After 4 or so months of drinking every night I'm finally addressing my drinking problem. Second day sober...

After 4 or so months of drinking every night I'm finally addressing my drinking problem. Second day sober, basically the plan is to stick to drinking only on the weekends, with the exception of going out to clubs or bars. Here's my question, is it normal to be bored out of my fucking mind? I literally don't feel like doing shit, and I just feel bland as fuck. Being unemployed obviously doesn't help and I have no girls or friends to talk to or hang out with. What do I do? Also withdrawals aren't bothering me anymore thank god, but I'm bored and feel dead inside

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Alkie here
For starters don't fool yourself with the "just on weekends" maymay. Even if you actually stick with it, you'll get roasted by kindling.
Second, unironically do ANYTHING to find a group of dudes who'll game with you. Hit up /vg/ or whatever and fucking fight to get people to hang out with.

drinking on the weekend will get you nowhere. If you're serious about quitting you have to quit. Otherwise you're just lying to yourself. You're not addressing shit. You're dead inside because you relied on a depressant to try to bring you happiness but all you got was more depression, less money, and health problems. Take it from a shitty alcoholic who quit. Either quit or drink yourself to death. There is no compromise with alcohol once you cross the line.

No clue
I really don't think it'll be an issue, but if it is then I'll take a longer break. It's just that I'm super lonely and I'm bored as fuck when I don't drink

I don't want to quit altogether, but I don't want to drink every night anymore. It makes me feel worse. But quitting completely seems unnecessary to me.

Im a mean drunk and have kept away from drinking for 2 weeks by running and walking everywhere. Just keep moving. If the booze is around, you're going to drink it. Keep occupied

Yeah I plan to start working out again. I got some 15s and some plates I can use, not really comfortable with running in public but I'll find a place

>the plan is to stick to drinking only on the weekends,
Stopped reading right there.
You're not ready yet.

These guys know.

You keep fighting the good fight. It's worth it, believe me.

Exercise. Read. Get outside and in nature. Maybe buy a kayak. Play vidya. Find an artistic outlet and turn it into a hobby.

>I really don't think it'll be an issue
You dense motherfucker. Do you know what kindling fucking is? Literally roasts weekend warriors like you for that exact reason.

Like I said I don't want to stop completely just slow way down.

I have an idea yeah. If I can't handle it then I'll taper off again and go longer without alcohol. You make it sound like I'm gonna die if I drink on the weekends, chill out

You can easily kill yourself by being a weekend alkie. I'm not kidding. Kindling and addiction are that bad.
You should know by now that alcohol withdrawal is worse than heroin's. I'm just telling you from experience, find people to help you. Stop going into this like you're "too smart" to get in trouble. Take this seriously now.

Let me get this straight. You drank everyday for 4 months but dont have withdrawals? You have 1 beer a day m8?

Well my withdrawal hasn't been THAT bad. I mean sure I got the shakes the sweats, seeing shit out of the corner of my eye that isn't really there, stomach ache and anxiety. But I've never been physically sick or felt like I was dying. It's not that I think I'm smart it's just that I don't feel like its necessary to stop completely.
No I never said that. Of course I had withdrawals and I acknowledged that in my first post

What the hell is that pink little stick thing in her pussy? And why does every cam whore have one of those as of recently? Is it like a sound? It's too small to be a fucking dildo

Stepping in here, I drank a minimum of 12 beers a night EVERY night for at least the last 7 years or so. The answer is weed. I did 3 days in a row last week not touching a drop, had a few on the weekend because fuck it why not it's the weekend. Day 4 this week not a single sign of withdrawal symptoms.. Just smoke weed here and there.

Lay off the 12th step work you fucking internet missionary

I'm guessing it's one of those toys that vibrates when someone gives you money?
I'm not into smoking weed anymore, pretty much grew out of it. I haven't smoked in almost a year and don't miss it at all. Besides that's just replacing one habit with another and that's not the goal here.

>4 months
Plz I been drinking daily for over 10 years now.
Op. Just get a job to occupy your time.

I drink a liter and a half of wine, plus at least 2 extra beers, every other day. 4 months ain't the problem when it comes to alcohol. Alcohol withdrawal often takes years,sometimes 5 to 15, to foster, but once it does, you are fucking trapped. You're in a nightmare. Doesn't matter about the timing though, fact of the matter is if you're anywhere NEAR the alkie DT zone, you're at risk of kindling.

aaaand you've got fucking shakes and sweats?! Nigga I've been drinking 5 years and haven't gotten that bad. And you're getting hallucinations? That's literally textbook Tremens. STOP. FUCKING. DRINKING.
There is NO weekend shit for you. There never could have been. You NEED to contact a support group. Stop fucking going full retard. I'm barely starting my life and I'm already facing down the possibility of ending it. Don't fucking end up like me, seriously, this is like watching myself be an idiot all over again.

your withdrawal is being bored? kek ok kid

Okay man this isn't a dick measuring contest. I just wanted to get some insight into whether how I felt was normal. I'm sorry you're going through that but it's not like I'm acting like its this huge issue that I have either.

People who develops DTs generally have poor diets and health to begin with. They also let the mental stress build and build.

OP just needs to start drinking find of water eating while not drinking, and find something to occupy his time and taper off for a week.

Nope. I learned the dangers of alcohol, and learned to control it. I average 3 liters of brews a day.
I used to drink almost three times that for a few years. But tapered off on my own time and healthy way.

I'm not measuring dicks I am fucking telling you to PLEASE get help.

>second day sober, basically the plan is to stick to drinking only on the weekends, with the exception of going out to clubs or bars
you'll find all the exceptions you need.
how much have you been drinking? four or so months isn't terribly long unless you're absolutely pounding them.
>Here's my question, is it normal to be bored out of my fucking mind?
realistically, at least some of the time. low skill work is boring as fuck. doing nothing all day is boring as fuck.
> I literally don't feel like doing shit, and I just feel bland as fuck. Being unemployed obviously doesn't help and I have no girls or friends to talk to or hang out with.
DEPRESSION
>What do I do?
get a job. at least something to get you out and interacting with people. start exercising, at least some if you aren't getting it at work.
>but I'm bored and feel dead inside
sounds like withdrawal and/or depression.

>dick measuring contest
alcoholic threads always turn into one. just ignore them.

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I already posted here but all you gave me was I don't want to quit blah blah. Ok fine don't quit. I'm just telling you what I know. I'm not one of those AA meeting people either I don't think addiction is something that can't be beaten or is a disease or not your fault or any of that shit. I was an alcoholic. I did that. It was my fuckup. Once I started drinking a liter of vodka every night I started to think about it. I downed an 18 pack of beer double fisting then drove to buy another 12 pack. Drank all those that night too. I was a mess. I slipped on a piece of plastic on my floor and broke several toes. Just spent three days over the weekend with a busted swollen foot. Finally went to the doctor. At some point you'll hit your bottom and then you won't have a choice to quit. All we're trying to do is help you prevent taking it that far but no one ever thinks they will. Go ahead and drink weekends. You'll just binge harder when you drink.

Sounds like depression you should have it checked

why is this thread only words.
i cant read. I came in for the picture.

Go to young people AA meetings
Youll be banging insecure hot chicks in no time friend. Just get a month off the shit first so they dont think your just a creeper.

It gets bettah.

when we drink we experience a spiritual loss of values in relation to ourselves and the world.
1 is to many and 1000 is never enough. just put the bottle down. If your in this deep already it will just get worse from here.

Quit entirely. I know it sucks and you don't deal with addiction by doing it only on the weekends.

Listen to the alcoholics in this thread. How often is Sup Forums this unanimous about something? You came for advice, don't ignore it just because you don't like what you are hearing.

About 3/4 of a liter, sometimes more or less. Finding a job has been tough, I've been fired from my last two so it doesn't help my confidence
For what? All they'll do is give me some pills. It won't fix any of my problems.
How do I find a "young" aa meeting? And what if I don't like the girls, just give and leave and try again next time? Also I really don't want to do that circle hi I'm user and an alcohol shit

Fellow alkie here, user.
>drinking only on the weekends
Nah son, just nah. What do you think is gonna happen when it's Monday and there's still an inch and a half of whiskey in the bottom of the bottle? You really going to hold out till Friday? Even if you can, why do that to yourself? Just get it out of your life.

>is it normal to be bored out of my fucking mind?
Hell yes it is. What do you think you were doing before? Some boring ass shit. Getting fucked up is boring as hell, you just didn't notice because you were soused. The boredom will get you back off the wagon if you aren't careful though. Keep busy.

>I have no girls or friends to talk to
This is probably your #1 reason to join a program honestly. That and being accountable to someone who gives a shit. Whatever you do, though, hang in there. For some people, a drink is just a drink, but for people like you and me it's the fucking devil.

Kyaks and beers is the shit

Wow nice 4 months? Only at night? LOL I am guessing that someone said something to you to make you think you had a problem. That amount is literally normal. I have been drinking every night for about 7 years. Don't make a thing out of it or you will just make your quote on quote problem worse.

~3/4 of a fifth nightly is about ~12-13 drinks. that's quite a bit.

I did put the bottle down. Years ago. Really glad I did. I got a six pack of beer for my birthday from a buddy. That was in march. Haven't opened one yet. Probably use them for brats. I went back to my one and true love. Weed. Sure it's still kind of a crutch for life but sometimes life sucks and we need a crutch. Just don't make it alcohol. You won't remember the good times but you'll always remember the time you did 12 beers in a beer bong in 28 minutes and then you went downstairs to get away from the party and you passed out and shit your pants.

3/4 liter is definitely not normal, especially every night. For the average person they would get rekted and hungover the next day

you literally could've used quotes but you typed quote unquote. You're not only an alcoholic you're also a retard.

my mistake, a full fifth. that's a few more.

the insane boredom is what keeps me always using drugs or drink to have some fun.

yes. but you need to be bored sometimes. find something you like doing. or better yet do something to better yourself.

get a job or second job. Get a hobby. Go out and socialize at bars with drunk people and in one night you'll maybe see why being sober can be a better choice. It's a shit show but it's also a great place to be and hookup with drunk whores. Man the fuck up. Quit the drinking and work out. You'll be much happier when you start pulling extra pussy and have money to spend on shit that isn't killing you every day.

also the depression will start to go away. Why do you think alcohol is classified as a depressant? You're only happy when you aren't even there. It's a crutch. I'm telling you now. Don't be that guy who doesn't figure it out and is a piece of shit drunk and almost dead by 40. You'll be that guy drinking a fifth a night. I know. I was him from 22-28.

there is no point to staying sober or getting drunk. it's not like you're going to change the world. if you want to drink, drink--if you don't, don't--handle your own shit. enjoy your limited time here and if someone else gives you shit about it, that's their problem, not yours. do whatever you want. withdrawals after 4 mths?!?!?! ridiculous....drinking on the weekends doesn't work, either, pussboy. again, if someone else has hangups, that's their problem, you need to stop giving a fuck, do your own thing, and know what shit to let slide.

>finally addressing my drinking problem
>Second day sober
>Also withdrawals aren't bothering me anymore

That doesnt sound like you are suffering from alcoholism, just habitual drinking.


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>just replacing one habit with another
true, but one of those habits will fuck you up 1000X worse than the other...

Who said I am depressed? I do have hobbies and active social life, love my trade as a sparky always busy etc, all im saying is whenever im out with the lads I love a drink and some coke, most my mates are the same way to

lol if two days without drinking gives you any noticeable effects you got a problem with alcohol. Which is fine if you enjoy that but it doesn't make it any less true.

lol you're a fucking loon or not OP. You said you felt dead inside. That's kind of depression. You don't just like to have a pint with the lads either lol. You said you drink almost a liter of alcohol every night. If you love everything you're doing but the drinking then just remove the drinking. If your "lads" don't want you around sober then they aren't very good lads.

I just hit 6 months sober last week. I've been struggling bad for the last 10 years. I know this might be a joke post or whatever but if it's not just know you can overcome it. Don't fool yourself with limiting drinks. I tried that so many times. I got arrested twice last year for alcohol related shit. Lost my apartment, girlfriend, job and a lot of friends. The last time I drank I passed out on the toilet. I guess I slid forward I was half on and half off. My face was against the wall with my head tilted up. If my roommate wouldn't have been awake and heard the noise I would have slowly suffocated. Don't give up.

I thought the withdrawls from alcohol lasted for weeks?

He's not op I am. I don't have any lads I'm a legit loner. Don't really care for friends but I do want to get laid again

you're confusing physical and psychological withdraw. If he keeps up his pace he's going to have some crazy physical withdrawl and he won't be posting here on Sup Forums about it. He'll be in the hospital fighting for his life or just wishing he was dead. Suicide is pretty common in those cases. Real hard core physical withdrawl from the booze is the worst. Could last weeks just depends on the person and situation they put themselves in.

Well fuck that guy then. I don't care about his retarded ass. I don't really care about you either but you seem like a decent guy. I was in your situation. Almost exactly. I had friends but I had to move out of state for a good job and felt pretty alone. So I got fucked up bad for years. Go out to bars. Hang out and meet girls and shit. The recovering alcoholic is a perfect line. Just drink some club soda with a lime wedge. They'll assume gin and tonic and if they ask you can be honest. Chicks love a good rehab project guy. Feed them a line of shit how you don't feel like you can stay sober alone and you just want to connect to someone. I didn't have shit for game until I got sober and then I started pulling drunk whores left and right. It's easy prey when you know how to hunt .

Play Old School RuneScape my dude :)

ignore this idiot OP this is some real dumb shit from a real dickhead with nothing constructive and intelligent to say

>basically the plan is to stick to drinking only on the weekends,
If you have a drinking problem (something i know well) you either quit or you dont. weed. just weed.

so permanently drunk?
sure ya did little fella

Puuuuuuusssyyyyyyyy

>banging AA 'chicks'
jesus. i could see some cute court ordered ones in there but that is a vile notion on several fronts.

more important than explicit abstinence is addressing why you are drinking to begin with. that's why it is illegal to study AA's religulous failure rate.
that said you do either need to outright abstain or honestly and sincerely address the issue, anything short of either is just circling the drain.

if you aren't on illicit substances it should be easy to land something entry level. almost every retail and warehouse business is desperate because pot and general niggerdom is so prevalent. don't drink a full 3/4 on a work night. pretend you give half a shit about your appearance at your interview and they'll probably make an immediate offer.

the only things that are really helping me cut back are reconnecting to people, getting exercise, and taking my brain back off the low shelf.

if you can't accept the fact that you aren't going to get 'proper' drunk during a taper you shouldn't even fuck with it. it's actually awful truth be told because you aren't still drunk enough to deal with the bleeding edge of the hang over, you just don't feel like you got enough high to justify it. you feel like shit for a few days and get yourself a good drunk.

sounds like a dui here.
i had a friend get busted for inner tubing with a cooler. the only reason the rest of us didn't get busted is that he was the first around the bend by a minute.
>in control of a vehicle my ass

dubs check'd and info validated. Weed is your friend. Goodbye depression, good bye social anxiety, goodbye insomnia. It's a super plant.

the reason almost all substance abuse cases relapse is because absolutism. that's the major flaw with the system and the west in general, people are programmed from birth to consume as much of everything as possible, and substance issues is one of the byproducts of corporate slavery.

moderation and self-discipline is key, not prohibition.

if someone has a 'drinking problem' the problem really isn't that they're an alcoholic (yes, physiological damage happens but alcoholism is NOT a disease, its a symptom, along with about a 1000 other 'diseases' the industry has invented for profit) but that they are self destructive because of psychological problems--the drinking is a symptom, and it's ineffective to just focus on that when the real problem is that they hate themselves and want to die or whatever.

12 beers? Permanently drunk? Shiiiiiiiiit. I'd do that in three hours or less and still drive to the store for another. It took me a good liter of vodka or equivalent to get to my state of drunk. That's not bragging that's fucking sad. I dropped so much money and fucked up 3 relationships.

Op here, yeah I'm starting to understand what you guys are saying. The problem is I really don't want to stop completely, just go back to occasionally drinking like before. I feel like the real issue is not addressing all the reasons I want to drink but maybe not.

How about instead of limiting yourself just do whatever the fuck you want, with a little self control stop drinking 24/7 and do it more moderated but your probably so consumed by it just fucking hang yourself drug addict

you drink to kill the pain of life. You'll never just cut back from where you are now unless you completely quit. I still wouldn't suggest going back to drinking but it's your life to choose. If you do go back to drinking after you dry out for a month or two I would set hard limits for yourself and never break them. Like beer only and never more than a few. If you can't handle that level of self control then fuck it. You're probably always going to struggle with self control.

im just here telling op I get what he says about finding sobriety boring and you start recommending he tells chicks hes a recovering alcoholic along with some thrown in creepy/desperate pre made beta male begging lines..

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Lol 12 beers is not enough to keep someone permanently drunk, especially if they have a tolerance.

Goddammit, why do you people have to be so goddamn cringey all the time. You take a serious thread and turn it into shit with your hur dur fucking pussy I drink two handles to warm up and you have to do it this way or you will fail and all or nothing bullshit. I mean damn the one of a handful of threads that isn't porn or feels and this is the result

Cuz people come here and say they have a drinking problem.
And then reveal they are like 22 and drink like 8 beer a night.
That's not a drinking problem, that's just alcohol abuse.
Op is drinking a little much tho.
To be honest it's an easy fix, he just needs to taper off, drink tons of water and keep a clear mind doing random shit.

hey look, anons, it's THAT GUY.
don't you know where you are, dummy?

get a guitar dude

Yes I go through the same thing.
It ultimately depends on your interests but I like to program to pass boredom.

Her pussy looks like coffin

it is

I use to get smashed every other night for 4 years. It took working 60 hours a week to prioritize work over drinking. I still get sloshed once a week but when it doesn't effect my work. Do what works.

Man there are a lot of people shitting on you in here. I did a pretty similar thing, I didn't want to drink all the time so I mostly just stick to the weekends.
I get bored as fuckkkkkkk when I'm sober. So I play video games a shitload when I'm not a work.
But I mean they are right. If you feel like you have to stop then a full stop is the only way to do it. But I get the vibe you're just trying to slow it down. GL HF man.

i 2 drank for many years every day. basically drank 4 years straight. then switched to weekends its been 5 years only drinking on the weekend and now that im 31 going on 32 drinking is just not that fun anymore. even on the weekend. (I drink on the weekend make youtube videos drunk gaming.) basically, i am getting bored of drinking.