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F.E.A.R...you've got the fear

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  • #52
    Oranage2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,128 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    Irish_peppa wrote: »
    I stopped drinking alcohol 1 year ago. recently i got some heineken Zero.
    Weird thing was after about 4 of them i started forgetting where i put stuff and felt like i was getting drunk. I was not able to find words I wanted to say, I actually felt like I was getting drunk. weird:confused: like those fake drugs they give people cant recall the word.......:eek:

    Placebo


  • #53
    bitofabind
    Registered Users Posts: 939 ✭✭✭bitofabind


    chrissb8 wrote: »
    Or just have a drink and don't get to a point where you wake up in the morning feeling awful? As in, scale it back, drink water and take breaks every 3rd round or whatever.

    Makes sense. If you’re someone that has the capacity to do that. Many can’t, many don’t know when to stop once they’ve started or one drink can be the difference between good and bad to horrific judgement and trying to strike that balance is always going to carry serious risk.

    I’d be in the latter camp. I wouldn’t describe myself as an alcoholic, I just know that even a moderate amount of alcohol can have a seriously detrimental impact on me and the benefits aren’t worth those darker sides anymore.


  • #54
    peddlelies
    Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭peddlelies


    chrissb8 wrote: »
    Or just have a drink and don't get to a point where you wake up in the morning feeling awful? As in, scale it back, drink water and take breaks every 3rd round or whatever.

    Think you're on to something. You should go to seminars around the world and spread your vast knowledge on the subject of alcoholism and drug/gambling addiction to help millions of people.

    "Shure lads just scale it back, be grand".

    Quite the philosopher you are.


  • #55
    chrissb8
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭chrissb8


    peddlelies wrote: »
    Think you're on to something. You should go to seminars around the world and spread your vast knowledge on the subject of alcoholism and drug/gambling addiction to help millions of people.

    "Shure lads just scale it back, be grand".

    Quite the philosopher you are.

    Thank you, and we can all go for some pints after.


  • #56
    Porklife
    Registered Users Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭Porklife


    peddlelies wrote: »
    Think you're on to something. You should go to seminars around the world and spread your vast knowledge on the subject of alcoholism and drug/gambling addiction to help millions of people.

    "Shure lads just scale it back, be grand".

    Quite the philosopher you are.

    I've gotta agree with this. If somebody is at the crossroads of drinking to excess and winding up in dangerous situations etc and yet chooses (for want of a better word) to continuously go that road over the pretty shiny sober road filled with puppy dogs, rainbows and ice-cream then advising them to 'cut back' is pretty futile advise. They can't seem to cut back despite it adversely affecting their live and therein lies the problem!

    I even have a few straightforward seemingly easy rules for myself that I frequently break and it's not that I want to break them, it's like a compulsion.
    It's a form of self sabotage like - I know whiskey will **** me up and make bad sh*t happen, solution - do not drink whiskey... five minutes later, hey barkeep, throw me on a Guinness there and don't be stingey with the Glenfiddich chaser!


  • #57
    SnrInfant
    Registered Users Posts: 85 ✭✭SnrInfant


    Porklife wrote: »
    I've gotta agree with this. If somebody is at the crossroads of drinking to excess and winding up in dangerous situations etc and yet chooses (for want of a better word) to continuously go that road over the pretty shiny sober road filled with puppy dogs, rainbows and ice-cream then advising them to 'cut back' is pretty futile advise. They can't seem to cut back despite it adversely affecting their live and therein lies the problem!

    I even have a few straightforward seemingly easy rules for myself that I frequently break and it's not that I want to break them, it's like a compulsion.
    It's a form of self sabotage like - I know whiskey will **** me up and make bad sh*t happen, solution - do not drink whiskey... five minutes later, hey barkeep, throw me on a Guinness there and don't be stingey with the Glenfiddich chaser!

    Its that fecking first one that does all the damage!!
    One glass for me leads to a bucketful.
    one biscuit? thank you very much I'll eat the packet. Then another.
    I've no 'off' switch


  • #58
    pavb2
    Registered Users Posts: 3,030 ✭✭✭pavb2


    SnrInfant wrote: »
    Its that fecking first one that does all the damage!!
    One glass for me leads to a bucketful.
    one biscuit? thank you very much I'll eat the packet. Then another.
    I've no 'off' switch

    Very much a case of ‘ I know my limits . . . I just can’t stick to them’


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