Well Yea Forums, it’s actually happening. I’m pretty sure I’ve become an actual alcoholic

It took scaring myself to quit booze, but I'm still doing pills so I guess I haven't officially quit addiction.

This makes sense to me. I’ve bounced back and forth from one addiction to another since high school. Sometimes booze, sometimes pills, sometimes video games, sometimes even a seemingly healthy addiction like the gym. The point is the underlying compulsive behavior is always the same and is typically driven by anxiety.

I'm on the same path, like my father. Last night I got so drunk that today I feel sick as a dog. It's night now and I'm still feeling it, definitely put me off a bit. Hope I can keep this mentality.

Pick a healthy one and stick with it.

It never lasts though, does it? Even after a couple days of no booze the same thought still creeps back in, and the cycle starts over.

>definitely put me off a bit.

I hope it does. I used to give myself alcohol poisoning and after an episode where I woke with vomit in my mouth, chocking, I promised I'd never do it again and I wanted to live.

I still get tore up but I've put a limit on it now and I never thought I could.

I called out of work yesterday and drank myself stupid. Now i'm sitting here feeling like dog shit. Why do I do this to myself?

Because like the rest of us you have a diminished sense of self worth.

If you do quit drinking, keep in mind that alcohol withdrawal is very dangerous. It can be fatal. Don't do it alone. Do it supervised in a hospital.

Is it escapism for you?
What typically goes on in your head before the thirst begins?

OP here. Basically yes. I like to be withdrawn for days at a time. I’m not totally antisocial but it’s like every so often I have to do it to recharge. When I don’t have the opportunity I escape with booze until I blackout.

Sometimes I convince myself I’m in control, but that’s never the case.

How do you know if you are experiencing withdrawal? I drink a lot but when I don’t for a few days I don’t feel like I’m withdrawing.. mostly just feel tense and anxious. Is that just the beginning? How do I know if I’m in danger?

Can't be unhappy if your tore up, right? That and I drive myself quite hard with work and the booze loosens me up after a tough one.

Sounds somewhat on the autism spectrum, but lets leave that aside.
What's it like to be withdrawn?

I start with the shits, sweating, confusion and I'm irritable. When you start shaking, sweating and throwing up go to hospital.

I smoke weed and get drunk every single night. End up getting the spins more nights than not.

Basically just quiet. I’m alone with my thoughts and there’s no external “noise” creating anxiety. I’ve always typically preferred to be alone.

Anxiety huh.
Got news for ya.
Alcohol abuse makes you more predisposed to it, along with corroding your brain's ability to process trauma.
Of the many ways it's awful for you, it's battery acid for the issues you think it helps.

This is pretty alarmist. I've survived serious withdrawals more than once and have known dozens of other people who did. It's only dangerous if you have a heart condition or something, or have been SO drunk for so long that posting coherent text online would be difficult (which rules out OP).

If you want help quitting, sure, that's the place to go. But don't waste their time if the only reason is you're afraid of dying or something. They might give you some drugs for it or they might not. Either way, it's something you have suffer through. The drugs don't help that much. I know.

This is the assessment tool hospital staff would use to measure the severity of your withdrawal. umem.org/files/uploads/1104212257_CIWA-Ar.pdf

Make your sense of control a physical act that empowers you. Get your biggest, fullest bottle of liquor you have available, and pour it down the drain. It's a cliche, but it works.

Now how to stop a porn addiction with this theory.

Anyone having the strength to do that is not an alcoholic...though if that symbolic act cuts you off BEFORE you become one, then it's well done.

Shut up, faggot. If you can skip days, you don't have the physical addiction to create toxic withdrawal.

I've done the same thing man. I didn't intend to drink myself stupid when I called in, I just wanted to avoid another day of a job I hated. But after I called in, I realized I didn't know what else to do with myself for the day. And so I ended up drinking out of boredom, maybe also as an attempt to relax.

Good advice user

Stop drinking at work ASAP, if anyone finds out you’re fired on the spot, then finiancial problems puts a strain on your marriage and layout life goes to shit. Drink at home only, and try to avoid drinking in mornings as it increases your dependency.

The trick is to limit the amount of times you drink, and then to limit the amount you drink when you do. You’re not gonna be able to stop outright, so slow it down gradually.

>if anyone finds out you’re fired on the spot
Depends on the job. I've worked places where that wasn't true.

>The trick is to limit the amount of times you drink
Already told him this twice. People want answers, but nobody listens to the answers. Its like talking to a cow.

Try AA it's free and free coffee you never konw it may be if changeing for you if your haveing serious withdrawal symptoms seek medical help temporarily than get your ass to AA this is the best answer you can get if you whant it go at it alone at lest get some AA literature to read a copy of the big book

If you can "limit" it as easy as that, you aren't an addict.

I've done it multiple times before, and I'm pretty sure I'm still an alcoholic. As in driving to the liquor store for a new 40 because I just finished drinking the last one. As in spending money that should have gone to bills on alcohol and then getting NSF charges on my bank account. As in it ruining the last decent relationship I was in over a year ago.

But every time I try to dry up, pouring out all the alcohol in the house is a good start and gives me a sense of control, that I'm more than just an alcohol fueled zombie. Eventually I do fall off the wagon, but so far I've pulled myself back up every time.

if you're going to lose your job milk a rehab visit out of them before they can firer your ass this helped me keep my shit job for a bit of time till I got a new one I konw thay whare done with me but it gave me time to get my shit together which I did

Had a similar problem, If you can (depends on your area) trade out alcohol for a less damaging/impairing vice, going cold turkey rarely works. I switched to smoking weed a few months ago and it's one of the best decisions i made. Fingers crossed your workplace doesn't do regular screenings

Chek'm.

You either have strong labor laws in your country or had a decent contract because any boss I ever had would have either laughed me out of the office or maybe taken a chance with personal sympathy. None of them would have been obligated to do fucking anything though.

If you think you're an alcoholic then you are one it's a power greater than yourself telling you ...so ..first step is admitting you are one and that your life has become unmanageable the path of recovery is laid out before you embrace it

>Believe in the dead Jew

No thanks. The higher power thing is a load of crap unless your into that shit.

Man, AA turns people into drones just as bad as the booze does.

You have some kind of insurance right go to the hospital tell them your spiel and they pretty much have to find a rehab for you that fits the insurance you have to totally fuck your employer they're not going to help you or even point you in the right direction they'll try to outright deny you it .. besides it's none of your bosses business or employer's business if you seek professional help

There are various forms of alcohol addiction. I'm a binge drinker, and could binge drink every day. But I don't. When I do drink, about 2-3x a week, I could drink a 30pk of beer and about a half-bottle of whisky. Then pass out, and have a few loose beers left for the morning. But instead, I buy 12px, and try to not have any whisky around. Sometimes, I'll buy whisky, but no beer. Either way, the goal is oblivion. I know for a fact, if I started early in the day, I could drink anyone here into a puddle of drunken mush.

no don't continue the spiral. Take a break from the alcohol. Re-assess.

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Kratom helps. For a little bit anyway until you start smoking O and that's a different problem. But at least you won't be an alcoholic.

The amount isn't really the most important point, it's whether you can stop or not.

>I know for a fact, if I started early in the day, I could drink anyone here into a puddle of drunken mush.
You haven't met me. Or my father.

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>The amount isn't really the most important point, it's whether you can stop or not.
You are missing at least half of the definition. You think you know, but you don't.

>You haven't met me. Or my father
Thank god for that. I don't drink with idiots.

o[p

> triggered

wot op?

Found the incel

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You'd better wean yourself off ASAP before you catch The Fear. Shit will fuck you up.
Once you experience that, you'll never want to drink again but it will already most likely be too late.

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Can you elaborate?

Is this where you reply to your own post pretending to be the other guy and feigning butthurt? It seems like that.

Dude this is not the place for this, go to advice(/adv/). You're pry gonna get addicted to sex/porn on here if you stay here long enough.
Other than that, stay strong my friend

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Have you ever actually been to /adv/? He's more likely to get a decent conversation here. This was a pretty good thread mostly.

im also close to becoming alcoholic. drank every day last week and ive also been blacking out lately. but now i ran out of vodka and im not going to buy or make more. instead ill take hydroxyzine. im married but ive been stalking this webcam girl and wishing i was single

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who is this camwhore?

`this is actually a good advice from an experienced person

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In Russia?

How worse are you supposed to stop? It’s not easy, it’s just curbing already high drinking amounts to medium drinking. Is he supposed to drink more? What kind of retarded logic

agree with both of you

Canada, the US. supposing you were a total basement dweller and had never seen the inside of a workplace outside of TV... did you notice how many people on TV have a bottle in their desk, or how many work occasions call for a round of drinks? Not every workplace is like Taco Bell.

What..?

>If you think you're an alcoholic then you are one
well no
I can't stay a week without drinking at least once, I only drink half a bottle of wine and a couple of beers and I think I am an alcoholic or at least that I have an alcohol problem but compared to what I read here I see that I am nowhere near.

quads

All the Mexicans who work construction keep coolers of beer and drink all day. Pinches borachos

Have you gone through the kratom WD already, or not yet?

> dem sexy digits