Drink

[J0Al1]

I don't know how to find my limit. I feel either sober (after a few) or can't remember the night. Its horrible.

[Raffles]

You'll get used to it after a while....I have
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[garth]

Haha, I'm pretty much incapable of going out and not going on a complete bender, all or nothing!

Depends on the company though. I'm trying to learn this 'moderation' thing.

[fatpies]

Wee I'll leave the rohypnol at home then....


But seriously have water or a soft drink inbetween if you are drinks matching.
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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

If you're not happy the way you are, then start taking steps to change.

This'll will power, distracting yourself and removing yourself from certain situations.

So go out with different mates doing non-pub related activities seems like the obvious one in your situation.
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[Skudd]

When do you want to go out for an evening then? Just you, me and a couple of bottles.
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[Ste]

[The Artist]

Surely if you are unhappy with your drinking, stop. If you can, then fine. If you cannot, that is when you have a problem.

If you feel like you drink too much, then drink less. Only going to be a problem when you can't control yourself.

[Rigga]

I weaned myself slowly off it. From Stella every night to fosters to just drinking very occasionally. Worked for me, also regarding memory loss, this happened to me too every night but stopped when I switched to weaker lager. All the best
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[Rogerborg]

Which reminds me...

Bear in mind that you're relying on your friends to accept responsibility for your safety. Keep playing that hand for long enough and eventually they'll get tired of it and you'll wake up sticky and sore.

Just drink a couple and stop, or none at all. It's that simple. Don't make excuses about why it's complicated, because it's really not.
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[fatpies]

Its part and parcel of the skydive community to put ones faith in others.

After a day of jumping everybody goes to the bar to get totally wrecked. At Tilly where the beer is free, they drinking there is legendary and people drink bottles of wine as if they are stubbies.

At places like Hvar they don't mind you getting wasted during the day and jump.
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[groovylee]

Not a drinking problem

More of a 'don't know your limits' problem......


Trust me, waking up in the morning, pouring yourself a nice tall tumbler of captain morgans, and thinking that it absolutely normal........ That is the beginning of a drinking problem.


As said before, don't match your mates. Alternate soft drinks. Avoid shots. Don't drink on an empty stomach.

You'll be alright

Lee
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[Yoyo]

Go out with your mates and have 1bottle. Then go on to coke.

I used to drink 10pints a a night on average, and even stayed telling myself it was less. Took getting with a bar maid to sort that out.
Now I am out with my mates pretty much every night of the week. And don't drink at all barring 1can when home.
Whilst we are out I feel drunk as anyone else there, but the moment we step out the club, and i get in the fresh air, totally sobar. Really does wind my mates up i can remember blting nights out and they can't. Like a mate trying to walk out the door of a night club whilst dragging a pool table and asking the door men for a lift.

Not drinking is ace. Save money, remember where you are in the morning and what has gone on. And there is the bonus of if driving get a few quid off everyone for petrol. Some nights came home with more than I left with.
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[groovylee]

[BTTD]

Google the medical definition of alcoholic. You probably are one.

[J0Al1]

Thanks for the reply's.

Matching others and yes I think I should rigidly have a soft drink between each alcoholic. I find if I decline a drink (already got one)... peeps buy one anyway, which doesn't help.

[garth]

I'll give you something rigid.

[J0Al1]

[Skudd]

If people keep buying you drinks, don't worry, just leave them. You don't have to drink them.

We used to hang around with a lad who always got rat arsed and needed help getting home. We sopped helping him, it took a while but he learnt a lesson.
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[swampy]

[BTTD]

As above, if you're regularly suffering amnesia, and taking time off work.......

Good friend of mine has been in the priory twice, and some of his mates still tell him he isn't a 'proper' alcoholic as he wasn't drinking that much and that he shouldn't worry about it, come on out for a drink.

I'm sure I've posted about this subject before, but it took him a long time to get that help (years to realise he needed it) and it is with some major regret that he looks back at those wasted (literally and figuratively) years.

Your call.

[groovylee]

I get what you're saying swampy, but I disagree.

out on the lash 3 times in one week does not an alcoholic make.

hell, I made a career out of getting ringbolted almost every night we were alongside, and I never got to the point where I had a dependency issue (close, granted, but that was after a bottle and a half of rum most nights for about 4 months)

how old are you missEd? that could have some bearing on things.

also, wine? that will get you smashed faster than a lot of things, but there are options - white wine spritzer for example - the shandy of the wine world
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[swampy]

[Alpha-9]

replace with marijuana, stop going out so much fuck
I couldn't be arsed to go out constantly even if I wanted to
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[groovylee]

good call swampy

I know what you mean, things like this are hard to get your point across right I guess im saying the same as you, just in another different way
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