[–] CarltheCuck88 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
What was your motivating factor? The thing that outweighed your desire to crack open a bottle?
[–] Blurnaldblurmpf [S] ago
I didn't want any dependence on substances to make me feel "better", was spending all the money I planned on saving for my future, and family started shunning me out for being a dickhead while drunk were a few factors
[–] ToxicWhiteMale 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
I'm thinking of starting up again, unless the world somehow becomes magically unfucked!
[–] StBlops2cel_is_Lord 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
It won't make the world any better, let alone your personal situation. Sobriety will always win over drunkenness, unless you are trying to have sex with @TheGook 's mother
[–] WORF_MOTORBOATS_TROI 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Good post. I wish that more people understood the therapeutic benefits of weightlifting. It benefits mental and psychological health and makes you sleep better, but people rarely talk about that.
[–] CognitiveDissident5 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago (edited ago)
Good, jewce is poison. Jew brew is easily accessible for a reason.
[–] Nicoladepierola 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Hallucinations were the worst part. I was completely convinced that shadow demons were coming to get me while I lay on the bathroom floor. That stuff is evil. It's good to hear you beat it.
[–] Blurnaldblurmpf [S] 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Some of the hallucinations I had were people's faces literally morphing into demonic caricatures, I can completely relate, I like to call the DTs devil triggers now, it felt like a purgatory or hell with some of the shit I remember.
The whole experience has given me a newfound connection to God, who I believe helped me through. Its cool if others don't wanna believe, but the spirituality of it helped me through and many others.
Now imagine when you die you see similar demonic faces. In Buddhism they tell you to expect it. In some realms of the dying process you are plagued by a constant stream of demonic faces scaring the bejesus out of you. A master will realize these images are nothing more than projections of their own mind and casually sail through them. Good on you for quitting. Consider taking up meditation to help you continue.
[–] everlastingphelps 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
You've got a mental injury. It's as real as a broken leg. You can't just walk it off. You've been medicating the pain without treating the symptoms (and have thankfully stopped that.) You need mental rehab, just like you need physical rehab after a physical injury.
I'm not big on psychotherapy because frankly 90% of psychiatrists glow in the dark. Instead, get connected to Peer Support Services at your VA. It's literally just other combat vets talking shit out and supporting each other. If VA fucks try to steer you towards something other than Peer Support, refuse. If your actual peers say you need it, think about it. If you still have contact with guys from your units, hook up with them as well. You can't cold turkey the mental injury any better than the alcohol.
You're 90% of the way there. Get that last 10% and get shit done.
[–] Intrixina 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
Well done niggerfaggot. I can't say that I've ever been addicted to alcohol, given that I've partaken less times than the fingers of both my hands in a lifetime. I have never understood the appeal of destroying your ability to remember things the next day for "fun" - that sounds the antithesis of "fun" to me.
[–] theoiledones 1 point 5 points 6 points (+6|-1) ago (edited ago)
I used to drink.
I still do, but I used to too.
[–] serfer0 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I don’t drink any more
But, I don’t drink any less either!
[–] Gigglestick ago
Mitch Hedberg.