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TTally

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I realized a while back- I am a alcoholic. I drink at least once everyday- can drive amazingly when intoxicated, gained about 40 lbs, and had a seizure from not drinking in 4 days.

 

No- Im not ready to quit yet. But I would love to start trying to quit- at least taper down. I can put away a case of beer in one night. I'm 22. Im a 150 lb girl. My friend with benefit's is an alcoholic. No- I will not consider cutting him out of my life either. Just need tips on where to go next.

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Meaplus3

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Sounds like it's time for you to get some help here. But, YOU have to want that help and YOU have to want to stop drinking before it will work. I've been drink free now for 16 months. Best choice I ever made. Has the road been easy? NO. But, I wanted it, and I'm doing it. So, Want it and YOU will do it. Hang in there and by all means keep posting.

 

Mea:)

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Tayla

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I agree with Anne.

 

1: Stop drinking

2nd part- spend the rest of your life starting to live.

end result- you'll still be an alcoholic, with the biggest difference being- you changed entirely.

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Shannie

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I don't think that "AA or the morgue" are the only options. I'm an ex-alcoholic and I've made a full recovery and put my life back together without AA...there are good approaches besides the 12 step programme (I'm not saying that AA/12-step is no good, I'm just saying that it's not the best option for everybody). And yes, I still drink - just in very careful moderation these days. It isn't necessarily true that if you've once had a problem with alcohol then your only route to recovery is to cut out drink completely forever. I was tee-total for a while, but these days I can enjoy a couple of glasses of wine every now and again and not lose control. Some people can never return to "safe" or "normal" drinking - but some can. Just don't kid yourself that it'll be easy to begin with (it's easy for me now, but I had to work very hard on myself for a long time and be brutally honest with myself during the process). I believe that the problem lies in your thought process and emotions, not in the substance itself. Only you truly know what motivates you to drink in harmful ways...and only you can fix it when you feel that the time is right (though there are people that can help you once you do feel up to it).

 

If you know that you're not ready to make the change then you have to work out what you are ready or prepared to do. For now, harm reduction is probably your best approach. Firstly - PLEASE stop driving when you're drunk. I met somebody in rehab who had killed his friend while he'd been driving under the influence and it pretty much ruined his life...you don't ever want to get into a situation where you have that sort thing on your hands. I understand how it is to be a dependent drinker, so please don't think that I'm judging you. What you do with your own life is up to you - but try not to harm other people in the process.

 

Withdrawal seizures are pretty serious. If you at the point where you have a physical need for alcohol then it isn't safe to just "go cold turkey". Medically, it's actually more difficult to get a person off alcohol than it is to get them off heroin - while heroin withdrawal is apparently awful, it's very unlikely to kill someone. However, alcohol withdrawal seizures can be deadly. So you need to try to just taper off your drinking rather than just cutting it out for days at a time. I do know what I'm talking about by the way - I was in medical school before a drink problem forced me to leave and seek help.

 

If you get to the point when you think that you might like to quit, seek professional advice from a doctor, nurse or addiction specialist - it's much better to have some kind of supervision while you come off the stuff. For now though, just be as careful as you can. Try to remember to eat as well as drink. It's a good idea if you can remember to take a vitamin B complex supplement, as alcoholics often have a B vitamin deficiency which causes a specific type of anaemia and is part of the cause of brain damage that drinkers can get.

 

Good luck and take care x

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Jade 02

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Yep Get some help ASAP for YOU! I just Joined AA,and they say sooner or latter booze Is gong to take you to jail,nuthut,or under the ground,if you keep on.

 

Great I dea AA, if you don't get help from AA,plase for your own life get help somewhere,and alcoholism is a Progressing diease,it could get worse as time flies by.

 

best wishes jade

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Jade 02

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Also When I was an active lush bucket I also thought I could drive amazinly,when I really wasn't driving good as I thought.

 

I use to love drinking & driving,and having my tunes cranked,untill I lost my lil brither to a DUI,that I had nothing to do with,he was passenger.

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Jade 02

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Also When I was an active lush bucket I also thought I could drive amazinly,when I really wasn't driving good as I thought.

 

I use to love drinking & driving,and having my tunes cranked,untill I lost my lil brither to a DUI,that I had nothing to do with,he was passenger.

 

 

Sorry It's probably to late to post this,it is an older post. But I hope you've changed your mnd how cool it is to slam down a case at 15.

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Well I was never truly an alcoholic (didn't necesarily have a dependency) I was definitely en route to becoming one.

 

I used to get drunk 5-6 times a night, would never go to bed before shotgunning a beer and on nights when I got drunk would usually go through at least 20+ drinks.

 

How did I stop? Well weight gain bothered me but not enough for me to give it up by any means. Then I met a girl, started spending more time with her and cutting back the frequency of my drinking to 2-3 times per week. Then me and said girl broke up and instead of throwing myself to old faithful i just... stopped. I don't know how. But I've had in total, 1 beer since we broke up.

 

I guess you just have to realize you don't need it... I think I started realizing this when I started feeling worse while drunk than sober.

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Alcoholism is a lonely addiction. At first it's great, the partying, and socializing... and depending on the person that can last for a long time. I was never much of a "people person" to begin with, and drinking was my excuse to cut myself off completely from the outside world. The more you do it, the more you begin to cut all these strings around you, responsibilities, emotions, dreams, and goals. They just stop mattering, eventually the sex without strings attached will also stop mattering, and you'll either withdraw into yourself, allow yourself to be abused, or hurt others. But it won't matter to you, it will have stopped being important a long time ago.

You'll get your wake up call one day. Whether you wake up and realize you're living in your car, and you don't have a friend in the world to wipe away your tears. Will you get help? Maybe. Maybe not. Recognizing now, that you may have a problem, is your body and your mind telling you that you do have a problem already. You're not happy. It all comes down to stubbornness, and lack of discipline. You either pick yourself up off your poor sorry ass and get help, or you let the addiction ruin you.

If you think it's only mild, a mild challenge for yourself. Don't drink for a month. If you can't make it, you're an alcoholic...

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