Me too, since alcohol to me is more for calming effect than to cause me to go on a rampage.

ts is big and fat
so considered "heavy drinker"

Think is very likely you will have withdrawal if you go cold turkey now because you drink daily.

Good luck TS on your effort to quit.

Since you said fail many times already, if hardcore install pet door, get caretaker for one week to feed you and lock yourself in cold turkey.

I don't think so.. Sometimes I can don't drink if I have things to do after work.. Going for functions / meetings

I drink a bit everyday after work then go home play PS5

This post has been edited by -PuPu^ZaPruD3r-: Mar 20 2023, 06:23 PM

Stopped drinking heavily almost 20 years ago. Almost everyday for 5 years. No withdrawals.

This one cannot, my only solution would be to warded for one week.

If you isolate yourself like you mention, there is chance I would die. Many celebrities who are heavy drinkers, they did not die because they drink too much, is because they tried to rehab themselves and die from withdrawal.

Cheers TS to Monday blues 🍻

I don't usually drink beer anymore, not strong enough. Even if I do, I spike it with something stronger, maybe like vodka or usually rice wine.

Last time when still have stock, my go to liquor store will sell me 18% beers daily, horrible tasting stuff if not just to get high, would not drink it.

I drink so much on a daily basis that even as a seller and a friend, even he's telling me to stop drinking, that's how bad it is.

Think I have been drinking for past 10 years.

Been drinking on and off during the earlier years, but its during COVID that really hit me hard, and now is a daily thing.

Morning, drink to pick me up. At work, quietly sneak out to drink, some co-workers can even tell that I drink. Night time, drink to sleep.

Withdrawals are horrible, its nothing like hangover. The medicine works similar to drinking to calm your mind, minus the bad effects of drinking, only problem is that you cannot drink and take that medicine at same time.

extra one more beer will cure the hangover,.. true story,...

Might be bad advise on my part so take it with a grain of salt, but if you have this kind of thought it'll be hard to quit, since you'll pat yourself in the back if you fail because atleast you didn't die, right?

For example the fatties in US justified their obesity because a portion of the population can have biological makeup that makes it easier to put on weight, so they're selfdiagnosing themselves as such.

Its not entirely hard to quit, alcohol is a coping mechanism, meditation, exercise all are coping mechanism. Its just that alcohol is the easy way out.

Using the medicine (benzodiazepines) for alcohol withdrawal, if I can maintain taking it for at least 7-10 days, there is a good chance that I can quit totally. But that is assuming nothing stress me to go back to my usual coping mechanism, and live with a healthier way of coping.

For now, I still never even go near to 7 days, usually just 3 days. That medicine is required because once you're off alcohol, your body will go crazy as your mind starts to normalize without alcohol.

Withdrawal is not limited to just alcohol, can be anything that affects the brain; can be coffee, energy drinks, or most addictive substance, sugar.

I made this thread just as my reminder, if I keep silent and not admit its something bad for me, then recovery will be more difficult.

Drink yomeishu

Yesn't

If it affects your health, work and social life, I don't see the point of continuing this path even if the withdrawals are a bitch.

Have you tried professional rehab or something? You need medical help.

Withdrawals are no joke, people underestimate this.

Its one of the most dangerous and openly abused substance in this world.

Hope more people can open their eyes and understand the danger of this drug.

There is no clear answer as to why I am continuing this path even when I know at back of my head its bad for me.

Affect health, yes definitely feeling it. Work, not quite I'm considered as a functioning alcoholic and actually better as my focus is sharper (if you know when to stop, anything more, it goes downhill). Social life, say with my parents, yes.

This is one of those things that cannot be lectured, my parents are worried and have asked me to stop many times, but why I say it cannot be lectured because, you get frustrated/stressed up with it, and you go back to your happy place again.

Right now I'm just tapering (reduce) to hopefully at some point to be totally stop and be sober. Going cold turkey can potentially kill you, this is coming from me who have experienced almost 90% of symptoms, except delirium tremens.

I'm also creating awareness that drinking comes with its consequences, which I think many here that drinking will only lead to traffic accidents or killing your body, alcohol withdrawal is not something that is discussed a lot in /k.

Unfortunately no, I don't have time for professional rehab, but I get your point.

Yup, withdrawals from alcohol, I've read about it countless times but somehow still back to square one.

I have medicine used to treat alcohol abuse, because part of withdrawal is insomnia and when you try to sleep but you can't, that 6-8 hours it can feel like forever, and you have to wake up tired and go to work. Its not quite sleeping medicine, but off label use for insomnia.

As for medical help, yes I've seen a psychiatrist but its for my insomnia, to which is partly caused from drinking. Prescribed antidepressant, did not help much, one that I have is more effective but it was not prescribed because in initial assessment, there is mention of drinking.

Psychiatrist told although one that I have is more effective, but once you mix it with drinking (its between the pill or drinking), you'll have weird lucid dreams, which is actually true.

True. This can't be lectured. I stopped because I was hospitalized with acute pancreatitis when I was in college so I had no choice.