Binge Drinkers

[hadit]

Binge Drinkers

I don,t drink everyday,but the devastation still goes on as one drink is never ever enough for me. I binge every 3 to 4 days W/E are the worst with everyone hitting the booze like there is no tomorrow!! I have been driven crazy trying to mod. Just doesn,t work for me and I think for most people around here. I just CAN,T drink anymore. Started AB today.

[Struggles 106]

Binge Drinkers

WHAT??

Never one to shy away from a good debate, and certainly no disrespect intended----

A "huge build-up of stress" as a reason for a weekly binge? With this logic I'm afraid that dealing with what is known as life is the real "reason"

I agree (mostly) about the spectrum of alcohol "disorders" but I guess the disagreement is what to do about it. What you call it is irrelevant. What you label as a reason is irrelevant.

I have a high tech stressful job every day. My "huge build-up of stress" by Friday afternoon used to lead me to a pub. Now it leads me to a walk in the woods. But that's my choice. There's addiction and there is also personal accountability.

Stress and alcohol abuse connection? That's an excuse

[Londoner]

Binge Drinkers

For me, the weekly binge would result because I would feel terrible most of the week and by the time the following Saturday had come I felt fine.

I would always be the last one out, doing stupid things, being places on my own and spending stupid amounts of money. Excessive drinking makes me less sociable. The only time I would be sociable is when I was blind drunk and wouldn't remember it. It's almost like alcohol increases my anxiety and therefore I have to get past a point when I am number to my own sensations

[halo]

Binge Drinkers

Ann Carolina;1503070 wrote: A book called Controlling your Drinking would do me as much good as a paper weight as it would for education

I love this analogy Ann, not only did it make me laugh :H but it is very,very true!

[Rupert]

Binge Drinkers

nancy;1502782 wrote: The book Controlling your drinking by Munoz and Miller is good. .

Don't mention ... Miller ... That's BEER!

[Rupert]

Binge Drinkers

I am also a binge drinker. I can remember the first time I got drunk, I may have been 12 or 13 and it was from Sherry at the Christmas dinner table. My parents offered me a little bit to try and I liked it so much I kept sneaking it until I was drunk. I remember stumbling around upstairs in bliss bumping into everything and then falling asleep. I don't think the habit started then though, I definitely went out and drank too much when I was at college between the ages of 16 and 20 and I used to sneak drinks from my parent's drinks cabinet - I didn't really care what it was. The first time I can remember having a regular habit was when I was about 20, I would get a bit drunk twice a week, and if I wasn't going to the Student Union playing pool with a friend, I would just buy some beer and a bottle of wine and play the guitar or watch TV while getting drunk. This continued pretty steadily until I was about 35 when I quit my safe and boring Software Engineering job and embarked on a career as a Consultant. Although I didn't find this job 'difficult' as such in most ways this did involve a lot of travelling, working from home and also very irregular work patterns and more pressure. So then What was 1 bottle of wine and 2-4 beers twice a week started turning into 2-3 day binges with up to and sometime over a bottle of 75cl vodka a night. Because I was working from home I sometimes although only occasionally continued the following morning or lunch time. I then met my fiance who had/has a lot of emotional problems and this provided more stress to fuel the drinking. So now I live together with my wife and I was back to drinking once or twice a week. I kept it to once a week for quite a while pretty successfully but I was still drinking a lot that night - up to or over a bottle of Vodka. I have to say that I've never actually gotten so drunk I was incapable, although sometimes I find if I drink a lot and then smoke a cigarette it seems to multiply my drunkness by about 10 times and I stagger around like a totally drunk person for a few minutes. I also rarely do anything I am particularly embarrassed about. I certainly do and say things I would never so when I was sober, but when I think about them afterwards I often just find them harmlessly funny and generally agree with the things I said. Being drunk just makes me more honest than usual.