No thank you. I had a "high bottom", so there's no mess to clean up. I just can't drink like other people. For every time I manage to have just one, the next time I have eight. That's not an exaggeration, and it's embarrassing in retrospect, but it takes a lot less energy to just admit it and not drink even when I really, really want to - which is daily starting around 3pm, or um, 10 am. Trying to make myself limit it to a reasonable amount was exhausting even when I succeeded, which I mostly didn't.
I know I'll struggle with this, and probably backslide and drink too much again, and quit again and so on. But as I stated above, right now it's less tiring to just fight the urge to drink period, than to justify to myself why drinking eight glasses of whatever in an afternoon is reasonable. Rationalizing takes a lot of energy. The only problem with quitting when I recognized I have all the symptoms, but before I do something really harmful is that it will make it easier to drink again. I mean, I didn't hurt anyone. So who cares? It's not my fault I have an amazingly high alcohol tolerance! Sigh.
I have a friend here, she's just moved here from the US so she's new to Australian fandom, who was saying how her brother thinks she's an alcoholic. I was all, 'Nah, you're not Australian unless you like a bit of booze!' and then she came to visit me and drank three bottles of schnappes! I was like, FUCK!, I've never seen anyone drink like that and live! I was also a bit miffed as that was about $130 worth of booze and I can't afford to support that, but more I was worried she was gonna die, but she was mostly unaffected by it.
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The only problem with quitting when I recognized I have all the symptoms, but before I do something really harmful is that it will make it easier to drink again. I mean, I didn't hurt anyone. So who cares? It's not my fault I have an amazingly high alcohol tolerance! Sigh.
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I have a friend here, she's just moved here from the US so she's new to Australian fandom, who was saying how her brother thinks she's an alcoholic. I was all, 'Nah, you're not Australian unless you like a bit of booze!' and then she came to visit me and drank three bottles of schnappes! I was like, FUCK!, I've never seen anyone drink like that and live! I was also a bit miffed as that was about $130 worth of booze and I can't afford to support that, but more I was worried she was gonna die, but she was mostly unaffected by it.
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