A Drinking Problem

[JimWalch]

Alcohol: According to Chemistry It's a Solution

 

[orezok]

I'm glad I'm a Drunk not an Alcoholic, I don't have to attend all those **** meetings! :laughing:

 

[tcreeley]

Orezok - I like that - "Don't let the bastards grind you down." on the avatar!

 

[lilranch2001]

My belief is that different people have different levels of addictive personalities.

Personally I have done a lot of dumb things earlier in my life, and never had any problem stopping (other than arguing with rs) but a lot of people in my life get hooked on some really silly or really bad stuff

We should all pray for those addictive personalities!

 

[Bird]

My belief is that different people have different levels of addictive personalities.

Personally I have done a lot of dumb things earlier in my life, and never had any problem stopping (other than arguing with rs) but a lot of people in my life get hooked on some really silly or really bad stuff

We should all pray for those addictive personalities!

I don't know whether its personality or physical body chemistry, but I do know that some become alcoholics and can't stop drinking while others may drink way too much at times, but have no problem stopping.

 

[tcreeley]

I don't know whether its personality or physical body chemistry, but I do know that some become alcoholics and can't stop drinking while others may drink way too much at times, but have no problem stopping.

I read once that the people who can't hold their liquor early on, learn to regulate their alcohol consumption so as to avoid feeling sick, embarrassing themselves, etc. They quit drinking earlier in the day or at a party.
The people who genetically can hold their liquor early on, keep drinking past when the other guy is puking or passed out or stopped. Life is good for them, but in the process they consume much more alcohol over time, and that changes their body chemistry producing alcoholism at a greater rate than the other guy.

Who knows the truth of it. I have family on my wife's side that have their beers and do just fine, and others who are lucky to hold down a job despite a solid work ethic. That's addiction.
The opiate addiction is the one that we are all starting to see around us. That one scares me - seems to suck them in faster and keep them. Time will tell.

 

[Happy Gilmore]

I am enjoying sobriety, too many ugly memories from my times of over consumption. I simply choose to not want go back to the darkness that alcohol can bring. In a time in my life when so much was going wrong, drinking seemed like a solution to numb the pain. I was always the guy who thought, how bad can things get, how do people end up the way they do or that'll never happen to me. The fact is things can get ugly real quick and out of hand even quicker. If you choose to drink do it responsibly, I just like don't like what I've seen alcohol do. I'm not a preacher.

I just don't want to end up looking like this;