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I quit drinking for a year

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Re: I quit drinking for a year

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Post by gandalfgreybeer »

loveparade wrote: post #9

I haven't had a drink in 6 months or so. Not because I wanted to stop, I just have not had the desire to drink recently. Now I would love to tell you about all the amazing magical healthy benefits that have come with that, but unfortunately there are none. I feel no difference at all.

Based from my experience, stopping drinking didn't have noticeable effects as well. However, whenever I would drink once in a blue moon socially, it feels even worse than what I remember. I think it just felt normal before.

Re: I quit drinking for a year

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Post by anonymousiam »

Coming from a family of alcoholics (half of my aunts and uncles, my father, and my sister), I have seen the social and physical damage that alcohol does. My father was a role model to me of what not to become. I do drink, but nothing stronger than wine, and not very often.

It may have been easy for the author to quit, but it's a different story for the people who are addicted. The ones who are trying to quit are at least aware that they've got a problem. Many never even make it that far.

Re: I quit drinking for a year

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Post by polotics »

irishcoffee wrote: post #52
not_a_bot_4sho wrote: post #31

Don't drink. Or if you must, drink less. Who am I to tell you what to do? No one important. But I did recently discover I have colon cancer, perhaps related to my great fondness for beer. And now I'm awkwardly figuring out my final exit strategy. 0/5 stars not recommended. Oh, and schedule that colonoscopy you've been putting off. Better to catch it early when more treatment options are on the table.

In my mid 30s (I'm older now) I got breast cancer I drank so much, which was after I got pancreatitis because I'm too fucking stupid to learn my lesson. I am a biological male now one nipple shy of a set. Oh and a DUI. Sleeping in a running car. I’m a jackass and an idiot. I'm done drinking. Ideally my feet will be less numb and painful, my shoulder might stop hurting, the outer two fingers on my left hand might beco…

could an ADHD test be opportune here?

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Post by sometimes_all »

2Gkashmiri wrote: post #10

I have been trying to ask people this but its havent gotten a satisfactory answer. Sure alcohol is ingrained in society, sure Americans tried prohibition and all that but its not gloom and doom. Muslims who are about 2 billion choose not to consume alcohol and go about their lives without it. They just do fine without it. How does that work for them? ? I mean I have never consumed and never will so why is it that you…

> sure Americans tried prohibition and all that but its not gloom and doom

> Why can't you voluntarily try to influence your alcohol consumption by paying a "alcohol tax"?

Gujarat in India is a dry state. UP has an alcohol tax of 69%. Hasn't stopped people at all, in fact such rules have backfired - loopholes, alcohol tourism, illicit production causing all sorts of havoc.

> I mean I have never consumed and never will so why is it that your society finds it acceptable?

Neither have I. But the problem lies exactly where you're heading. I've had a ton more pressure to drink in India where teetotalism is considered ideal, than in the western world where drinking is considered a lot more acceptable. Funnily enough, the more "taboo" or "socially less acceptable" something is, the more the people who partake also force you to do it.

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Post by thefz »

> If anyone gives me chocolate, I immediately eat all of it and then text the giver, “Thanks for the chocolate, I ate it instead of dinner, it’s all gone, this is what will always happen if you give me chocolate.”

Problem is with you and not with alcohol, bud.

Re: I quit drinking for a year

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Post by thefz »

Ronsenshi wrote: post #64
indrex wrote: post #47

I stopped mostly after Claude Code. 1. Too many interesting things to do 2. I asked it to rate my diet and maintain a streak - which now I don’t want to lose

Why must every discussion involve AI? This honestly sounds like one of the posts from /r/LinkedInLunatics

I was waiting for someone to inject GLP discussion into this, but honestly the parent comment is so much more unhinged

Re: I quit drinking for a year

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Post by x______________ »

irishcoffee wrote: post #52
not_a_bot_4sho wrote: post #31

Don't drink. Or if you must, drink less. Who am I to tell you what to do? No one important. But I did recently discover I have colon cancer, perhaps related to my great fondness for beer. And now I'm awkwardly figuring out my final exit strategy. 0/5 stars not recommended. Oh, and schedule that colonoscopy you've been putting off. Better to catch it early when more treatment options are on the table.

In my mid 30s (I'm older now) I got breast cancer I drank so much, which was after I got pancreatitis because I'm too fucking stupid to learn my lesson. I am a biological male now one nipple shy of a set. Oh and a DUI. Sleeping in a running car. I’m a jackass and an idiot. I'm done drinking. Ideally my feet will be less numb and painful, my shoulder might stop hurting, the outer two fingers on my left hand might beco…

> the outer two fingers on my left hand might become un-numb

Care to share more how this happened?

Re: I quit drinking for a year

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Post by esseph »

defrost wrote: post #51
adgjlsfhk1 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

note that many (most?) THC DUIs have very little evidence. thc stays in your system for at least a month, so it's very hard to tell how many of these are actual DUIs vs cops deciding to pull over a (usually black) person and make up some signs to justify an arrest+drug test

> so it's very hard to tell how many of these are actual DUIs vs cops deciding to pull over a (usually black) It's easier if you look at (say) Australian road traffic enforcement statistics; they have different rules than the US, have the "right" to check for DUI without having to make up a reason, and operate by funnelled road blocks that check everybody (or every second car, etc, depending on flow rates and breath…

> They also 'verify' in the sense that any driver can challenge and get a "better than road side" test back at the station under supervision (blood tests with saved samples for court challenges, etc).

Blood tests can not determine THC intoxication.

Re: I quit drinking for a year

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Post by x______________ »

tim-tday wrote: post #53
gnabgib wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Consistency is king I suppose. I was just thinking this morning about how if every drink I had at a bar over the last 20 years had gone into the stock market I’d probably be a million dollars richer. I was putting nothing into the stock market in my twenties because I “couldn’t afford it” but somehow I could afford to go out and spend a hundred bucks a night on booze. Then there’s the hangovers, pretty sure every bad…

Is it to late to go back to the stock market?
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