Anybody else an alcoholic?

[Mr. Negative]

yeah I'm a functioning alcoholic. No secret there.

I've tried to slow down even more since the last time this thread was made.

Problem now, though, is even though I may only buy like a fifth of vodka once a week or so, I'll kill it over a day or two. Then I won't drink nothing else for another week-two weeks.

If I lived in a weed legal state, I prolly wouldn't be drinking that.

 

[LunaticVillage415]

I been sober two and a half years and some change. Before that I was a stone cold alcoholic. Alcoholism is hella sick because it creeps up on you without you knowing because alcohol is so socially acceptable. If you smoking crack or shooting dope, you already know you shouldn't be doing that shyt. But drinking alcoholically is as American as open racism. Every holiday, weekend, day off etc. is a valid excuse to get your gurp on. Binge drinking is seen as a rite of passage. I started drinking heavy in college. But couldn't shake it for years after college. I had DUI's, woke up in the hospital hella times, got into dumb fights with the homies over bullshyt that could've easily ended in death. I blamed the economy, racism and being raised in the hood as a reason why I couldn't get my shyt together. The economy was bad when I graduated from college in 09' and racism still bad, but Michael Jackson said if you wanna make the world a better place take a look at yourself and make a change.

Went to AA for hella years. Didn't relate to a bunch of privilege cacs crying about having their Starbucks order wrong. Continued to drink until I was drinking every morning, couldn't hold a job for years and had to go to the hospital every time I stopped drinking. Then I finally went to rehab. The folks at the rehab I related to better because they were more down to earth that the stuck up cacs at the meetings. Still go to cac young people meetings for the pawgs though . Discovered NA was blacker and more hood than AA in my area. Was inspired to stay sober. This sober life is so much better. When you don't respect yourself, others don't respect you either. Lil kids used to laugh at my drunk ass. Feels good not to be hungover everyday.

 

[Food Mane]

and germany, and NYC, and Rochester, and Buff, and the DMV...
Both relevant cities in this current country...and I'm just listing places I've lived in. Your ol' dumb ass didn't think people could become alcoholic off of BEER.
That's a sign of inexperience. Couldn't be youth, I knew this before I was old enough to sign up for message boards, just off of observation, when I lived in in DC...as A CHILD.

you're a true man of the world

buffalo and rochester

 

[GoAggieGo.]

Starting early today fellas.

In DC on business, but got done with my obligations early. Now I’m here at the airport until 4 with nothing to do. Got a crown and coke

 

[raidersreceiver]

I decided last night was the last night I'm gonna drink in a month. I know it's for the best but it will be hard af

 

[treezee]

I decided last night was the last night I'm gonna drink in a month. I know it's for the best but it will be hard af

You can do it breh. Me tho???

 

[tuckgod]

Starting early today fellas.

In DC on business, but got done with my obligations early. Now I’m here at the airport until 4 with nothing to do. Got a crown and coke

Man, hit one of them delivery services up and get you a brownie, a preroll or something

 

[WaveMolecules]

I'm going to drink absurd amounts of alcohol during the world. Its inevitable.

I'm hoping maybe this month before hand I can stay sober.

Pray for me.

 

[thenatural]

I’m here telling ppl I drink altleast a six pack a day and damn near admitting I’m an alcoholic, why would I lie about that?

Sat and Sun afternoon always. That’s two days at leisure.

Then just three more days during the week. I work from home so it’s convinient.


I have no reason to lie in this thread Breh.

Your original post said five times a day. I think you meant to say five per week.

 

[Coolin']

Oh, my bad @Marco Zen



Do you drink water? Since I know i'm going to drink beer, I recently also started drink tons of water during the day and a few glasses while i'm getting right. It helps immensely with the hangovers.

Yeah. Water is pretty much the only thing I drink...I mean, other than beer . I will say, though, that sometimes once I start feeling buzzed I forget about the water altogether and thus, hangover the next day. When I’m drinking, I probably should just have water beside my beer or something.

 

[raul04]

I live in Austin it's very hard to not go out every day. I have vendors that take us out for happy hours...I have coworkers that are miserable in their home life. I end up drinking with them because I'm single and they know I will go. I noticed that one of my coworkers gets the shakes when he holds a glass of water. I dont want to get there....

 

[TaxCollector13459]

I used to.
Went from one shot of everclear to like 4
To get right


I rarely drink now though, I been back on my fitness wave. I stopped after I left the army

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

This thread made me feel a helluva lot better about my situation

I sit in my man cave a drink a 6 pack every 2 - 3 days and was starting to think this was an issue.

I still want to cut that down and spend that time more productively though.

I really appreciate that brehs is in here sharing openly and being respectful towards each other.

This is a very mature thread that I needed to see because I was beginning to think this site was full of nothing but angry, immature people.

Just 2-3 times a week?!?!

 

[tuckgod]

Just 2-3 times a week?!?!

I'm a family man breh.

A family man with a lot of people that depend on me.

I feel guilty whenever I do anything that takes away time that I could be spending on them or making myself a better person, but I realize I have to have time for myself.

The thing that gets me is I usually drink alone, and from what I've heard, that's never good.

My social life outside of spending time with my wife and kids is grabbing a 6 pack, a pack of blacks, going to my man cave and getting on the Coli.

Once you hit about 33 (at least in my case) you stop feeling the need to hang out and have friends.

Mostly to keep myself from doing something stupid like putting myself in situations where I may be tempted to cheat, or be out with nikkas that don't have as much to lose as me and possibly getting into legal trouble.

 

[raidersreceiver]

Who in here drinking alone by themselves tho? Thats me 90% of the time