A Drinking Problem

[ConawayFarms]

I’ve struggled with drinking too, mostly when things got rough at work or home. There was a point where having a drink after mowing the yard or just to relax on weekends became an everyday habit, and suddenly it was hard to stop. Honestly, it took me wrecking a really good friendship for me to realize I needed help, and quitting was way harder than I expected. Even now, there are times when I crave a cold one, but I just remind myself what it cost me before. If anyone’s found themselves in a cycle like that and wants real support, ever tried Abbeycare? A buddy got treatment through them and said their mix of therapy and aftercare felt different from anything else he tried.

 

[lilranch2001]

I never have understood the desire for excessive drinking, I can go for months and not have an adult beverage and just drink one or two….
I believe the last time I was totally inebriated was when I was 18 ish, drinking with a bunch of my friends slo gin…..
Never was so sick in my life.

Maybe that is the cure!
Get every kid vaccinated with excessive slo gin at a young age!!!

 

[Jstpssng]

11 year old thread, but it's interesting to see some of the posters who have since moved on.

 

[bigtiller]

I never have understood the desire for excessive drinking, I can go for months and not have an adult beverage and just drink one or two….
I believe the last time I was totally inebriated was when I was 18 ish, drinking with a bunch of my friends slo gin…..
Never was so sick in my life.

Maybe that is the cure!
Get every kid vaccinated with excessive slo gin at a young age!!!

I found out when I was 16 that Sloe gin is dangerous to teenagers.
I mixed it 50/50 with Crush strawberry pop. It was tasty and easy going down and still red when coming back up. And really painful when Dad found out.

 

[wilso]

I found out when I was 16 that Sloe gin is dangerous to teenagers.
I mixed it 50/50 with Crush strawberry pop. It was tasty and easy going down and still red when coming back up. And really painful when Dad found out.

Have you drunk Sloe gin after that?
I had a similar story but we drank a lot of wine, and I couldn't even look at it for years.

 

[bigtiller]

Have you drunk Sloe gin after that?
I had a similar story but we drank a lot of wine, and I couldn't even look at it for years.

Maybe, I'm not sure, that was 57 years ago.
I'm hooked on coffee or V8 juice now.
The kid in me still likes strawberry pop.

 

[rontaki]

As much as I liked partying when younger, I never liked doing the "wake and bake" thing.

 

[bdhsfz6]

I drank quite a bit in my 20's, beer & gin, mostly in social settings. I gave it up in my 30's out of necessity when I started building the house. That took most of my free time & money. Still does to some extent even today. I'll have a beer with friends now & then but that's about it.

The only drinking problem I have now is when I spill my coffee.

 

[QRTRHRS]

My father was a drunk. We always thought that the cirrhosis or the emphysema would get him but it was ALS in the end. My aunt, his sister, called him the rottenist sob this side of ******.

Anyway, when he retired, he took up making some, etc. in the basement
It looks like a mass chemist at work. His buddies would come by to help stir the wine. They could barely make it up the outside stairs.

 

[tacticalturnip]

I miss drinking, but not enough to start back up again. I really miss a beer with dinner, or whiskey in the evening, but I made my poor decisions and I'm better off to just keep on the wagon.

 

[RayIN]

I still have a beer bottle huggie that says,
"Homer Alaska, a quaint little drinking village with a fishing problem.
I'D like to return but at my age that is a dream." There is very good fishing there.

 

[JeepHead]

I go to work and home and very little in between except for the twins wrestling matches or ball games. There are two things you can count on when I am at home. I am never in the house unless I'm cooking dinner for the family or it's bedtime, and I ALWAYS have a beer in my hand. I couldn't imagine home life without a beer in my hand!!! And the mrs always gotta be where ever I am Such as today...I will get home and go straight to the shop, an hour and half later she will get home and she will be right out to the shop to hang with me. Doesn't matter if I stay out there until 2am, she will stay too. LOL If I really wanna get rid of her, I have to break out the chemicals so that it stinks to high heaven in there.

 

[Snobdds]

My dad asked me why I didn't drink like my friends did a long time ago...

I told him it takes up too much time. You have to drink for hours to get drunk (my case), then you have to spend hours being drunk, then you have to spend hours sleeping it off, then you have to spend hours being hungover.

I don't have time for that. I have better things to do.

 

[rontaki]

My dad asked me why I didn't drink like my friends did a long time ago...

I told him it takes up too much time. You have to drink for hours to get drunk (my case), then you have to spend hours being drunk, then you have to spend hours sleeping it off, then you have to spend hours being hungover.

I don't have time for that. I have better things to do.

You could multitask.

 

[Mtsoxfan]

I wish I learned as a younger man that drinking water between drinks is a way to prevent hangovers. I usually drink 2 beers, then a water. Haven't had a hangover in years, even after being drunk. but it's been a awful long time since I was drunk. When I was recently diagnoses with prostate cancer, everything I read from medical institutions indicated even moderate alcohol intake is the friend of cancer. I don't drink more than 2 on Friday, 2 on Saturday, if that. Went cold turkey for 6 months or so while treating/recovering from cancer.

 

[ultrarunner]

You probably know this, but if not you should forewarn her to the problems with alcohol you've had, so she doesn't suffer the same fate. I know I've talked with my kids about it. I had alcoholism throughout both sides of my family.

Many in my generation witnessed alcohol and smoking and avoided…

Growing up I remember adults always inviting others for cocktails… lots of talk that got louder and hearing lots of laughs…

As a teen I would get calls to bring home adults… Im 16 and thinking they spend more on a few drinks than U earned in a day…

Thankfully, none of those calls were for my parents…

When I worked in Austria I actually offended some by refusing beer and schnapps…

Now it’s more understood and not a problem but this was not always the case when even BMW provides free lunchtime beer to line workers…

 

[ultrarunner]

My dad asked me why I didn't drink like my friends did a long time ago...

I told him it takes up too much time. You have to drink for hours to get drunk (my case), then you have to spend hours being drunk, then you have to spend hours sleeping it off, then you have to spend hours being hungover.

I don't have time for that. I have better things to do.

That and wasted hard earned money for me plus one DUI can lead to job termination and thousands more for insurance…