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Alcohol

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I have problem with alcohol. l drink and when I start  I can’t stop, and I get too drunk.It helps me with my anxiety and stops me worrying about bad things that might happen. It helps me lot with my life. I need to look at other solutions. If anything else has helped please advise. I really don’t want to be an alcoholic.

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  • Don't know if this helps, but I find when "social drinking" for me the optimum effect is achieved at the cost of increased thirst, causing me to enter a positive feedback situation... 

    I found that my enjoyment of the effects of alcohol was immensely improved by switching to a non alcoholic drink when I get "thirsty".

    OTOH, I found out that I'm wired to enjoy a reefer much more than a glass of spirits so drinking is something I ended up doing rarely and social drinking super rarely. 

    For me, alcohol and cocaine both impart a false sense of adequacy & competence, that wears off too quickly. I remember on one of the few times I did Coke, walking around Glastonbury Fayre enjoying a strong sense of smug superiority, and then suddenly realising how utterly fake it was.

    And as a more daring kind of motorcyclist I decided I literally could not live with the effects of alcohol.. As it happened, I found I could ride my bike successfully, even when I was too drunk to stand up straight, but I only did that ONCE... The following day, aspects of the ride came back to me and I realised we'd (yes there was someone's equally drunk daughter on the back) just had several NDE's in a row...

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  • Don't know if this helps, but I find when "social drinking" for me the optimum effect is achieved at the cost of increased thirst, causing me to enter a positive feedback situation... 

    I found that my enjoyment of the effects of alcohol was immensely improved by switching to a non alcoholic drink when I get "thirsty".

    OTOH, I found out that I'm wired to enjoy a reefer much more than a glass of spirits so drinking is something I ended up doing rarely and social drinking super rarely. 

    For me, alcohol and cocaine both impart a false sense of adequacy & competence, that wears off too quickly. I remember on one of the few times I did Coke, walking around Glastonbury Fayre enjoying a strong sense of smug superiority, and then suddenly realising how utterly fake it was.

    And as a more daring kind of motorcyclist I decided I literally could not live with the effects of alcohol.. As it happened, I found I could ride my bike successfully, even when I was too drunk to stand up straight, but I only did that ONCE... The following day, aspects of the ride came back to me and I realised we'd (yes there was someone's equally drunk daughter on the back) just had several NDE's in a row...

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  • in reply to I Sperg
    I Sperg said:

    Don't know if this helps, but I find when "social drinking" for me the optimum effect is achieved at the cost of increased thirst, causing me to enter a positive feedback situation... 

    I found that my enjoyment of the effects of alcohol was immensely improved by switching to a non alcoholic drink when I get "thirsty".

    Is that not helpful? It was a game changer for me...