The benefits of giving up alcohol
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Jan 2020
7:53pm, 23 Jan 2020
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McGoohan
Never thought I'd see a benefit of hay fever
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Jan 2020
7:56pm, 23 Jan 2020
37,614 posts
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Derby.Tup
I assumed Grep’s ‘joke’ was an ironic alcoholics’ dig at people who only drink in binges, rather than all the time
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Jan 2020
8:01pm, 23 Jan 2020
44,510 posts
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Diogenes
Of course, bloody part-time amateurs.
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Jan 2020
9:46pm, 23 Jan 2020
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GregP
Indeed. I was a top-up drinker - rarely if ever completely sober. Alcoholics who could go for weeks or months without a drink always baffled me. Still do after what is probably in excess of 500 AA meetings. Plain don’t understand.
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Jan 2020
9:57pm, 23 Jan 2020
9,929 posts
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Joopsy
I had a few goes at being off for weeks and months, each time it just convinced me so didn’t have a problem, each time it was harder to stop when I started again. It literally almost killed me.
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Jan 2020
10:00pm, 23 Jan 2020
3,002 posts
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FenlandRunner
It's a weird circumstance for me. If I don't drink the thought of drinking goes. But why then do I start again?
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Jan 2020
8:22am, 24 Jan 2020
33,956 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
Someone else in here suffers badly with hay fever and it is exacerbated by alcohol, which is one of her reasons for avoiding/cutting down - is it grast_girl? I was both a binge drinker and a constant (evening) drinker but I suspect I wasn't an "alcoholic". Problem drinker yes, bad drunk yes, danger to myself and others yes, but probably not an alcoholic, if I understand the definition correctly. It's one of the reasons I'm concerned if I went to an AA meeting, I would feel a fraud. Loads of great reasons for not drinking. And I think our wonderful community in this thread covers a wonderful, wide spectrum of most of them. Part of what makes this such a great group. Thanks guys. G |
Jan 2020
8:27am, 24 Jan 2020
37,621 posts
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Derby.Tup
‘Loads of great reasons for not drinking. And I think our wonderful community in this thread covers a wonderful, wide spectrum of most of them. Part of what makes this such a great group’ Great summary
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Jan 2020
8:30am, 24 Jan 2020
33,960 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
Cheers DT - your recovery has been an inspiration and example to us all. A life reclaimed. G
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Jan 2020
8:30am, 24 Jan 2020
9,932 posts
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Joopsy
The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking.
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Useful Links
FE accepts no responsibility for external links. Or anything, really.- Al-Anon
- Alcoholics Anonymous
- Swittle's wonderful 14,611 days blog
- Rebel's brilliant blog of history to non drinking :-)
- There is No Wall, book by ultra runner Allie Bailey
- A Summary of the benefits
- I Am Sober
- LindsD's Alternative Drinks
- Drink Aware
- Joopsy's 17 year blog
- Swittle's excellent 42 years sober blog :-) G
- Guardian article about problems with alcohol (free just now, but may not be in future...?!) :-) G
- Maclennane's excellent blog on his journey. Nice! :-)
- Sigh's brilliant 1000 blog! :-)
- Dirt Monkey's Wordpress Blog
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