Bored of drinking

Marshy said:
Funny thing is i dont even enjoy drinking notonebit anymore its just to stopme getting annoyed
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Have you considered hypnotherapy Greg? I'd be lost without it but it's all down to the therapist in my opinion. Mine is a retired bricklayer, lovely bloke. It's not like being hypnotised at all. My addictions were strong but he broke them with ease.
 
Cornelius said:
Start watching game of thrones or breaking bad, something like that will pass the time and kill the boredom.
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I only started drinking through the week when i introduced myself to music with my headphones ......it felt like a party in my head every night !!!
 
Dropsalot said:
Christ @Marshy, take @squareheads advice, get help to get the help you need (if that makes sense). I'll bet your family would love to be in control. As for,the temper......excercise, @clemo is into boxing.....try that maybe.
Seriously though, all the best and don't give up trying.
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I used to box as a kid but im sorting things out and i appreciate your comments so thanks (y)
 
Olican said:
Have you considered hypnotherapy Greg? I'd be lost without it but it's all down to the therapist in my opinion. Mine is a retired bricklayer, lovely bloke. It's not like being hypnotised at all. My addictions were strong but he broke them with ease.
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Do you mind saying what its helped you with? I'd like to try that but im a skeptic about how effective it is.

I used to be scared as f**k of wasps! Read a derron brown book on holiday a few years back and tried a trick he mentioned in the book about getting rid of a fear. Since that day they don't bother me to much now. Still not a fan and i'll move when one comes to close but i don't sprint like f**k screaming anymore lol
 
I gotta knock on head for a while too got two kids and one on way but I don't drink to get pissed I drink to enjoy although some school nights I have more than I should meet up with mates on Friday for an all day session then that's me til the end of Jan
 
thebearbeef said:
Do you mind saying what its helped you with? I'd like to try that but im a skeptic about how effective it is.

I used to be scared as f**k of wasps! Read a derron brown book on holiday a few years back and tried a trick he mentioned in the book about getting rid of a fear. Since that day they don't bother me to much now. Still not a fan and i'll move when one comes to close but i don't sprint like f**k screaming anymore lol
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No problem, a have a general addictive personality so I'll kick one thing and replace it with something else. I was 21stone at one point , bucketloads of beer , vodka bad food , weed every day of the week.
When I first met the hypno I use my apprehensions were the obvious one;
Will I say something I don't want whilst hypnotised ( you have complete control throughout) it won't work on me . I still like a drink but I'm not nearly as compulsive as I used to be. I got a grip of my drinking about 7years ago, I started hypnotherapy to curb my compulsive eating. I would eat constantly, 1 session and it just turned off the switch. I have a top up every 4-6 weeks
 
Olican said:
No problem, a have a general addictive personality so I'll kick one thing and replace it with something else. I was 21stone at one point , bucketloads of beer , vodka bad food , weed every day of the week.
When I first met the hypno I use my apprehensions were the obvious one;
Will I say something I don't want whilst hypnotised ( you have complete control throughout) it won't work on me . I still like a drink but I'm not nearly as compulsive as I used to be. I got a grip of my drinking about 7years ago, I started hypnotherapy to curb my compulsive eating. I would eat constantly, 1 session and it just turned off the switch. I have a top up every 4-6 weeks
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Addictive personality is bad my mate was bad on fruit machine she would put 400 in one for a 100 jackpot got to point no one would go out with him for a beer just you and him as you wouldn't see him but lucky he got help for it
 
Gibbo said:
lot of brazilian rock is good and dutch would like to go to roadburn festival or dunajam in scicily but tickets are very limited
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off to see kraftwerk in Belgium next year, field day festival London in summer, aphex twin headlining, saw the cure last Friday at Wembley, they blew the roof off, incredible 3hr set. Took my son to first gig at 10 years old, was black Sabbath, he loved it.
 
I'm an alcoholic in every ones eyes. I drink every night, wine or strong Polish lager, I love it. I'm not falling over kind of drunk but I don't get angry etc and I always go to work. In Ireland it's better known as being a functional alcoholic, not saying it's a good thing but in the past I never got any illnesses etc, I'm thinking alcohol pickles your system. In the last year however I've ballooned to 15 stone and feel weak. Luckily enough I live in London and its only 7 weeks till my earliest GP appointment.
 
I had hypnotherapy and it helped me no end with a few inner demons....

I pretty much had a complete break down in 2012 2 years after dengue and I was a complete mess panic anxiety (lots of you who saw me in those early days will remember)

It was a massive struggle for my friends and family and especially for jane as I would be a complete un consolable mess. Doctors prescribed me a tonne of s**t drugs which made things worse.

I decided to get a grip and try and sort stuff out and everything that scared me or made me panic I just went and did it...

The hypnotherapist helped me a lot but doing my bike license is really what made the difference to me
 
irish_spread said:
I'm an alcoholic in every ones eyes. I drink every night, wine or strong Polish lager, I love it. I'm not falling over kind of drunk but I don't get angry etc and I always go to work. In Ireland it's better known as being a functional alcoholic, not saying it's a good thing but in the past I never got any illnesses etc, I'm thinking alcohol pickles your system. In the last year however I've ballooned to 15 stone and feel weak. Luckily enough I live in London and its only 7 weeks till my earliest GP appointment.
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I wouldnt call you an alcohlic mate.
My old man died last year he was a whiskey for breakfast man....a real alcoholic.
He never picked up the phone once and asked about his grandkids..i never went to his funeral.
Drink controlled him he never controlled drink.
Id say thats an alcholic.
 
irish_spread said:
I'm an alcoholic in every ones eyes. I drink every night, wine or strong Polish lager, I love it. I'm not falling over kind of drunk but I don't get angry etc and I always go to work. In Ireland it's better known as being a functional alcoholic, not saying it's a good thing but in the past I never got any illnesses etc, I'm thinking alcohol pickles your system. In the last year however I've ballooned to 15 stone and feel weak. Luckily enough I live in London and its only 7 weeks till my earliest GP appointment.
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You're what's classed as a heavy drinker. Alcoholic is someone who takes one drink and can't then stop until passed out.
 
Got to be careful though.

The line you cross..... you don't even see it coming.

That's the worst bit of it.

All of a sudden it's got you - and your dependant on it.

Got to stand back, be honest and ask yourself, and BE HONEST.


Then, after that if you dont like the answer,

Then there's NO shame or surrender in getting a bit of help.

You'd feel better.
 
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Squarehead said:
You're what's classed as a heavy drinker. Alcoholic is someone who takes one drink and can't then stop until passed out.
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Uncles reformed alcoholic, not drunk from 70s,he described it as one drink was far too many and a thousand wasn't enough
 
Squarehead said:
You're what's classed as a heavy drinker. Alcoholic is someone who takes one drink and can't then stop until passed out.
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That's pretty much where I'm at I can't stop once I start some days the missus comes home at 4pm and I'm unconscious on settee not ideal for the kids to come home and see a drunk on the settee not fit for anything I must admit I'm very ashamed of myself for my recent behavior. As I say my other half is at breaking point :endesacuerdo:
 
Marshy said:
That's pretty much where I'm at I can't stop once I start some days the missus comes home at 4pm and I'm unconscious on settee not ideal for the kids to come home and see a drunk on the settee not fit for anything I must admit I'm very ashamed of myself for my recent behavior. As I say my other half is at breaking point :endesacuerdo:
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A common story. I used to hide drinks in the bin when wife came in then get them out when she went out the room. We talk about the insanity of drinking. You don't enjoy drinking anymore but can't stop doing it. You try sticking to 7 drinks of weak carling, can't do that do 4 stellas max, can't do that so only drinking when out, then only drinking at weekends. I used to keep a spreadsheet of what was allowed but of course that lasts a couple of days if lucky. Step 1 - your life has become unmanageable. Once the penny drops that you can't drink like other people and it has to stop, completely it's actually a huge relief. Then start working the programme. You will feel happier and proud again.
 
My brother is an alcoholic,had a successful body repair shop for twenty years plus 3 staff which folded.From then on he lost his girlfriend his house and has been in and out of rehab several times. In the early days he attended AA meetings but sacked them off saying it was all about religion and looking to a higher power (twelve steps) .Anyway after collapsing and hurting himself on numerous occasions, we got him into a funded rehab centre in Rochdale.
To cut to the chase,my brother was in denial for 2 years and wouldn't recognise his problem ,but eventually began to fight his demons and start recovery which is now going well.
 
Drink /drugs whichever it be when turns down the road of destruction comes to a crisis point , generally a spiraling set of events that eventually arrive at a sobering event. A cell , an empty house and home or near death, most who have trodden this path will inevitably face themselves only after hitting the bottom no matter what anyone says unless they seek help or wake the fuk up before it's too late.
The past is gone and cannot be changed and the future is not here we can not live in either of them, only the here and now .
Reality is here and now the rest is the soup of mind chatter of what has gone or fears of what lies ahead in dreamt up scenarios that don't exist.
Change starts in the here and now .
 
That's a great point a.p the recovery programme is a 24hr one. I freaked out at my first meeting, said how can I not drink for the rest of my life, American guy who is now my sponsor grabbed me and said don't worry about the rest of your life just worry about getting your head on your pillow that evening without a drink and do that each day. The minute you worry about next week is the minute you fail.Simple but lifesaving advice. My sponsor is ex US chief military press officer, for Bill Clinton. You meet some interesting people in there. Some of my friends in there have lived on the streets for many years and some surgeons and multi millionaires, it's rarely boring.
 
Squarehead said:
You're what's classed as a heavy drinker. Alcoholic is someone who takes one drink and can't then stop until passed out.
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When i go out some weekends I'll stay out till the pub is closed then go home. Don't really go back to house party's any more just say f**k it I'll go home. But don't remember walking home most of the time when on a Good piss up. Then on a Sunday after a good piss up the night before I do want to go for pints again. But on the Monday I wouldn't even look at a drink. Or for the rest of the week I wouldn't go near the beer in the house. What am I classed as.
 
theclemo said:
When i go out some weekends I'll stay out till the pub is closed then go home. Don't really go back to house party's any more just say f**k it I'll go home. But don't remember walking home most of the time when on a Good piss up. Then on a Sunday after a good piss up the night before I do want to go for pints again. But on the Monday I wouldn't even look at a drink. Or for the rest of the week I wouldn't go near the beer in the house. What am I classed as.
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Yup we do that... We like sunday afternnons in the pub :D
 
theclemo said:
When i go out some weekends I'll stay out till the pub is closed then go home. Don't really go back to house party's any more just say f**k it I'll go home. But don't remember walking home most of the time when on a Good piss up. Then on a Sunday after a good piss up the night before I do want to go for pints again. But on the Monday I wouldn't even look at a drink. Or for the rest of the week I wouldn't go near the beer in the house. What am I classed as.
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A candidate :estudioso:
 
theclemo said:
After reading all this am mad to go for pints. (y) I don't really drink week days. But when I go drinking I go drinking. And I won't go to work with a hangover I won't even answer the phone. But tbh drink is the worse drug out there.
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theclemo said:
When i go out some weekends I'll stay out till the pub is closed then go home. Don't really go back to house party's any more just say f**k it I'll go home. But don't remember walking home most of the time when on a Good piss up. Then on a Sunday after a good piss up the night before I do want to go for pints again. But on the Monday I wouldn't even look at a drink. Or for the rest of the week I wouldn't go near the beer in the house. What am I classed as.
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Party animal !!!!!
 
I given up proper drinking a while ago must be about 7 years now, always used to finish the day with a few beers and get wasted Saturday and Sunday, back in Ireland used to sit in the pub after closing time till 3-4am getting totally written off every day but never bothered me till on a house party had a fall out with a mate who was taking the piss so I went for him took 3 guys and 2 girls to get me off of him, haven't had a heavy night since. I have a few every now and then but I'm a lightweight now

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theclemo said:
When i go out some weekends I'll stay out till the pub is closed then go home. Don't really go back to house party's any more just say f**k it I'll go home. But don't remember walking home most of the time when on a Good piss up. Then on a Sunday after a good piss up the night before I do want to go for pints again. But on the Monday I wouldn't even look at a drink. Or for the rest of the week I wouldn't go near the beer in the house. What am I classed as.
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Even with the amount you drink it's unlikely you're an alcoholic. If you can stop even after 10 pints then I wouldn't say you are, probably just a heavy drinker. It's when you have one drink and then keeping drinking until you're in a heap. My dad used to play football Sunday morning, 4-5 pints straight after on empty stomach then 3 bottles of red every Sunday, but he could stop after that 3rd bottle. He is a heavy drinker but not an alcoholic, but he drank enough to give and my sister lots of mental anguish.
 
Squarehead said:
Even with the amount you drink it's unlikely you're an alcoholic. If you can stop even after 10 pints then I wouldn't say you are, probably just a heavy drinker. It's when you have one drink and then keeping drinking until you're in a heap. My dad used to play football Sunday morning, 4-5 pints straight after on empty stomach then 3 bottles of red every Sunday, but he could stop after that 3rd bottle. He is a heavy drinker but not an alcoholic, but he drank enough to give and my sister lots of mental anguish.
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I've upset my missus big time latley and I know I have to quit. my health going to suffer if I don't. plus not fair on my family either I've been very selfish and a complete t**t and I know i'l sort it as I'm not the kind of person to give up. I did dry athon other year and you guys made a massive contribution and I found it easy as the cause was more important to me. I will sort myself out I know I will but thanks again to all of you for sharing your experiences
 
Marshy said:
I've upset my missus big time latley and I know I have to quit. my health going to suffer if I don't. plus not fair on my family either I've been very selfish and a complete t**t and I know i'l sort it as I'm not the kind of person to give up. I did dry athon other year and you guys made a massive contribution and I found it easy as the cause was more important to me. I will sort myself out I know I will but thanks again to all of you for sharing your experiences
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What better cause than your wife family and lifestyle bud good luck in your quest
 
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