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Originally Posted by MSUDrunk 
When I start drinking one of two things happen. Either I drink until the room spins, or I stop after one r two drinks and am pouty and miserable I can't have more. Being powerless over alcohol des t mean you are constantly drinking, it means once you start you don't really know how it's gonna end.
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In the short-run, I am a "buzz maintainer." In the long run, I end up going completely out of control.
Short answer to your question, "No, I cannot control how much I drink. Therefore I have made the decision to never drink again. I know where it leads and I NEVER want to go back there again."
Short answer to your question, "No, I cannot control how much I drink. Therefore I have made the decision to never drink again. I know where it leads and I NEVER want to go back there again."
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I have a year sobriety and my ego tries to tell me i could handle some controlled drinking.
It wants me to remember the sometime occasions where i may have got drunk and everything went just swimmingly.
It wants me to forget the police cells, the violent confrontations, the hospital visits, the black bile, the zero self respect - begging shopkeepers for a slate, the lenders banging my door down, the horrendous ways i treated anyone near to me, the partners, family, health, jobs and education i lost.
It tells me "it doesn't need to go that way this time!"
On top of all that, i could certainly never both control AND enjoy drinking at the same time
It wants me to remember the sometime occasions where i may have got drunk and everything went just swimmingly.
It wants me to forget the police cells, the violent confrontations, the hospital visits, the black bile, the zero self respect - begging shopkeepers for a slate, the lenders banging my door down, the horrendous ways i treated anyone near to me, the partners, family, health, jobs and education i lost.
It tells me "it doesn't need to go that way this time!"
On top of all that, i could certainly never both control AND enjoy drinking at the same time
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Join Date: Jan 2014
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I can limit myself until I give in and just abuse it completely. It takes a couple of days before I'm waking up and pouring myself a drink and my sleep schedule gets screwed up. Something bad happens from it somehow and I have all the intense guilt built up over those days of drinking that knocks me on my butt emotionally. Thinking back, I connected alcohol with the purpose of getting drunk from the moment I went to that first high school party. I just see no point in having just one drink. It's just a tease.
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Originally Posted by MSUDrunk
I used to limit what I would buy too, then I would end up driving to the store drunk to buy more.
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Originally Posted by newhope01
I did that too... and I hated driving drunk and was too embarrassed to ask someone to take me to the store to get more so I would buy just enough to where I wouldn't run out but not have enough left over to tempt me to drink it the next day. As others stated, whats the point in drinking unless your intention to is to get drunk? To think the amount of time and money that has been wasted on alcohol.
exactly how I was which is why I was into the pints and half pints. They were enough to for the night and I would wake up with nothing in the house which was what I wanted. It helped in the sense that I didn't start out the day drinking, but I'd usually get something light for lunch like wine. I would sometimes purchase that early on in the morning and get a sip or small bottle in me in the am. wow.
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Originally Posted by MSUDrunk
I used to limit what I would buy too, then I would end up driving to the store drunk to buy more.
Absolutely crazy thinking, I don't know how I did it looking back.
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Originally Posted by LadyinBC
I didn't have a car, however, I stumbled my way there to buy more. One bottle wasn't enough, two wasn't enough etc. I think you get the picture.
Absolutely crazy thinking, I don't know how I did it looking back.
Absolutely crazy thinking, I don't know how I did it looking back.
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