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What is your relationship with alcohol like?
- Thread starter RedSonja
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I think about this all the time. WHO estimates 3 million alcohol related deaths each year. COVID is at 2.2 million.
OP I'm in the same boat as you.
So I installed a rule in my life. First sings months of the year no booze at all. Unless I'm at a special occasion like an event or a wedding. Then maximum 1 or 2.
For the other six months only weekends and only evenings. But without any limits in quantity.
The day I notice that I can't maintain this rhythm I know I have a problem.
So I installed a rule in my life. First sings months of the year no booze at all. Unless I'm at a special occasion like an event or a wedding. Then maximum 1 or 2.
For the other six months only weekends and only evenings. But without any limits in quantity.
The day I notice that I can't maintain this rhythm I know I have a problem.
I don't drink. I like feeling lucid and in control of myself, and alcohol has the opposite effect on me. I wish I enjoyed it.
Yah I'm hesitant to compare the 2 but I do think it's sad how we do so little to mitigate the impacts of alcohol.
Im ok with the flavor of alcohol and know some taste really good. I also know I've got a massive family history of alcoholism, a tendency as a barista foodie to seek out as much flavor variety as possible to indulge in, and know that I do NOT like feeling like im losing control.
I could drink, but I know it'd be too easy to drink too much with my nature and lose control. I like to think and dislike losing focus. For those that have control I dont begrudge you or judge folks. I just realize its not for me and gives me nothing I can't find better ways to achieve like relaxing. I can destress alright enough so yeah...I keep vices in check by knowing what just wouldnt work out for me. Least folks know they got a dd in me.
I could drink, but I know it'd be too easy to drink too much with my nature and lose control. I like to think and dislike losing focus. For those that have control I dont begrudge you or judge folks. I just realize its not for me and gives me nothing I can't find better ways to achieve like relaxing. I can destress alright enough so yeah...I keep vices in check by knowing what just wouldnt work out for me. Least folks know they got a dd in me.
Yeah I'm not trying to downplay the horribleness of COVID (and obviously the death toll would be higher if it was left to run rampant), but just to put it in perspective. That's not even taking into account the economic, social and emotional toll of alcohol abuse. As I'm sure you're aware based on your work, just the amount of medical resources used on alcohol related things and it's entirely avoidable.
I had 500ml of Cider for my Birthday in January and last drink before that was New Years Eve.
I usually drink on a Friday of a bank holiday or with a meal. I never drink without food.
I bought a heap of Cider before Christmas, I think 12 bottles, they will last me until the end of the summer.
I usually drink on a Friday of a bank holiday or with a meal. I never drink without food.
I bought a heap of Cider before Christmas, I think 12 bottles, they will last me until the end of the summer.
Only socially and depends of the week maybe between the first two options. It's hard to calculate in units here as we don't use the single-double-etc. measures for spirits.
Totally agree. What we see in the medical field is just 1 part of a larger picture. It's impact socially (particularly in terms of democratic violence) and economically is enourmous.
We never really drank all that much as a family.
Me neither to be honest. Sometimes I had a beer or two but anything stronger than that wasn't common. Then in the pandemic, sometimes I'd drink at home... it wasn't good. Had to stop that.
So now I drink maybe a tiny gin and tonic in special days, but that's it. Thankfully it's not hard for me to stop whenever I want.
Also, never with meals. Meals I only have water.
Me neither to be honest. Sometimes I had a beer or two but anything stronger than that wasn't common. Then in the pandemic, sometimes I'd drink at home... it wasn't good. Had to stop that.
So now I drink maybe a tiny gin and tonic in special days, but that's it. Thankfully it's not hard for me to stop whenever I want.
Also, never with meals. Meals I only have water.
I rarely drink anymore since like 4 years or so. I am 30 now and I fortunately realized that alcohol is only a trouble maker and that there aren't any tastes I miss at all or even liked. Alcohol destroyed my fathers family side, alcohol was the only thing that made me change as a person when I drank and I seriously hated that, hangovers are the fucking worse and one of the biggest offender that most people miss is that alcohol dependening on what you drink of course, has a shitton of useless calories. Also lost two friends because of addiction.
When I drink I absolutely don't want to get drunk anymore. I love myself and my brain and killing it off like this is just stupid in my opinion. "Small amounts are healthy!" No Sherlock, they are not.
When I drink I absolutely don't want to get drunk anymore. I love myself and my brain and killing it off like this is just stupid in my opinion. "Small amounts are healthy!" No Sherlock, they are not.
I used to drink a fair bit in my 20s, as my job involved a lot of socialising and events and it was part of it. I'd often go out a couple of evenings a week and drink 4 pints in an evening, which is 8 units on a single night.
These days, in my 40s, I maybe drink a small bottle of my favourite beer every couple of weeks, I'll buy a crate of 12 and it'll last me 3 months. In my 20s, if I bought a crate, I'd finish it in a week, or in a single night if my flatmate and I were both around and watching films.
I doubt I even reach 5 units a month these days, so 'up to 10 a week!' in a poll still feels like lumping people who rarely drink in with pretty heavy regular drinking as the lowest option to me.
These days, in my 40s, I maybe drink a small bottle of my favourite beer every couple of weeks, I'll buy a crate of 12 and it'll last me 3 months. In my 20s, if I bought a crate, I'd finish it in a week, or in a single night if my flatmate and I were both around and watching films.
I doubt I even reach 5 units a month these days, so 'up to 10 a week!' in a poll still feels like lumping people who rarely drink in with pretty heavy regular drinking as the lowest option to me.
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My drinking habits are strange: I drink at home without guests maybe twice a year, maximum. If I have guests or go visit someone (in the before times), I will have a drink if offered but I don't usually ask for one myself. I hate all of the bars around me so I never go to them, but will usually have a few drinks whenever we go out for dinner. My drink of choice is nearly always liquor, rarely wine or cider, and never beer, so the actual unit consumption is a bit all over the place depending on what I am having. My body also cannot decide what it's capable of: I've had one drink give me a massive hangover, and I've had eight of the same without repercussion.
I also have like a dozen different bottles of scotch just sitting here doing nothing, which ties in to the fact that I rarely if ever drink at home. I crack them open so infrequently that you can see the dust on them. Sometimes I just go for huge stretches of time without drinking at all, like six months or more.
I dunno. I like alcohol quite a bit but it clearly doesn't have much of a hold on me.
I also have like a dozen different bottles of scotch just sitting here doing nothing, which ties in to the fact that I rarely if ever drink at home. I crack them open so infrequently that you can see the dust on them. Sometimes I just go for huge stretches of time without drinking at all, like six months or more.
I dunno. I like alcohol quite a bit but it clearly doesn't have much of a hold on me.
I'm similar in that my friends know I liked the odd tipple of rum when we were going out a lot in our 20s, and so people often buy me a bottle of it as a gift. But I drink it so rarely now that It ends up sitting around for years. There's 4 bottles of the stuff in my kitchen. My wife and I brought a bottle back from our honeymoon in the Caribbean six years ago and that's sat unopened too. I used to maybe have a glass every few weeks, but since my kid was born I don't think I've even touched it. I poured two bottles down the sink last year.
Love and hate relationship, but i love it. I'm full blown functional alcoholic sometimes i drink more sometimes less, always over the recommended values .
I'm a high energy person, sleep no more than 5 hours a day. But that's not a good thing, that causes chronic exhaustion sometimes. Couple of glasses of wine every day helps me to sleep more than I do. I always pick wine over sleeping pills.
It takes me more than 2 bottles of wine to start to get dizzy, I'm kinda lucky in that front.
It takes me more than 2 bottles of wine to start to get dizzy, I'm kinda lucky in that front.
Friday and Saturday night I have 2-3 small glasses of red wine to help me sleep because I work weekends. I also have shoulder pain, a 3 year old, and 5 month old. 😴
My father had a drinking problem when I was very young, and it was a major factor into why my parents broke up by the time I was 2 or 3 years old. For any of his other faults, he's been dry and sober ever since that happened.
As such, I stayed off alcohol entirely until my early-mid twenties (remembering that 18 is the legal age here), and even now only have a couple of glasses of wine or spirits with mixers in an evening, and that can be weeks apart. Is alcoholism inheritable? Probably not, but I never want to risk it.
On the upside, never had a hangover.
As such, I stayed off alcohol entirely until my early-mid twenties (remembering that 18 is the legal age here), and even now only have a couple of glasses of wine or spirits with mixers in an evening, and that can be weeks apart. Is alcoholism inheritable? Probably not, but I never want to risk it.
On the upside, never had a hangover.
Weekend alcoholic for sure. Been doing it for 20 years.
I know I'm probably an alcoholic but I've been able to keep my consumption from Fri-Sun 90% of the time.
I know I'm probably an alcoholic but I've been able to keep my consumption from Fri-Sun 90% of the time.
Generally don't drink much during the week.. Friday and Saturday is usually a half bottle of wine, a few beers and some spiced rum each night... So more than 10 units a week but not more than 20... It's all pretty much contained to a Friday and Saturday night..
Before corona I would got to the pub at least 2 to 3 times a week.
Since corona my alcohol in take has been pretty much zero except for a few times in the summer and at Hogmanay. I don't drink by myself in the house or over zoom or anything, can't get into it.
Since corona my alcohol in take has been pretty much zero except for a few times in the summer and at Hogmanay. I don't drink by myself in the house or over zoom or anything, can't get into it.
I'm sober now, but when I was in the most frenetic phase of my alcoholism I was drinking an 18 pack of beer a day.
God, I'm glad I quit drinking. It's good you have a compromise but if you need to be at that point at all you should have it somewhere in your head to grapple that demon head-on at some point.
Big mood. I could technically go days without a drink but as soon as I got some booze in me I was compulsively seeking alcohol until I passed out. Definitely doesn't help to be in the music scene and always around bars or party kids. It was disorienting to watch myself doing something I had so much issue with yet didn't have much control over. Like having an itch so strong you can't ignore it.
God, I'm glad I quit drinking. It's good you have a compromise but if you need to be at that point at all you should have it somewhere in your head to grapple that demon head-on at some point.
What are most you of all afraid drinking by yourself? Is that so much of a social taboo? I have fun drinking socially and by myself also and I almost prefer drinking alone. Saying you do it in moderation of course.