Alcohol

[Anna]

I don't drink during the day or mornings, but evenings I always have a couple of beers. During the week that is it, but when holidays or weekends come I always feel the need to get merry and drunk. I like feeling drunk, no idea why but I feel good when I do!

Does anyone else have this? also makes me sleep better when I am wasted.

 

[AzureMind]

I do indeed! I usually don't drink too much during the week because I'd rather smoke pot, but holidays/weekends, I drink 'til it makes me stink! I'm not proud of it, but I do it, and I own it. I like feeling drunk, because it gives you a feeling of "slowness" that makes my brain think that everything is "ok" physically...no physical worries mean no stress/pain! But pot makes me extroverted, and happy, and I'm a whole different guy when I smoke.

Long and short, I can relate, I can completely relate Anna!;)

 

[BrokenToker]

I feel ya both... 3 drink limit after 6pm here. Rip the b0n6 all day thou.

Some call it self medication, I call it logic.... Have you read the side effects of anti dep / anxiety / anti psyc pills? Hell in 10 years you can buy a new liver at wall-mart probably anyways.

 

[AzureMind]

Pinnacle, Baccardi, and Jack....Mr. Daniels sends me off with a BANG!! lol Hey BrokenToker, you think I can lay away a liver for the christmas season?! You know, "Tis the season to be Jolly" and all? lol :laugh:

 

[Anna]

Vodka for me myself. I like absolut vodka and also a Polish one with bison grass called Grasovka. Beer, Guinness and any dark stout. I also like the refreshing girlie beers with grapefruit or fruit juices. Used to drink Lamb's navy rum, Southern comfort and Jack D in my youth.

Sangria is also great with a red hot chilli con carni!

 

[Deleted member 12723]

I used to love to drink, but I kept on making terrible choices that were making my life a living hell. My favorite was vodka with ruby red grapefruit juice, or red wine. Now I am sober 4 years. I still miss drinking but I am glad I am not making the bad choices anymore. My hat is off to anyone who can drink and not screw with their lives.:p:D

 

[Red Feather]

Due to his religion, my ex forbade me to drink. Then after our separation, my friends would always drink and I remember having my first beer. I started collecting beer bottle caps, because I felt like each beer bottle cap had a story to tell about the person who opened it. I don't like it when my children frown on my friends while they are drinking. I don't drink very much, I only ever drank when my friends were drinking, just a bit. I once broke my foot because I had some wine. Eversince my PTSD has flamed I stopped drinking altogether. Makes me rather sensitive and emotional.

 

[Lionheart]

I used to binge drink, it numbed me out and when it didn't, I thought it was allowing me to process my feelings, but I was only only "spinning my wheels."

Eventually it became the way I coped with life. Then it stopped working and really messed me up because I would go through the whole Jekyll-Hyde syndrome and do things that I later regretted, such as hurting my family with explosive anger, blacking out and not being able to remember what I had done,....not to mention projectile vomiting and 3-day hangovers.:confused:

People would come to me (after I thought Id had a good time ) and tell me that I was evil when I drank alcohol.

At the time it was the only coping tool that I had. While I don't think there is anything wrong with a few drinks on occasion, it was not the answer for my problems, especially not helpful for the depression or trauma issues.

I am not saying that this will be true for you but, I'd like to suggest you be very careful with the amount you consume, (especially if you take other medications), and the reasons behind it. It can be a nice temporary release from our problems, but in the end does not give us the positive coping tools we need to battle the effects of PTSD.

Wishing you the best,
Lion

 

[AzureMind]

In the end, it's not even worth it; it's a sad coping mechanism, and a wise man told me to drink to feel better, not if you're feeling worse...it's true for the majority of times I attempted to drink.

 

[Innordinate]

For years you think you control it, you can stop when you want, it's not ruining your life and 3 years later you realize how hugely mistaken you were and you quit. Only then, you find you can't quit. And 5 years later you wonder how much better your life would have been if you had just quit when you had the chance. But you never had that chance because you never had that control.

Alcohol, as a coping device, even for sleep, is evil.

 

[Barberian]

I drink on occasions. I'll have 1 or 3 in a evening. skip a few days, rinse repeat. This will go on for a week or three slowly drinking more until I get hammered, have a hangover, then I go a month or two without anything. I don't do this all the time, but it seems to be the avg pattern.

My philosophy is drink if I want to, don't if I need to, and don't drink daily. When the desire comes on (almost daily) I just ignore it most of the time. Alcoholism runs in the family. My mother and grandfather were "maintenance" alcoholics. They would (most of the time) just maintain a buzz throughout the day, daily.

 

[Nadege]

I don't drink during the day or mornings, but evenings I always have a couple of beers.

I heard beer makes your breasts bigger...