Why Stop Drinking?

[ukanonymous]

I quit drinking over 2 weeks ago hoping I would feel better and happier in life but I feel even worse. I am not suicidal just really depressed about the world and people. I find it hard to find a reason to live in all of these human beings who kill others with no regrets and who only care about themselves and the people who they are genetically related too.

I was drinking over a bottle of wine every day just to give me some time to not care about how much I hate this world. Anyway at first when I stopped drinking I felt good as I had conquered it. Now I feel even worse as I am trapped in this nightmare with no temporary escape.

In a situation like this is it best to carry on drinking or see a psychologist? Everyone I know in our group thinks similarly to me but they drink or smoke weed for recreation and not to escape like me. The normal sheep people which are the normal population are even worse they are the people I hate and the people I want to escape from. I know I must be phycologically retarded in someway as I can not find why this race of mass murder and depletion of the planets natural resources is so great.

Do you think I drink, carry on like I am now or go see a head doctor?

[jakep]

I drank far too much for many years. When I opened my third bottle of red one night I knew I had gone too far. That was Nov 2013. At first I felt good because I was waking with a clear head every day. I then became totally overwhelmed by my depression and had to seek counselling. I had been drinking to forget and the lack of alcohol allowed the anger inside to almost consume me.
I have now lost two stone and feel physically much better. The anger and hatred are still there but more manageable with the help I received from the counsellor.
Well done on the start of your alcohol free journey. Try and get some counselling and have a look at Soberistas website. Good luck, you will need it but it is worth it.

[ummmm]

If one bottle a day makes you an alcoholic then there are millions of alcoholics in the UK.

[Retrochic]

drinking a bottle of wine a day is only alcoholism if the person drinking it cannot function without it. The amount of alcohol consumed is not the factor, its the dependence. The OP may be an alcoholic, maybe not, but he does have symptoms of depression and needs to see a GP asap.

[Retrochic]

Ummmmm well I think the same, to me a bottle of wine a day is pretty normal for lots of folk I know.

[Sqad]

As I explained, it is not how much you drink that makes one an alcoholic and yes, you may well be right....millions of alcoholics in the UK.

[ummmm]

In reality a bottle of wine is 3 large glasses. If someone said they drank 3 glasses of wine in the evenings it sounds so much more acceptable than a bottle of wine.

Anyway...uk doesn't appear to be drinking for relaxation but to blot bad thoughts. The bad thoughts need dealing with so uk doesn't use alcohol as a crutch.

[woofgang]

grasscarp, your links and quotes refer to an overstressed but essentially undamaged liver. You, yourself have said that the length of time it takes for a liver to repair itself WHERE IT CAN varies according to the amount of damage done to the liver. If livers could always repair themselves completely with six weeks of abstinence then folk like George Best would still be alive.

[ummmm]

Woof....and so would my dad.

[ummmm]

And he wasn't an alcoholic.

[tamborine]

Self-abuse because of the state of the world & people? You know thats a stupid excuse.

Well done for sobering up, now go SEE people, places, fill your life with adventure and the beauty of this world.

[Sqad]

I can quite understand people using the "amazing" recuperative properties of the liver to excuse excessive alcohol consumption, but the liver is not the only organ to suffer.
The brain doesn't possess powers of repair as does the liver and the condition of alcoholic dementia is well described and indeed under diagnosed in my opinion.

[woofgang]

Retro, that's one of the issues facing the NHS these days. The level of drinking that is considered "social" has gone up quite a lot of recent years.
I think there is a difference between alcohol abuse, ie drinking too much on a regular basis, and alcohol addiction ie not being able to stop; although of course the two often go together.

[Retrochic]

Sqad I didn't realise you were a Teetotaler.

[Sqad]

Retro....LOL......I am not.

My other "weakness" is philandering.....;-)

[murraymints]

if you need to drink alcohol every day , regardless of how much, you have a problem....

[murraymints]

sqad....philandering is better for your liver !!...lol.....xx..

[ummmm]

That's the word though Murray 'need'

[Sqad]

murray........and it tastes better........;-)...;-)

[woofgang]

when I was at work, I used to meet quite a few older well to do people whose working lives had been abroad, often in the tropics, where social drinking was a way of life and oiled the wheels of commerce. they wouldn't have said they drank a lot and I certainly never saw them out of control, but the empty gin bottles (it usually was gin, with vermouth early in the day and then with tonic or bitters) told their own story. and yes, "alzheimers" was often diagnosed.

[Retrochic]

woofgang yes I understand your point of view but these 'advised units' are basically made up, like the 'five a day' vegetables. Experts are now saying the Mediterranean diet is the be all and end all yet the consumption of Red Wine in copious amounts in the Mediterranean is quite normal. The general health of the nation is falling because of may factors together -bad diet, lack of exercise and binge drinking, binge drinking being much more unhealthy that a moderate daily intake of wine.