I Like To Drink

I like to drink once or twice a week. I don't enjoy drinking too much, but at the same time I find it hard, if not impossible, to simply have one or two drinks unless perhaps I am out to dinner and have to drive. When I drink it's usually beer. I like to put on a nice buzz and occasionally get a little too fucked up, but I try to keep things in moderation. I used to get wasted nearly every single night, but now it's more like once or twice a month, if that. I hate to admit that it sometimes seems like it would be all too easy to fall back into my old habits.

 

Alcohol has taken many from us and it is an addiction. I used to get drunk every weekend, now I just drink one beer a night. Medicinal purposes of course. :-D

 

I probably get drunk maybe twice a week sometimes, usually only once. Although I would say that I can't remember the last time I had a week in which I hadn't drunk anything. My drink of choice is whisky and coke. I rarely drink unless I intend to become drunk or at least somewhat tipsy, the idea of having a beer with a meal never really appeals to me. I have never felt compelled to drink when alone, except when I was a teenager and for a short time became obsessed with walking around central london in various states of intoxication in the middle of the night, although this was usually something that I did after having spent time drinking with friends, I'd just take a very long route home. From what I understand, our drinking culture is very different in the UK to the US.

Recently I've curtailed my drinking and only ever get tipsy rather than pissed, I had afew nights at parties and get together's where i'd been really enjoying the night, having really interesting conversations, not paying attention to how many I'd had, and then finding myself too pissed to really follow what people were saying or articulate my thoughts as properly as I'd wanted to. For me, this is awful, as the reason I enjoy alchohol is because it is a social lubricant and often facillitates interesting conversation. Going beyond that stage wihtout realising it and having a rotten night means I now always keep an eye on my intake in a night.

 

I've been drinking every night lately for like two months. Gonna switch to pot now

 

Most people like drinking to relax. Because drinking is relaxing.

 

Pot is the best way to get off the booze. It's easy to get attached to one buzz.

I'm still stuck on the soda and rum or gin. It was sooo damn good! Tried 7 PBR beers last night and it's just not the same. I really enjoy mixing alcohol with soda. Even strait shots don't get the same buzz. Beer is sorta sleepy/groggy buzz and not as happy. Shots get you drunk and quick. But mixing soda with some gin or rum is exactly what I enjoy. That and I've been craving sweet drinks. Just not amaretto sweet.

I gotta cut back. The weather is getting nicer so gonna have to do some 7 mile dog walks and watch the calories. Somehow I haven't gained a shit ton of weight with all the drinking. Been eating a lot of food too!

 

I love the taste of beer and have one or two beers in the evening a few times a week. I dont ever have a problem stopping after one or two at home, but when i'm in social situations i tend to throw them back and drink until i'm drunk to deal with social anxiety. I hate it, i dont really like being drunk but i get too overwhelmed in a group of people when i'm sober and end up drinking to excess.

 

I rarely drink now. I don't have the urge most days, and a lot of the time that I have the urge circumstances aren't favorable. Actually I could go for a beer right now, but I have to get ready for work in a few hours, and one beer would make me feel slow for the rest of the day.

I love the taste of beer too.

I was pretty much the same as you described yourself with drinking through my last 4 years of college, then in my late 30s when I started to drink again (after not drinking for several years), when I began to try to socialize more, after relocating and gradually losing touch with old friends. Sometimes I'll still have too much to drink in social situations, but not very often now.

 

I quit drinking sometime in the early-mid eighties...

 

As you know, I used to drink way too much. I then spent several years having nothing at all. During that time I grew up (some,haha..don't wanna ever totally grow up). Since I've been diagnosed w celiac disease, I've in recent months been occasionally drinking a cider (there are some good ones,including a very good local one,made ten mins from my house.) Anyways. Beer would destroy me. Unless its gluten free. I do occasionally enjoy a dogfish tweason'ale. Which is g/f & I actually enjoy the taste of. Expensive a bit though. Mostly drink the decent ciders & will likely try a hard root beer soon. I don't drink much & have also had concerns about falling back into old ways but I consider myself happy & stable now & also my bf helps me without even knowing it. When I drink when im with him,usually only have 1-2 and often get so preoccupied that I forget I opened one & its laying there in the am. and I usually only drink when with him, so it works out

 

i like to think

(even if some think i'm not good at it.
really not the point if they don't,
or even if i'm not)

 

i love a coffee with spiced rum or irish whiskey....just a splash....i have never
been a beer guy....in my younger bar days
i drank gran marnier much of the time or vodka drinks

 

Last Christmas day is the only time ive had an alcoholic drink in the last 18 months so.

Not going to get preachy about it, just dont like getting tipsy, i am more likely to fall asleep than anything else

 

I got way to drunk last night. I remember sleep walking at God knows what hour. I recall messing with a window screen in the closet. I tried to put it on the toilet and Piss through the screen! Oh dear, glad I didn't actually try. I tend to sleep walk when I drink. The last shot really did me in. I should be done drinking for awhile. It sounds horrible to drink today, not good at all.

 

Cracked a cold bottle of beer open last sunday evening when I arrived at my friend's place, had a big sip and just had to tell him how delicious it was (it was nothing special, just a regular brand). It was my first beer in a week. Sometimes it is just great to drink a cool brewski.
I rarely drink beer when alone though, i get lethargic. I just have no use for it then (unless it is after an intense day and plan to go to sleep soon after it). Rather have some other drink to accompany my doobie then.


edit: spelling

 

Try Asbach and cola if you can find Asbach Uralt. I fell in love with it in Germany. It's their standard bar drink. Americans love "Jack and Coke" and Germans love "Asbach und cola". It's a brandy but it's really sweet. They even pour it on ice cream. If you're craving sweet drinks you'll love it.

Germans also mix beer and Coke and call it "cola bier". It has to be a really good beer though. I've tried it with cheap American beer and it tasted horrible but with a good beer it's delicious. All their Coke had lemon flavoring so maybe that helped, but it was like drinking candy beer. It was also called "girly beer" because girls mostly drank it, but I enjoyed one every so often. Hefeweizen is still my favorite.

Now that we're on the subject, I think I'm about to crack open a Sam Adams....

 

I used to drink a lot. All this "we're alpha males blah blah blah". But even when I did it, I thought "wow really don't want to go along with this"
Nowadays, I can take it or leave it. I can drink socially, but I'm just as happy to have soft drinks all night.

But alcohol also causes immense harm. I hate when people say "I used to be an alcoholic" or "I'm a recovering alcoholic".
NO! You ARE an alcoholic, so always will be. Alcohol lets people hide away from the truth. Even if they might SAY some words of truth when they are drunk and not sober.
What use if they hide away from ACTING on those words after they sober up?
I know how they'll revert back to the abuse, unless they actually deal with their situations and their often related addictions.

Its even worse because they harm others. But who here has managed to get that thro to one? :wall:

Seriously if anyone can give me a tip..!

 

I've been completely sober for a little over 7 years now and hope I never drink again. By the time I finally quit I was drinking over a case of Budweiser a day and was completely dysfunctional; I couldn't work, rarely ate or left the apartment. I never knew if it was day or night without looking out the window. Basically I'd drink till I passed out, then I'd wake up a few hours later and continue drinking. Then repeat. I constantly wished for death.

I won't get into what was my rock bottom, but I finally decided to quit. The first day was hard. The second day was agonizing. By the third day I could barely walk because my legs shook so bad. That's when I went to the hospital, the thirty day/thirty night kind of hospital. I think I was literally insane for a while. I don't ever want to go through that again, not sure I'd survive.

I suffer from depression, anxiety and have some symptoms of bipolar. I think I was basically self medicating for years with alcohol. I've gotten a lot of help from counselors and am on the proper medications now but I still envy people who can have just one or two drinks and then stop. That's something I'll never be able to do. But I'm a lot happier now than I've been in years.

Anyway, that's my drinking story.

 

My persona was the 1/2x weekly "heavy drinking hellraiser". But it was just a "stage act" - I'm "a bigger man, I'm a better entertainer" than the rest type of bullshit. I understood why I'd go on binges. I don't find anything seductive about it at all, never did.
But I think I understand alcohol and alcoholics perfectly.

I see massively similarities between your case and the one I'm trying (ok wondering about trying!) to get thro to now.

Did other people try and help you? Or do you think you harmed them? Dragged them down even?Did
you push them away?

And did you get to the root cause of your depression/mental illness?

 

He ran out of booze.