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I rarely if ever drink anymore. I did the binge drinking thing in my teens and twenties. My alcohol tolerance is garbage. By the time I felt drunk, it was too late. Many a night worshipping the porcelain God later I just didn't feel like it was worth it.
I much prefer the feeling of THC although I do have a tendency to become paranoid. That combined with the grey area of legality (Delta 8 is legal in Texas for now, full blown cannabis is not) I tend to stay sober most of the time.
I like knowing that in the case of an emergency I will be sharp enough to handle it.
I certainly don't condemn those that do otherwise. We each cope with the world in our own unique ways.
I hope that anyone struggling with an addiction will look for help.
I know my limit and try not to cross it. I also pick my poison and stick with it, mostly beer. Haven’t had a hangover in years…I do find it hard to resist drinking daily in the summer but it does slow me down if I do it for a number of days. This happens to me with bread and grains as well as sugar so what do I know.
Yeah, I've quit several times and it's tough. When I do drink, I drink way too much. After trouble in the past, I should avoid entirely.
Nah, but rarely, a lot.
Lire vos témoignages m'aident à réfléchir sur la relation que je veux entretenir avec l'alcool.
No relation to alcohol whatsoever.
I had many years of addiction, both alcoholism and otherwise. I quit everything, and didn’t drink even a sip for a couple of years. Now I might drink 1-3 times a year and even then I rarely enjoy it. Coffee and 🍃 for me.
Easily a 750ml of tequila a day in my past. That’s right. A day. I’m pretty high functioning.
Quit 5 years ago. My body thanks me for it but I’d be straight up lying if I said I didn’t miss it, but won’t go back to it.
The funny thing I’ve noticed with drug and alcohol people, they’re never cured in the eyes of a doctor or any medical personnel. Always in remission. You won’t have a drink for 15 years you’re still and always be an alcoholic. Imagine a doctor saying “great job! You lost 350lbs! You’re doing good now, but just remember, you’re a fatty. You’ll always be a fatty. Infact I’m gonna write it on your chart so it follows you forever ….‘fatty in remission’”
Drank and brewed an awful lot all the way into my late 30s and it got to the point that I realised it was going to be me to end it or it to end me, and I chose the former. Went cold turkey a good number of years ago (thanks Allen Carr (not Alan Carr the comedian, he was no help)) and have not looked back.
Making music and dicking around with apps has helped keep the dopamine buzzing around and at least I have something to show for the hole in my bank balance other than a stack of empty beer cans and an expanding waistline.
Carr got me off ciggies, absolutely wonderful man
I used to drink bit too much, not often completely wasted, but usually like 4-6 beers 1-2 times during week and 7-9 beers 1-2 times during weekend type of thing. I also smoked weed while drinking when ever i had some, but then around 30 i stopped drinking for like 2 months or so and just smoked weed in the weekends(and sometimes during week). After that when i tried to drink again, i started feeling like i was coming down on alcohol pretty much as soon as i started drinking, so i didnt like it anymore so much and also i noticed how much effect it had on me for many days and how horrible poison it is, which i did not realise before, how it made quality of sleep like crap etc. Then i tried to drink few times, but nowadays i dont even drink that one beer. So its just weed and occasional shrooms(very rarely) for me. "Real drugs" i never have been interested in.
Two bottles of beer so far this year. I bought a cheesesteak that day and needed a cold two to wash it down.
That’s excellent. I tried his book a few years back but it was just so repetitive it got inane very quickly (and yes, I can see the irony in that what with the addict’s obsessive thought cycle for the next fix). I’m sincerely glad it worked for you, but for me it was “I get it man, you got tired of the thought of inhaling toxins into your body hundreds of times a day so many times that it broke that mental hold over you and you were able to obey your body. Your conscience won the war. I’m not really at that point, dog. Gonna need a new slant.” It could have been a pamphlet instead of a book.
Relation to alcohol?
Blood relative.
I try not to go over 2. When I do there’s no management left to supervise the disaster that follows. If 3 is good then 6 is double good and so on. I usually find the biggest bouncer and just end up in a headlock while he puts me in the cab.
My wife says I get mouthy with them and need to be restrained but she just hates to see me thinking I’m having a good time but really just making an ass of myself.
As I write this she’s out with pain meds and I will have no supervision but my daughter is coming to pitch in. 47 days with pain and nausea gets old.
Did enough drugs to last several lifetimes in the 70s.
Clean and sober since 1984.
That is the best impression of Rodney Dangerfield riddled with dementia that I’ve ever heard
I drank for years until one day, I said to myself, “Ya know, I don’t even really like booze that much”
Since then, I may have a cocktail every couple of years or so. There are things I like far more.
On the body rejection/coffee thing:
I became a coffee drinker at the age of 3, and my consumption steadily increased through the years. By my mid-20s, I was drinking roughly 25 cups a day, and was able to swill it right up until the moment of sleep.
Then a couple of years later, my body evidently decided that it no longer wanted that much coffee. All I needed was 2 cups before noon, and it remains that way. It was absolutely never a conscious or deliberate decision.
Note: This reply got longer than I anticipated, but I'm in a "philosophical" mood right now while waiting for my ruddy Beats to charge, lol. (I didn't charge them in 4-5 days, so they were at 20% battery life). 😳
ALCOHOL
I can definitely hold my liquor better than many and can heavily drink a lot before getting even a moderate buzz. I attribute this to my genes and my fat gut, lol.
However, last year on Thanksgiving, I got drunk for the first and only time in my life after having two old-fashioneds followed by Grey Goose on the rocks. 😬 I didn't puke on the walk (stumble) home from the bar next door, but the ginormous hangover the next day made my head feel worse than when I contracted the infamous C-19 prior to being eligible for vaccination, and that's saying something. Never...again!!! 😳 At least for me never again, lol. That sure cured me of seeing how much I can drink in one sitting. 🤣
I mean, I still enjoy the occasional drink, but not the way I used to before December last year. I also nurse my drink rather than guzzle it down, whether my drink is a beer, an old fashioned, a long island, whatever so long as I don't mix types of alcohol either.
Now not to veer too far off-topic, but for folks who think beer tastes gross, there are many types of beer. I'm definitely not one for a porter or a stout as I find the taste super bitter and the body too thick. If you like porters and stouts however, more power to ya. I like Ambers (Fat Tire), Wheat Ales (Blue Moon), Mexican beer (Modelo, not Corona 😂), Japanese beer (Sapporo), affordable beer like Rolling Rock and Miller Genuine Draft, and if I'm feeling rather adventurous, maybe an IPA (although some IPA's taste really bitter, while some others taste smooth and amazing).
Also, the flavour of the beer can be affected by how the keg was handled, the temperature at which it's served, the quality of the tap, etc. I'm...a bit of a connoisseur in a way, although as stated above, no longer trying to see how much I can drink before I fall off the bar stool. 😂 Those days are behind me. Now it's all about the flavour.
BAD HABITS
As far as bad addictions are concerned, if there's one piss-poor habit I'm trying to shake, it's vaping. I suffer anxiety you see, and vaping is a shite crutch. Now, I don't vape out of an auto muffler like a lot of "hipsters" do. 😆 My poison is the Vuse Alto device. 😬 I really want to quit, but I'll be damned if my addiction turns to food, alcohol, or prescription meds. And frankly, I don't need any addictions in my life at all, but it's a compulsion I can't seem to tame. I've tried to quit several times without needing a "replacement addiction". I even went a year and a half without vaping and was fine until then I wasn't and I fell back into it. 🤷 To be honest, I'd rather pop an edible once every other night, but the last thing I need is one more thing for my dumb compulsive brain to become addicted to.
RANDOM THOUGHT ABOUT MY PLANS TONIGHT
Well, tonight is one of those nights I can't seem to fall asleep, but I don't work tomorrow, and I also feel inspired to at least create something . I'm thinking "soft melodic ambient". I want to muck about in Fugue Machine a bit further than I've done in the past just to see what I can concoct. I also want to see how I can use mLFO to shape timbres as slow as possible. And no drone this time! 😂 Yeah, that was random, lol.
DISCLAIMER/CONTEXT
I'm not sure if I came off as pedantic, but that is not my intent. I'm not saying what anyone should do. I'm just sharing my personal thoughts.
THE AUDIOBUS FORUM - BASICALLY MUSIC THERAPY ™ 🤣
Ok, I will grant two exceptions to beers: 1) Mexican (Pacífico or Bohemia, and with all due respect Corona is better than Modelo, yeah that’s right) 2) a single pint of a good, maybe a bit chocolatey Scotch ale in lieu of dessert after a good meal. More than 1 is overkill though.
I will agree with more than one being overkill, but bruh. I'll fight you in the comments for saying Corona is better than Modelo. 🤣 (Joking! We all have unique palettes in what we like to consume or not.)
I've never tried chocolatey Scotch ale before. Have any recommendations mate?
Funny you guys mention beers. I was never a beer drinker, strictly hard liquor. I have no issues with people putting down bottle of tequila around me, but “shitty beer” is the thing that makes my mouth water. There’s been a bottle of Michelob in my fridge forever now and that thing looks far more delicious than another bottle of Espolon.
Oh yeah. I hear you brother. Fans of Islay single malts unite! Guano rules 👊
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It has been several years since I’ve had one and I have no real deep knowledge of them past I like them, but I do remember starting off with the Belhaven Wee Heavy. Odds are it’s not the snob’s preference, but it’s widely available and opened the gateway for me one summer. Hearty malty roasted caramel or hazelnut maybe, perfect weight to it without making you full or sleepy. Pretty sure I like them so much because of the minimal hoppiness. God I wish I could remember the chocolatey perfection one. I’ll never forget the taste of that beer though.
I enjoy a drink Friday, Saturday and Sunday each week. Never fall over drunk
This is a touchy subject but I guess it’s good to talk about it.
My relationship with alcohol was great until she stabbed me in the back and left me stranded. Beer was my anti anxiety and Dr.Feelgood, it didn’t make me violent or antisocial, quite the opposite. It also made band practices more fun, any concert required a healthy dose, and so on. Classic spiral where you drink due to anxiety, you feel great, the next day increased anxiety, drink a few beers, feel great, next day…. It wasn’t about getting hammered, just a slight and pleasant numbness,
Until my body had enough. Had to quit cold turkey due to doctors orders, a couple of years ago. Serious shit.
Now I’m less anxious and better overall. Between “this”and “that” it’s definitely “this”. Do I miss it?. Obviously. I wish I could go back and drink like a “normal” person, enjoy some nice wine and gin tonic after dinner, get drunk on New Year’s Eve or whatever. I’m pretty sure I could now, I’ve learned My friends tell me they admire me, and they sure quietly pity me when I’m gulping 0,0% beers while they’re getting wasted. It’s hard as hell, but since it’s a clinical thing it’s nothing to be proud of. Now I write broken-heart love songs about alcohol. What a bitch she was.
BTW there’s a Facebook group called something like “Sobriety and synthesizers”. It’s great.
Yeah it seems to either work or it doesn’t for people. I just turned my mind off for it and read through it without really letting any of my own thoughts in cos naturally my addictive side would want to start coming up with counter arguments. I feel like he was using a hypnosis method in a way with it with the repetition. I will admit he could have used a ghost writer for some bits but it really worked for me overall. I’m like absolutely repulsed by cigs now. I’ll get a craving here and there and then the smell of an ashtray and stale smoke pops in my head and I lose all desire for one. I also smoked probably a whole carton of cigarettes while reading it so that sickly feeling really stuck with me
This is the beer that surprised me when I bought a bunch of them during the summer:
It tastes very much like a thick rich bitter perhaps from a real ale pub, except there’s no alcohol in it, but you wouldn’t know
Yeah, the first time I heard about this Fabebook group was on an HaQ AttaQ episode.
I share a similar ex-wife perspective on alcohol, only sans the bitterness and resentment. Alcohol literally saved my life on one dark occasion and kept me chugging along during a period of severe mental traumas that I simply could not have coped with otherwise. Years later, even in hindsight, I can still say, straight-faced with no self-delusion, that alcohol made me a better person—more sociable, more productive, more creative, more consistent, more stable, and more ambitious. She was perfect for me for that time in my life. I tried to make it work for a few years longer than I should have, but the divorce had to come. There’s no hard feelings, though, and we still keep in touch.