I have always drank every weekend pretty hard since I was 18, I am now nearly 25. Since about november i have had sessions when i have got so drunk that I cant remember much at all. I usually wake up at home in a daze and feeling like I have done something really dumb. two out of the last 3 times ive drunk, in which ive found out I have, stuff I would never do normally, and i cant remember any of it. My bestfriend seems to think that I should seek help for alcohol abuse, but others say it all in good fun and i just need to learn to stop. But once i get to the point that i know i need to stop, i just keep going. Do i have a problem and should i stop drinking completely? Or how can i learn to control it?
im just gunna say it plain and simple, dont stop.You can what you can do is cut your drinks down step by step, one can never just end an addiction.If you stop alltogether, you will want more and then ull just be doing the same thing.Drink a beer but don’t get yourself drunk, if you drink 5 days of the week, drink 3 days, then cut down, and yes ,you do need to talk to someone like a friend or even the pharmacist.
I dont care about points, just listen and reflect upon what i said.SOm day ull have a family and kids, u really wnat to put them in an awkward situation?
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go talk to someone, trust me it helps
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you really need to learn how to control it. If you can’t then you need to seek help. It is one thing to drink every weekend, it is another if you are not remembering anything when drunk.
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You are definitely showing signs of alcoholism and should seek professional help. Anyone who tells you different is only enabling the behavior.
The key signs you describe are the inability to "say when" and the blackouts. These are classic indicators of a problem which will only worsen.
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You obviously need to seek help and not just talking to a peer. I mean like actual help before the problem worsens.
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It seems you have answered your own question…You have tried to stop when you know you must, you do things you normally would never do, you have no memory of it. This is not all in good fun…especially if you did something to hurt someone, either physically, emotionally both bad, and you do this regularly.
You MUST seek help before you hurt yourself or others…correction, I think you are hurting youself by missing out on a lot during your binges and your body may be in process of damage. Addiciton is harder to break the longer it continues.
Go, go now and call AA. God bless and keep you.
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Yes, you need help, try A.A. first, but whatever you do get help, an alcoholic cannot control drinking….alcoholism will progress until it ruins your life.
By the way, don’t be ashamed, alcoholism is a disease and treatable.
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alcoholic for 35 years, I know the damage it can do
Your not 18 no more! and if you can’t seem to stop then your an alcoholic ….
Your 25 and it does not mean you have to stop drinking…but you should cut down ALOT….
Thats your choice though..your old enough to realize whats wrong and right….
The way your drinking alcohol is abusing…besides its not cool to keep on goin this way …..Liver cancer is not cool once yu get it!
Try limiting your self to 2-3 drinks. Drink for the buzz not to get drunk…its irresponsible and you probably will regret everything you did that you probably dont remember. Im sure you can be a very fun person without falling all over the place..
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If you lead a normal life, hold a job, and such without being smashed all of the time (except for the weekends) then I wouldn’t say you have an alcohol problem. You just like to have fun on the weekends…but now I agree that your drinking has to be diminished. You are getting older, and shouldn’t be partying hard anymore. I wouldn’t say quit alcohol altogether (unless you are an alcoholic), just limit your intake, and don’t hang out with the people that spark the binge drinking behaviours that you have.
Alcohol is alright in small doses…but eventually if you keep binge drinking, your liver will show the signs. cirrhosis, hepatitis and other liver diseases could develop.!
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You sound as if you have a problem. Here is a link to AA
Try it – you won’t have anyone preaching at you.
http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org/?Media=PlayFlash
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Alcohol abuse is a serious issue.
I’m not telling you to stop drinking, but you shouldn’t get drunk more than once a week.
Losing memory is normal, happened to me a few times.
Be careful, too much alcohol damages your liver and makes you more prone to heart attacks.
If you are addicted to alcohol and don’t drink it for fun I think you need help.
Talk to a doctor.
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If you have an addictive personality, you can’t learn to control your drinking. It’s like telling a smoker to smoke one cigarette per day instead of one pack per day. You just can’t do it. You either quit or you don’t. To me, it sounds like you have a drinking problem, and I suggest you do get help before it snowballs even further. Being an alcoholic doesn’t necessarily mean being drunk all the time. It means that when you drink, you drink excessively, because you drink to get drunk.
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Yeah, you have a problem bro, I have been there and I am 36. I just realized that I was doing too much. If you have to ask yourself if you have a problem, then you do. I’m not saying stop all together, but you should slack off. Your liver will thank you for it, and your heart as well. When you are getting like that, it’s only a matter of time, when you find yourself in jail for hurting someone, and not even remembering it at all. If you cant stop doing this, you need to get some help. Don’t listen to people who are saying it is all in fun. The party has to stop sometime. It’s your life and you should start getting concerned about yourself. The people who make it look like it is no big deal, are probably having the same problem. They just want to convince themselves that they don’t have a problem either.
Good luck, I know it’s not easy.
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That definitely sounds like problem drinking to me. Drinking EVERY weekend is a bit excessive in itself, but when you have other people pointing out that you might have a problem and you’re losing time and can’t say no. Maybe take this quiz on this link and then take a good honest look at yourself and decide that you may need some outside help. There’s no shame in it and it makes you a better person to acknowlege your faults than to ignore them like a fool would.
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http://www.d12.com/Resources/Alcoholism%20Self-Test.htm
Yes, when you start blacking out, that is the problem. If you drink that much, you may have become the "party slut" and do stuff that you can’t remember for everyone’s laugh.
Friend of mine got off the sauce and on the wagon when he blacked out and came to in county jail. He ended up on work crew and the judge was sympathetic to him after he was arrested for urinating on a police car. He lost his job and only he drinking buddies would talk to him.
Get out before you go totally over the edge.
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Most will easily tell you that you have a problem and what you are experiencing is "blackouts", although you know what is happening at the time. Yes, you do have a problem but I am not going to tell you to get help, because you won’t. Should you stop drinking? That would be the ideal situation, but that is not going to happen. Can you learn to control it? Nope, you can’t, but you can try to limit the days that you drink. You are of a sort that if you start drinking, then you will continue until you are drunk. However, you can decide not to drink for a particular day.
Your situation is such that if you have one drink, then you will continue to drink until you pass out. For you, you can only decide on a day to day basis if you have had enough the last night and decide that you feel so bad that you won’t drink for that next day.
People on the outside can make decisions for you and tell you what to do. That will not work. It is not likely that you will stop drinking and that is why I am saying that I agree that you won’t. It doesn’t make you a bad person and the addiction for any person is that they take the "first" of whatever. It is the same for meth, heroin, alcohol, cocaine or anything that one decides to do. Once you start it, you continue to do it.
With alcohol, and in some people like you, the first drink leads to the last. If you decide to not drink one day, then you won’t get drunk. If you decide to have one drink, then you will have as many as it takes to get drunk and heaven forbid you run out. This might make you drive to get another; which is the worst situation.
I’m not going to try to cure you because I don’t think it can be done. Just try not to drink on some days and never get into your car to buy more when you have been drinking. That would be your undoing.
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im just gunna say it plain and simple, dont stop.You can what you can do is cut your drinks down step by step, one can never just end an addiction.If you stop alltogether, you will want more and then ull just be doing the same thing.Drink a beer but don’t get yourself drunk, if you drink 5 days of the week, drink 3 days, then cut down, and yes ,you do need to talk to someone like a friend or even the pharmacist.
I dont care about points, just listen and reflect upon what i said.SOm day ull have a family and kids, u really wnat to put them in an awkward situation?
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