03-08-2014, 09:26 PM
Right, bit personal for me, but I trust a lot of you lot to give me sound advice, so here goes.
I'm a pretty heavy drinker, as anyone who's gone rounds with me at a Christmas meet will confirm. I've had issues in the past with diving to the bottom of a bottle during hard times, which I've mostly got under control, but I still drink pretty heavily. 2-4 weeknights a week I'm down at my local for a few hours, Friday night, Saturday night and often Sunday daytime I'm on the piss properly. If I have a shitty day at work or an argument with SWMBO, I almost feel thirsty for a drink, which scares me as I come from a large Irish family, so I've seen a lot of alcoholics, both of my parents are but don't admit it.
I've never been able to drink like a gentleman. I'm always the most wrecked, always the one who breaks something, starts a fight or gets kicked out of a pub, to the point where some of my oldest mates won't have a beer with me anymore. I can't drink in moderation, once I've had 2 or 3 I'm away, and I don't stop. Drinking sensibly does not work with me.
I went out on the piss yesterday for a mates birthday. I set up a BBQ at their house at about 11am, and had a couple of cans after setting it up because it was hot work. I then spent all afternoon cooking, and people kept handing me cans because I was busy, genuinely lost track of how many but I was cooking until about 4pm and I never ran dry or had one go warm or flat. After the cooking was done I had a few more, then we decided to clean up and go to the pub about 8. I'd drunk the full crate that I brought to my mates, plus a couple more I borrowed. I walked into the pub with £40, and left with nowt. I have no idea how I got home, couldn't have got a taxi and it isn't far at all, about a mile, but the pub shut at 12.30 and I got home at 3.
Woke up about 7 this morning. I've felt like death all day, dry mouth, feeling sick, sides hurt, headache. The missus isn't talking to me. I'm skint. I feel hugely depressed that I can't remember what was according to texts I've had, a cracking night.
I don't think I have a drinking problem, I just make bad choices. I feel I need to make the choice not to drink, but I'm scared that it'll ruin my social life, and it's difficult when I'm a lover of beer, I even brew my own - I genuinely don't drink it to get pissed, I drink it for the taste.
Is anyone here teetotal, and how do you find it?
I'm a pretty heavy drinker, as anyone who's gone rounds with me at a Christmas meet will confirm. I've had issues in the past with diving to the bottom of a bottle during hard times, which I've mostly got under control, but I still drink pretty heavily. 2-4 weeknights a week I'm down at my local for a few hours, Friday night, Saturday night and often Sunday daytime I'm on the piss properly. If I have a shitty day at work or an argument with SWMBO, I almost feel thirsty for a drink, which scares me as I come from a large Irish family, so I've seen a lot of alcoholics, both of my parents are but don't admit it.
I've never been able to drink like a gentleman. I'm always the most wrecked, always the one who breaks something, starts a fight or gets kicked out of a pub, to the point where some of my oldest mates won't have a beer with me anymore. I can't drink in moderation, once I've had 2 or 3 I'm away, and I don't stop. Drinking sensibly does not work with me.
I went out on the piss yesterday for a mates birthday. I set up a BBQ at their house at about 11am, and had a couple of cans after setting it up because it was hot work. I then spent all afternoon cooking, and people kept handing me cans because I was busy, genuinely lost track of how many but I was cooking until about 4pm and I never ran dry or had one go warm or flat. After the cooking was done I had a few more, then we decided to clean up and go to the pub about 8. I'd drunk the full crate that I brought to my mates, plus a couple more I borrowed. I walked into the pub with £40, and left with nowt. I have no idea how I got home, couldn't have got a taxi and it isn't far at all, about a mile, but the pub shut at 12.30 and I got home at 3.
Woke up about 7 this morning. I've felt like death all day, dry mouth, feeling sick, sides hurt, headache. The missus isn't talking to me. I'm skint. I feel hugely depressed that I can't remember what was according to texts I've had, a cracking night.
I don't think I have a drinking problem, I just make bad choices. I feel I need to make the choice not to drink, but I'm scared that it'll ruin my social life, and it's difficult when I'm a lover of beer, I even brew my own - I genuinely don't drink it to get pissed, I drink it for the taste.
Is anyone here teetotal, and how do you find it?
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