I decided to give it up I drank on Halloween buy I went a month without. Now I havnt since halloween.
It messes my brain up too much
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i donāt drinkā¦
but i do drink the blood of my enemiesā¦lol 
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i am joking people !?! 
take care 
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I donāt drink,
- Every one of my medications warn me not to mix with alcohol
- Alcoholism runs in my familyā¦at least on my dadās side and Iām worried Iād become dependent on it. Just one more thing I donāt need in my life.
- Out of the few drinks Iāve tried in the past I didnāt care for any one of them.
- I work so hard to maintain control of myself, alcohol would make me loose that battle of controlā¦which is one thing I truly fear.
- Alcohol is expensive and Iām on a limited budget, when I donāt have a craving for it, never cared much for the taste of it, why waste the few precious dollars I have on it?
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I donāt drink anymore, I donāt out of fear. Iām worried Iāll become like my dad and become a mean and abusive drunk. My dad has an illness similar to mine. My mom thinks thatās why he drinks so much.
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I been going to aa since my teens. I quit at 21. In the beginning prayer and willingness to go to any lengths ā¦ as sick as I got I just prayed and prayed and eventually after about 1 year I was able to think thru itā¦ and today, nearly 18 years without a drink, early methods still work. Aa, prayer, reading, hobbies, using the phone like a little girl to communicate my woes and joys with other aaās. I suggest meetings and finding other mental health events
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I donāt drink. What makes me stay away from it is that I donāt want to be a slave to anything. I was a slave to cigarettes so I know all about addiction and as for booze, no thank you.
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I donāt drink either, used to when I was well. Just donāt feel like partying anymore. Anything that takes place after 9 pm now is past my bedtime. Sleep makes me feel better, not booze.
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23+ years plus clean and sober in AA.
Pixel.
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I never started drinking. My mom used to only drink a little bit of wine, but my dad is an alcoholic. He is a nice alcoholic, but it still sad, and Iām always afraid he is going to hurt himself while drunk by accident, even though so far he has only gotten a few bruises from losing his balance and falling over. I was thinking of starting drinking a couple of months ago, despite thinking I never would, because i kind of wanted another excuse other than schizophrenia to never get a job or go to school or be under pressure to succeed. I didnāt though. I think the most Iāve drunken was when I was little my mom gave me some and i thought it tasted awful, and a couple of times at church they pass out wine for communion the very few times that Iāve gone. I donāt smoke either or do other drugs. they are expensive too and if you get caught with drugs you can get in trouble with the authorities. I never had peer pressure because Iāve always had trouble making friends. My relatives used to apply a little bit of pressure to get me and my siblings to drink wine, but they gave up after a while.
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Now that I am giving up the smokes, I canāt drink anymore. I fell down last time in my 85 day quit because I got drunk. I only drink to get drunk so I am just not drinking anymore. I donāt like what it does to my anxiety the next day either.
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Yeah my anxiety goes through the roof the next day after getting drunk
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Sober a year and 3 months already.
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I come from a long line of T totaling Presbyterians. Never really occurred to me. I do drink grape juice, though I weaken it with pink lemonade.
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I donāt drink, Cartman. 
Iāve been sober almost 4yrs now! I donāt miss a day of being drunk. Ill tell you that much. Back in the day we use to binge drink and party like rockstars pretty much and there was no looking back. The next day brought on hangover like you wouldnāt believe. I continued to do this until it started to affect relationships, work etcā¦ It became a 4days a week thing. Work my butt off until payday go out party for four days go back and repeat did it through my early teens to mid to late twenties.
So now that Iām almost 4yrs into my recovery I can look back and say āyeah I had one hell of a time doing it! but was it really worthe it?ā and then my second thought is " Lifes to short not to party like that" so thatās what I did and then my third thought was " I wouldnāt blame myself for some of the sh@t I did" and really happened because of my circumstances even if it did affect my relationships because my soul was telling me something and I wasnāt listening to it one bit. So I was pissed off at myself, because I wasnāt doing what I suppose to do to get help for my medical problems and my party life took over.
Yeahā¦ thatās about it for me. Now Iām sober free!
Have a good one!
intounknown
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My depression increases if I drink, so I avoid alcohol.
I used to drink every weekend, I also used to drink at like 2am to go to sleepā¦been using alternatives like uh my left hand and plenty of exercise and less caffeine to sleep instead. Itās been a month clean, I feel healthier. I never was much into medicated binge drinking, I tried it twice and it made me catastrophically ill the next day. Before meds, I think I drank just as much alcohol as water. I was also a ripped 19 year old who worked out on overdoses of preworkout powders for hours a day. I was also an honors neuroscience studentā¦yeah it is a strange story. I dont really understand how I made a 3.5 that year, I was insane for the first semester.
What I would do was wait until I was agitated as could be at like 12am or 2am and then drink two beers, sometimes three, on horrible nights, four. It was just not okay. I pretty much just had it with being stuck in the self-medication habit. I decided to pick up the pieces of my life before the illness, just slightly modified, an hour or so of exercise a day instead of minimum of three, about 10 pills around the clock, and a morning cigarette and coffee to jump start my central nervous system and get me from defunct to going through motions like getting dressed, grooming, eating breakfast. The running and the boxing and advanced calisthenics are doing me lots of good. It is tempting to drink another coffee in the afternoon, but I get a second wind at around 3pm due to my meds (long story). The result is that I am mentally and physically pooped by ten every night, then I fall asleep at around midnight and wake up at 8am sharp, then I go to school and workout and go about my studies and crap.
Itās basically the approach you take with aggressive dogs. You run the critters until they are no longer agitated. You feed them, you give them water and what not, but you run the hell out of them to make them conform to your demands. So I work myself until I am pooped, literally run if not box three days of the week, then do intense calisthenics and a little dumbbell stuff sometimes three days a week.
alcohol is a depressant. In low doses, as it builds in your blood, it has a stimulating effect. Hence āliquid courageā. Two shots and youāre confident and relaxed at the same time, or maybe you turn into an ā ā ā ā ā ā ā , whatever, it lowers inhibitions which are normally in place. That means it takes away restraint your brain normally places on itself. Hence āunder the influenceā of alcohol. Hence the term āspiritsāāit makes people act differently, like they have āspiritā or even foreign āspiritsā control them.
alcohol puts people who crave alcohol in better moods, and it often makes neurologically aroused people (us, schizophrenics, we are aroused like hell) feel normal.
but one of the basic tasks in dealing with a crisis (2am, have class at 830am, need sleep, cant sleep, am feeling psychotic rage) is to look for alternativesā¦like not drinking caffeine except once right when you wake up instead of at least twice a day, maybe try working out every day instead of doing two insane workouts (on bodybuilding stimulants) a week and being built like a brick shithouse, ect.
I also am on a diet that doesnāt allow for alcohol. I eat the same thing every day, itās doing me good.
I used to think I was an alcoholic, but my shrink told me I wasnāt and that he had seen real alcoholics. I even went to AA and one day after a lunch with them, I told my habits to another guy there and he seemed taken backānot really habits that met the cutoff of alcoholism.
most importantly, I do not keep alcohol in the house.
and yeah it can be a social problem. Say youāre with your friends and they want to go to a bar. Well, a double jagermeister wont be that bad, would it? Well its not bad, correct, but it is bad when you want one again the next night because you went to sleep so easily after drinking it. Maybe just order a diet coke or a cranberry juice or just be silly and request pineapple juice.
I recently decided to commit to not drinking, like a month ago, and its been going well.
I drink socially from time to time. I donāt miss it because I donāt like the taste of alcohol. Wine is OK, but the taste of beer or spirit is aweful.
Booze may me crazier (and stupider) than I already am.
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Wow before here I thought I might be the longest sz soberā¦ lol