I’m an alcoholic I need help!!

[hatealot]

@Dynamite James

Listen to me real closely and serious. Likenfukking seriously, you aren't alone

If you don't stop , you are gonna lose your baby, wife and getting divorced. Possible lose your job and then homelessness is on the horizon.

I'm not gonna sugar coat it, if you are problematic drinker/alcoholic, all of those will manifest eventually. There's no maybe, it will.

I got a friend who passed away this year who died from internal bleeding, his organs failed and he bleed out.

Alcohol abuse can lead to organ failure and cancer in the liver. Your death will be a painful one if you don't stop. He died in his 30s!!!

Eventually, you are going to lose it mentally and show signs of schizophrenia or bi polar and be emotionally off kilt. You are gonna be drowning in anxiety and regret.

My whole family is a mix of alcoholics and functional drunks. Needless to say, many of em died from cancer.

I don't know how much you are drinking , but regardless of the amount. If it's a problem its a problem..

Try to address your anxiety and fears head on. Alcohol robs you of this development and you learn to deal with everything through drinking.

I won't even get into the physical dependency you can get. You can die from a seizure if you don't drink when you are physically dependent.

Fight the urge to cope with your fears and anxiety with alcohol. It will re wire your brain and coping mechanisms.

 

[TallMan_J]

@Dynamite James Try Kratom. It’s a natural and legal herb. Get on a heavy dosage, and you won’t even want to drink. All cravings gone, plus it makes you feel good.

If you have any questions, pm me about it or check out the subreddit.

 

[Uptown WaYo87]

I spoke on it a few times in other threads but i quit drinking on jan 17th, i just completed a full 9 months 2 days ago.

I was a heavy Thursday-Sunday drinker all through my late teen to early 30s (im 34 now). I could easily kill a liter of whiskey, or a half a gallon of titos with juice in ONE DAY, even squeeze in beers in there. I couldnt just have 1 drink, once i started drinking i never stopped until i went to sleep. If i was out and about clubbing/loungin forget about it, i wouldnt get home until 7-8am and there was days where i just kept drinking until the next day. I was legit a weekend alcoholic. I can go on and on about how much it affected parts of my life but thats a story for another day

Ive always hit the gym mon-fri even during my drinking days, and i ate healthy plus i drank gallons of water throughout the week and i really think that saved me from causing major problems to my liver

Since i stopped drinking and now on my fitness shyt 24/7 ive lost 83lbs, i got abs for the first time in my life and i feel like im in my mid-20s. I feel so much better its crazy, even mentally im more disciplined than i ever been

Im not going to stay away from alcohol forever though. Theres a part of me that doesnt want to feel it defeated me. I feel like im just giving my liver time to heal and restructuring my relationship with alcohol. I ENJOY having whiskey with a cigar , i want to be able to have a margarita on vacation with wifey, have red wine with steak and be able to drink socially. When i do go back, i know it wont be every weekend and i feel like ill be disciplined enough to stop at 1-2 drinks. Im going to complete the full year FOR SURE, but after that ill probably have my first drink on a island somewhere. Me and wifey canceled a trip to turks n caicos we wouldve been at this week cause we had too much going on. We have the credit still so we're going to see if we still go there or somewhere else let's see

But anyway, the first step is to just stop breh, find a hobby and start enjoying the taste of refreshing water and the effects of marijuana

 

[MoveForward]

no such thing as weed addiction. dont add any nicotine products to your cannabis and you'll never "crave" a high

This is a lie…

 

[BelowTheMasonDixon]

Hit up a AA meeting.

https://www.reddit.com/r/stopdrinking

 

[BelowTheMasonDixon]

This is a lie…

a huge lie, knew so many nikkas on task growing up failing test or nikkas just missing out on jobs cause they had to smoke. That shyt is a myth.

 

[BelowTheMasonDixon]

I'm with you OP.

I don't drink during the work week or miss days due to it but I've found that I spend entire weekends drunk. From the moment I knock off on Friday I keep going usually till Sunday morning where I'm too hungover to drink.

My problem is that I'm a binge drinker. Once I start I carry on until I fall asleep or pass out. I can't keep doing this and I need help, not just with the booze but the underlying conditions too (anger, depression and anxiety)

Plan on starting out by checking out AA this week as a start.

Not going to any meetings but I've done it before. Had my last drink Sunday at 1:00 am haven't touched anything since. Also haven't been to sleep since but, I just copped some 10 mg melatonin w/ GABA hopefully that will make it be day 3. For reference the last time I didn't drink two days in a row was probably back in 2007.

 

[Arithmetic]

First thing you need to do is go to your primary care physician and tell him everything.

 

[P90]

You need to find a way and replace it with something else obsessively. Exercise, a hobby, something less physically destructive.

AA is not for everyone, and people have success stories through many paths. If you can go days without it, you aren’t in danger of withdrawal DTs or seizures. as far as anxiety goes, rebound anxiety after drinking is a real thing - your drinking is only making any baseline anxiety worse over time.

 

[P90]

a huge lie, knew so many nikkas on task growing up failing test or nikkas just missing out on jobs cause they had to smoke. That shyt is a myth.

I read it has to do with down regulation of normal endocanabinoid receptors CB1 in the brain. Dependence and withdrawal symptoms are real even if it doesn’t kill you like benzo or alcohol withdrawal.

 

[BelieveBeOK]

Not going to any meetings but I've done it before. Had my last drink Sunday at 1:00 am haven't touched anything since. Also haven't been to sleep since but, I just copped some 10 mg melatonin w/ GABA hopefully that will make it be day 3. For reference the last time I didn't drink two days in a row was probably back in 2007.

Well done man and from the bottom of my heart, goodluck. One day at a time is something I've heard in the two meetings I've been to so far.

 

[hatealot]

There is some real talk in here.

Salute to yall who shared

 

[Dynamite James]

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