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Discussion: Alcoholics & Smokers Thread
Member Since: 12/7/2010
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Alcoholics & Smokers Thread
Are there any people on ATRL who suffer from an alcoholism? I recently mixed vodka with beers, shots, tequila, red wine and drinks. Smoked one packet of cigarettes in one night. 24 hours later almost died in my bed of an alcohol poisoning. Was about to call an ambulance. Got shivers, dizziness, scotomata and paranoia. Felt like i was so going to die, stop breathing once i fall asleep. Had to sleep with the light turned on.
How do you deal with drinking too much?
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Member Since: 11/9/2011
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Oh thank goodness
All these stuck-ups in here
I drink a lot, but I never got alcohol poisoning. Was it awful? How did you get through?
EDIT: Wait, you never had your stomach pumped?
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Member Since: 3/7/2012
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last time i drank to much i blacked out and woke up on the kitchen floor laying in my own piss
this was my wake up call that i need to change my life
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Member Since: 4/4/2014
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I drink way too much almost everyday just to feel miserable the day after and this week I promised myself to stop at least until saturday, I hope I can make it through, I already feel stressed has **** because I didn't drink this weekend, may god be with me
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Member Since: 12/7/2010
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Originally posted by ***** of Babylon
Oh thank goodness
All these stuck-ups in here
I drink a lot, but I never got alcohol poisoning. Was it awful? How did you get through?
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It was the first time I got poisoned.
Had been drinking for 4 days straight. Didn't sleep at all. Still feeling sick, it was HORRIBLE.
I was completely alone at home. Been lying in bed for all day. Then watched some movie till 1AM. Tried to fall asleep but then it started. That strange feeling like you know you're going to die. The anxiety, paranoira, shivers. Surprisingly I did not vomit at all.
I had problems with breathing, felt like I would fall into coma if i fell asleep. So I stayed up till 4AM, then gave up. Woke up around 9-10 AM, felt so grateful I was still alive.
Last night was better, yet I still feel sick.
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Member Since: 11/9/2011
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Originally posted by c0caine
I drink way too much almost everyday just to feel miserable the day after and this week I promised myself to stop at least until saturday, I hope I can make it through, I already feel stressed has **** because I didn't drink this weekend, may god be with me
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But are you functioning? Do you feel anxiety when you don't get a drink for too long?
Cause that happened to me a few times. I can control myself, but not for too long.
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Member Since: 6/9/2011
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I have an overactive mind and I'm extremely nervous 24/7. I'm not addicted to alcohol but I drink a lot to make myself feel more at ease. I'm going to drink less often in 2015, though. It's not good for my skin.
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Member Since: 4/3/2014
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I had a drug/alcohol binge for 4 days once. I went through genuine withdrawals. It was so awful. I was shivering, sweating, got up every 10 minutes to drink a litre of water, would go back to bed and right as I was starting to fall asleep, I would jolt awake because I needed to pee so badly and was already thirsty again. It was just a never-ending cycle of getting up and peeing/drinking, only to go back to bed and shiver/sweat, and get back up/repeat the same thing every 10-15 minutes.
I don't know if you can get addicted to alcohol in 4 days, but 4 days of straight drinking leaving my system was torture. I can't imagine what decade-long addicts must go through during detox.
It was awful.
I don't drink anymore.
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Member Since: 12/7/2010
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I don't remember how I managed to go outta the club, completely lost myself, been dancing the whole night, my friends tried to talk to me like 40 times. Then I woke up on the street, supposedly fell from the escalator. My roommate woke me up at 10AM on Saturday, he said i had a black eye.
My body hurts, I have bruises on my shoulders, arms, legs. The worst thing is that I don't remember a thing.
It happened many times, I fell from stairs many times before. But it was never so serious.
I felt so depressed the other day. Like I could even jump out the window. How could I even think about that?
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Member Since: 11/18/2008
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Glad you're ok sistren. I am NOT an alcoholic BUT I do love drinking every weeknd. I'm no saying I never get wasted BUT I have never had alcohol poisoning. My mom taught me how to drink since I was like 14 because she said she'd rather me knowing about it and controling it that learn it on the street/behind her back. It was good she taught me that because now I know my limits.
Favorite drinks: Whisky with coke and tequila.
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Alcohol is a hell of drug. Poor sistrens. What the op describes are symptons of detoxification. You should visit your local addiction consultancy.
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Member Since: 12/7/2010
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Originally posted by Superbitch
Glad you're ok sistren. I am NOT an alcoholic BUT I do love drinking every weeknd. I'm no saying I never get wasted BUT I have never had alcohol poisoning. My mom taught me how to drink since I was like 14 because she said she'd rather me knowing about it and controling it that learn it on the street/behind her back. It was good she taught me that because now I know my limits.
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The thing is that I'm known for my heavy partying. People love partying with me and I love partying. I have many friends, one of them called me on Monday, the other one called on Tuesday, then I was drinking with my flatmates, the day after I met my best friends, then I went to a party with my colleagues. And it was crucial. Once I drink a beer or vodka, I can't control myself, I want more, more, more. It usually does end up with a huge hangover. I do not sleep much, I go to the work while drunk. Then I come back home, try to fall asleep but I can;t. Then my friends call and it starts again.
One would say "I wish I had so many friends and reasons to party". But it does not sound so good when you get poisoned with an alcohol.
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Member Since: 1/13/2012
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I had something similar about a year ago. Woke up in the middle of the night, everything spinning, terrible anxiety, couldn't do anything. Thankfully, it lasted for only about an hour or so.
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Member Since: 6/3/2012
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I always get DRUNK and throw-up the same night like everytime and I've never had a hangover.
Am I just not drinking enough?
This weekend I'm going to Tokyo and getting bloody wasted again.
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Member Since: 3/25/2012
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Yall sound like you need some weed.
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Member Since: 12/7/2010
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Originally posted by Aleks
I had something similar about a year ago. Woke up in the middle of the night, everything spinning, terrible anxiety, couldn't do anything. Thankfully, it lasted for only about an hour or so.
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This tbh. Thankfully it didn't last longer than an hour or two.
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Member Since: 12/7/2010
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Originally posted by Starburst
Yall sound like you need some weed.
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Weed does not affect me much tbh.
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Member Since: 4/3/2014
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Originally posted by OnlyManInTheWorld
Once I drink a beer or vodka, I can't control myself, I want more, more, more.
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This is alcoholism. Most people think alcoholism is physical dependency. Like some 60 year old man who pours vodka into a coffee mug as soon as he wakes up on a weekday morning. It's not. It genuinely is a disease and at some point in your life you're going to have to accept that you can't handle it. You've probably been told "you just need to pace yourself!" or "you just need to drink slower!" or "you just need to learn your limits!" or "you just need to not have pre-drinks, just drink in the club and the cost will prevent you from drinking so much!"
It's all bull****. Most people don't understand what it's like. It's like 1 drink is too many and 100 isn't enough. As soon as you've had one drink, you'll drink/take anything and everything on offer.
It sucks, cause you feel if you stop, you're not going to enjoy life. As they say "if you didn't spend your youth wasted, you wasted your youth." Some people just can't handle alcohol
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Member Since: 11/9/2011
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I've had something similar happen to me what Rihinvention was talking about but for only like 2 hours or so in the morning.
It was a hangover.
I don't get them very often though, only when I drink really hard liquor. Whiskey is death.
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Member Since: 6/3/2012
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Quote:
Originally posted by Starburst
Yall sound like you need some weed.
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Weed
and
Booze
Last time I tried that **** I almost lost my damn life
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