Alcohol works. Until it doesn’t. Cutting out alcohol is one of the best things I’ve done in my whole life.
I have other options that don’t fix it, but they help. It’s a route some don’t want to go though…
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Sorry as well for your struggles with it @Dirt_Wizard Thanks for taking the time to write all that up.
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Glad you could cut out the alcohol. I didn’t realize how much it affected me until it was gone. Congrats.
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Thanks man. Not to downplay the difficulties involved but it wasn’t that hard. Making the decision was hard. Dropping your drinking buddies, that was hard. Not drinking, not so hard 
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Yeahhhh man. I haven’t been an AA 12 step guy in my sobriety but I went to some for a while with a friend and that’s one of the best things I got from it. Alcoholics drink because it fucking works, but then it doesn’t and it’s the source of new problems to drink about. Like Homer Simpson said, “Beer: the source of and answer to all my problems”. @MonasticDank congrats dude, getting a grip on the booze is so hard, it took a big traumatic event for me to stop drinking, worst New Years Ever.
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It’s weird. When you don’t use it you notice that it’s everywhere. An essential part of human celebratory rituals. Not as a trigger or anything just interesting that it’s so pervasive.
I don’t drink but my wedding was open bar. Beer before baseball beer after baseball. Family dinner, wine. Brunch, mimosas. Funerals, flasks in the parking lot. Everywhere.
I don’t mind if a pan gets deglazed with some sherry or something but to take a sip is quite revolting to me now.
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I did it my own way, and I’m proud of that, but I could have done it faster with help. Like 3 years faster.
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Hahahaha yeah same I might have gotten out with a little less damage and lost stuff if I had just gone to a few meetings even if it was just to kick start my own process
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My process started as a general uncertain satisfaction. Not sure about what, but it turned out to be a lot of things. My whole life was circled around booze. Not drinking 40s at 8am but most of my relationships were unhealthy.
I had to go “I don’t want this anymore” and I had to go “these aren’t my friends they’re my drinking buddies.”
I still don’t sleep well but I’m much less destructive to myself and everyone else.
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I recently got hurt at work Dr’s think it’s rotator cuff
I was taking tramdol for sleep and it worked to about 2am and I had to take another or suffer
Last night I smoked about half a big fatty of the tashkenty that’s 2 years old. I slept like a log until 540 am
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