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Just coming to terms with my alcoholism here. It is an addictive substance. I drank for 1 year almost everyday and since then I drink everynow and then. But now I noticed that I was to be without alcohol sincerely and was also without alcohol. Even if I was down to doing 2 beers everynow and then and getting drunk everynow and then, at day 7 I started getting pretty crazy withdrawal symptoms. So try it be 2 weeks without alcohol and see how addicted you are. DON'T DO THIS IF YOU ARE CONSTANTLY DRINKING HARD LIQOUR, YOU COULD DIE FROM IT!
Interesting that you are mentioning this now. few days ago my company fired worker who was found with half promile of alcohol 3 hours after his shift started. Our company has zero tolerance for alcoholism. He got fired at the spot.
Yeah, do not do this. Loosing a job is not worth it!
Around the time I turned 18 or 19, I drank a lot. Even though I started getting more and more into spirituality, the problems with close people dying caused some stress. Alcohol made me completely numb. For a while I drank some hard stuff but it was mostly beer that I wanted. Tons of them and often daily. Streaks lasted weeks to months at a time.
Strange memories, every day I walked to a store and bought some large 1.5, 2 or 2.5L plastic piss tasting cheap bottles. There were absolutely horrible ones but they were cheap and it was the best option in the long run. There were serious financial problems too.
Averaging 3L a day. Sometimes 3.5L/4, a couple of times up to 6L.
Almost every day the same thing, either ritual work in the mornings or evenings, drinking fest and some work. Plus I couldn't go anywhere for long cause of the people. There was always a break between drinking & rituals, couldn't do them while drunk.
Alcohol always worsened the effects but somehow it still worked.
Around the time I turned 18 or 19, I drank a lot. Even though I started getting more and more into spirituality, the problems with close people dying caused some stress. Alcohol made me completely numb. For a while I drank some hard stuff but it was mostly beer that I wanted. Tons of them and often daily. Streaks lasted weeks to months at a time.
Strange memories, every day I walked to a store and bought some large 1.5, 2 or 2.5L plastic piss tasting cheap bottles. There were absolutely horrible ones but they were cheap and it was the best option in the long run. There were serious financial problems too.
Averaging 3L a day. Sometimes 3.5L/4, a couple of times up to 6L.
Almost every day the same thing, either ritual work in the mornings or evenings, drinking fest and some work. Plus I couldn't go anywhere for long cause of the people. There was always a break between drinking & rituals, couldn't do them while drunk.
Alcohol always worsened the effects but somehow it still worked.
What I want to know is how you didn’t gain 100kg drinking 3-6L of beer a day. Holy shit.
I honestly know so many alcoholics, functioning and non functioning. One of the worst addictions, no doubt. Not just the damage to your body, but the damage to your reputation and relationships. Probably up there close to heroin.
I have absolutely no idea, I didn't gain any weight.
It had something to do with the 2 meals a day system. Beer and also lots of water, this prevented me from getting bad side effects as well. Up to 3L beer and nothing happened. First very drunk and then sleepy.
2 meals. Some porridge in the morning, then spaghetti, noodles or soup while drinking, after that nothing. If I started drinking at 12:00-14:00, then that's around the time I ate the second meal. Around 5-6pm everything felt almost normal as if nothing had happened, just a bit tired.
Now 5L, this came with bad effects unless I did it slowly. It became too much I felt really bad and went to bed early. That's why I sticked to 3L of 4-4.5%, never stronger. Rarely 4-5, 6L a few times.
Weight problems. Before that during the school years I ate a lot of junk food and gained a lot but before the drinking fest began it was all gone.
Hmmm...I think the drinking fest years were not 18/19 but 19/20. Oh well who can remember anymore.
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Regarding relationships, nothing happened. Nobody really knew anything. The dying people were slightly drugged or in pain, they couldn't tell the difference. I wasn't the only one having to stay around. When others came I was sober or went to bed.
I've always liked solitude and silence. As a kid all I did was gaming, later worked from home, never wanted a family. Almost as good as some hermit monk, perfect for spiritual practices.
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I know some functioning alcoholics and a few others. There's one neighbor who drank for decades, didn't fail at work. Now he's old and health is screwed.
I remember one guy who drank mostly vodka, for decades too. After he turned 50+/- he had to stop, years of abuse finally caught him. This guy was functional, didnt fail at work. I can't imagine how much vodka disappeared into him.
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Heroin, I guess we could compare it with alcohol, although I'm not sure. Long time ago I met the cousin of heroin, morphine. The addiction to that was far worse than alcohol. Alcohol is a joke to quit compared to hardcore opiates.
Long story short, due to some health problems I had to use it, also around that time age 18-20. Addiction develops very fast. It takes a few weeks and once you quit you'll immediately get the Trainspotting movie like withdrawals. I did it cold turkey. It's definitely worth the name devil's drug as they say.
It breaks you down really fast, lowers energy vibrations below the ground into a zombie mode. Once you get out, you'll never want to experience that again.
I used to a drink what I thought was a relatively average amount in my early to mid 20's, a drink or two a day (hard ciders and Twisted Teas were my drink of choice back then), seemed pretty harmless to me at the time. But then for whatever reason I was without alcohol for probably about 3 or 4 days, and that's when I noticed the thirst. It did not matter how much water I drank, I was thirsty beyond belief. Then I happened to pick up some more drinks while I was out, and literally the moment I got that first gulp down, the thirst was gone. In that instant I realized oh, that's not good. Quickly started dialing back my drinking before things actually started to get out of hand.
In my early twenties I noticed how addictive alcohol is, I developed a safety ritual. Did one drink and then hand-washed my glass and no more alcohol. Made that a ritual for myself that turned to be pretty effective. When i got drunk at my birthday, at the best time, getting funny and talkative, I decided that it's enough and simply washed my two glasses. Body immediately stopped craving alcohol despite me being drunk... Even I was surprised how well it works.
In my family line both chain smoking and drinking ran rampant already generations ago. Some people were a bad role model too and I noticed the addictiveness of these things already around the age of 13. Some people in my family were like "oh so you wanna smoke/drink, well I did it too, do whatever you want".
Grandmother drank and smoked non stop. Uncles drank and smoked like mad. Grandfather smoked like mad. Dad was a chain smoker and abused substances, sometimes drank. Aunt abused medicine and went mad. Great grandfather did something too, can't remember, I think he was a chain smoker until the very end. There were more of them, all the same.
These people grew up in the soviet union and I guess there was nothing else to do.
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Many of these people were functional though, they handled it. Went to work, got high off something, finished the job, even got promoted and it worked out. Others failed hard. One guy was a construction worker. Once the day ended he was drinking non stop, friday, saturday around the clock.
In my family line both chain smoking and drinking ran rampant already generations ago. Some people were a bad role model too and I noticed the addictiveness of these things already around the age of 13. Some people in my family were like "oh so you wanna smoke/drink, well I did it too, do whatever you want".
Grandmother drank and smoked non stop. Uncles drank and smoked like mad. Grandfather smoked like mad. Dad was a chain smoker and abused substances, sometimes drank. Aunt abused medicine and went mad. Great grandfather did something too, can't remember, I think he was a chain smoker until the very end. There were more of them, all the same.
These people grew up in the soviet union and I guess there was nothing else to do.
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Many of these people were functional though, they handled it. Went to work, got high off something, finished the job, even got promoted and it worked out. Others failed hard. One guy was a construction worker. Once the day ended he was drinking non stop, friday, saturday around the clock.
My grandmother got cancer and passed away. At first in the 2000s something she had some kind of a surgery Then the endless smoking finally gave her lung cancer. I was not surprised, she was the Mrs Chimney. Always smoked 24/7.
This lady was absolutely crazy, she drank colossal amounts of alcohol, hard stuff, mostly vodka. She actually made it to 70s like that, how, I can't imagine.
She was a horrible parent. Her kids started smoking and drinking very early. There was no support, nothing. She didn't care about anything. My uncle, one of them, had some problems and wanted her support, of course nothing came. The old bat was just drunk somewhere, one uncle died very young, needed the support but nothing.
This bat was nothing but a dirt stain in the lineage. I didn't have to deal much with this person but based on what others said, what a nightmare. Several people had to run and escape home because of this bastard.
There were absolutely horrible ones but they were cheap and it was the best option in the long run. There were serious financial problems too.
