Alcohol is what makes life tolerable

The booze is lying to you .

Hey spaz, do you go to work drunk too or are you self employed?

You're not alone, OP.

Salud!

I wish you could die peacefully from alcohol. I think it’s misty violent convulsions from organ failure or cancer, though. Ugh.

Here's the thing. I had a friend like you.

I used to have a girlfriend

Known as Elsie,

With whom I shared

Four sordid rooms in Chelsea

Always listen to your Auntie Helen.

Smoke weed instead and meditate

Team Weed

I always have a couple drinks after work and of course on the weekends, but I can't imagine being drunk all the time. I also enjoy weed from time to time but to me there is no point in getting high/drunk if you don't enjoy being sober just as much. They are supposed to be escapes, not a constant state of mind.

R9, truth

For me food makes life more tolerable. I also enjoy cooking and baking. It relaxes me. Plus you get a treat at the end!

OP it may seem that way but alcohol is what is robbing you of the chance to feel any true joy. You’re chasing the euphoria you felt the first couple times you drank. I think you need to do some soul searching and ask yourself if you still feel that euphoria or if you have become completely numb.

OP, you're an alcoholic.

Learn to cope (and fix your problems) without being a fucking drunk all the time. Alcohol doesn't solve your problems. It just helps you forget you have them for a few hours, and adds to them over time.

Agree with Op. I never drink while working but after work or weekends a few glasses of wine helps me relax and sleep at night. For a few hours at least I don't hate myself.

On the contrary, OP. Alcohol makes life worth LIVING,

To alcohol! The cause of.... and solution to... all of life's problems!

What a bunch of juice-pumps you people are

I drank and drugged to insanity.. I was definitely near death

[quote]schnockered

Unless you're Liza Minnelli, Oh, dear.

Weed for me, but yeah I get you, I'm on day 1 of a tolerance break and already thinking too fucking much.

I will be two years sober in a couple of weeks 🙂

All I know is that I have a strong gin and tonic, than another, turn off the Mets, have a zolpidium . I get in bed and read for a half hour and then I sleep thru the night and wake up around 730 in the AM. No hangover,. Hungry for breakfast, which I have, along with lunch and dinner. lots of veggies. When I run out of Z i dry out for a couple weeks. But I always renew my prescription. I'm 70. and sleep ain't what it used to be. this works for me.

R5, don't you mean..?

I ushed to have a girlfriend known ash Elshie

With whom I shared four shordid roomsh in Chelshea

Couldn't agree more.

OP, you do realize you're an alcoholic, right?

Nope. Xanax.

Guzzle guzzle guzzle

I am the weed version of what you describe. Alcohol is just a depressant for me- no fun. I tried!

My sister is more like you. She is in her 60s, still healthy and working and sociable.

Whatever gets you through. Sobriety is overrated.

I don’t care if I’m an alcoholic. I soils the Wang to live if I had to be skberX

Sobriety is boring . That’s why so many sober people are bitter

Smoke more pot

We're not bitter, we're laughing and pointing at R29 who's too blitzed to type correctly

I love alcohol, but it causes too much anxiety. I am on the wagon and enjoying O'Doul's.

Is that what Bill W would do?

Go weed!

R30 No. I've lived more in the past two years of sobriety than I did in 10 years of sloppy as hell alcoholism. Only thing I'm bitter about is that I wasted so much time drinking and didn't stop sooner.

Glad to hear that r36🦋👏👍

I am sober after a 2 decade drinking span and my partner is a non drinker who smokes pot. Pot makes me paranoid, but I will admit, I long for something to take the edge off lately. Sobriety is better for me but not easy all the time. Lately my partner has been noticing my moods and irritability. I need to work on chilling out. I wish xanax wasn’t such a gamble to take.

[quote]All I know is that I have a strong gin and tonic

GIN AND TONIC? Are you dialing in from 1956?

I knew someone who drank like OP. And then he died.

Weed is so much better. Alcohol feels like a waste of time to me.

If it’s from time to time, I don’t see the problem.

If it’s pretty freakin’ close as can be to 24/7/365?

There’s a problem.

I said that when I was 20, R41. Now I have asthma and the idea of smoking anything makes me puke. When are they going to make marijuana cocktails?

I drank gallons of alcohol and smoked a shit ton of pot plus a zillion other party favors. I'm so done

Take prolonged breaks op

I’ve been sober for 36 years. I strongly prefer it to the alternative.

I feel best half baked at all times.

Yeah great, Just what the world needs: zoned out nitwits

Grandmother Mary (R48), don't you remember you said the same thing in 1971?

I drank heavily for 15 years. It was fun for the first 12. At the end, I had to have a shot or two in the morning to avoid the shakes and insane anxiety. My partner was going to leave me. I got fired for calling in sick too many times. My family quit talking to me. I gained weight. I embarrassed myself in front of friends, neighbors, and coworkers. I fell while blacked out and broke my shoulder. Drinking is fun….until it stops being fun anymore, and it takes years to regain the trust and health that you have lost.

I was a daily drinker and finally gave it up this year. Feel so much better. I like to eat an edible at night to relax. I understand why so many leave alcohol behind and use pot.

No thanx. I have enough of a hard time as it is in life without adding alcoholism to my list.

Shouldn't your life be enjoyable?

Have another drink . .... hic

Another thread from Lá Sènatrice?

How can I get edibles?

R56. You can buy delta 8 THC via mail in most states.

I buy mine from link below

It is milder than delta 9 but you can get a nice relaxed feeling and a real buzz if you take more.

Start slow with edibles.

OP did you see Another Round?

Gin and tonics are delightful.

Much love to anyone unlucky enough to be predisposed to alcoholism. Keep focusing on your sobriety.

As already stated, you are an alcoholic. I am too and wasted a lot of years and screwed up my life to a degree. It will progress and just get worse. That is inevitable and the end can be true disaster. Not preaching and it is your life but it is likely you are affecting others. My parents were both alcoholics and it was hell. I should have known better. Get help and stop. Life will not automatically be wonderful but it is better and you will at least feel physically better. Good Luck.

Zoned out nit wit here….What was I saying?

Thanks, R57. The last time I used pot was 1980 (!)

When people here say they were drank heavily, such as R50, I'd like to know HOW MUCH constitutes "heavy drinker."

"misty violent convulsions"

... of the way we were

"I drank and drugged to insanity.. I was definitely near death"

And I liked the hole and the pole.

R58 is a troll

I would love to know the statistics of alcohol and drug use of U.S. citizens specifically during the 2nd term of Obama's presidency, the Trump years, and the pandemic years.

In college I would get waisted with alcohol almost every weekend, but once I got out of college I stopped. Only a handful of times after that and I haven't had a drop to drink in several years. Never tried weed, the smell made me nauseous. I have pretty much always preferred to live in a natural state of mind, not an altered one. It works for me, if that works for you OP good for you. My way is less expensive.

R43- They do. You could also try edibles. Hell, even delta 8 edibles are available at the gas stations now (I'm in a illegal state).

R67, sanctimonious asshole

R69 has reading comprehension problems.

I will NEVER stop drinking, no matter what anyone says. And smoking dope is low class.

I am pro marijuana but I admit that it is uncouth looking lol. Drinking is equal if not worse for you than pot but looks so much more elegant.

R71, weed? Lol 😂

R72, true

I'll stick to Tina

R75 is pure trash.

R75 How dare you call me pure!

OP is Lee Remick

I am a stoner and it does give me pause how uncouth a habit it is. But losing my best friend, aged 45, to cirrhosis, also gives me pause. I’m a tacky bitch but I still have my health.

Eat the THC or take it In tongue drops . There’s class in discretion .

OP, you are an alcoholic. I've been sober 25 years and I've seen it all now. I clearly see the positives in my life by remaining sober. You see things differently when the alcohol is triggering your brain. I hate to break it to you, but you are already killing yourself.

I believed that once. And then it got flipped. Alcohol often (thought not always) makes life miserable.

R81, doesn’t really believe the last step of Bill W and Doc Bob on helping the alcoholic who still suffers . Keep sitting on your cunt thrown and judging.

Thrown Oh dear

Throne lol

[quote] OP, you are an alcoholic.

I want to start a movement to reclassify this as a slur. lol

Let's just say OP is alcoholish

Weed and tequila in small quantities is nice

R88 are you me? That’s my Saturday night at home.

R89, it’s my Friday night . I love good food, 🕯 and 🍸 with 🌿