Haven’t stopped the booze since I started. I don’t drink much though. Just on weekends mostly. Although I did have my fair share yesterday. Tried to add the drinks up yesterday, and couldn’t, so it must have been a lot.
Drinking every weekend (to me) is a lot. I don’t think I’ve been drunk since… I want to say January or February.
There was a time when I would also do it on the weekends though. Plenty of people go through that phase, I quickly found clubbing/going to bars got old, people routinely got hurt… it seemed like an expensive waste of time to justify taking mind altering substances absent of scrutiny.
Then I noticed (for others) novelty seemed to wear off for routine activities. So now whenever people my age want to go to the park for a picnic, or go camping… alcohol or other substances need to be involved in order to make the event fun. That’s a fat red flag if you can’t find joy without inebriation; but no one listens to me.
Why do you feel the need to drink this way? The rationale is a telling sign as to whether use is particularly problematic. Do you drink because you feel more in control and/or as if things aren’t as bad when you do? Or do you drink to have fun.
Both can lead to addiction, but the former is far more troubling and usually leads to more destructive patterns of use.
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When I was young I used to drink with the sole intention of blacking out. I was very much of a “go big or go home” type of person. If I’m being honest it’s probably because I was insecure about not seeming “badass” enough when I was a Marine.
I don’t have that problem now. I don’t really drink at all, but because I just don’t like it, not because I have to stay away at the risk of getting addicted.
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Just for fun. Don’t drink alone. Yesterday I wasn’t particularly drunk, just started drinking early with family for my brother in law’s birthday, then we hit a bar.
Most weeks I have about 10 drinks, mostly on the weekend, but if we hit the beach during the week, we’ll usually have 2 of those hard selzers. I’m counting that into my average. This week has just been a lot, which of I do it enough would bring up my average, but it is only every several months that I have that many drinks.
I was also like this up starting when I turned 18 up until I was 19. Then I no longer saw the point in getting as drunk as possible (but not to the point of throwing up, so drunk but not throwing up).
Blackouts are largely genetic. I’ve never blacked out on anything.
Ooofffff, never admit you drink these. There’s a bit of a stigma behind fruitier drinks/men where I live. I think it’s a stupid stigma, ethanol is ethanol. Rather these fruity drinks aren’t the best bang for your buck regarding ethanol dose vs empty caloric consumption.
By fruity i’m not referring to homosexuality. I refer to the fact many of these drinks are like… Apple, peach, pineapple flavoured etc.
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They are about as low of calorie as you can get. They have only like one carb. 100 calories each, all pretty much from alcohol. It’s why I drink them. I don’t really care what others think of it.
For… Scientific purposes.
What drink are you talking about
If you approach alcohol as the social lubricant, you have a better grasp on dealing with it properly, if there is such a thing. Now, being responsible you might keep those “social” interactions to no more than twice a week (Friday and Saturday).
Well it depends what quantifies as social lubricant
If you refer to 2-3 drinks, sure
If we are referring to downing a twelve pack 2x/wk to get lit in social circumstances, that’s problematic
I don’t drink on these occasions anymore, and through doing this I’ve found… People become really obnoxious during these social scenarios yet tend to be totally unaware of it
Then you have the crowd that combine alcohol + stimulants and that tends to create an even bigger asshole out of most comparative to booze alone, as if that was even possible lol
I have the same problem. My GF always tells me I have an addictive personality too. I downloaded this app a few months ago, an innocent game because a colleague said it would be fun to play against me. Soon everyone around me had it. One week later, nobody would play against me. Now months later the only one who has it, is me. I’m playing like 20 minutes a day and I know I can only delete it once I won a trophy.
To the drugs part, I managed to stop drinking altogether (besides 1-2 times a year). What’s interesting, I did LSD two times in my life. After the first time (it was great) I did not want to do it for about a year. After the second time, it’s been two years now and I’m thinking about doing it again some day but I don’t know if this year. The other guys said the same thing. It seems LSD is self-regulating. The guys I know who took it had a great time on it and after it was over everyone said “ok that’s enough for this year at least”. Very strange.
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JAIL!
You very seldom hear of excessive use patterns encompassing drugs like LSD, psilocybin, Mescaline, DMT etc. They’re generally considered to be the least addictive of the lot, but this doesn’t necessarily equate to something being safe. Set and setting is really important if you’re going to mess around with this stuff, should also have a sober person (who has used before) with you. @lordgains
As per the threads topic. I’d like to point out rec drugs/AAS doesn’t mix. Even the legal ones, you’re generally looking at a 1+1=5 scenario, stay away whilst on the sauce.
I like the Truly ones. They are 12 oz, 100 calories, and 5% ABV. looked on the box, and they have 1g of carb, with no other macros. I don’t have a problem with artificial sweeteners, which is what they are using to make them taste good (subjectively).
As to the alcohol discussion. In 1977 I got serious about competitive bodybuilding. I adopted an alcohol philosophy where I would “party” with my friends only on Friday’s and Saturday’s. And when I did, I “nursed” a single long neck beer the entire night. BTW, I actually began to appreciate lukewarm beer. But not so much as an ice cold one by any means.
I’ll drink a seltzer beer every once in a while, but usually I drink the lobes or a coors light. Calories and carbs are about the same and I’m not tempted to peak over the urinal divider whilst in public.
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Took me a second there to get the second sentence lol.
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Yeah, well I’m still not getting it. So throw me a clue.
Basically, he is saying those girly seltzer drinks make one gay. Really, I wouldn’t care if others thought I was gay anyways (unless it was women I was interested in, but I am married anyways).
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What? I’ve never heard anything remotely close to that. You’re much smarter than I, and I highly doubt you’re talking out of your ass, but blacking out from too much alcohol consumed is genetic? I find that very hard to believe.
i have never used alcohol nor do i know shit about it, but i can tell you from another perspective, that getting K.O’d is genetic tho… there are people whos brains respond differently to pain and shock - there are some fighters who are called “glass cannons” - they punch hard, but they fall as soon as they smell a glove near their face. And there are some guys who get knees to the face and just keep on getting up.
Since blacking out because of drinking is kind of the same protective reaction(our body tries to stop us from doing harmful activity, like drinking or getting punched in the face) i believe it could be true, because it is kind of the same thing, just the stimulus is different.