Any current or past alcoholics out there please listen, what was the point that saved you from the horrible cycle of drinking everyday and fixing your life? I drink a bottle of vodka a day, Im 30 years old. How do I escape this loop? Its terrible, but every time i plan to stop i make excuses like "ok ill start next Monday" but it ends up passing the time and it goes on. I always make excuses as to why I have to drink. Please Help me....
Alcoholics Past/Present
Jack Martin
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Ryan Butler
Go to the woods and drop acid
Thomas Miller
My body started going downhill, and the reality setting in that if I didn't stop I will die, possibly in a shitty way, I don't want to be on dialysis or have liver disease and cause the people that care about me watch me die early all because I refuse to stop getting drunk.
Eli Williams
One thing that helped me was planning to quit temporarily. I told myself i would just go 2 weeks because that wouldve been a personal best, and after that i could start drinking again. Then I kept going to see how long I could go, pushing the goal farther and farther, and ended up with 4 months so far. Its a good way to trick yourself into staying sober because it feels more rewarding and less like punishment.
Angel Sanchez
This
Asher Hall
Some people will tell you to just have willpower and cold turkey. My advice is cope and crutch with whatever makes you feel good. For example instead of sitting in the dark gritting your teeth sober trying to resist a drink, smoke some weed or fuck a hooker or watch porn. Any vice that doesn't actively injure your organs is preferable.
Eventually you'll get better going mechanisms like going for a run.
Jaxon Gomez
Can agree, distraction is key. I won't try to say dropping a weed habit is anywhere near as shitty feeling as dropping booze, but I can vouch that the former is made much easier by being too busy/entertained to ruminate on how badly you'd like to get back to it.
Mason Gomez
I drink a liter of wine every day and I will most likely commit suicide in a decade or whenever jaundice kicks in.
Tyler Watson
Hey user. I’m 33 and was drinking a 0.5 litre bottle of vodka a day for a long time last year. I’ve always been a daily, heavy drinker, but things amped up during a prolonged unemployment streak due to covid. What kind of broke it was finally getting a job. For the first time in around decade I’ve been hitting the gym daily, sleeping normally and eating healthy. It’s only been a couple of weeks, but the three aforementioned things have really changed my depression. I was also stuck in that loop. Last bottle of vodka and pack of smokes today. Go out with a bang, get hammered and that’s it. Rinse and repeat next day. I didn’t do it, but you could try going to an AA meeting. For me at least, with the offer of a job and future I finally had something to work towards. Why do you drink? What’s your misery and what are you trying to escape? Maybe resolving that out could pull you out of your loop.
Ethan James
May need a doctor for detox if your withdrawals are bad
Call on the Lord for help and you will receive it
Nolan Ortiz
After 10 years hard drinking I finally went cold turkey 21 days ago. My liver tests show no long term damage, but one of my liver enzymes is elevated, indicating the liver itself is a bit inflamed. Thankfully should resolve and thank God I didn't get long term liver disease. Never drinking again.
For perspective i started drinking steadily in 2010. Started with weekend vibes, a few shots. Then over the next few years, maybe a pint on Thursday-Sunday. Over the next 5 years, progress to half a liter on weekends, then half a liter every day. Last year, half a liter daily plus more on weekend binges.
I'm honestly surprised I don't have cirrhosis, i actually chalk it up to the copious amounts of black coffee i drink. Google the link between coffee and alcoholic liver disease
Sebastian Cook
Wow we basically have the same drinking stats user. I’m about to try cold turkey tomorrow. Did you have any serious withdrawals? Also the black coffee thing made me laugh. Maybe that’s keeping me afloat
Parker Anderson
Quiting cold turkey put me in hospital with some fucking insane hallucinations after around 60 hours of no sleep, got given benzos and banana bags and wasn't allowed to leave. Be carefull, severe withdrawal usally starts more than 48 hours after you stop and it can kill you.
Jordan Jenkins
The coffee thing is truly legit. Search pubmed or norman Google articles.
I went cold turkey because i literally fell out of my chair and broke my face, and my parents found out in an alcoholic (my wife called them over). The shame was enough to make me stop.
No withdrawal symptoms. The hardest thing has been learning what to do when I get bored. A night wasn't a night unless i was buzzed/blacked out.
So instead I decided to get fit again, and started working out daily. That, plus going to bed early/walking up early had prevented me from relapsing.
Plus I installed the "i am sober" app, which let's me see how many calories and $$$ I've saved, plus i get to read the suicidal feed of users who have relapse (and i enjoy laughing at them).
Next step is to get some legit hobbies aside from gaming and exercise... Maybe camping or something.
Anyway good luck. Get some basic liver test labs and other basic labs to make sure your body is producing the cells it needs, and to see if your liver functions are ok. I recommend cbc, bmp, lfts, ggt, INR. ask your doc
Gavin Ramirez
If you get hammered alone you are beyond saving
Bentley Richardson
Literally had to go to the hospital 3 times - 2 of which occurred within 2 months of eachother - to detox before I realized I had a major fucking malfunction
From my experience, you're just going to have to hit rock bottom before you truly grasp that alcohol makes your life worse if you drink it and that temporary feeling is NOT worth it. You'll eventually realize that you can not ever normally drink again and you'll have to give it up. Eventually you'll realize it's not that big of a sacrifice.
I'd honestly take a month off of work and check into rehab. It helped me tremendously. 4.5 years sober, drank 2 half-gallons of vodka every 3 days at my worst
Lincoln Lopez
Rough. I live alone, and I still wake up drowning in guilt. Good for you user: getting fit again. I do cardio and kettlebell 6x a week but I wanna start actually lifting and obviously that's not going to happen drinking nightly. I've lost some weight over the last year or two but lately from getting buzzed/retarded I'll just raid the cabinets. I'll look into that app and MOST certainly a physical and blood test after quitting to see where I'm at.
I'm just tired of going on blackout autopilot grizzly bear attacking the fridge and pantry mode day in and day out
Nathaniel Turner
witnessed two overdose deaths at rehab and when i got out i went straight back to drinking and then 6 months into that a friend killed himself because he couldnt quit and it made me realize i was on the same path which scared me enough to quit cold turkey. rock bottom is usually what makes people quit. or a really good rehab. get help for whatever makes you think you need to drink(usually depression,anxiety,OCD or add/adhd). im 3 years sober and still get the urge sometimes but its not hard to resist anymore
Levi Ortiz
This.
Although the last time I quit, I took a bunch of NAC to save my liver a bit from being an alcoholic, and it made me not care whether I drank or not, so I kinda tapered to zero. Take that for what you will.
Jaxon Phillips
wtf does NAC do?
William Johnson
youll have to hit rock bottom before youre ready for change.
after you detox--the worse part, you need to find something to replace it with. for me, getting back into lifting has done that. I used to lift religiously 10 years ago, and then alcohol took me.
Now I feel great, look great, and I hope I never go back there.
Adrian Gomez
There's alcoholics on both sides of my family, and I realized just how much I liked drinking. I wanted to succeed in life and I knew it would be harder if I didn't control myself. So now I only allow myself to drink at parties.
Dominic Cox
Going into rehab tomorrow bros. They have a full boxing gym, planning on gaining ten pounds in a month
>150lbs 5’11
>33 years old
>daily drinker
>Tourette’s/ADHD/depressive bipolar/anxiety issues
had a loaded rifle mashed against the roof of my mouth in November and since then the anxiety has become unbearable but the drinking just makes it worse. Will I make it?
Aaron Bell
Anyone in your family die from alcohol? I find it interesting when people say their family is full of alcoholics, to but they're all old boomers who haven't died from liver failure