Alcohol self help thread II

Al_Mac

ac wrote:

mornin all xxxxx

Faster than a very fast thing:eek:

jayne.doe

Hi Ac (only taken me three hrs!!!) Hi Al hope you are both well.

Horasio

What makes you reach for a drink?

Is it to temporarily numb the emotional pain, to shut up the bad thoughts? A break from the tedium called life?

I feel 14 years old when I drink and the world seems trouble free.

Al_Mac

To stop me feeling inadequate, inferior, useless.

To make me feel brave enough to cope, to feel confident.

jayne.doe

most of the above two posts.:o

Al_Mac

To be honest it became habit as well, driving home, buy a bottle It's when you have a drink for breakfast, that you should really, really start to worry.

jayne.doe

i have only ever done that on a panic attack twice i think and then i just didnt bother stopping:( Agree totally as well with habit being a problem and also using drink for relaxation.

lewt

CCStar wrote:

What makes you reach for a drink?being an alcoholic did it for me

Is it to temporarily numb the emotional pain, to shut up the bad thoughts? A break from the tedium called life?thats what i used as an excuse till i knew about the illness of alcoholism the before ever drinking part and the when drinking and after part

I feel 14 years old when I drink and the world seems trouble free.lucky you. towards the end of my drinking i had to drink. leid to my self that it would be one but i knew i could'nt just have one ever. my alergy set in then. and it was out of my control. once it becomes physically addictive when i would do almost anything to get it as i didnt want to go into withdrawal. of course there are different kinds of drinkers that come under the alcoholic mushroom. this was just me.

so are you saying you drink to feel young of that you drink to fell "trouble free"?

lewt

jayne.doe wrote:

i have only ever done that on a panic attack twice i think and then i just didnt bother stopping:(

just a qustion jayne but do you think you could have stopped if you had wanted? ie you had the power or do you thinklike my drinking the algery kicked in and it was behond you to stop(powerless)?

beer2006

CCStar wrote:

What makes you reach for a drink?

Is it to temporarily numb the emotional pain, to shut up the bad thoughts? A break from the tedium called life?

I feel 14 years old when I drink and the world seems trouble free.

Yes, I solve all my problems when I drink, then I wake up and they are all still there, everything I have thought about is all wrong, or its all right and I haven't got the guts sober to do it.

That and I totally agree with Als post as well.

I don't know if anyone here reads the social phobia thread, but I post on there about mine. I have a great fear of people in a social arena, I get tongue tied and (just refer to Als post ok) anyway, yesterday I went to a restaurant for the first time in years and the first time without feeling like I am going to die for roughly 10 years.
Today I had a baked potato in Asda
Neither places had alcohol, which helped, I don't like smelling it.

So I guess I'm feeling good, but my plan is to go out everyday this week, so its the pub tomorrow for a coffee and then a meal on Wednesday in a pub. I am now getting very nervous about it.
:wave: