[–] Helena73 0 points 22 points (+22|-0) ago 

Woo-hoo! Good work.

I quit drinking after, well.... too many years of boozing. I never let it get that out of hand, therefore I was always able to rationalize it. But no more.

Its been about a year now and I am so happy I did it. I did go cold turkey. I did not have serious withdrawal, but I did learn that what I thought was my “emotional dependence”, was in fact a physical one. After about six or eight weeks I just stopped missing it. I dont mean I never miss it. But its pretty minimal.

I am surprised at how easy it was. I should have done it 20 years ago but I didn’t have the proper attitude towards it: that it just robs joy from your sober life to give you that high.

Drinking is such a scam. I was tired of giving my money to some corporation for the privilege of fucking my life up. Plus Im an ass when I drink. I mean worse than my usual, which, those of you who know me....

Well anyway. Keep it up and congratulations.

[–] jewsbadnews ago 

Every time I drink now I just get annoying and angry about all the things wrong in my life. I almost never get that good buzz feeling anymore. Now I only drink for the flavor.

[–] Helena73 ago 

The last few years I felt like I couldn’t even get drunk anymore. I mean I could get technically drunk. But I wasn’t able to really feel the pleasure of it. It was like I was out of joy. I was just doing it for that stress relief I got downing that first beer.

Thing is, the stress went away when I stopped drinking.

Ask yourself if that flavor isn’t the dopamine hit your brain gives you when you give it what it wants. I had a similar experience with quitting cigarettes. The shit doesn’t taste good unless you have an addiction to it.

[–] dontmindthemess 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I was that way too. Just add alcohol, bad to worse.

[–] ploymroph 1 point 40 points (+41|-1) ago 

Welcome back, good job dropping that literal goydissolvent.

[–] Muh-Shugana 0 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago 

goydissolvent

Just in case you don't know how correct you are

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[–] HitlerDinduNufin 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Enjoyed reading that. Thanks!

[–] Count_Monte_Cristo 0 points 9 points (+9|-0) ago 

Of course the first thing the jews did when they arrived in the new American colonies was to set up the liquor business along with the African slave trade.

[–] Blurnaldblurmpf [S] 0 points 9 points (+9|-0) ago 

Heh, goydissolvent is a good one, ill have to add that to my repertoire

[–] matt 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

The Liquid Jew

[–] Nucleonic 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

Just wanted to say great work. Quitting ethanol is not easy, especially if you've been at it for a while.

It's dumb that a potent solvent that's enjoyable to drink is a cultural norm, but it's easy to make and we've been fucking ourselves up with this stuff for a very, very long time. Monkeys get wasted off of ethanol in rotten fruit, even.

It shouldn't ever enter your body. I use ethanol as a solvent, ethanol is in hand sanitizers... because it is is the active ingredient. Not good to drink it.

I'm glad you beat your addiction, but don't be fooled into thinking that you can have a drink after a period of sobriety. Some recovering alcoholics who developed it later can beat their addiction (I did) and have some without going hog wild; but most can't because they are lifetime alcoholics. In their case, it's a genetic thing.