daisy1

You top up your one glass of wine with vodka so you look like a normal drinker!

Free2bme888

That’s a good one, Daisy1

Briansy

That's extreme!!

DforDamager

You regularly tell yourself:

just the one, I'm not that bad, I can stop whenever I want, I deserve this, i need to drink to enhance X activity, I will have a drink because I'm bored, I need to drink in X persons company, every body else was as drunk as I was, when can I next drink? have I got enough to drink? how many hours until I need to drive? why can't we finish this activity so I can get home and drink? I am in no state to work today so I will phone in, vodka doesn't smell, just a couple to help me sleep, just a couple to wake me up, just couple to take 'the edge off', if I don't drink I will shake, if I don't drink the anxiety will kill me and so just for medicinal reasons, life is better when I drink, i am more fun to be around when i drink, everybody drinks at a wedding, football match, christening, going shopping, before a funeral, at work, sunday morning, etc etc etc

silentrun

I feel that one. I seldom even drank wine because it wasn't quick enough. I was whiskey with a splash of cola.

itsaguy

Never went to the doctor for it at the time it happened cause I didn't have a health card. Vomiting blood happened once in a while for me but it wasn't. constant. Still, it was scary and is one among a list of reasons why I chose to stop in the end.

Scd619x

One day of not drinking is a great accomplishment.

Mountainmanbob

One crys over and over again
oh poor me
oh poor me
oh pore me another drink.

Purplrks3647

You end up on a payment plan for unpaid bar tabs on the "Wall of Shame" at the Pub....but they're not worried 'cause they know you'll be back.....

Zebra1275

You have a terrible hangover on a Sunday morning and know that a couple of beers will fix things. But you can't buy alcohol in your state until noon. So you google what time alcohol sales start in a couple of neighboring states thinking that it might be worth the drive.

Free2bme888

You post here touting all the tools available to stop, feel good about day 4, and your soul emerges 5 weeks later crying to live, needing the insanity to stop.


ending day 2

b0glerd69

You wake up in a hungover mess and immediately rush to the computer to confirm that you sent a bunch of pathetic, incoherent messages and texts..

Zebra1275

You add vodka to your water bottle so you can look like a normal person when you attend your 5 year old kid's soccer match.

Libby06

Think its ok to drink in the morning if its "just wine coolers " before work

Notch8

Yeah, basically. That's me right there. Day three myself.

Gaz7

You rotate the shops/cashiers you buy booze from so they won’t judge you.

LoneJedi

Probably a minor one but: When you start typing out a message on facebook or a text to a relative that annoys you, smartmouthing them. And right before you hit post/send the sane part of your brain goes "hey bro, maybe we should wait til we are sober to start this fight? Relative is annoying and all, but you are going to look like the bigger jerk" Next day you wake up and are franticly checking to make sure you didn't hit send and are happy you didn't.

GrizzIan

Yes...I've been there too many times than I want to remember...

skyfullofstars

Same. I dreaded opening up my phone in the morning. I really ran my mouth off at times.

I had a dream the other week where I sent a bunch of embarrassing messages, but I was sober. Dream me knew I didn't drink, so I was baffled how I got blackout and sent them. Waking up and realising it was all a dream was SUCH a relief.

Thank gawd that is all behind us!

Briansy

Except far too often I did hit send.

The sexual stuff too - we don't need to go there - but wow, talk about regret that will never leave me. Ugh. I've burned so many bridges that sobriety really does feel like starting a whole new life from scratch. Hard to do in your 40s.