Do you drink alcohol and sometimes drink way to much? Or have trouble cutting back on how much you drink?

[Finchie40]

I can admit that I have a tendency to not know when to stop drinking once I am drinking, I don’t consider myself an alcoholic maybe to some people I am , the non drinkers but I don’t drink everyday and can go days without it, so I consider myself more of a binge drinker especially if I am with friends or at an event I tend to drink until I get nicely buzzed , or mainly Fridays after a week of work and occasionally I will go over my limit and get drunk , or if I am dealing with stress or grieving over the loss of a loved one, I don’t know when to stop, I grew up in a family that accepted alcohol to the point it became a learned behavior , my family always had parties and it wouldn’t be a party without beer or booze. My Dad was a full blown alcoholic that drank every day I pretty much surround myself with friends that like to drink as well , so for me to stop drinking completely is scary for me , I think of future events like weddings and parties and think how can I attend them without drinking? A part of me really wants to just cut back and to limit myself so I set up an appointment with Ria Health? Has anyone used them before and got great results? They specialize in helping you cut back on drinking , another reason I am doing this is because my son has gotten overboard and out of control with drinking and smoking weed to the point I really don’t know how to help him and had him admitted into a treatment center , the hardest thing for me and my ex to do , My ex of course blames me for why he is this way and I kind of agree with her to a certain extent cuz he grew up watching me drink on the weekends and being acceptive of having beers but I know it’s not a hundred percent my fault cuz I feel I have more control over it. So for me to admit that I have a problem was hard for me to accept.

[LiamSawyer]

A binge drinker is actually one of the worse kind of alcoholics. Do yourself a favor and ask your doctor to do blood work tests on you for liver function and get an ultrasound done of your liver. Liver disease doesn't have any noticable symptoms until your liver is pretty much shot and scarred. If you still have healthy spots on the liver the liver can be regenerated but it takes years of no alcohol and a healthy diet. Best of luck.

[Finchie40]

Thanks man , yea I am on the road to stop drinking completely mainly for my health and to help my son who got out of control , I didn’t touch a single drop of alcohol this weekend , it isn’t going to be easy but I feel I can do this , I also heard quitting cold turkey isn’t good for my health either but I rather take that chance then trying to ween myself off , I figure I can go without alcohol for days at a time so it shouldn’t be that hard to go without it over the weekends as well , Thank you for the advice and support my man it means a lot

[LiamSawyer]

Your doctor can give you a prescription that will curb your cravings for alchohol.

[Finchie40]

Yea I heard that, apparently helps you not like the taste or something that is definitely something i am considering , it’s nice meeting people that can go through life without alcohol , it’s just something I grew up with and something I did for years , so it’s scary to just throw it all the way , part of me feels like I am going to be a different person if I am able to get rid of it completely , and I am probably going to lose a lot of friendships because of this change but I guess it is what it is , just hard, Thanks so much for the support man

[Redstang88]

Yeah I’ve certainly had my struggles before. Most jobs I’ve worked have been the work hard play hard kind of environment, which I normally have no problem keeping in check.
But I’m admittedly a stress drinker and when those two combine it has become a problem and honestly in a pretty rough stretch lately

[bones_20]

Only every time I drink. I’ll have a couple and think this is having no effect on me so I’ll have a couple more then keep going and then it will hit me and by that point there’s no turning back lol 🤦🏼‍♀️

[zaharuh]

literally same 😭

[bones_20]

Yeah me and alcohol don’t really get along, always keep drinking it tho lol

[Finchie40]

That’s pretty much what I do, I like the feeling of being buzzed but I also like the taste of beer , usually when I get to the buzz stage I can stop myself from getting drunk but that isn’t always the case , some beers hit me harder than others so it’s always a 50/50 chance ,

[Ninani]

A have episodes when I lose control of my eating disorder and everything else just follows. Self-sabotaging behaviours sure like company.

[alltafgradur]

🥰 (care)

[DizzyDesii]

I hate the smell and taste of alcohol. It ain't for me so i dont drink it. But yes I've tried it before and laughed myself to sleep

[misterCage4]

I don't drink alcohol

[Razp_Sorbet]

Me sipping on a seltzer currently 👀

[Finchie40]

Is it hard for you? My problem is the future of it , basically attending parties or weddings etc and thinking to myself How can I go to these things without drinking, so it isn’t really the fact that I have to drink it’s more the mindset of not drinking that is hard for me , I didn’t touch one beer this whole weekend even though part of me wanted to out of boredom basically but I kept doing other things to keep my mind off of it , So I feel like I am going to become very lame and boring if I don’t drink and mingle cuz drinking helps me mingle more lol make sense?

[Razp_Sorbet]

Sounds like a little bit of an addiction. You seem reliant on alcohol to be fun.

[Finchie40]

Yes you are correct, having a few drinks loosens me up and makes me smile more and I become more talkative , I don’t like being drunk, but I do like the buzz , this past weekend was my first dry weekend in a long time , it was hard for me to say No to beer especially at the Halloween party I went to but I did it and now looking back I still had fun but it wasn’t as fun without being a little tuned up , I felt more on the boring side watching everyone else having fun and silly to the point I felt like I was just there and lame. So this is definitely going to be a challenge for me to accept

[QuietRunner]

only on the weekends with the rum and coke