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[Anonymous No.16818092]

Excessive drinking was affecting my work so I decided to go sober for a year. I'm a month in and it's killing me. Anybody else done this before? Any advice? Did it help your job performance or business?

[Anonymous No.16818099]

>>16818092
ok boomer

[Anonymous No.16818105]

>>16818099
I'm 22

[Anonymous No.16818112]

>>16818092
>not poisoning myself is killing me

[Anonymous No.16818158]

>>16818092
i just got bored of alcohol so i stopped drinking
no desire to drink, would if i wanted to but i just don't enjoy the feeling anymore

[Anonymous No.16818171]

>>16818105
its a great experiment to try....you will learn lots about yourself by doing this.
in the end if you decide to return to drinking its ok, but you will learn lots about the nature of yourself by having this as a baseline.

[Anonymous No.16818215]

>>16818092
I'm 26 months off the sauce. Its definitely hard at first but the time eventually becomes easier. You might even find after a year just continuing to not drink.
Don't have much advice. Just encouragement for you're decision to stop poisoning your body and mind. Good luck

[Anonymous No.16818270]

>>16818092
It gets easier as you go.

[Anonymous No.16818287]

>>16818092
I've never understood alcoholics. Your life sucks that bad that you can't stop drinking? Hahahahaha suck to be you

[Anonymous No.16818425]

>>16818092
Are you doing anything to address your feelings?
Seriously, it can be hard or it can be easy. Doing it without any support or program for success is the hard way. You're suffering needlessly.

I stopped drinking nearly seven years ago. For other reasons - not because it was affecting my work, although it most certainly was. Sometimes I think about drinking, but I remember the place I was in and consider whether my life is better now than it was then. It definitely is. So I choose not to drink today. I'm not committing to stay sober for the rest of a year or for the rest of my life, that's literally forever. But I'll stay sober today. I can handle one day of not drinking. I made it through yesterday without drinking, so I can make it through today without drinking.

Anon, it takes some time to see the benefits, which is probably why you set the one year goal for yourself. A year is a long time. Just focus on today. If you made it through yesterday, then you can make it through today. Tomorrow you can worry about tomorrow.

It's easier if you find a group of like-minded people to talk through it with. You don't have to commit to a lifetime of sobriety, nobody does. Just focus on one day at a time.

[Anonymous No.16818463]

>>16818215
so i have this theory that since humans have been exposed to alcohol for thousands of years, alcoholism is actually not such a serious issue and those who are prone to it would just ruin their life by other means anyways if they weren't allowed to take it.

have your life objectively improved since you've gotten off alcohol?

i only drunk on NYE in the past 2 months simply because i haven't been in any other situation where i felt like i should drink. alcohol really should have made an evolutionary impact on men through the many many generations it had impact on us. so i think if you can't get off alcohol there's just something very wrong with your life that you need to solve. drinking alcohol is just a symptom of it.

am i wrong?

[Anonymous No.16818489]

>>16818092
What i do is designate one day i can drink. Usually saturdays. I get to relax with alcohol without ruining health

[Anonymous No.16818522]

>>16818425
Thanks for your reply anon I appreciate it

[Anonymous No.16818583]

>>16818522
You're welcome
Good luck Anon
I hope you have a good day today. Find something to take your mind off not drinking - go somewhere or do something you enjoy.

[Anonymous No.16818586]

>>16818489
im just like you im a bartender so i choose sat to drink. turns out i get sloppy and fuck up drinks, break glasses, BUT BUT BUT i have fun,

i binge drink, and i still have a FAT BELLY FULL OF the most disgusting visceral fat

we sat night drinkers are still fucked bro. \

[Anonymous No.16818592]

>>16818463
My last year or two of drinking was getting bad and I started adding cocaine to the mix to get even more fucked up. And I'm talking doing the shit at home for the hell of it, not just going out and partying. I was following a real rough breakup and what appears to be the onset of an undiagnosed bipolar disorder.
After stopping my life did get better but didnt really stop my manic and depressive swings that I'd been experiencing for years. Once I realized that simply stopping the poison wasnt fixing everything I did a diagnostic test with my psych doc and came back with high probability of bipolar disorder.
So alcohol and alcoholism isn't necessarily the concern we need to be looking at, they're probably just symptoms more often then not of mental health problems. People regularly use it without problems, or can quit on a whim and not have a problem, but those of us who used it to numb a special kind of pain would probably use ANYTHING to numb that pain.
I know plenty of recovering dope addicts and am just fucking thankful I didn't start using. I probably would have LOVED heroin.
Anyway I don't know if I answered your questions. I think you're mostly right, I believe it's just since alcohol is both socially very accepted and binge drinking is like a sport for lots of young adults, it's the drug of choice for us broken fucks

[Anonymous No.16818599]

>>16818105
>Addicted to drinking.
>Not addicted to fapping and porn.

[Anonymous No.16818626]

>>16818092
Oldfag here. I was in the same boat as you, Anon— I was 23, drinking hard 4-5 nights a week, blowing up to an 8-ball of coke on a couple of those nights each week, hanging out with people who did the same thing, and going nowhere with my life. One day I just realized I hated my life and the direction it was heading, and I had had enough. I quit drinking right then, told all of my “friends” that I was done with that life, and that was it. The first month was by far the most difficult, so it really does get easier from there. I went without a drop of alcohol or any drugs for over five years from the date I decided to quit, and I completely turned my life around. I was convinced that I was an alcoholic drug addict, so I abstained from everything for those five years. Eventually I had another drink, and much to my surprise, I was actually able to control myself. I could have a drink or two at a social function and not keep drinking until I was blackout drunk. I realized this 7-8 years ago, and it’s still the case today. It’s all about changing your mindset, allowing your body to reset and recover and grow into your new mindset, and living with a purpose. It gets easier from here, Anon.

[Anonymous No.16818639]

>>16818092
Cringe. Do or do not. There is no try.

[Anonymous No.16818672]

>>16818092
alcy here

you need to find things to take up ur time as well as things to conquer any depression so you dont go back to drinking.

[Anonymous No.16818701]

>>16818092
You just gotta keep going sadly. You're not tired of that lifestyle yet. At some point you're going to look at yourself, all the time and money you've wasted, and be completely disgusted with yourself. When those thoughts overpower your urge to drink you will stop. I was doing heroin for 7 years and only last year stopped because I was tired of all the money I was spending. I could have hundreds of thousands saved but instead I got high for seven years. Now I put everything in investments and am obsessed with Making up for lost time.

[Anonymous No.16818715]

>>16818092
I did it. It’s nice never being hung over. Nothing bad about not drinking.

[Anonymous No.16818716]

>>16818092
I stopped drinking a few times, once for a year. Not being hungover or late to work helped either work. I also went a little insane though.

[Anonymous No.16818905]

drinkings fucking gay lmao

>oo im so drunk i love you man hhaaha
>oo im drunk and rageing oo

i only drink occasionally with the gf or when im alone on 4chan

even then half the time i just feel depressed. fuck alcohol. such a SHIT tier drug no wonder the government allow it lmao