View Poll Results: How often did you drink in a typical week?
Everyday
415
68.37%
Every 2nd day
70
11.53%
Every 3 or 4 days
69
11.37%
On the weekends only
39
6.43%
Other
34
5.60%
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Were you a daily drinker or every other day? #2
I started out not drinking at all. Then I started becoming a weekend drinker.
That gradually got pushed back to starting on Thursday nights, then Wednesday...then I was drinking every night, then every day and finally around the clock.
I look back now and I see I was an alcoholic through all those phases.
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That gradually got pushed back to starting on Thursday nights, then Wednesday...then I was drinking every night, then every day and finally around the clock.
I look back now and I see I was an alcoholic through all those phases.
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My experience exactly
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From what I've read, it's not always the how much you drank. Could you stop drinking with just one drink at a session? Did alcohol have a negative impact on your life as in your health or your actions or were friends concerned? When you think of not drinking again ever, do you shrug as if someone told you you could never eat a doughnut again, or do you feel a little anxious at the word "never." I was a 3/4 of a bottle of chardonnay person or two or three mixed drinks a night . I have never had a DUI or the DTs or had people tell me the awful thing I did when I was loaded - yet. I decided to quit now because three drinks a day is in no way good for you - and it wasn't - and because sometimes I found myself driving to the liquor store to buy tequila even if I didn't feel particularly like a drink. It was a habit. And the fact that you're thinking "I'm not as bad as THAT" could be what is referred to as your "alcoholic voice" looking for an opportunity to coax you back into consuming alcohol. You know the people who don't belong here? The ones that maybe have a drink or two every couple of weeks or months and sometimes don't even finish their drink - as if it's a cup of coffee that got cold. If they couldn't ever drink again, they'd say, "Bummer. Oh, well. Guess I'll eat more ice cream."
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I wrote the above post as a reply to someone else and it inadvertently got posted. Sorry. I have been a 3/4 to 1 and 1/4 bottle of wine girl for years. Then wine gave me heartburn, so I switched to two or three shots of tequila with a mixer. Then had the same problem. I got real tired of the middle of the night "Is it heartburn or is it a heart attack?" scenario. I also realized I was buying alcohol even if I didn't feel like drinking because it was a habit. Sometimes I would not drink for three days to test myself if I could do it. because someone once told me that was the litmus test for if you're a problem drinker. As long as I could, go three days I figured I didn't have an alcohol problem (LOL). And as it happens, even tho' I gave up alcohol, I still have an acid reflux problem - because I drank myself into that problem.
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Every 3rd day here. I’d drink then take next two days to recover then repeat. I would shift the not drinking +- 1 day if there was a night I couldn’t drink or a morning I couldn’t be hungover. However it became really hard to go 3 days without drinking. Also there were more and more mornings where I decided it’d be OK to be hungover. It was exhausting and had become unmanageable. Life is mush simpler now.
I'd drink until I passed out, wake up in the middle of the night and drink until I passed out again. Then wake up and go get more - I would drink until I'd throw up because my body rejected it. Take a couple days off and go at it again
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Pretty much every day these last couple years. I tried to take a break on Mondays but rarely did. The last 7 or 8 months, on the way home I would stop for something at the grocery store and pick up a fifth (750 ml) of vodka. When I got back out to the truck, I would pour 570 ml into an empty 20 oz water bottle, swig the rest and ditch the empty in the nearest public garbage can. I would have about one to two ozs. left the next day and would finish that when I got to the truck after work. Then the cycle would start again by stopping at the grocery store for a fifth.
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Every day towards the end, and throughout the day. Would try and keep half a bottle of wine left that I would down at 3.00 am when I would wake with the shakes like clockwork.
Even back when I was not daily drinking, I was daily thinking about it. All. The. Time.
Even back when I was not daily drinking, I was daily thinking about it. All. The. Time.
I feel odd i guess. I was never a daily drinker but it still ruined my life. I drank about every 2 to 3 days. I still got a DUI. Spent nights in jail, almost ruined my marriage, my relationship with my son is strained. I could never do the hair of the dog. I get the worst hangovers. But i guess the frequency dosen't matter? but it does make u think.... well... maybe i don't have a problem? I can go longer than 24 hours... So I'm okay right? I know the answer to this but i still question myself.
I feel odd i guess. I was never a daily drinker but it still ruined my life. I drank about every 2 to 3 days. I still got a DUI. Spent nights in jail, almost ruined my marriage, my relationship with my son is strained. I could never do the hair of the dog. I get the worst hangovers. But i guess the frequency dosen't matter? but it does make u think.... well... maybe i don't have a problem? I can go longer than 24 hours... So I'm okay right? I know the answer to this but i still question myself.
In 2013 I could see the damage was still piling up and I was able to quit for 3 years, but I got complacent and slipped back into it in 2017, continuing the same pattern. So here I am, trying again. It's easy right now but as I feel better the temptation will increase. I have managed some financial success during all of this, never had a DUI, lost a job, or drank during the day, but if I had I might have made a permanent break sooner. Instead, my relationship choices have been poor, and defined by my codependency and ACOA traits that I was never able to address due to the ongoing dependence on alcohol to soothe my emotional state. Instead of "controlling it" as I thought I was doing, alcohol has controlled my life for decades.
Better to just quit early on, while you still have a chance to make a good life.
It was complicated....I would do weekends only, which migrated over to include every other weekday....sometimes daily for a week....then back to weekends....then a week straight....ugh....I was all over the place with my drinking....but it was always confined to late afternoon through evening
I started out the good boy freshman that wanted to see what the other lifestyle was like. Boy did I find it. Mine didn't really increase over time, usually once or twice a week I'd get crushed but no alcohol the other days of the week. Around thirty something just changed and I'd start drinking the next morning just to feel better. Never any problems so I kept it up....until the problems came. Then I lost my job and because a 24/7 booze bag for about a year.
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