The giving up/cutting down alcohol support thread! Part 5

squizz_2

Hello all, and welcome jeffgeorge

I'm having a very lazy day - didn't get out of bed until 3pm - was out last night but not too too drunk, i.e. I got home with all my things and no injuries (how sad that is progress!) but still should not have spent as much as I did so slightly guilty feelings nonetheless. I managed to keep in my head that I did not want to lose sight of my friend or my handbag, or get picked up by some loser and it seemed to have worked...

I am really living on the edge of losing my flat if I don't stop wasting money like this! Anyway I have no plans until Tuesday night so that will be three days off drink at least. Tuesday night is a client entertainment thing in a restaurant near my house, my best mate and colleague is going and he has already asked for soft drinks and beer only (we are both troublesome drinkers who disgraced ourselves at last year's evening with this firm!) :whistle:

I don't think it is possible for some of us to cut down, it has to be all or nothing. I think I fall in that camp anyway. I went to my GP for help a couple of months ago, and they sent me to a specialist hospital in London who said that I am not a chronic alcoholic so they couldn't help me. They sent me on to another clinic and I got a call from a lady there who said I would come in for an assessment and check up with a GP including liver tests, then the following week I would be given detox meds daily to break the habit. I was nervous but geared myself up for it and saw it as a real chance to sort myself out. I had told my Mum which was hard and was all ready to talk to my boss and explain why I would be late every day for a week :eek:

Unfortunately when I went for the assessment I just saw this guy, not a GP, who reckoned I could cut back and didn't need medication. I insisted that I needed help now before I end up in hospital, mugged, losing my job, losing my flat etc but he thought I could manage by just trying not to drink. I didn't need to be travelling across London every week at the expense of my job just for that. I am seeing my normal GP on Tuesday and I am going to tell her how disappointed I was. I do need a kick to do this and the support on here is invaluable. I am a long-term depressive too and I know that antidepressants do not work if you continue to drink, and also that it causes me to get confused and reckless when I am proper drunk. It is also costing money that I just don't have and so I must turn things around soon...

Eeek that was an essay, sorry folks!!

Anyway have a lovely evening all and enjoy the rest of your weekend

x

So_Sad_Angel

Hi JG & welcome.

I`m definately a quitter.....got to be that way for me.

If I weaken & have just one drink then I know I will start all over again & then who knows when when I will have the strength to stop again!

It was the same for me with smoking....having tried to stop so many times I know how dissapointed I am if I fail & that just makes me want to drink & smoke all the more!! ....a vicious circle.

So I tell myself that I have done `x` number of days/years & if I did have a drink/smoke now then I will have wasted all that effort & my dissapointment will fire the addiction.

Not sure if that makes sense....sometimes I just need to remind myself of what works for me. (btw I stopped smoking in 1983 & never touched one since).

Angiexx ( sorry for the waffle....guess you will all be watching X-F anyway)

mollypolly

Hello people and welcome to the madhouse JG.

Just finished checking all the lights:rolleyes::cool::cool:

(Mr MP. now gone to the pub for an hour:rotfl::rotfl:)

'twill be 5 for me today please Marru.

Enjoy your evenings.
Love Mollypollyxxxx

PS....swapped the whip for a cane.....just for xmas mind.;)

yellowmonkey

mollypolly wrote: »

PS....swapped the whip for a cane.....just for xmas mind.;)

and a very nice cane it is

honeybear_2

mollypolly wrote: »

PS....swapped the whip for a cane.....just for xmas mind.;)

It all still depends what you do with it :eek: :rotfl:

Nice to see you, Molls Trust the lights are all in working order?

mollypolly

honeybear wrote: »

It all still depends what you do with it :eek: :rotfl:

Nice to see you, Molls Trust the lights are all in working order?

Yep....all working...NOW:D...Going to put them up next week I think as am having some new curtains so want to get them done before the tree goes up.

yellowmonkey wrote: »

and a very nice cane it is

Why thank you kind sir :xmassmile

Miss_Piggy_2

Welcome JG....as our lovely Mollypolly says, bit of a madhouse but you'll get great support here.

Thought I'd join in and change my avatar too to get into the christmassy spirit! (and I don't mean the Baileys!!:rolleyes:)

Miss P
xx

yellowmonkey

Love the Avvy Miss P

Nice to see we are all getting in the spirit :T

honeybear_2

It's a Christmas peeg!

honeybear_2

Marru, thanks for those bears from yesterday but a polar bear in a Christmas hat is the way to go