Are you drunk now?

It seems you need alcohol and drugs to function normally and to feel good.
That's a major sign of being an addict.

Not real sure what you expect to get out of this post. Support? A greater grasp of what you already know? Youtube hits?

JustErin said:

Oops sorry. Serious subject. Carry on.

are you asking if we think you have a problem?
YES

are you asking us what you should do?
Cut it right back, and if you can't do it alone, get help

are you asking if anyone else here feels they have the same problem?
if so, hopefully they will orgnote you, you guys need support while sobering up



I really hope you get straightened out, you seem like a good person and it would be a waste if you don't

Hi Nyse

Feel free to ignore this post but I really hope you don't.

I spent four months in a liver ward of a hospital two years ago.
Now I wasn't there for me...I like a drink but I'm a "drink at the pub once a week maximum" kind of guy.

I was there because my mother was an alcoholic and was dying of cirrhosis and the complications that came with it.
I sat there every day for four months watching her slip away. In the end she was almost childlike. She had lost concept of time, she was hallucinating constantly, she was unable to walk without a walker, she had lost all control of her bowels. I hope I never have another experience like this. To see someone who had chosen alcohol over her own life and her family slip away was the worst experience of my life. To this day there isn't a day where I don't feel sadness for her and the loss of her life, as she was such a beautiful and intelligent person.

Now I also met a lot of the other people in the ward and was surprised at how young many of them were. Luckily many of them had had their addictions caught in time and were trying to fix them. The youngest lady in the ward was eighteen years old, already hospitalised due to drink-related illness.

There's nothing wrong with having a drink or a smoke. It's all our choice. I myself love a Guinness and a joint but there comes a point when it's too much. I used to go to work stoned during one period in my life when I was feeling down but after this experience I never will again. I now have a kind of mantra: "Drink is for the pub, pot is for parties"

As an aside, I also went to a high school where many of us were the same. We used to smoke pot with the teachers on occasion. Quite a few of my high school friends are now dead because they never got out of the party mode.

I wish you all the best

my sister has a drinking problem and we were going 2 do an intervention but no one had the guts 2 confront her about it
so i did, i told her she has a problem and that we think she needs help, i mean she has a kid, do it 4 him but she didn't take it well and we really don't talk much anymore because of the elephant in the room and she like u has drinks in the morning
in my head i lost a great sister
if u don't do it 4 urself do it 4 the people around u and remember they love ya man and they r probably hurting watching u destroy urself
we're here 4 ya if u need 2 vent through it

connorhawke said:

that's so sad, I'm so sorry.

I visited a friend dying of liver cancer in the last week of his life. He was one that ALWAYS had a scotch in his hand whenever I saw him. He was a hard drinker. In his hospital bed he was a yellow husk of his former self, nobody could do anything for him apart from pump morphine into him to keep him comfortable as he wasted away. My best friend's mother died year before last after a 4 month sudden illness, of the same thing. Again, long time hard drinker.
AWFUL way to die.

Dude in all seriousness, drugs & liquor are not the answer. Period.

Just ask DJ AM and Michael Jackson...

Alcoholism runs in my family, my father, mother and uncle were all alcoholics. My brother was a serious alcoholic up until about 10 years ago. I love the feeling of a few drinks, but I stop after 2 because I never want to cause the pain alcohol does on the entire family.
I wish you the best.

ZombieKitten said:

Possibly one of the worst. It constantly amazes me how this is possible for this to continually happen. I wish there was more social responsibility.

ZombieKitten said:

My father was dying in the hospital bed of alcoholism and still found the words to ask the nurse who came to change his friggen diaper for a drink. He was hardcore to the end.

Listen to the words of the bootlegged Purple Music.

LeCram said:

No...I need alchahol and substance to function around other people...
If I'm alone in solotude for 3 days str8...I;m sober for three days str8...

I get real up tight around others even at work...

ZombieKitten said:

thanks zk....just looking for someone who can relate...or who has previous
exspirience...

JustErin said:

JustErin said:

Like OMG...te he

Connorhawk....

your post was a very big help...for me 2 put these deemons I carry in
perspective...

I wish u and ur's the best....much love and grace

nyse said:

http://dictionary.reference.com/

DarkKnight1 said:

support?....no, This is not the place for it...even Prince does not get support here...

a grasp...? no

youtube hits?....u can't be serious

I just want information and relation...
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this thread proves 2 me how poeple on the org can be so hurtful...lol
I exspected this though
[Edited 9/3/09 6:51am]

I won't blame you.

I've been an alcoholic for 7 years, and a drug user as well.

First, congratulations cuz if you talk about it you are already able to face it and get out of this.


Two, you are losing your time and your money. If you ever have the guts to turn your back to alcohol and drugs, you will see how much time and energy you spent for nothing. Yes, in my opinion is self destruction, and maybe you should go further and ask for some medical help.

Three, you're the boss. I find you very unattractive in that movie, well, you're drunk. But you are the only leader of your life, and it's up to you to make it the way you want it to be.

I wish you the best.

virginie74 said:

this is what I was looking for some one who can relate...and has cunquered
this problem...I realy thank you for opening up. I know it was hard 2 get over it....Was it a long process?? or did u stop on a dime? did u seek medical help?

I don't believe in the medical stuff...If I stop it will be on my own.
the purpose of me posting that video is just 2 show the actual effect on me..
but some think i posted it just for vein purposes so I deleted it...
much love and grace

Longer answer to come.

thanks

nyse said:

I can't speak for the alcohol part because I never drank but when I was around 20 / 25 I was pretty heavy on weed and I said to myself the same words.

They say recognizing is the first step and treatment is the second; I didn't need any treatment, my weed addiction was easy to handle and I kicked the habit in a couple of months, I still smoke 5 / 10 joints a year when I'm out with some friends but I'm 100% sure I'll never reduce myself to a stoned zombie again.

I'm sure you can do it, I wish you the best! http://www.brainsource.co..._drugs.htm

nyse said:


with all respect, that's still a major sign to me.



English is not my native language and Google gives me a hard time with this.
to make sure understand what you type:

did you meant to say that when you are around people you feel a lot of tension?
If so i can relate to that. i'm familiar with a social phobia. reefer and alcohol is contra productive.

I'm curious. do you have suicidal thoughts?

NpgSoldier said:

Yeah I used 2 be over board with the weed...5-6 blunts a day...now I have a bag of bud on me and I have not touched it in close 2 a week...so the weed is
not much of a problem any more...It's the alchahol.

thanks 4 the positivity my freind...

LeCram said:

thats exactly what i'm speaking of...I feel alot of tension around others.
so the alchahol get me loose so to speak...

I never have serious suicidal thoughts...I do think about death.
but never me hurting myself....I respect U taking ur time out 2 talk 2 me.
I appreciate your honest... opinion