Don't put all of it in the fridge at once.
Im sorry. At my worst I drink a whole handle of vodka in a day. Sometimes I find my receipt and i bought another handle at teh end of the night ready for anotehr handle the next day. :( Its true I always have alcohol in me when i get in trouble. Im so mild mannered but I need the alcohol to feel alive. Its terrible because being alive sometimes ended in teh drunk tank. Karma got to me where even if I stayed home someone makes a call to my front door and drags me out without a word. I feel hopeless because I dont knwo why i cant be left alone and i drink more to prove them wrong. its horrible. im clean now and thinking about it. its going to make me sick. i get bruises where my organs are. my health is the only thing stopping me.
They drag you out because drinking with you makes their drinking seem more acceptable, to themselves.
To be honest a lot of people can't quit alcohol. I am not saying every alcoholic can't. I don't know the science, but I think it can be quite like opiates in which there is a point where maintenance might be required to either sustain/er...step-down from your addiction. I don't know much about it. I just know that I had a friend who drank a handle a day, was bi-polar and unmedicated, and attempted to go sober solo and ended up in the hospital because they ended up having a seizure/puking all over the place. A lot folks who work in kitchens are addicts, and when I worked in them folks were fairly often functional alcoholics and we had a couple folks seizing out too from time to time. Shit is scary, but I do know there's help - so you can like...look for it. Just be careful, this might sound funny but someone I helped personally made a rule to be friendly but not befriend folks at recovery. Another person I knew who went to recovery ended up sort of fueling themselves up with another person's addiction (as if they were each others hypemen) and ended up addicted to opioids before dropping the program. If you want help, there are ways to find it out here. Just gotta take those little baby steps necessary to fuel whatever habit you're trying to form. Good luck!
I do get the thing of being stuck on the association of something with pleasure or such, despite knowing from repeated experience that it doesn't actually work out that way. All I can say is keep reminding yourself of this.
The other suggestion I have is to try to find some other special beverage with which you can cultivate a special association.
It may be tricky to find the right sweet spot. It can't be something too expensive, since it sounds like that will stop you buying it, but it can't be so trivial that you just drink it all the time and it then fails to function as a substitute special treat. Possibly the effort of making it could imbue it with specialness. Kombucha is possibly a thing like that you could make.
I drink beer almost every day. Rarely less than 3 beers, but sometimes over 6. I can't buy a case of beer because I'll wake up with a headache and 3/4 of it is gone.
I hate it but haven't been able to get myself to stop.
2 beers a night for 3 nights isn't that bad.
Alcohol is poison, none of us should drink any of it, but take a look at what it is doing.
Are you healthy? Are you showing up to your work and personal commitments? Are you driving drunk?
Absolutely get help if you're in trouble, but don't fret too much is my suggestion I guess.
Generally speaking a beer is 2 units, in the UK we recommend no more than 14 units in a week. If you want to stop talk to your doctor if you can or seek help. Stopping or reducing is much easier with help.
Thank you. I'm working with a psychiatrist and a therapist.
I'm gonna try semaglutide, it has some purported effects on addiction, but my PCP won't let me in it until I get my drinking down first.
Fwiw my healthcare professionals haven't diagnosed me with alcohol use disorder yet. I have ADHD and I think it makes me seek dopamine, however I can get it.
Move to Norway.
Best and easiest way to be less of an alcoholic is simply to honestly record your drinking habits everyday. Over time you’ll drink less as the numbers will shock you
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