Skydivercp

For my own well being... Dub reasons WHY we drink.

DisplacedGRITS

To drink alcohol? No reasons. To drink water? Well, i am fond of living...i've actually made a nasty habit out of it.

Taking5

Dub reasons? What does "Dub" mean?

Lenina

bottom line? we drink because it gives us deep pleasure. Or at least the memory of deep pleasure. we may come up with a lot of excuses but bottom line, we want to drink. period.

Love from Lenina

InsertNameHere

Though I agree with Lenina I can give you the reasons that I used to escuse my drinking before I decided I might have a problem after all;

-I am single no kids so who am i hurting?
-I have a good job and do it well so its not a problem.
-I don't do anything "really" wrong when I drink so its not a problem.
-Everyone I know my age drinks.
-I helps me deal with the tedium of every day life.
-I drink alone because it would be bad to hang out with the people I work with there are appearances to be maintained, not because I am an alcoholic.
-I don't drink during work like my mom did so I must not be that bad.
-Its easy entertainment/makes everything else I do more entertaining.
-work sucks so I need to relax as much as possible when I get home.
-The reason I didn't do that (name your task) this long weekend is because I am lazy, not because I was hung over until I started drinking again in the afternoon and therefore didn't so much as leave the house for 5 days.

Those were the stupid excuses I used less than a year ago. (no I don't have that much sober time)

Sapling

I assume you mean "Dumb" reasons why we drink? That's an easy one. It was the solution to all my problems...Solved everything. Until it stopped working and became the biggest problem I had. It became a problem that was trying to kill me. Then I had to find a solution for a problem that was the solution to all my problems...Pretty dumb huh? You know what's really dumb?..... Not stopping when you understand that...I was a slow learner and it cost me.

hypochondriac

Because I'd had a bad day.
Because I'd had a good day.
Because someone had been mean to me.
Because someone had been nice to me.
Because it was sunny.
Because it was raining and there was 'nothing else to do'.

I'm sure I could go on, and I'm sure if I was put on the spot I could have thought up a better excuse like, I'm depressed, or I had a terrible childhood, or something... but really they're all just excuses, because drinking doesn't cure depression, or make the rain less annoying...

Alan111

If I had a bad day at work I'd have a drink to relax.
If I had a good day at work I'd have a drink to celebrate.

Whatever the reason for drinking though I always ended up in the same drunken mess.

MalkavianEmily

Before I finally decided to quit, I drank because it was a day that ended in a 'y'.
Sad, Glad, Mad - all were reasons to drink.
When I was 18, I drank because I enjoyed it.

For a long time, I never made excuses for drinking, just for drinking more than I meant to. Things like, 'well, people kept buying me drinks,' and 'it's only when I'm with certain people,' or 'It's a night out.'

Other people suggested, towards the end, that it was stress or loneliness. I didn't quite believe it at first, I'd felt a lot worse before and not drank, but I wanted to, and so I guess I started to. And then I found out the easy way (easy, not pleasant) that this wasn't the case.

Tom444

Yes, there are hundreds of reasons for that and that is exactly the wild power of Alcohol the so called social drug. It has a euphoric effect which can be experienced in any sort of situation depends on the individual. But that lasts only for a certain time until its starts to mess around with your life. I used to drink Alcohol mainly because it makes me happy but things have gone absolutely the opposite way later. Now, I am happy when sober and terribly depressed when drunk even after a couple of drinks. That's how an Alcoholic's brain works in contrast to Non Alcoholics and this is a permanent condition which cant be reversed. Right now I am enjoying my sober activities on a Friday night in here, said no to some of my friends already for a drinking party in a friendly manner and I am totally happy and relaxed, there is no desperate feelings about drinking. They have gone from me.

soberbrooke

I drank because I am an alcoholic.

keepfinding2

Methanol poisoning or sustenance would be the only reasons I can think of.

nonblondechef

Dumb reasons I drank:

To loosen up and be funnier, smarter, wittier, prettier, friendlier, nicer. In reality I was none of those things. I was a walking, numb and shame-filled human being. The opposite of everything I was trying to be with liquid poison courage. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb.