Booze is my friend again
Over the last few years I began to drink more & more,I'm not talking about going over the recomended units a week - everyone I know does that. While I was far from being a total alco, I was drinking at least six days a week, I was spending more time drinking than working. I would go to a different shop to buy booze each night as I was getting strange looks with the amount I was buying in my local. Somehow I hid it from my friends, family & workmates (I guess my boss knew but she kept quiet)

Until my beautiful moment, one evening while sitting down to my five hours of drinking I looked at my bag of booze and had no desire to drink it. That was months ago and I'm still the same, if I'm out with friends I can drink but when I'm alone I have no interest in drinking.

Thats the most beautiful thing that has happened to me recently and its great that I'm getting a big piece of my life back.
(cname, Mon 9 Aug 2010, 22:42, 8 replies)

Well done
It's stories like that which give me the hope that one day I can do it too...
(vodders last downloaded improbably arousing pornography on, Mon 9 Aug 2010, 22:56, closed)

I'm with you
I've been there too. For about a period of two years. It started with a bottle of wine a night. Then two, otherwise I couldn't sleep. Then, "why do I spend so much on wine when I could spend the money on spirits which will last me longer"? Then a bottle of vodka every two days. Then a bottle of vodka per night. Only a 70cl though, not whole litre like an alci would (my justification). Then "Why am I doing this and why is my liver hurting"? "Because I'm bored and trying to hide from life and I like that swirly numbness".

We're not the first, we're not the last. Some will manage to beat it, some wont. But fuck me, when I stopped I lost sooooooo much weight!
(Big Smurf Brush me daddy-O, Mon 9 Aug 2010, 23:25, closed)

I've lost about 12 pounds and I was not too much of a fatty to start with.
(cname, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 14:45, closed)

voddy
i feel for you mate. i am in the same boat.
(slipmatt Thats sooper dooper, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 7:56, closed)

I'll drink to that..
Liquor can be a harsh mistress, I've been there myself, and have been lucky enough to reach a plateau.

Good to see you had the ability to knock it on the head before you took a master-class in alcoholism.

That PHD is rather well recognised, but not particularly laudable.
(wuckfit Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori., Tue 10 Aug 2010, 9:10, closed)

You lucky bastard
for those less fortunate - 0845 769 7555
( buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 12:03, closed)

Oh god this rings true.
buying it from different shops, taking the empties to the bottle bank because it's too embarassing to put a full green box out on recycling day
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 14:30, closed)

Vodders, slipmatt and any others reading who are having a similar experience I wish I could help, if its any use the thing that I think changed for me was I got tired of it, the effort I was putting into drinking was unreal. Life is better now, I have gotten rid of some guilt and replaced it with more time & money to do other things.

Saying "if I can do it anyone can" is in all honesty probably insulting to people reading who have a problem, so what I will say is that if you told me a year ago that I would be able to leave a pub early and walk away from an unfinished drink because I didn't want anymore booze.. honestly I would not have believed it for a second. But it happened.
(cname, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 15:08, closed)