Sober for October?

[smutchin]

beer helped me cope

Don’t take this the wrong way but that’s the first step on the road to a drinking problem. I speak from personal experience - my current ‘difficult’ relationship with alcohol stems from ‘drinking to cope’, which developed into drinking out of habit... I’ve never quite got as far as putting gin on my cornflakes* but heading in that general direction.

If you have the self-discipline to avoid that slippery slope then good for you. I don’t. However, at the end of a hard week, I really wanted a beer last night but managed to convince myself I didn’t need it, which is a minor victory. I don’t want to come over all self-righteous about it and I suspect your post is mostly flippant but for me, this is a more serious matter.

*family friend who died of alcoholism related illness did this

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Don’t take this the wrong way but that’s the first step on the road to a drinking problem. I speak from personal experience - my current ‘difficult’ relationship with alcohol stems from ‘drinking to cope’, which developed into drinking out of habit... I’ve never quite got as far as putting gin on my cornflakes* but heading in that general direction.

If you have the self-discipline to avoid that slippery slope then good for you. I don’t. However, at the end of a hard week, I really wanted a beer last night but managed to convince myself I didn’t need it, which is a minor victory. I don’t want to come over all self-righteous about it and I suspect your post is mostly flippant but for me, this is a more serious matter.

*family friend who died of alcoholism related illness did this

I think we generally have a overly light hearted approach to excessive drinking in this country - so much so that getting absolutely bladdered confers some sort of 'right-on' status to the inebriated party in some quarters.

As someone who witnessed first hand the devastating effects of an abusive alcoholic father I know that my views are somewhat clouded on the issue.

Nonetheless, I think that a lot more needs to be done to educate drinkers as to the pitfalls of excessive drinking especially around the 'tipping point' between 'heavy social drinking' and full-on alcoholism.

 

[petek]

I've given up abstinence for October.

 

[Jenkins]

Don’t take this the wrong way but that’s the first step on the road to a drinking problem. I speak from personal experience - my current ‘difficult’ relationship with alcohol stems from ‘drinking to cope’, which developed into drinking out of habit... I’ve never quite got as far as putting gin on my cornflakes* but heading in that general direction.

If you have the self-discipline to avoid that slippery slope then good for you. I don’t. However, at the end of a hard week, I really wanted a beer last night but managed to convince myself I didn’t need it, which is a minor victory. I don’t want to come over all self-righteous about it and I suspect your post is mostly flippant but for me, this is a more serious matter.

*family friend who died of alcoholism related illness did this

Probably a poor choice using the word 'cope' by me then - I'm not a habitual drinker, have a low tolerance for alcohol and will only have a drink of an evening. Had the evenings been lighter and the surrounding area been more cycle friendly, I'd have been out for a walk or a bike ride (I'd taken one with me) but, with nothing else to do, no wi-fi (unlesss paid for) and nothing on TV I settled for a couple of takeaway beers and a book.

As I'm out early tomorrow, early shift Monday & Tuesday, working away again on Wednesday & Thursday (a better hotel this time) and back on earliy shift Friday and out again next Saturday & Sunday, there will be no driinking this week.

 

[Sandra6]

I'm a week in to Octsober.
I plan on falling off the wagon next Friday though as I'm going to a wedding. Which is no real reason to drink, but I don't care.

 

[Tanis8472]

Just having a Tanquerai and fever tree tonic g

 

[raleighnut]

Just having a Tanquerai and fever tree tonic g

Y not.

 

[TVC]

Just back from the pub

I used half a bottle of Bordeaux to make tonight's coq au vin. What was I supposed to do with the other half?

 

[Tanis8472]

I used half a bottle of Bordeaux to make tonight's coq au vin. What was I supposed to do with the other half?

Make another one

 

[Lonestar]

Still off since 2 Jan...I'm getting so tired nowadays from work I don't need the booze now as beforehand I was just drinking out of habit anyway.

Looking to make it a year and then only booze on social occasions of which there are few.