How long have you been drinking like this? If it's been a while you will need time(at least a month) to dry out (sobriety) so your body can adjust. One thing I would highly encourage you to do is get out of the house more for things other than work. Try new things. You will continue to be bored until you find other things you like.
yeah but I'm pretty sure you are like 12 so its not really an issue with you. I think RG is older than that.
And here comes a triple post! To the TC, yes, you are most definitely an Alcoholic. Just read the thread title..... How do you live without alcohol? I think you definitely need some help, if you cant enjoy everyday life without it there is something wrong with you. And what someone said before, if your idea of a good night is getting drunk and surfing the net you need to find some hobbies/friends. Somebody once told me that a good definition of an alcoholic is one who drinks alone. Drinking should be a social thing, at parties or bars, and with friends or family. So yeah, you fit the definition.
I would agree that the OP sounds like they have been abusing alcohol. But only the OP can decide where he/she is at. Your definition however is not so good. No one knows how or when people become alcoholics, and they are know to drink at parties, with friends as well as alone. It's a very equal opportunity disease.
I dunno I don't drink because I enjoy the taste or because I want to be social or even because I'm depressed. I just get an urge like smoking and you want to do it because mentally it makes you feel good for a short time. However unlike smoking it makes like my brain tingle (sounds weird) and I feel happy and laugh alot and everything is much more fun. It's like I could sit here all night being bored or I could get drunk and do anything I feel like doing. Like I got pissed and decided to bike 10 miles to a chip shop cause I felt like it. You don't do that stuff when you're sober because you're worried about what people will think of you. I don't like Weed or anything like that cause it makes me panic, hate drugs cause I get all paranoid and think my heart is going to burst or something.
At the very least, this isn't normal behavior. You sound like you have developed a dependancy on the substance. This will only get worse the longer you continue. You should stay sober for at least a month(preferably longer) before you can honestly tell how sobriety is. You need to know your bodies physical reaction to detoxing will only get stronger and much more severe the longer you keep drinking. It will kill you. I hope you take these words to heart as it will only get tougher to stop as long as you continue. You might think about AA. They have been where you are at. I would also like to applaud you for talking about this. This is very serious stuff. Good luck to you. P.M. me if you have questions.
Uhh... I'm way older than 12. All my relatives on my dad's side are drunkards. I could get some. STHU. I don't drink/take drugs/shoot up. Never have, never will.
I hate to say it, but that's pretty much textbook addiction -- at least to some degree. That's how I feel if I go too long for a smoke, especially if I do not have access to them; the frustration combined with the dependency makes me irritable and very short-tempered. If you have a recurring urge to engage in something you do frequently (that isn't a biological imperative like sex) and it only gets worse the longer you go without it, the you're hooked. I don't know how long you've been drinking or to what degree but the more frequently you did it and the degree to which you did defines the degree of your dependency. If you're going without then you're going to have to give yourself at least a few months to dry out. There is a real truth to people who are recovering from a dependency when they say they are never actually "recovered." The physical dependency on the substance may go away after a few days or a few weeks, but there is an even greater psychological dependence that probably never completely goes away because you've associated that substance with good feelings, and your body is easily conditioned to desire that which makes you feel good, and when it comes to things like drugs or alcohol, it is equally conditioned to avoid that which takes those good feelings away. It's a double-whammy getting off the stuff but the long-term benefits are worth the short-term pain. If you stay off the stuff you'll probably find in a couple of months that things really aren't so bad -- especially if you find other things you like doing and make you feel good that function as a replacement for the good feelings you got from drinking. Incidentally, turning to food is an extremely common thing for people breaking their addictions to tobacco and alcohol turn to as a surrogate to replace the feelings they got from the other stuff, but it has is own dangers. (It is possible to become psychologically addicted to food the same way you were to alcohol.) Try and find something healthier to act as a surrogate addiction. Go running, play sports, learn to play an instrument and/or write music, draw, write a book, whatever, as long as it isn't something that's going to do you more harm than good long-term.
