How much did you drink when you quit?
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I don't know, it really is to most an irrelevant question, but to OP it must have mattered. If this is not being used to reinforce the "i am not that bad" denial, then this is a terrible thread
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Originally Posted by MagicMan08 
I don't know, it really is to most an irrelevant question, but to OP it must have mattered. If this is not being used to reinforce the "i am not that bad" denial, then this is a terrible thread
But, I agree with everyone here who says that the amount doesn't matter because, as most of us have figured out, this is a progressive disease. I truly believe that the only difference between myself and the person who drank more is that I haven't let it get to that yet.
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I find those surveys to be very interesting. I remember seeing how much drinking went on in college and according to those surveys, most college students either have drinking problems or are alcoholics. I think the one thing the surveys do not address is whether someone is powerless over alcohol. I am sure there are many people that have drank more than 14 drinks in a week, blacked out, hooked up with someone they normally would not have and are still not alcoholics. I have two friends from college that used to drink like fish and now they are married with families and rarely drink. Me on the other hand am a different story. As the years went by my drinking went from just weekends to almost everyday. I can pass the bar test and I have not drank in the last 11 weeks. I am still unsure whether I will drink again, but do know that it was and may always be a problem.
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Looking back at it now I am realizing how much I actually drank and at the time I felt like it was not that much. I would drink like 2 bottles of wine a night and still manage to go to the shops and buy some more drinks. The next day would be the same. Weekends I would drink all weekend and during the day, and then go out or go to a friends place and play drinking games. I usually would start drinking at around 11am.
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As a as I can remember, I think we had about 4 cases of bottled beers that time. The feeling that I was having that time was not good at all because I was no longer myself. I was vomiting a lot and I said to myself that I would never again drink alcohol as long as I live.
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Rufus,
The amount I drank is very relavent. I think the amount I drank is critical to my defining myself as an alcoholic.
Basically, I drank all I had. I drank until I ran out, then I got more regardless of how drunk I was. The only thing that kept me from drinking more was passing out. Or a jail cell.
The amount I drank is very relavent. I think the amount I drank is critical to my defining myself as an alcoholic.
Basically, I drank all I had. I drank until I ran out, then I got more regardless of how drunk I was. The only thing that kept me from drinking more was passing out. Or a jail cell.
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I don't really know how much I was drinking because every day was different and some days it more,others less but this much I can say: I was drinking all the time it seemed. Once the daily drinking routine started, there was one after another after another drink(s) in my hand...
My body had become an alcohol processing plant, that's how it felt.
Towards the end, I started losing track of having an open beer or a mixed drink I had just made, I'd start one, set it down, and then open or make another one. Then I'd be double fisting. I would just drink and drink for hours on normal days, i.e. week nights. Then weekends I'd get extra loaded usually because I could start earlier and go later. Then in addition to that, there was all the binge drinking I would do at concerts, sporting events, parties, and even competitive drinking such as beer pong and other bravado with old Army buddies.
Life was just an endless series of drinks.
My body had become an alcohol processing plant, that's how it felt.
Towards the end, I started losing track of having an open beer or a mixed drink I had just made, I'd start one, set it down, and then open or make another one. Then I'd be double fisting. I would just drink and drink for hours on normal days, i.e. week nights. Then weekends I'd get extra loaded usually because I could start earlier and go later. Then in addition to that, there was all the binge drinking I would do at concerts, sporting events, parties, and even competitive drinking such as beer pong and other bravado with old Army buddies.
Life was just an endless series of drinks.
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Too much.
I used to always say if God hadn't blessed me with a very weak stomach I'd be a "full blown alcoholic" whatever that meant. I'd drink for maybe 6 hours on a Friday night then again on Saturday night and be sick for the next 3-4 days.
I used to always say if God hadn't blessed me with a very weak stomach I'd be a "full blown alcoholic" whatever that meant. I'd drink for maybe 6 hours on a Friday night then again on Saturday night and be sick for the next 3-4 days.
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Just my two cents here, AA started out defining the alcoholic as a low bottom person who would lose it all to drink: the job, the family, the car. But this changed as more people came into the program who hadn't lost it all but who were undoubtedly suffering and their lives were unmanageable.
That is why there are references to "high bottom", "low bottom"....it's not the same bottom for everyone, but it's still bottom.
That is why there are references to "high bottom", "low bottom"....it's not the same bottom for everyone, but it's still bottom.
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Originally Posted by keithj
Rufus,
The amount I drank is very relavent. I think the amount I drank is critical to my defining myself as an alcoholic. Basically, I drank all I had. I drank until I ran out, then I got more regardless of how drunk I was. The only thing that kept me from drinking more was passing out. Or a jail cell.
The amount I drank is very relavent. I think the amount I drank is critical to my defining myself as an alcoholic.
Basically, I drank all I had. I drank until I ran out, then I got more regardless of how drunk I was. The only thing that kept me from drinking more was passing out. Or a jail cell.Member
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I drank a case of beer a day, then I went to the store at about 3am to get more. My husband would ofte carry my passed out ass to bed and I had no recolection of how I got there, what did I say, did we argue? Then, I would get up when he was asleep call ,my friends, that were really not friends get some coke and continue to drink all night long. My husband would pick up the household. Until I missed my son's pta fundraiser because I was too wired and messed up to show up. Rock bottom for me. But if you put any substance in front of me and there would be no consequences for me and not hurt anyone (a free pass) that bottle would be gone in a heartbeat. I am an alchoholic! Help me accept it and deal . . .
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Originally Posted by littlefish
Just my two cents here, AA started out defining the alcoholic as a low bottom person who would lose it all to drink: the job, the family, the car.
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I was drinking a fair bit on and off when I quit nearly a month ago. I would drink probably 5 days a week one week and 6 the next. Week nights I drank up to 12 high strength stubbies of beer, and on weekends between 12 and 18.
There were occasions where I drank more or less, but that was about what I would call normal for me.
There were occasions where I drank more or less, but that was about what I would call normal for me.
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Well isn't that what the OP meant?
What I drank before I quit, that's another animal. Enough to make the cops think I was trying to kill myself. When you scare the cops, but not yourself, you just might have a problem.
What I drank before I quit, that's another animal. Enough to make the cops think I was trying to kill myself. When you scare the cops, but not yourself, you just might have a problem.
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Originally Posted by McGowdog
Well isn't that what the OP meant?
What I drank before I quit, that's another animal. Enough to make the cops think I was trying to kill myself. When you scare the cops, but not yourself, you just might have a problem.
What I drank before I quit, that's another animal. Enough to make the cops think I was trying to kill myself. When you scare the cops, but not yourself, you just might have a problem.
I know that smiley doesn't fit this reply, but I like it lol
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