Addiction advice thread

me again said:
I know that the first step is to admit that you have an addiction. Does 2 bottles of alcohol per week make me an addict? Since November I have been drunk every night but I feel great during the day. I don't bother anyone while drunk and only start drinking when the family is asleep.
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Hi @The_Donkey
 
me again said:
I know that the first step is to admit that you have an addiction. Does 2 bottles of alcohol per week make me an addict? Since November I have been drunk every night but I feel great during the day. I don't bother anyone while drunk and only start drinking when the family is asleep.
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May not make you an addict just yet but you are on the slippery slope. That amount a week is 4 doubles every day. And where is it going from here, a few rough days and it's bumped up to 6 doubles a day.

Think what the liquor is doing to your liver and all the mixers to the rest of your system, it's the day in day out drinking that starts to add up. It's early days now but wait 2yrs after 2 bottles a week.

Better to examine why you started drinking, there's always a reason that's pushing you.
 
me again said:
I know that the first step is to admit that you have an addiction. Does 2 bottles of alcohol per week make me an addict? Since November I have been drunk every night but I feel great during the day. I don't bother anyone while drunk and only start drinking when the family is asleep.
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My dude. You created a profile to resurrect a thread that's been dead for 4 years. That's a cry for help if I've ever seen one. We don't need to convince you that there's a problem. You already know. Go see someone. And good luck, you're counting on you!
 
due digilence said:
At what point in time do you admit defeat and say, right - this is an addiction?
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If you see admitting to addiction as a defeat well then you will never face the truth. Admitting you are an addict is more a story of success than failure because it means you have acknowledged your weaknesses and are prepared to better yourself.

The point at which one should admit they have an addicition can vary but simply put if any of these apply I would say you have an addiction. if:
1. You cannot function without it
2. You take x and use y as an excuse when it in reality it's not needed (dependance)


due digilence said:
I am not an addict. I am managing years of emotional distress by numbing the pain. Right?
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Emotional issues are sorted by talking about it, not really silencing it with medication.

Seems to me you know the answer to the question though.
 
due digilence said:
At what point in time do you admit defeat and say, right - this is an addiction?

I am commended for the good work that I have been putting in lately. I must have been high for several months at a time with no breaks.
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I am not an addict. I am managing years of emotional distress by numbing the pain. Right?
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what is addiction - using something outside yourself -habitually- to reach a point of pleasure... to get release/away time from whatever internal misery/suffering you have cooking on a psychological level....reason why so many self medicate either through alcohol or drugs....boiled down, looking for escape...with is totally natural, but not wholesome...as it opens the route to dependency - any form of dependency is never good. What we see as habitual, is plain compulsion...an action that gets hardwired into the psychological, ... - you need to start tackling the root cause ... not numbing it.
 
Alton Turner Blackwood said:
I drink because I get bored while WFH and the house is dead quiet with kids at school and wife at work and because it makes my work appear to be more interesting.

So voetsek!
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life got more interesting with alcohol

from family to being alone

guys this is all you need to know if you have any addictions
 
Maybe I do have a coffee problem. Reading these posts it relates so much to drinking coffee. A lot of it.

I've tried to stop.

In fact, I've run out of beans one day and the shops were closed. Went into panick mode. Manage to scrap some left overs from various almost empty packets.

But I can't.... stop.

Dammit, gonna go make a cup now.
 
RedViking said:
Maybe I do have a coffee problem. Reading these posts it relates so much to drinking coffee. A lot of it.

I've tried to stop.

In fact, I've run out of beans one day and the shops were closed. Went into panick mode. Manage to scrap some left overs from various almost empty packets.

But I can't.... stop.

Dammit, gonna go make a cup now.
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You should read this:

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Oh, also for anyone with actual addiction issues, I suggest MDMA, Ibogaine or Ayahuasca therapy.
 
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