How Did You Give Up Alcohol?

   This is not your alcoholism, but you went down that path. As a sober alcoholic, I will tell you that giving up is quite difficult, at least for me there was a complex process of sobriety. The first week is the most difficult, sweating, trembling, nausea, etc. Getting rid of physical addiction is easy, but mental is very difficult.

   I started to reduce it a bit and found a hobby. I bought a card and started swimming. Because of drinking I did not keep a person around me, now I have a wife and children and I am very happy.

   As far as I know just eat a lot of fruit every day. Most people who drink alcohol hardly eat fruit, but they actually eliminate the desire for alcohol and it becomes tasteless.

   It is also alcoholic to drink beer every Friday so stop until you have reached higher levels. Like any vice, it is more of a habit than a conscious activity, that is, a conscious change of company. Emphasize the sport and most importantly do not think about how you stop drinking alcohol, but think about how not to drink when someone asks you to go out! Just consciously program yourself;)

   The dumbest thing is that in the beginning you did it only to imitate others and integrate into their environment.

   And I want to stop it, I started having bad drunkenness and arguing with people, I do things that are disgusting when I'm drunk, but I don't know how I stop every time and after a while I start. Years ago I used drugs and I managed to stop them for 6 years. But alcohol is very difficult for me ...

   Number 4, interesting .. is this true for fruits?

   Go to the AA meeting in your city. I've been drinking since I was 18, so it's still hard for me to stop, you have already taken the first step, you have admitted that you have a problem with alcohol. But these gatherings really help. There you are among your peers and you have nothing to be ashamed of. There are 12 steps to a program that if you manage to follow you will get rid of alcohol forever, I am still on the second step, but I already feel the change. I wish you success!

   If you think you are an alcoholic, try not to go to a disco for a week. Order good food, grab a beer and watch a movie, for example. If you drink a bottle of vodka that night, you really have a problem. Since I was 15, at least once a month on a birthday or holiday party, I get drunk with huge amounts of alcohol, but I don't think I'm an alcoholic. Sometimes it happens that we get drunk with friends for 1-2 weeks and then I don't feel like drinking for 2-3 months and when they call me I just say that I don't feel like going.

   By 8 I read it in a book and my observations confirm it. It's good to try.

   The bad news is that by being addicted and limited, you run the risk of becoming an antisocial type, which you start using again when you socialize. The collar is enchanted. The author's problem is not alcohol, but, as he says, that he is closed and uncommunicative. But how to change this when a person is built? The one who answered this question can universally become a millionaire! The whole problem is with alpha masculinity and is a bigger topic than alcohol.

   The boy explicitly asked not to comment on people who have not overcome his problem, but you again! You have no idea what alcohol dependence means and only harm. Look now, boy. I'm a woman and I've been through this. I drank like you - in company, over the weekend, I gradually increased the frequency and quantities. And I didn't realize until I was 30 or so that things were out of control. I tried visits to a psychiatrist, an addiction specialist, took medication, underwent detoxification, started exercising regularly. I consolidated the situation for 5 years and did not lick a drop. Then I decided I was fine. Come on, the bottle again, and after only three months I drank half a liter a day. I went to see doctors again, this time including three years of psychotherapy. I saved myself again. Three more years passed and the problem reappeared. I was comforted, that this time I kept things under control because I didn't overdo it, I kind of drank moderately. Until one day I started to feel worse and worse. I went to the doctor, they gave me tests and the doctor grabbed my head. He sent me directly to the emergency room, where they were also screaming. It turned out that I had alcoholic hepatitis on my feet. When they fixed me, I went to a specialist who did even more precise tests and it turned out that this was not even hepatitis, but pure cirrhosis of the liver. You have no idea, author, what I was going through when I got home, sat in a chair in the garden, looked at the budding rose bushes, and wondered if I would be alive to see them bloom. I survived again. I felt good. And the horror tripled - today beer, tomorrow a glass of wine. After only a year, the disease worsened and I was in bed again. E, this time I have already taken matters into my own hands! I said to myself: if I can't help myself, no one can. How did I proceed? This time I faced the problem completely alone - no drugs, no psychoanalysts, nothing. I decided to dilute and reduce the quantities. For example, 200 g of vodka diluted with natural juice, and this for the whole day. Then 100 g. Then 50, then 20. That was the idea. But to my surprise, not even 100 grams was reached. Once I had made the firm decision that I wanted to be alive, it seemed to me that I was taking sulfuric acid as I took every sip. Would you drink gasoline, for example, if you knew it would poison you? That's how I looked at alcohol. I haven't drunk or tried since, because I know where even "small amounts" lead. Unfortunately, cirrhosis is not curable, the development of the disease can be controlled, but the lesions remain. I realize that I will live less than other people and that I have shortened my life myself. You still have a good chance of not reaching a critical stage. If you feel that you are one of the people who can do without one, but with only one, then you are a potential alcoholic, and you yourself feel that things are like that. Here I share only my personal experience and what helped me, unfortunately after I irreparably damaged my health. I do not deny doctors, psychiatrists, Alcoholics Anonymous, folk medicine, anything that can help a person. But in any case, personal motivation is essential. Don't let me go my way to write such a post one day. Look at alcohol as a beautiful seductive woman who lures you deeper and deeper into her bedroom, and you walk like enchanted, but when she hugs you, she suddenly becomes a demon,

   After number 14 there is nothing more to add. I lost a close relative because of alcohol. The problem is social isolation. You can be with 20 people around you and be lonely. After alcohol. Then - what she said 14.

   To №14-ma'am, congratulations on your tenacity and perseverance in dealing with the problem. But you are not the typical alcoholic for me - and I know such. Those I know have never had such long "dry" periods when they don't drink. For the first time you did not drink for five years, then you stopped again for long periods. I am very curious what provoked you to start drinking, because I am more than convinced that behind every female drunkenness there is some deep reason, which is not resolved in the right way, but the easy one is chosen - downhill. When I was 28 years old, my drinking was limited to a glass of wine and only on occasions. Then something happened that shook me to the core - my husband started an extramarital affair with a woman from his job. And in the most disgusting way possible - she had joined our family as his colleague and my friend. I have no words to describe how I experienced this - I didn't eat anything, I just drank and cried. It didn't hurt so much because of the fucking sex they had, it hurt because of the monstrous betrayal - she couldn't get up from my table, I welcomed her, I cooked and served, I shared everything with her. I lost a lot of weight, it's not exactly I lost weight - I rather dried up, I was 47 kg then, and I'm a tall, slender woman. I spent a lot of time like that, drinking, crying and feeling sorry for myself. Eventually I realized how stupid I was to commit suicide this way, got to my feet and stopped. But I wrote my story here, no matter how difficult it was for me just to make people understand that behind every female alcoholism lies a tragedy that the woman in question cannot survive. I wish you health from the bottom of my heart. I have heard that cirrhosis is now treated much more successfully than before.

   Hi 16, I'm 15. Let me just add that there is something behind every alcoholism. Independently male or female. The bad thing is that alcohol does not solve the problem. On the contrary, it depresses even more. But alcohol itself is not to blame.

   Well done for admitting to yourself that you are an alcoholic. Because you are. The fact is that intelligent people are more inclined to cup than less intelligent. It is scientifically proven. Once you study to be a software engineer, you should be intelligent. Yes. Ask yourself the question in the first place - why do you drink? The possible answers are the following: 1. To be more liked; 2. To gain self-confidence; 3. To escape from reality; 4. To be more witty; 5. To release the voltage; 6. None of the above. Really, if you don't know, alcohol is a depressant and quite strong. I guess a lot of times after you were unconscious, you wanted to explode, but not from the physical effects of the hangover, but from those in your brain. Now we come to the vicious circle - drink - happy - nasty - depression - drink - happy - nasty - depression, etc. Next, that in a wonderful moment you start drinking to live, which is not good at all. Let's come to the question - how did we give up alcohol. Well, we haven't given up, but just as we can with a cup, so we can without a cup for months. It's a matter of habit, of attitude. When you're done, if you don't want to drink, go for a walk. Play a movie, cook something. He does nothing that requires mental retardation. Proven practice - works.