I know someone who got below average health rating for their liver on account of drinkiny but somehow my kidney and liver both returned "perfect" results some fucking how... Maybe I should pick up drinking again (that's a joke
tbh I don't think there's any magic in THE PROGRAM or THE BIG BOOK
Not quite true. The group I'm part of really helps facilitate sober socializing, not just a support structure, which is golden if you're trying to get sober and all your old friends are still animals. I understand that some groups aren't like this, though. Plus, some people simply don't like 12 step programs.
Yeah, but if you never did AA it's not like you can share how the program helped you. In fact I'd say it would be counterproductive for any newcomers since most of them are looking for any excuse to not do step work anyway.
You can take AUDIT online which has been clinically validated.
God damn I haven't thought about four lokos in years lol but yeah I get that it's just beer tho (Heineken) but I took the test and scored low , I just feel like I picked up that habit out of nowhere and I guess I'm just overthinking shit again thank you
That's technically too much. Two tall boys is like 3 standard drinks. Multiply by five and that's fifteen a week, just over the medically recommended fourteen per week and two per day. That said, no hard drinker would say that's terrible. Some guys do your weekly intake for breakfast.
This one has been eye-opening especially this part, thank you this is exactly what I needed to read
Go to a support group. Even a local AA meeting can do wonders.
Glad I could help.
You don't have to wait until hitting rock bottom or getting a jackpot to change your ways. There is always a better way.
Yeah pretty much. I've heard a lot of shrinks say as much. The inconvenient truth is that substance abuse is an effective coping mechanism, it's just a really costly one; and part of recovery is learning better strategies to accomplish the same thing; and another part of recovery is addressing the problems that make you feel the need to cope in the first place. Which sucks -- having to face your demons without your chosen crutch. But it's the bed you make when you hide from them.
You never stop using crutches, you just gradually replace them with progressively more innocuous and socially acceptable ones, and sort of ratchet your way up. When my drinking got really bad, it was in part because I had cut every other vice out of my life, and it the result was that I went all-in on the last remaining vice. I learned from that, and put a ton of work into cultivating healthy coping strategies and distress tolerance and resiliance factors, but there have been a couple real no-shit life-altering tragedies where I still just had to permit myself to be a lazy fat fuck in order to keep from drinking or shooting myself. And it worked. Shit, there's a guy in my group who buys a pack of cigarettes every time he knows he's going to be tempted to drink because it's the lesser evil.
Yeah, the vast majority of people have a "thing" and it either actively tries to kill you (tranq dope) or slowly kills you (alcohol, cigs) or part of your peer group (video games, vintage cars, clothing, hoarding Funko Pops and anime figurines) or is socially acceptable (exercise, work.)
I've met a lot of hopeless guys like you, who said the exact same stuff, and they found their way to long-term sobriety. I always suggest trying meetings, but all I really wanna say is don't give up hope.
Seeing an adult with one of those zoomer pacifiers is hilarious. I swear if you went through life avoiding things that're cringe; being addicted to a substance, relapsing, entertaining 'social glue' in general, you'd be off really well. It's the peak of humiliation to wake up hungover, just having waddled around your own apartment saying dumb things. For our high school graduation, we tour all the classmates' homes in the back of a bus, drinking and eating along the way. I don't remember visiting my own parents and that alone is enough to make me cringe.
I feel like I actively choose to relapse whenever I do, mostly out of boredom, but the longer it goes on, the more I realize I prefer getting up 6AM on saturdays as opposed to sleeping til 11. What I actually do fear is the alcohol situation itself becoming a thing. Not to be addicted but to even be one of those losers who has that as a point in their life. Always the before/after going sober.