Quitting booze is hard

[saltshaker]

Managed to not drink today, feeling rotten.

 

[Soulless Angel]

OK maybe I have a problem, I need a drink, I need to relax! Well I don't need to drink but I want to so i can relax, but cant!

 

[noaccount]

Alcohol is one of the only things that helps me cope with having a near photographic memory and no ability to dissociate.
Molly felt helpful for me on the couple rare occasions I was able to access it. Hear there's some decrim and legal med trials / safe-supply access happening for that now in parts of Canada??

I wonder, since benzos are chemically very similar to alcohol, if that could provide occasional help in short term withdrawal?
But long term, benzos pose greater addiction and neurological-damage risks, so I don't want to promote that recklessly.
(benzorecovery reddit seems like a maybe-good resource for anyone struggling with that.)

i've found, after being drunk, and then after the hangover,
there's then, like, a 24-48-hour later rebound period, that's not like being hung-over, that's different but somehow worse? Yeah feels like the fucking world is ending sometimes. But it's not my first end of the world. Solidarity.

 

[kovkay]

I had a bit of a run-in with alcohol right after I was able to legally buy it. I drank it excessively and at inappropriate times. Used every opportunity to drink. I'm glad my substance abuse arc ended the way it did, because a psychosis with a couple of years of anhedonia is easier to deal with than a lifetime of addiction.

 

[sparkie]

Managed to not drink today, feeling rotten.

i feel your nightmare been there still there i dont know what else to say

Have a drink, it might take the edge off.. oww wai

Have a drink, it might take the edge off.. oww wait

i love that think it was very funny

Have a drink, it might take the edge off.. oww wait

Your an intelligent person humour takes intelligence

 

[TriggerHappy]

remember drugs / drink are mind /mood altering substances: and that the fuckn holy terror and madness will pass: i've spend a lifetime in recovery / withdrawal / relapse over and over.
i'm trying. to give up heroin (yeah feeling fuckn awful) right now my minds telling me I'm gonna relapse anyway - but then i'm back where i was... that's nowhere. try aa / na just for today (others going through your withdrawal)
whatever your process - millions have recovered and so can you - and if you fuckout just be nice to yourself.
one nanosecond at a time.
message me privately if you wish. M!GS

 

[BluesRunTheGame]

I wonder, since benzos are chemically very similar to alcohol, if that could provide occasional help in short term withdrawal?

Yes they are prescribed, usually only at treatment centres though. I got some at hospital the other week but not enough for a proper detox. Had to slow drink again (taper off).