Binge Drinking! ~ Moose Calls Time!

[Toxxyc]

Not sure if we are talking Alcoholics, Automobile or Addiction anymore.

Sounds like a drunk driving support group. Alcoholics in Automobiles Anonymous.

 

[Willie Trombone]

Now I'll have to try it. Do many bottle stores stock it?

Only on MyBB does a thread about quitting booze encourage others to stock up LOL

 

[Sensorei]

People who drink on weekends can be alcoholics too. If you tell yourself you don't want to or not going to, but do it anyway means drinking is out of your control.

This is the truth.

Where people often fail is they don't realise there is an empty emotional void left that alcohol used to fill.

You can't just stop drinking, not make any other changes to your life, and expect to stay off the binges.

Your brain is going to be craving that alcohol‐induced dopamine reward no matter what you tell yourself. You need to find something else fulfilling in your life, or depression and relapse is next.

 

[satanboy]

I think Moose died from withdrawal.

 

[Sensorei]

Who grabbed the 'Buy any 2 bottles of wine and get 25% off' special at PnP this weekend?

 

[Mortymoose]

I think Moose died from withdrawal.

Moose doing very well..arrived in Potch last night after 1240km... felt like my usual couple of toots...but said no... I awoke this morning richer and full of vooma..

 

[SeRpEnT]

Moose doing very well..arrived in Potch last night after 1240km... felt like my usual couple of toots...but said no... I awoke this morning richer and full of vooma..

Geez, is there one week that you don't do the Namib-SA trip? What's your annual mileage between the two countries if I may ask?
Just think about it...with a Castle Free in your hand you can do the trip whilst drinking "beer"!!

 

[Jings]

This is the truth.

Where people often fail is they don't realise there is an empty emotional void left that alcohol used to fill.

You can't just stop drinking, not make any other changes to your life, and expect to stay off the binges.

Your brain is going to be craving that alcohol‐induced dopamine reward no matter what you tell yourself. You need to find something else fulfilling in your life, or depression and relapse is next.

You're probably right. I went to a meeting group for alcoholics and family and one of the concerns raised is attending events where alcohol is freely available, like a braai.

The therapists also mentioned some interesting insight. He said addiction is a disease that cannot be cured but can be managed. He also spoke about alcohol‐induced dopamine and how it takes 18 months for levels to drop back to normal after quitting. In that time a person is most vulnerable to relapse.

 

[schuits]

Alcohol is one of the biggest lies of modern day.

You're told as a kid you can't have any, so it becomes a right of passage.
Adverts depict alcohol as a status symbol.
When a single study shows a benefit of a glass or two a day it gets published in every single media article. Yet the majority of studies show how alcohol is a carcinogen, but nobody want's to hear that.
The list goes on...deaths a year, family breakups, sickness etc etc.

As an alcohol dependent person trying to give up a bad habit myself, all I can say is strongs Moose!

 

[Mortymoose]

Geez, is there one week that you don't do the Namib-SA trip? What's your annual mileage between the two countries if I may ask?
Just think about it...with a Castle Free in your hand you can do the trip whilst drinking "beer"!!

I have done 8000km in the last 25 days... still in Potch waiting for my car to finish being serviced..... it was serviced here 25 days ago....
In 3 weeks...I am off to the Cape...

 

[akescpt]

Moose doing very well..arrived in Potch last night after 1240km... felt like my usual couple of toots...but said no... I awoke this morning richer and full of vooma..

what the hell are you going to put on the grid when you post pics now?

 

[Mortymoose]

what the hell are you going to put on the grid when you post pics now?

Lucky for me...one of my other big social drinks is ......wait for it...wait for it....Sparkling water.....

 

[akescpt]

Lucky for me...one of my other big social drinks is ......wait for it...wait for it....Sparkling water.....

You have that comes In A bottle or tin? That plastic going to be woeful on the grid.

Glad you making a positive change. Well done on taking action.

 

[Mortymoose]

Heading back west along the national road between Kathu and Olifantshoek, I felt my left leg start to cramp, the sun had set and darkness had swamped the landscape, I realized that I had left it too late make Upington today and decided the hamlet of Olifantshoek would have to do.

I found a nice little place on the outskirts of town and paid for my room, I enquired from the owner if his restaurant was open, to which he replied, " Sorry not tonight, I am afraid I will have to ask you to eat dinner at the Pub&Grill next door....."

"PUB and grill," , is what I heard...... And knew that the gods above had plans for me..

I stumbled along a defunct pavement and into an establishment that looked nothing like a Grill, just a row of gambling machines and a pretty long bar counter which had two locals attached to it...

Oh! How hard they are trying those Gods, to get me to drink, turns out the kitchen at this establishment was also closed....

Once again, I stood tall and took two pkts of Doritos and two pkts of peanuts back to my room,

The two locals slurring away to each other reminded me of what could have been...

 

[now05ster]

Well done Mooster.

 

[Jings]

Well done on keeping all your memories of the evening intact, Mortymoose.

 

[Mortymoose]

Ok! Just arrived back in Namibia and seriously glad to be back in me little oasis in the desert.

I had a ton of time to think to myself, ambling down deserted national roads in the Northern Cape and was mortified to run a few memories back in my mind....... My entire adult life was based around beer......... Sure there were good times, no there were legendary times, but the crux of the matter dawned apon me that almost "everything" I had done prior to last weekends decision was based around drinking.....

The reason I started this thread was a selfish one....... I did it for support from you okes, perhaps to help some of you along that were/are in the same viking longboat that I am in and above all, now that I have made it public that I am a binge drinker, I will find it more difficult to go back on my written words....

So I shall be keeping this thread alive to HELP ME!

I also realised that all the good and bad times that I have had, thanks to beer for the last three decades shall make a good read... so I am going to put fingers to keys and see if I can recall the long lost one's from my drunken days...

You all know that when you give up drinking, the God Bacchus throws all temptation your way, I arrived home an hour ago and got invited to a dune ride saturday........ some of you shall recall earlier threads of mine when we go dune riding here, it usually involves strapping a draught machine to the back of a bakkie and getting to spend the better part of Saturday getting sloshed in the barren sands of the Southern Namib.... So I shall be turning that down....

 

[GlassMirror]

Ok! Just arrived back in Namibia and seriously glad to be back in me little oasis in the desert.

I had a ton of time to think to myself, ambling down deserted national roads in the Northern Cape and was mortified to run a few memories back in my mind....... My entire adult life was based around beer......... Sure there were good times, no there were legendary times, but the crux of the matter dawned apon me that almost "everything" I had done prior to last weekends decision was based around drinking.....

The reason I started this thread was a selfish one....... I did it for support from you okes, perhaps to help some of you along that were/are in the same viking longboat that I am in and above all, now that I have made it public that I am a binge drinker, I will find it more difficult to go back on my written words....

So I shall be keeping this thread alive to HELP ME!

I also realised that all the good and bad times that I have had, thanks to beer for the last three decades shall make a good read... so I am going to put fingers to keys and see if I can recall the long lost one's from my drunken days...

You all know that when you give up drinking, the God Bacchus throws all temptation your way, I arrived home an hour ago and got invited to a dune ride saturday........ some of you shall recall earlier threads of mine when we go dune riding here, it usually involves strapping a draught machine to the back of a bakkie and getting to spend the better part of Saturday getting sloshed in the barren sands of the Southern Namib.... So I shall be turning that down....

Goodluck Moose, we're all here for you and you inspired me to lessen my drinking as well. We shall keep this thread alive for you

 

[syntax]

The therapists also mentioned some interesting insight. He said addiction is a disease that cannot be cured but can be managed. He also spoke about alcohol‐induced dopamine and how it takes 18 months for levels to drop back to normal after quitting. In that time a person is most vulnerable to relapse.

It took my brain a very long time to recover from the years of substance abuse. At some points I would have weird emotional responses, Im talking tears running down my cheeks at an advert kind of weird. I went through depressive episodes, suicidal slumps, extreme rage and everything in between.
Only felt some kind of stability about a year in, and even then it was occasionally out of whack. If I have even 2 or 3 drinks now, I can feel that weird chemical imbalance in my brain for a few days which spills over into my emotions, drive and general personality.
Probably one of the biggest reasons I have chosen a different lifestyle now is that, that feeling of just being normal, content and somewhat in control

 

[Mortymoose]

It took my brain a very long time to recover from the years of substance abuse. At some points I would have weird emotional responses, Im talking tears running down my cheeks at an advert kind of weird. I went through depressive episodes, suicidal slumps, extreme rage and everything in between.
Only felt some kind of stability about a year in, and even then it was occasionally out of whack. If I have even 2 or 3 drinks now, I can feel that weird chemical imbalance in my brain for a few days which spills over into my emotions, drive and general personality.
Probably one of the biggest reasons I have chosen a different lifestyle now is that, that feeling of just being normal, content and somewhat in control

Thank you for sharing, it helps!