Draco

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This past weekend was not a sober one.

I got completely plastered on Saturday night at a friend’s house. We were stumbling around like idiots. It’s Monday night and I’m just now finally starting to feel the pain of the hangover lifting. I would have rather had a sober weekend. Somehow I gave in to the temptation of someone wanting a house party while his parents were out of town. What do you do when these sudden unexpected things just pop up? So we got trashed at his house.

I was unable to wake up early Sunday to see the sunrise. I had trouble getting out of bed at 2pm. THAT to me is wasted time from my weekend I could have enjoyed instead with a nice morning cup of coffee and some breakfast. Hmm, wasted time . . . Maybe that’s the reason they call it “getting wasted.”

It also made Monday morning difficult and the rest of the day because I felt a heavy nausea all day long. Quite a price to pay for a Saturday night drinking binge. I’m reminded once again that it’s not worth it.

Jul 02, 2012, 04:18PM PDT | 5 cheers


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Draco

Ah, no this was a different friend. Your referring to my other friend who’s in the military. He’s getting deployed to Kuwait very soon and I will miss him so much. He has to keep an eye on his alcoholism because he has some instances where he’ll go through three or more days of consecutive heavy binge drinking. I love him. I don’t know if he realizes how much I enjoy his company.

Jul 04, 2012, 07:10PM PDT | Parent | Respond to this

kaslo

Kuwait….oh oh.

There is a website that has a military section for people trying to stop drinking. I talk about it often here. Its called MyWayOut. You might want to mention it to him, if hes interested in some support from people in a similar situation in the services.

It takes a while but eventually you just have to look out for yourself and your own health. You have done really well, Draco. Keep going. It sure sounds like you have an intolerance for AL which is really going to bite you when you are older, for sure. Unless….

Jul 04, 2012, 08:25PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 2 cheers

Draco

he is definitely an alcoholic

After last night, I have no doubts. He and my one female friend hung out at my place last night. The night, of course, started at the bar. He had SEVERAL drinks and she had just one. I just ordered a Cherry Coke.

After leaving the bar, he wanted to head to the liquor store before going to my place. I didn’t want to drink! I said,’I’m really not in the mood to drink tonight.’ AND DO YOU KNOW WHAT HIS RESPONSE WAS?

‘What else could we do?’

:-( so long story short, he and I ended up killing the most of two bottles, got totally trashed, and I know the only reason I caved like I did is because I am going to miss him. He leaves for deployment training on Friday. He wanted to drink, and I joined in so it wouldn’t be awkward I guess. Like, who knows when I’ll see him again.

My female friend stayed around for a bit, then left. She didn’t drink anything after her one at the bar. It was her first time meeting this military friend of mine. Talking with her later, I admitted, ‘he’s kind of an alcoholic.’ Her response? ‘I could TELL.’

I feel AWFUL. But I didn’t want to tell him how I felt! I just wanted him to have a good time before he goes away. :-(

Jul 09, 2012, 04:47AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 1 cheer

Draco

I’m so torn. I believe he would be understanding if I insisted on staying sober. But with his deployment only days away, I just went with it. I’m going to miss him so much. I just wanted to do what he wanted, and he wanted to drink! If he weren’t going overseas, I swear Saturday night would have been Sober Saturday. In his final days before he leaves I feel is a bad time to talk to him about his excessive drinking habits. My best friend is leaving. I’m so emotional about this!

Jul 09, 2012, 09:30AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 3 cheers

kaslo

You are the boss of you.

I get that you would lay down your life for this person. Thats very admireable, and its good to have someone in your life like that. But booze is a lousy thing to lay down your life with.

He can take it better than you can obv. It will kill you a lot faster than its going to kill him.

So from a toxicological standpoint, you have all the symptoms and reactions of someone who has a serious sensitivity to alcohol. If you have detrimental effects that last more than a 12 hour period (be honest with yourself about this), you are not the kind of person who can age gracefully while overindulging in AL. Its a gradually addictive substance. Despite all kinds of subliminal and not so hidden promotion in society and human relationships to encourage AL abuse, you wont have an easy relationship with AL over your lifespan. Youwill find yourself with a bad habit that is really pathologically harmful to various physical, mental and emotional parts of you. Its not going to be pretty. You already know this, you’ve said so. You are a smart guy. You write well, you are a clear thinker. So if you are being polite with your friend about self destruction, thats one thing, but maybe while he is gone and under huge pressure in Kuwait, you can write to him about your progress. You might actually HELP the guy. Because to be blunt, you are not helping. Just because a two year old wants to run into the pool at top speed, really badly, cause its fun, doesnt mean you should jump in with him, especially if you can’t swim.

I suppose ive pissed a few people off, but its true.

Jul 10, 2012, 08:27AM PDT | Respond to this 1 cheer


 

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