365 days without booze... join me?
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I did dry Jan this year which made me feel great but I have slowly slipped back to my old ways.. Had a lot oof building work done this year and its become all to easy to start drinking everyday and at the weekend binge. Its time for me to finally stop.
What does everyone do with all their booze did you leave it or get rid of it? For me its the beer that start things off so as long as I dont have that I think the wine and spirits wont bother me too much by being around in the house.
Cheers!
What does everyone do with all their booze did you leave it or get rid of it? For me its the beer that start things off so as long as I dont have that I think the wine and spirits wont bother me too much by being around in the house.
Cheers!
James_P said:
What does everyone do with all their booze did you leave it or get rid of it? For me its the beer that start things off so as long as I dont have that I think the wine and spirits wont bother me too much by being around in the house.
Cheers!
Complete my year on bonfire night, never even remembered until today.Cheers!
There are some days I desperately feel like getting into it again though, but common sense tells me not to even start.
And there are still six unopened bottles of beer under the sink, that my dad bought me for my birthday in March.
When I lived overseas it wasn’t really frowned upon for bald old guys to get falling down drunk, such was the place we lived, but I can imagine what it would be like here in the U.K. if I was to have a lunchtime session and be falling about the town centre on a one man pub crawl in the afternoon.
Best those six bottles stay under the sink.......
After a frankly disastrous few weeks I'm trying to get my efforts to cut down back on track.
Over the last few weeks, my OHs mother announced she had cancer; this is not made any easier by the fact that said person is also the carer for her dad who is suffering from dementia. It has been a difficult few weeks made worse by the fact the OH then suffered a massive breakdown, including panic attacks and more besides. Pretty horrendous. So I've been drinking again to try and "cope", which has made my own depression (fairly mild, but still always there in the background) come back again.
This week, I've managed not to have anything to drink again this week for the first time in several weeks, and its not been easy. Feeling a bit low and not sleeping properly due to not being used to not drinking. Got to keep trying though, and I'm not happy with my appearance either being about 3 stone overweight, so that's given me something to work towards.
Hope everyone on the thread is doing OK.
Over the last few weeks, my OHs mother announced she had cancer; this is not made any easier by the fact that said person is also the carer for her dad who is suffering from dementia. It has been a difficult few weeks made worse by the fact the OH then suffered a massive breakdown, including panic attacks and more besides. Pretty horrendous. So I've been drinking again to try and "cope", which has made my own depression (fairly mild, but still always there in the background) come back again.
This week, I've managed not to have anything to drink again this week for the first time in several weeks, and its not been easy. Feeling a bit low and not sleeping properly due to not being used to not drinking. Got to keep trying though, and I'm not happy with my appearance either being about 3 stone overweight, so that's given me something to work towards.
Hope everyone on the thread is doing OK.
TameRacingDriver said:
.......So I've been drinking again to try and "cope", which has made my own depression (fairly mild, but still always there in the background) come back again.
This week, I've managed not to have anything to drink again this week........
We all know that drink doesn’t solve any problems, or actually help us cope, but it sure is a great temptation to escape into, or run away to when the pressure is on. I am feeling it every day now. If it wasn’t for my daughter living with me I would crumble and weaken.This week, I've managed not to have anything to drink again this week........
Good to hear you have managed to stay dry so far this week, just keep it going. One day at a time, as they say, one day at a time. Keep the faith.
Yeah that's the thing isn't it, we know it doesn't help but it sometimes can make you feel better just for a few hours, just to escape. It draws you back in like that.
I yearn to be like everyone else, who seem to cope without. Seem to have happy and productive lives whereas I just seem to live one day to the next, struggling with addiction and low mood that never seem to go away.
I don't even have kids to fall back on, never wanted them. Not really for me, but I can see now how it gives someone something else to focus on other than their own problems.
All the best KH.
I yearn to be like everyone else, who seem to cope without. Seem to have happy and productive lives whereas I just seem to live one day to the next, struggling with addiction and low mood that never seem to go away.
I don't even have kids to fall back on, never wanted them. Not really for me, but I can see now how it gives someone something else to focus on other than their own problems.
All the best KH.
I’ve never felt quite normal, unless I have had a beer, even one, it takes the edge off life and makes me feel normal. I feel self conscious and nervous, unsociable, when totally sober.
Out with people, parties, get together etc, just one beer makes all the difference.
The only problem; if one beer makes me feel so good, 20 should make me feel like Superman, Arnie and Tom Cruise all rolled into one. Except they don’t......
Out with people, parties, get together etc, just one beer makes all the difference.
The only problem; if one beer makes me feel so good, 20 should make me feel like Superman, Arnie and Tom Cruise all rolled into one. Except they don’t......
King Herald said:
I’ve never felt quite normal, unless I have had a beer, even one, it takes the edge off life and makes me feel normal. I feel self conscious and nervous, unsociable, when totally sober.
Out with people, parties, get together etc, just one beer makes all the difference.
The only problem; if one beer makes me feel so good, 20 should make me feel like Superman, Arnie and Tom Cruise all rolled into one. Except they don’t......
You could have probably described me with the first paragraph. I've often asked myself why there isn't a drug I could take every day that made me feel the way I do when I've had just one pint, maybe 2 at a push. Hell, I've even thought about trying this "micro-dosing" craze using LSD that's been talked about recently, which is said to have really helped with depression and just "coping" in many people who've tried it. Shame it's illegal and probably always will be.Out with people, parties, get together etc, just one beer makes all the difference.
The only problem; if one beer makes me feel so good, 20 should make me feel like Superman, Arnie and Tom Cruise all rolled into one. Except they don’t......
Makes me sad to think that it's possible I may never feel "normal" without it, but I suppose you've just to keep trying.
I strongly recommend Easyway to Control Alcohol by Allen Carr.
It can be life changing, maybe even life saving.
It can be life changing, maybe even life saving.
LordGrover said:
I strongly recommend Easyway to Control Alcohol by Allen Carr.
It can be life changing, maybe even life saving.
Hard to believe there are any alcoholics in the world, if simply reading a book can ‘cure’ it.....It can be life changing, maybe even life saving.
dumab said:
johnwilliams77 said:
King Herald said:
Did the book cure your alcohol problem?
It did with meHave you read it?
LordGrover said:
I strongly recommend Easyway to Control Alcohol by Allen Carr.
It can be life changing, maybe even life saving.
I would agree with this - I read this book four years ago and haven't touched a drop since. More importantly, I haven't wanted to, and have never felt I've missed out by not drinking.It can be life changing, maybe even life saving.
It's a short book, can be read easily in a couple of days, and if nothing else, will give plenty of "food for thought"
In a similar vein, but slanted toward a younger audience is "Kick the Drink Easily" by Jason Vale.
My only regret is that I didn't read either of these books years earlier...
funinhounslow said:
I would agree with this - I read this book four years ago and haven't touched a drop since. More importantly, I haven't wanted to, and have never felt I've missed out by not drinking.
I think it is all a question of whether you need to stop drinking, or whether you want to. I like drinking, but I am not a good drunk, so I stopped because I wanted to, 370 days ago. However, I spent years being a bad drunk when I really needed to stop, but didn't want to.
In a past life I stopped totally for 16 years, but then I thought maybe I had changed so started again.....I was wrong.
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