Thread 513333317

how do you guys cope with being alcoholics?

Naltrexone has existed for over 20 years. maybe 40 years. removes the urge to drink. easy as fuck to quit alcohol.

Not politics, not news

>>513333317 (OP)
i’m not an alcoholic because alcoholics go to meetings

>>513333317 (OP)
Drink every couple of weekends until I black out, ruin relationships, destroy my sleeping pattern, then tell myself I won't be doing that again.

>>513333419
Based and only true answer

>>513333317 (OP)
How do you faggots even BECOME alcoholics? Drinking sucks balls, and drugs are readily available.

>>513333317 (OP)
Can I be an alcoholic and lose weight?

>>513333317 (OP)
Dude, beer

>>513333553
this guy gets it

>>513333522
>Does gay sex drugs but no drinking
Anti social incel Zooomers will never get it

>>513333317 (OP)
By brewing

>>513333317 (OP)
Switch to weed and only do marginally better in life

I'm not, I'm too poor to afford alcohol in this economy
fuck you nepobabynigger!

By drinking three 211 beers to get my buzz going then drink an 18 pack slowly after.

>>513333317 (OP)
I dream of the one day I'll return to my one true love and drink myself to death without hurting my loved ones and friends.

>>513333317 (OP)
i dont, just quit drinking, been sleeping great
alcohol fucks your sleep up bad
couple days ago i slept almost 11 hours straight
thank you /pol/ for telling me to stop

>>513333651
>drinking poison is so badass and redpilled
Why are boomer niggers so retarded? Just die already.

>>513333317 (OP)
By being a nihilistic sad-sack faggot. Glad I gave it up 3.5 years ago.

>>513333784
>Too poor for going out and too gay and retarded to talk to women
I hope zoomers will finally change society, I pray that you are the rock bottom that society can create and that you finally do something

I failed at it. I always wanted to graduate from a beer drinker to the guy who puts down half a dozen shots of bourbon every night. I mean, I like it, but I just can't drink that much of the hard stuff. So I kept one bottle for when I have a cold, and the rest I made into vanilla.

In the process, I kind of lost my interest in beer as well. I went for the golden ring and lost everything.

>>513333419
I wrote this

>>513333317 (OP)
I drink heavily.

>>513333317 (OP)
I stopped being one, kicked nicotine too
Now I have to live with my psychological issues and nearly daily ptsd flashbacks instead of suppressing them so I can’t say it’s necessarily better but at least my body is healthy now

>>513333419
Fuck, when did i visit to the uk?

>>513333522
I had 4 beers last night after not drinking for several months and it fucking destroyed me. Woke up with sweats, nightmares, horrible shits, everything. And I had plenty to eat so it wasn't like I was on an empty stomach or anything

>>513333317 (OP)
My liver would've died already if not for my honeybees stinging me every day.

I lick toads instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkavReH4LE0

by waking up everyday at 5 am to get ready for work
i can drink after 1pm tho

Why is this so simple?

I don't know am just coping with being an alcoholic

Poorly. I drank for 10 years but have been.clean for at least 2 years and frankly I don't miss it. My biggest regret? What it did to my body. It ages you and I've been on a 24 month grind getting back to where I was even 7 years ago, but I implicitly understand I'll never get back 100%

I'll feel lucky if I can get back 70%, but even that seems unlikely.

>>513333395
Man I miss smoking weed occasionally. Why is that federally illegal but not alcohol. More people die a year from alcohol poisoning than have ever died from weed purposes. Also when's that last time you've been unable to control your faculties when high? Yet every time your drunk you.can really control yourself ...feelz gay man

>>513333317 (OP)
Serious answer. I never drink during the day, and only crack my first beer after 6pm (my former time was 5, and I'm working towards 7).

I also never smoke weed during the day, and only do it in teensy amounts at night to tweak my beer buzz. One gram will last me close to a month, srsly. Modern weed should only be used in careful amounts imo.

I've just accepted that my life is relatively better if I don't quit drinking altogether, because dealing with rl without any mental insulation is not a happy prospect, because I've tried it, and it just makes me want to kys myself.

The trick is in keeping your schedule under control. Day-drinking is a life-killer every time, but depending on your job (I was a welder in an earlier life), getting paled every night but going to bed at a decent time is a-okay. Hope that helps.

t. 30-year drunkard

>>513333317 (OP)
I own a popular restaurant/bar on the beach. I can spend six nights a week drinking at the bar and I'm still seen as an upstanding member of and employer in the community.

>>513333317 (OP)
drinking is for pussies
every alcoholic I've known has been a piece of shit that I eventually had to cut out of my life because they just cannot control themselves in any situation and that's embarrassing to deal with

>>513334245
Yeah I had a similar experience, I think they're poisoning the alcohol more than they normally do these days

>>513333419
>every couple
what a waste of time. you could be drinking at all times. don't let the system tell you otherwise. yeast are free, they live in the environment and are ready to work.

>>513335119
This is good advice, keep a schedule. I get up in the morning and get some things done, then don't drink until the evenings. I also completely quit for a few months a year. I usually stop drinking around November, after hurricane season, then don't drink any until around February/March.

>>513333317 (OP)
i had 6 beers on Friday night and 4 on Saturday night

>>513333531
If you factor in the amount you drink into your total caloric intake for the day.
I'm fit and usually drink about 2x a week on my rest days.
Malbec or Pinot are only about 570 calories/bottle. Don't drink beer. I don't drink soda or eat chips or junk food. To me the wine is my treat.
If I wasn't a workout nut I would probably be drunk almost every night.

>>513333317 (OP)
You're only an Alcoholic if you seek treatment.
I'm a functioning drunk.

>>513333317 (OP)
I wasn't an alcoholic I was a PROBLEM DRINKER! God, you sound just like my ex. And I dealt with it the only way a rational, intelligent MALE should. I quit. I stopped putting bottles and cups with alcohol infused liquids up to my lips, pouring a little in, and the swallowing it until I blacked and woke up with an ugly woman. Was it easy, no. Was it doable? Yes. And it builds a little character and backbone teaching yourself how to resist temptation. You can't buy that with your debit card.

>>513333317 (OP)
I haven't had a drop since April.

>>513335119
>Modern weed should only be used in careful amounts imo
If that's what you think, that's what you should do. I think everyone shoud know their limits and whether they should be using a particular drug at all. I have to abstain from anything addictive. It's just my flaw. My brother doesn't have that same issue. He can dabble, walk away, dabble some more. But I have to abstain 100%.

>>513335319
>I can spend six nights a week drinking at the bar
I used to manage restaurants. I have met a half dozen people like that. It's almost worse than people who can't get away with it. Like people who CAN afford their opiate habit. You can develop a really bad habit and get in some real shit when there is nothing to check you.

>>513333317 (OP)
I started attending AA meetings.

quit drinking

>>513333317 (OP)
I just live with it

>>513334245
Same shit happened to me. 2 10% ABV tall boys shouldn't have me puking in the morning. It's not the alcohol content alone, because I drank an equivalent amount of whiskey the next day and felt mostly fine the day after.

>>513333317 (OP)
I just don't drink alcohol
Never have
Nothing to worry about

>>513336328
You know you can not be a retard and check yourself?

>>513336917
Not how it works

>>513335104
The alcohol industry is powerful and always has been. alcohol is a cultural artifact over thousands of years. its socially accepted, its in the bible. the alcohol industry didnt want competition. what happened with legal cannabis in various locations is big money needed years to get in place and then various locations modified the legal status of weed. So most weed operations now are big money

>>513333317 (OP)
By drinking. Reminder, your but a real alcoholic unless you go through withdrawals and are terrified of the thought of being put into a situation where you can't drink

>>513337453
If you're not retarded you can check yourself.

>>513333317 (OP)
Be a musician and it's seen as endearing

I just convinced myself stopping was nbd and gradually tapered off til I stopped. Once I stopped I went like 3 years not touching alcohol and now I drink like occasionally, basically holidays and special days or celebrations. That’s it. Idk it was actually easier than I expected once I internalized that it was doable and the right thing to do.

>>513333522
The trick is thinking you unlocked some cosmic cheat code while sneaking drinks when "nobody knows" and "feeling great" because of it.

>>513337739
Also this.

>>513333317 (OP)
Story time.
I have always been an alcoholic. I had my first swig of vodka from my friends grandfather's liquor cabinet at age 11 and I pretty much didn't set the bottle down until I was 37 or 38. Saying my drinking was out of control would have been a massive understatement. Luck was on my side throughout most of my worst decisions. Never got a dui but I drove drunk every day. Almost killed me and friends more than once but always got lucky. Narrow misses with more than 1 power pole. Obviously fights and assaults. Lost more than I won. Quit drinking when my father died. He hated how much I drank. Wish I would've done it sooner.

I had never felt an urge to drink before and I had binge drank a lot in my army days.
What did it for me was the isolation during covid. We had some retarded as fuck lockdowns in Canada and I live alone. At one point we couldn't even do more than pickup orders at stores... I started at one bottle of wine a week. To 2-3/week. Then Wine didn't do it so I started drinking whole bottles of liqour and was drunk about 5 days a week.
The only thing that got me right was getting back to being a health nut. I made an at home gym and started to workout out 4-5x a week. You gotta replace it with something else.
I still drink a bottle to 2 bottles of wine a week.

>>513337739
I quit playing live shows because it was too easy to get hard drugs. Obviously, when you're blasted drunk all the time, it's easier to get talked into other shit.

I don't drink. Have a Sealed bottle of Tullamore dew from a few years ago just sitting there. Feels good

>>513338095
Forgot to mention, I did have liver issues as well that luckily sorted themselves out after quitting. Overall, very fortunate.

>>513338182
I don't see a reason not to do hard drugs either... maybe I'm the wrong guy to ask.

>>513333317 (OP)
If you drink daily, by the time you're 32 or so, you get bored of it and just stop. I did. It's like getting McDonalds everyday, no matter how good it is, you'll get tired of it and wont want it anymore

>>513333317 (OP)
i do horrific binges from time to time when i feel extra blackpilled.

seem to have really efficient adh/aldh. matter of fact i drank a handle of vodka in the evening n woke up without a hangover.

to binge drinkers- drink absolut . there's almost on hangover . best vodka out of all them in that regard

>>513338182
I went on the road at 17. First it was alcohol weed and X then lots of lsd and some heroin opiom. I did pretty much every drug known to man while on the road, but alcohol was always my go to. I started puking blood on the ride back from a show when I was 22 years old. I had almost drank myself to death already. I came off the road and stopped drinking for the next ten years after that. It's too easy when you're playing. It's every fucking where and free.

>>513333317 (OP)
I don't drink nor smoke

>>513333317 (OP)
I follow a 90 day rule. I will take anabuse for 3 months. Takes about 14 days adter the last pill to get out of your system. Then I allow myself 10 days to drink and then get back on anabuse

>>513333317 (OP)
just a lot more scientific about it. before I would drink and be all whoo hoo and shit, but then I studied the amoutns and body weight and the processing rates and it is all good. better than SSRIs honestly. Just get your dosage correct and don't be a retard.