199
Because it was a coping mechanism (depression management). Exercise was always my 'get out and when I lost that, things spiralled - hence drinking.
Athletics - trained hard as a kid and, despite meager talent, made age group nationals, in team for a very good club blah blah. Coming back into a different event, I knew I would only have a chance of being even vaguely respectable if I ditched the booze. I managed it before for meds - after a bollocking from the psych - so I knew I could do it again with the right motivation.
Glad I did. Saved money, improved health, back doing my favourite activities with a good social network from the track, involved in other club activities, go to events and compete alongside my kids.
Got the missing parts of my life back

>>34378167
Going second year without a glass. Quit smoking as well. Both cold turkey.

I think i drank so much combined with other drugs that it caused brain damage to the point I go psychotic now without meds.
I haven't had alcohol in nearly 3 years.

>>34378167
Was 2 years sober during my undergrad studies. About a month after graduating I relapsed and I'm not actually sure why.

>>34378167
I went through a long period of time where I would have 2 drinks every night. Changing my evening routine helped me stop.

The idea of being an alcoholic is so alien to me. It all tastes fucking disgusting, being drunk doesn't even feel good, it costs money and makes you fat. I can't find a single upside, I'm 30 and it still makes no sense to me.

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I got no problem drinking alcohol at all buddy

The only time i got a drinking problem's if i spill it! *shakes belly*

>>34378205
>being drunk doesn't even feel good

sincerely you must be retarded and monkey-brained. For intelligent people, we feel the overwhelming power of our frontal lobe and amygdala, identifying risks and constantly trying to inhibit our actions in order to protect us or be maximally prudent. Alcohol is able to liberate you from this oppression. It makes it easy to talk to girls. It makes it easy to tell jokes and funny stories that you have in your head but could never quite deliver right. It allows you to make new friends and feel confident. It gives you courage. It makes you feel powerful and invulnderable.

I think you probably arent monkey brained though since you are posting on 4chan, you are just a pussy who doesn't like the taste so you never drink enough to experience any of what I am talking about. You drink very slowly so that all it does is give you a head ache or make you sleepy.

>>34378208
Nta but i hate being around people who drink or do any other drug. You are annoying, especially to to sober people or those with more than one braincell to rub together.

>>34378209
Obnoxious retards who are wasted, yelling and repeating themselves, are annoying of course. Fun people who drink 4 beers are just extra fun.

>>34378209
>take tylenol because of mild headache
>anon calls me retarded
I guess I will just suffer through my pain, your opinion of me is that important

>>34378211
Looks like u already got wet brain good luck

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>>34378190
>if everybody’s an alcoholic, nobody is
There’s absolutely no world in which drinking 6-10 beers a day is optimal. Eurofags just like to cope.

Here’s my blogpost:
>start drinking/partying as a teenager
>weed/booze, binge drinking most weekends and smoking weed most days
>discover cocaine at 17, develop a gnarly coke habit that would persist until roughly 34 years old
>worked in kitchens from 22 up until 33, drinking most nights
>drinking eventually always lead to getting coke
>unaddressed mental health issues that the self medication is been doing over the years came to a head, the self medication no longer worked
>had to cut ALL alcohol use for a solid year or two, did AA, learned a lot about myself and my substance abuse problems
>found god
>developed new healthy habits/routines, setting and achieving goals, completely rebuilt my life
>get a handle on the underlying mental issues (major depressive disorder, extremely bad ADHD and anxiety)
>quit AA because it really is gay as fuck
>drink when I feel like it now, if out and about with people or celebrating something

Drugs and alcohol just don’t scratch the itch I have in the same way they did anymore. I don’t particularly even enjoy drinking and I would rather kill myself than use cocaine.

There’s no one size fits all solution to this problem. But you can’t possibly get a handle on what’s going on between your ears if you’re drunk or high all day every day so quitting everything for an extended period to do some soul searching is without a doubt the best move you can make.

In life, you can’t have everything. If you want to drink, you have to make concessions and forfeit your ability to get other things done and excel in other areas of life. It just doesn’t fit in with my current life and lifestyle/goals.

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>>34378213
OH also, I forgot the most important thing:
>never ever EVER go to the bar to have some drinks because you’re bored

For me, it was more of a habit than an addiction. It was just my default activity when I had nothing else going on.. Breaking out of that routine was crucial and the only way I was able to do it was a lengthy period of /nobooze/. It’s exactly the same issue people like picrel are facing, it’s just that he is using food instead of booze.

Good luck, anons. Don’t piss your life away searching for whatever it is you’re looking for by looking in the bottom of a bottle of liquor or a can of beer or a bag of drugs.. it isn’t there; trust me.

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How the fuck can you be an alcoholic in this day and age? It's expensive as fuck and makes you feel like shit. Beer I can understand since it's tasty with a meal, but I can't imagine drinking outside of social events.

I don’t know what to tell you. I figured that if I kept doing what I’m doing I’ll be dead in a year. So I just decided to quit drinking, took me 4 years to stop completely. It’s been 16 years now.

>>34378167
Fasting. Don't eat can't drink.

>>34378215
We’re all simply trying to cope with this existence and life that has been thrust upon us. Have a little empathy for people struggling with problems you don’t have; I’m sure you have issues as well.

>>34378167
I drink too much yeah. Not sure how I could cut back knowing that there is nothing else to do

>>34378219
Do you goon a lot too?

>>34378167
I drank heavily and almost daily from the ages of 17 all the way to 31 when the pandemic hit. I quit cold turkey because bars were closed and I didnt have anyone to partake with since we were in lock down. I quit unintentionally but It was the best thing to ever happen to me. I saved so much money and my body and mind felt so calm and free. I honestly was in such a haze for so long that I didnt even realize the body could feel so good. Alcohol is fun with friends and in social environments buts its a fire that can burn your whole life down if not treated carefully. Thanks for reading my blog

>>34378221
Have you tried to drink alone instead wtf? It's fucking transcendence to drink alone and listen to some tunes instead of drinking with some other fucktards and acting like fucktards along with them.

>>34378167
I used to drink 3-4 beers a day until I started working out. Now im down to 1 a day at most, if anything. I fear the impact excessive drinking will have on my gains.

I usually just eat a very small amount of a delta 8 gummy instead for a mild high lasting like 3-4 hours but i take such a small amount it's more like cruising speed rather than melting into the couch. Helps me drink less, not get hangovers, and is dramatically cheaper. I still drink just not nearly as much as i used to.

>>34378184
>champagne of beers
cheers mate

>>34378222
thats when I really became an alcoholic. Living with a gf who I was sick of and a dog I loved. Me and the dog would spend all my free time in the back yard listenting to music, BBQing, playing and getting drunk.

>>34378224
>delta 8 not delta 9

what the fuck are you doing

>>34378195
in the morning and when I'm feeling a bit tired?
Also as an industry worker with free coffee at work I drink like three before lunch and three after at a minimum.
I guess I was drinking way too little alcohol in comparison, thanks anon I will drink more booze.

>>34378213
>americans overdo everything
>nu uh and let me tell you about my crippling coke addiction to prove that we don't

>>34378167
Alcohol was making me feel like shit all the time and I had no idea how much better I would feel without it. When I finally decided to just stop drinking in a couple of days (no shit) I felt like a huge weight was lifted off me. Never looked back.

>>34378229
You’ve clearly drank yourself retarded if that’s what you took away from my post after reading it. Lay off the sauce, Klaus.that wasn’t anywhere close to the point I was making.

>>34378170
>thinking of drinking booze now makes me sick.
This.
I don't know how boozers even do it. Once I got /fit/ drinking now makes me feel like ass. I can't drink beer or hard liquors now without getting violently ill. Thankfully I can drink and stomach red wine which allows me the opportunity to drink "professionally" aka at work.
Even after 2 glasses I feel off but not as off as I feel with white wine, beer, and liquors.

>>34378218
>I’m sure you have issues as well.
Not the anon. The only addiction I had was weed which objectively only dulled me mentally but left my physical capacity there.
With booze I physically hurt, almost like I shaved days off of my life span. It takes me at least 2 days to recover to some sense of normal and 4 days to be physically all "back" whether I am working out or not.
This started at 23 and I've been a near teetotaler since and not by choice. I get addiction but I do not get booze addiction. It's physical pain from the few hours of enjoyment make zero sense to me. There are far better drugs for escape

>>34378233
>left my physical capacity there
>it takes me 4 days to recover from getting drunk

bro your body is INSANELY weak lmao. A strong breeze will probably kill you. What a weak bitch lol

>>34378234
> Bro just take poison over and over again until you can handle it so you aren't weak as shit.
No amount of booze is good for you. You're an addict, plain and simple.

>>34378235
You are a pussy lol. I drink like once a month I don't have some immunity built up my body is just way less weak and shitty than yours.

>>34378236
> T addict

>>34378237
>drink once a month
>addict

pick one pussy boy. I bet you also have hemroids and a bunch of diseases and shit lol. Do not reproduce your shit genes

I'm a bartender and I fell into the industry "norms" like drinking every night or going out a lot, probably because I was stupid and 22. But watching my regular customers drinking themselves to date and deteriorating rapidly really made me straighten my shit out. The final straw was seeing how much I wasted on booze in a year when I tried budgeting. Now I only drink at a birthday party or a wedding or a concert or something, actual events. This is like less than once a month at this point and I do not miss waking up hungover multiple times a week.

>>34378238
You can be proud of your addiction but it's just that: an addiction. You don't drink just once a month either because of how proud you are of this addict.
Drinking does nothing for gains and does more harm than good.
Like I said earlier, there are far better drugs that are way more enjoyable and if you don't become an addict less destructive.

>>34378167
I used to drink like two bottles of wine a day and then 6 packs every day and just goon or troll people on voice chat drunk as hell that shit is so fun but I got fat as fk I quit drinking after I got deep into some ai sex and realized that this shit is just gonna get worse and worse and weirder

I love drinking so much and I know this sounds gay and corny but if I devote myself to healthy living and go a long time without drinking I feel a slight drunkenness on life when is a way better feeling

You should only drink in times of merriment anyways. Out with friends, weddings, birthdays, shit like that. Alcohol accentuates your subconscious emotions. If you drink alone and sad you're only making your shit worse

>>34378167
I just got out of detox so i dunno

>>34378222
Did you not read what I said. I quit and have been sober for 4 years now and have never felt better or been happier in my whole life. Why would I start drinking alone now just to listen to music, what the fuck is wrong with you. Fucking retard

>>34378240
>takes 4 days to recover from drinking

do your organs even function? kek

>>34378205
People like you in my experience were really spergy as children and got put on medication for whatever which would have either reacted badly with alcohol or made alcohol obsolete since you're riding a perpetual amphetamine high.

Whats funny though is people like this if they ever do decide to drink, will attain that phase you usually have as a teen where you can put down handles of disgusting cheap vodka and not be hung over next day either, but this in adulthood. Beyond spergs, i've seen this happen to people not from alcohol based cultures like arabs n shit.

>>34378167

>>34378167
that road only has one end. alcohol fixes all my problems but i am trying to find other ways to cope

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I was a massive alcoholic (not kidding, litre of hard lliquor a night, 5-6 nights a week for ten plus years)working a shit manual labor job and was close to dropping dead or killing myself.
Took a risk and quit my job and went to college and that massively dropped it because I had to and I had something to strive for.
In the last 6 months I quit smoking and that has almost killed it entirely. These days I drink like 2-3 drinks then I just want to eat and go to bed.

>>34378246
I was awkward as a kid, but not a full blown sperg and definitely no gay medication. You're posting on the wrong site to have any real point with that kind of argument, it's totally worthless to take you seriously at all.
And I can tell you why people who hate alcohol never wake up with a hangover when they rarely get shitfaced. It's not magical or hard to understand. Alcohol tastes like shit, so I have to drink an entire glass of water between every single drink. I prefer mixed drinks over nasty disgusting beers, and I'm definitely cutting them with soda harder than others. I piss like a fire hydrant all night long, but I wake up perfectly refreshed like the night never even happened.

>>34378178
For an addict there is no such thing as 'taking one beer here and there'.
>b-but im not an addict
>yes i hadproblems with alcoho., but they are magically gone now i havent had alcohol for a year

Said literally every alcoholic before you

last time i binge drank i developed horribly itchy asshole, like it was the worst thing ever. horrible intense burning itch. i couldnt sleep, but when you have an itch there you are wide awake anyways. plus i felt like my organs were starting to shut down. one day i woke up already drunk and drove to work anyways and it was scary

>>34378208
You're an inept pussy if you cant do that shit without alcohol.

>>34378167
No. Alcohol is for retards

>>34378175
>>34378176
Typical Alcohogs kek

>>34378167
yeah i just stopped. took a few times, but now i don't think about it much. no aa or posting in alcohol forums. just stop and don't think about it or talk about it. get autistic about new hobbies too

>>34378238
Why are you arguing with an obvious shitslamist?

>>34378250
I see you feel personally attacked on a conjecture I was making, meaning I hit the nail on the head.
Funny enough I was going to make the connection between having a very juvenile mindset, like an arrested development neet who plays vidya all day, and that extending to actual taste like the kids that specifically say "eww beer is so gross".

>It's not magical or hard to understand
Plenty of adults follow the protocol you just described and still get raging hangovers. I don't think you really know what you're talking about, and I don't blame you seeing as you don't drink. Why would you?

>>34378178
I took naltrexone a few weeks ago and it made me nauseous as fuck. Threw up a few times the day later

>>34378251
>lifer mentality
AA bullshit divorced from the reality that many people develop a problem, fix it, and cease to have a problem. a much smarter approach to recovery than holding a number of days over your head and treating alcohol like the devil is getting to the crux of the underlying issues that spurred the behavior in the first place, fixing them, and proving to yourself you can remain sober without them. the latter is actual recovery, the former is just skirting the issue until you almost inevitably relapse and wind up back at square one because it turns out you never developed coping strategies, you just did your best to avoid having to use them
>but they are magically gone now i havent had alcohol for a year
neurologically speaking, that's how addiction works. what you refer to as magic is just dopamine pathway rewiring. takes about 12-18 months in serious cases
>>34378259
that sucks. are you sure it was naltrexone and not that other shit (the name eludes me, but the stuff that literally makes you violently ill if you drink)?

>>34378213
I didn't read all that but holy wasted trips you sound like a fag.

I just had a few drinks

>>34378249
>These days I drink like 2-3 drinks
Is that daily? That's still a lot.

>>34378245
I'm a /fraud/ all I do is nut, constantly.

>completely stop drinking and smoking after years of gradually increasing use
>life suddenly becomes unexpectedly painful
>realize i was pretty clearly using alcohol to cope with some underlying problem or problems i wasn't even aware of
>still haven't really figured out what the problem is
>don't even want to drink now months later because i feel like i'm really onto something here and might end up with a more positive mindset eventually
i can only hope, i guess. also alcohol is expensive and it's too hard to fool my wife anymore

>>34378264
>I'm a /fraud/ all I do is nut, constantly.

Larping not having shrivelled useless balls

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My problem is I don't like the taste of it, so I don't buy it or drink it.

Ever.

>be me
>complete and utter loser in my mid 30s
>live a life so pathetic that you would think I was an alcoholic or something from how little life development I have
>rarely touch the stuff
>never do any other drugs either
>just sit here rotting and wasting my entire life
At least if I had become an alcoholic I would have an excuse for being like this.

I just had my 7th anniversary last week. Not a drop since. I miss the social aspect of it sometimes, feels gay not being able to have a drink with the boys back home
Theyre supportive of me though and saw what I was like as a drunk, so they get it

My hangovers became unbearable and I realized I ruined my life. I guess it took hitting rock bottom.

>>34378235
Is this coming from a woman? Classic simpleton argumentative tactics. You could live well past 80 drinking every day. One of the oldest men to live was drinking whisky and smoking cigars until his last days but not a ton obviously.

>>34378267
real men spend their disposable income on alcohol and binge drink till blackout drunk

>>34378167
Alcohol is the solution not the problem.

>>34378215
Have you tried not being poor?

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I've never had a problem but I am starting to drink a bit more frequently thanks to reestablishing an old friend group and participating in a completely new one too, and having an income stream for once. Right now it's just a social thing, and if I'm so lonely and depressed on a Friday or Saturday night that only getting shitfaced is enough to get me through to bedtime.

>>34378275
>if I'm so lonely and depressed on a Friday or Saturday night that only getting shitfaced is enough to get me through to bedtime.
And how often is that

>>34378276
not that anon but that's how i started, then it turned into every single night. then i became a retarded fatass and lost all my gains and a good physique

>>34378167
i drink 8 beers twice a week. how bad is that?

>>34378278
General Weekly Guidelines (Standard Beers/Units):

- Men: Generally up to 14–15 standard beers (4% ABV) per week, with a max of 3–4 on a single occasion.

- Women: Generally up to 10–11 standard beers (4% ABV) per week, with a max of 2–3 on a single occasion.

- Key Advice: Spread consumption across the week rather than saving up for the weekend.

- Abstinence: Have at least 2–3 alcohol-free days per week to minimize health risks.

Yes and yes. It was difficult but I feel alot more in control.
One of the biggest helps was simply just not buying beer when I would go shopping. Replacing a normal beer with a non alcoholic one when I go out.
I still, very rarely, indulge. And even then, because I drink so rarely these days, it hits alot harder so I have less need to binge.
Dropping the liquid jew has been the best thing I've ever done.

>>34378276
Once every few months, though now that I've got friends again I haven't done it since early January I think.

>>34378167
You gotta be a real fucking loser to go to a fitness board or website and start talking about your alcoholism. Can you fuck off and go shit up another board with your degenerate bullshit?

>>34378282
Alcoholism is related to fitness since it's so destructive to one's health.

>>34378282
it's a data-mining thread. the objective is to identify the people with alcohol addictions so they can be manipulated and exploited. nothing is real in clown world.

>>34378263
Sorry I should have clarified that like once a week.
Whereas before I would go through an entire twelve pack and end up ordering more to be delivered.

>>34378184
*sniff* *sniff*

>>34378266
Have you considered that the reason your body takes 4 fucking days to recover from getting drunk is that your body is fucked from steroids? I bet you already blew out your liver with oral steroids or something you absolute fucking retard. I bet you are already turning yellow lmao

>>34378740
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>>34378167
>Anybody here got an alcohol problem?
Yes
>Did you manage to fix it?
For a year and half, yes. That was three years ago. Since then I've become a fully degenerate until october 2025-right now. It has been 5-6 weeks since last time I got drunk and it's fucking difficult to not relapse.

So I'm trying but my head is a hellhole.

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I have a problem where maybe once every 2 months I really want a slushie. So we go to the local Mexican place on tuesday. It's bogo, so i drink 64oz of slushie. Then my head gets a little foggy and my wife drives me home.

>>34378260
It was naltrexone, I don’t have a prescription for anything else alcohol related.

>>34379043
You only do it 6 times per year so it sounds like a nothingburger.

I WANNA STOP BROS

>started drinking at ~20, I'm 35 now
>benders lasted a week or 2 at the start, sober periods inbetween - 1 or 2 months long
>benders started becoming longer, sober periods - shorter
>got to a point where I was drinking daily for 5 years
>went from 2L beer to 6L - 8L a day these last 5 years
>or 2 bottles of wine or 1 liter of vodka, whatever equivalent, whatever had alcohol in it was good enough
>never drank to get drunk, just maintain a buzz
>eventually stomach starts croaking
>extreme vomiting bouts, vomiting every 10-15 minutes for 24 hours straight
>can't handle drinking anymore
>slow down
>curve reverses
>benders are now a lot shorter with a lot less volume, sober periods keep getting longer
Maybe I'll be able to come out of this without significant organ damage. Addicts like me literally need a physical limitation to not drink. If I could drink forever with no complications, I would drink every single day.

>>34378278
Its actually heavy drinking according to >>34378279
t. 6 beers 6% abv 3 times per week

>>34381180
I still can't believe you westoids call 300 - 350ml (12 oz) "standard". Standard for who, women and children? How the fuck is anything short of 500ml considered a single valid unit of beer?

motherfucker put my thread in the most mentally ill board on the site

>>34382391
kino

>>34382391
What board was this on originally?

>>34383496
>>>/cm/

>>34383496
/fit/

I kind of had a problem. I fixed it by getting blacked out drunk, throwing up, dealing with a hangover, and deciding to dump my booze. I've never gone back.

>>34386824
Just one time? How long were you drinking for before?

I can't remember life without alcohol.

At least porn addiction is free. Boozing adds up FAST.

>>34378170
How you do that
Im tryna find good hops to home brew IPA with

>>34387550
Porn addiction if fun til you ejaculate too much and mess up your space or you get so fried jerkin off that you lose the motivation to open up hundreds of tabs
If imma do it Im full blown immersing into another realm for the better part of the day
Like a literal portal to hedonism town
Neo babylonian instant gratification
The free crack rush that drains you on the basis of being accessible in under 30 seconds.
Post modernism is trippy
Free digital crack

Once you realize how much effort daily chores travel and hard labor requires you'll end up weening im off it to work out take care of your muscles and shit to get back into a flow state
Thats all a testosterone enraged ape could do to overcome their impulse
And then transform masturbation into the passionate desire to want to court a woman

>>34389438
Yeah, you're so mentally ill that you can't even form a coherent sentence.

I'm a stoner who moonlights as an alcoholic for a bit whenever he tries to quit smoking. I'll have beer or wine four or five days out of the week for a few weeks.

My dad is an alcoholic for sure, but he did recently stop drinking. I tried to keep up with him the last time I went to visit him, and he had over 24 beers in three days.
I've never seen the man really get plastered or anything approaching belligerent, at least. He drank less when I was younger. Working from home made it really easy for him to day drink.

gimme drink

>>34378167
I usually drink 3-4 drinks per day. Occassionally have alcohol free days. Occassionally have consecutive days where I go overboard. Don't sleep well, but I work a wage job where I can be hungover.

Been like this for years. I feel like my brain doesn't work well anymore, but I can't seem to quit. Every time I share this online I get "That's not REAL alcoholism!" replies.

Anyone quit from this lifestyle? What's it like? Trying to give myself a reason that won't fall out of my head after a day.

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>>34378167
i unironically always envy you guys in a way.
even if i wanted to, i physically could not be an alcoholic. i am too weak, my body is too weak.
alcoholics have one thing in common: usually they have a healthy build, stong bones, a strong system. you need it to be an alcoholic.
my dad was an alcoholic, and he was thrice the man im ever gonna be.

what i really really hate is that "stolen valor" type "alcoholics".
faggots who get shitfaces on the weekends then say they are alcoholics because "well thats what the doctor says in this case" get FUCKED.
stolen valor type "alcoholics" should be SHOT. youre not a fucking alcoholic for partying twice a week, you fucking illnessfaking faggot.

good luck to all my alcoholic friends out there!

>>34378167
Yes. My problem was never drinking like a loser nerd. Now i do drink sometimes. No longer a problem.

>>34397304
>alcoholics have one thing in common: usually they have a healthy build, stong bones, a strong system. you need it to be an alcoholic.
lmao. im the furthest thing from healthy.
sure i know when to stop when i start feeling shitty or stumbly but you don't need to be blackout drunk everyday to be an alcoholic.
i think i did sober january once and realized that sober life is painfully fucking depressing when you realize your friends see you as an outsider and nobody actually likes you for who you are. drinking helps numb the pain of loneliness just a touch.
not entirely but a little.

I’m a functioning alcoholic

In a day I typically drink about 150-200ml of everclear (95%abv) which with my age and weight is a fucking lot

I have a stable job and place to stay, I live with my mom still as the rent where I live is way too much for a single person alone to live off

I drink at work, at home, before bed, with every meal, etc. I’m always drinking. The only time my BAC is at 0 is when I drank too much the day before and end up passed out for a day, but once I feel better I’m back at the bottle.

I went through a bad breakup (bf of 5 years left me for a coworker and I failed a suicide attempt) and I’ve been drinking daily since just to help numb the mental pain I go through

I have thought about getting help but I honestly don’t care about anything anymore

If you truly want to quit, get professional help and go cold turkey

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>>34398073
>everclear
Did someone mention everclear? Also homo or female?

>>34398155
Just what I drink lol

Beer is obv way better than what my choice is

I’m 24f

im an alcoholic. i got to aa 2x a week, and also therapy 2x a week. im on naltrexone which helps with alcohol cravings

>>34398186
im over 2 months sober, and feel good about it this time around. very proud of myself

>>34398172
I'm a dysfunctional sober person. I don't know which one of us is in more trouble. I'm basically a neet. But don't do silly things like drinking.

>>34398193
What did you notice first? Was it hard to drop?

started drinking occasionally at a young age, maybe 14 or 15, and started drinking almost weekly when I was 17 and went to bars with older friends
when I was 18 I was diagnosed with epilepsy that medication at the time barely controlled which prevented me from having a normal schedule. worked night shift and got insomnia and would drink to pass out to avoid having seizures in the morning. sometimes made it worse but no sleep is worse for epilepsy than a couple beers. i was also in a punk/metal scene so drinking was a necessary part of any social occasion but i never got to stay out all night because of epilepsy
for some reason when I moved out for grad school in my mid 20s i was able to stay out all night without epileptic seizures the next day and started partying like i was 18 years old, going to bars and clubs almost every second night. it was the only time in my life where i regularly had the shakes but looking back it was one of the most fun times in my life lol.
ended up working a shitty job and hanging out in the bar every night, eventually ended up working in the bar and started drinking heavily every night. even on my nights off i'd go out and could always find a bar to stay after hours in to drink until 7am if i wanted to. my docs also switched my meds to give me something much more effective so i didn't need to worry about lack of sleep or insomnia anymore
met my gf who's now my wife and started to hide my drinking more, started drinking spirits rather than beer which was a terrible idea. i'd probably have a 75cl bottle of vodka every 3 days in between beers (i didn't count those)
what really turned things around for me was gaining a lot of weight, seeing how visibly unhealthy I was like how pallid my skin was and my eyes being yellowish around the whites and deciding to cut back. still drank quite regularly but once i got a big boy responsible job and a normal daily routine i only drink now like once a week, maybe twice.

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I started drinking in college when I was stressed and lonely as shit with bad suicide ideation, would have 2-3 steelies a night and much more on the weekends. When all of my housemates would go out to parties I would sit alone and drink watching movies(they stopped inviting me because I was too awkward). After I graduated I kept drinking albeit only 3-4 days a week, had a really dogshit job where I got home at midnight and would drink a voodoo ranger before bed most nights. Last fall I started to get weird pains throughout my body, sometimes after having 2-3 mixed drinks I would feel a cramp like beating in my right side that scared the shit out of me. This lead to me only drinking twice a week but one night I was smoking weed with a friend and had a single beer with dinner, afterwards I started feeling an extremely bad pain right below my right lowest rib and it moved across my torso to the center, I thought I was having a heart attack and while all my friends were having fun I thought I was going to fucking die and nobody even noticed how much pain I was in. I stopped drinking for 2 months after but I kept feeling an ache in my right side. Went to the doctor for bloodwork and an ultrasound, they both showed I was completely fine. Hadn't felt any pain like that one night but I still feel an ache in my right side even when I dont drink for a couple weeks. I think the ache might be caused by anxiety. I thought I've been getting better because i stopped drinking and smoking weed so much but I've had several panic attacks in the last year, with the first one sending me to the hospital and making me feel absolutely humiliated. I went back to drinking on the weekends and have been taking a break for 2 weeks because I felt the ache again the last time I drank. Its my friends birthday this weekend and I really dont know whether I should drink or not because he wont have anybody else to drink with. I probably will lol. Such is life.

>>34398306
also it wasn't just my schedule that changed everything, there were a few behavioural impulses that i had to really willfully crush:

- once I had one beer I felt the urge to get fucked up. it wasn't possible for me to enjoy a glass of wine with a meal without starting to plan the next point:
- always having a contingency plan of how to get fucked up. i had serious junkie brain and the minute my lips touched a pint i started planning which bar and corner shop or liquor store i could hit up next to get fucked up before getting home.
- stop stockpiling booze at home, i'd do the alkie thing of going to different stores every day to get beer and liquor and just going to the bar for a couple of pints to look respectable before heading out and getting trashed alone

but ime there are two really different kinds of alcoholics: the ones with absolutely zero impulse control who get fucked up as soon as they wake up Leaving Las Vegas style, and more functional ones whose alcoholism is more about routine, and specifically controlling a routine and time they get drunk. i was the second kind and it's possible to wean yourself off, but the first type absolutely need some kind of intervention or therapy to function

>>34398261
its always hard to drop. ive had lots of relapses and sobriety streaks. im working hard for this because i genuinely want to stay and be sober. its not something you can do if you arent willing to.

>>34398334
If you told the friend what exactly has been happening to you healthwise, he wouldn't even allow you to drink.

>>34398368
a major thing to me staying sober is having a good support system. get a sponsor, see a therapist, attend meetings, meds etc. some can be sober on their own, some cant. if you need to reach out for help thats okay.

25 days without without a drink here. also started running again. I'm finding getting faster and/or increasing distance every week is good motivation to avoid alcohol. it really fucks up any gains I make