I drink too much

Well it's happened again... :disappoin
Since the end of May I have been out of control with my boozing.
Friday night I drank too much once more!
So it was a rainy night and my friends wanted to have a party/get together. So we do, except nobody is really showing up, I guess the weather was a downer. However I decided to drink heavily as I always due, but really I think this time I lost it. I was pounding rum straight up. I didn't yell at anyone or cause any damage or even get belligerent (thank goodness). However, I got so hammered I decided I wanted to walk down the block and take a shit at the deli parking lot. This is like 1am :lol2: I don't remember any of this. I stumbled out the door. My friend told me I looked like I was trying to walk straight, but ended up walking diagonally and fell into a bush. Then I ran down the street to the deli. My friends had to come chase me and stop me. Then I went back to my car and ate my leftover White Castle. I also tried to get my keys out and for some reason drive away. My friend had to pull me out of my car and throw me on the ground. I remember NONE OF THIS. I don't remember leaving the house and walking away. Somehow though all of this I didn't even puke. Amazing. But now that I've gotten so stupid drunk to the point of getting ready to drive away and not remember it, I think it's time to stop drinking. Or at least driving somewhere and drinking. I can always crash at my friends place, but I have no clue as to why I would want to drive away. So I'm just gonna call it quits for a while.

thats good, call it quits, drinking is bad! but yet so good.....i drink way too much also, last nite i had 4 shots of polar ice vodka, and 10 beers, 7 bud lights, 2 coors lites, and 1 natty lite (eww :disappoin )

I cut down on drinking an awful lot last January and everything physically i've lost weight, i got good grades...and everything else has been shit... but it helped a lot. Go for it!

Sounds like you need to figure out where your limits are and find the self control to stop drinking once you start approaching that out of control blackout state. I've never been a huge drinker myself, but I've gotten really excessively drunk enough times and had enough bad experiences both during and after the fact that it just isn't worth it. As I've gotten older it's become easier to know when to call it a night.

If you can just stop drinking for a while that's probably a good idea, but you should probably figure out what makes you want to drink to such excess when you do have a few. Does alcoholism or any other kind of addictive tendency run in your family? If so, watch out...

You're also lucky to have friends who will watch out for your drunk ass and keep you from getting behind the wheel like that.

AAA..........one more gin........A....A....A......

Yup, if you can't control it, look at AA

who needs AA, Rehab is for quitters................lol

I feel you. Since probably the beginning or May or end of April I think there have only been 2 nights i know for sure i haven't had a drink. Tonight being one of them. I've been buzzed ever night. I started really thinking about why i have. I think im subconsciously drinking to deal with the depression ive been going through. It makes it that much easier to go to sleep at night having so many things weighing on my mind.

I drink too much and I know it, I drink every night, but I dont drink if I know I have to drive or anything like that. I am a responsible alcoholic. You just have to get it in your mind to not drive, I know you dont want to fuck up your car or get a DUI so dont ever even consider driving as an option.

Youve got good friends for not letting you drive off, thank them for it. I have a friend who for a while insisted on driving after he got smashed, so every time he drank as soon as he got drunk enough to where I knew he wouldnt be cool to drive any time that night, I locked his keys in his car and let him call his dad to bring the spare key in the morning. After a while he finally gave up on trying to drive when he was drunk.

To the people who said AA is an option, if you were serious, the guy is 22, he drinks with his friends, he doesnt need help in quitting drinking, he just needs to control himself a little hes young and likes to have a good time, yippie!

I guess its probably wrong for me to be reading this while slightly intoxicated....

I don't drink alone, so that's good I guess. But I don't know why I get so out of control when I go to a party at my friends house. It's not even when I go out to bars or anything, or a random party where I am not familiar with too many people. I guess it's in my subconcious that the only way I can have fun is my getting plowed when I'm around my friends. I know my limits, but already multiple times this summer I've knowingly surpassed them. When I'm doing anything I can get fidgety, so I need to be doing something. When I'm at a party I need to be doing something, so I grab a drink and drink it. My plan now is to have a bottle of water or soda, anything to keep me from drinking alcohol in excessive amounts.

yes we get drunk everyday, no we are not alcoholics. Nothing wrong with drinking too much as long you don't turn into an asshole or get too much "beer balls." Peace-

so if im a asshole already i shouldnt drink at all?

I used to turn into an asshole. Now I bypass the asshole stage and get to "crazy silly drunk" guy.

here's my joke for the subject, then the serious matter.

"I'm not an alcoholic, i'm a drunk. Alcoholics go to meetings"

for the serious part now:
usually when i go out i roll with about 3 or 4 people in my car. it's our little crew, everyone knows it too. anyways, i turned 21 two months ago and i was scared that i was going to drink way too much now that i can legally buy booze. i used to drink a shit load when i was like 19, 20. it got bad, REAL bad, i noticed my grades dropping and everything. i decided to stop for a while. even though this is a great and realistic idea, it sort of backfired on me. for the little while i was drinkin heavily my tolerance was built up so much then when i quit it rapidly declined. i was at a party and i turned into Will Ferrell's "Frank the Tank" from Old School. i drank so much and made a complete ass out of myself. finally i learned my lesson. now a days if i go to a party i usually analyze the situation. If i'm driving then i know i can't drink a whole lot or i'll stay the night or something like that. if i'm not driving then i'll drink more than i would if i am driving however i still have to keep a watchful eye over my friends seeing how sometimes they think they can drive and i'll usually sober up and drive us all home.

as far as not knowing why you drink around your friends, i have the same problem sometimes, i think it's a subconcious peer pressure type thing goin on.who knows, this is why i'm not going into psychology or something like that.

Just spark up a doobie instead of drinking ;)

one could do the mary j instead of drinking. in cases of some of my closest friends though i have seen first hand the sad sad effects of marijuana. they used to be weekend smokers. then it was thursday through sunday. then every night. pretty soon they were kicked out of their housese for smoking too much, they didn't have any money to eat because they spent it all on weed. then my friend's girlfriend dumped because he started doing coke. he walked in one night with a track mark on his arm and his girl lost it. his loss was my gain though (hehe)

overall, most people i know don't let weed effect them that much but there is always the possibility. i'm not going to preach "drugs are bad, alcohol is bad" because i have done both and i drink every weekend. it's something we all do. its sort of like sex, just be smart and for the most part you'll be ok.

I smoke maybe once or twice a year. I have friends that don't care about anything except smoking weed. They don't pay bills or anything, no car, nothing... They are constantly bumming rides from those with cars and all they want to do is smoke. It pisses me off. Maybe that's why I drink so heavily. To show them I can get fucked up and still be responsible (not the night of), pay my bills: car, gas, insurance, student loans whatever...

Whatever though, I'm not going to become a smoker like them, fucking waste of money. At least when getting drunk I can spend 10bux on 40's and get retarded while they have to spend 50 bux a night to get a temporary high. LAME.

My plan now is to have a bottle of water or soda, anything to keep me from drinking alcohol in excessive amounts.

brilliant idea. just make sure someone doesnt switch out the bottles on you. i used to be into drinking but decided that it's not worth it. at least it wasnt when i was drinking with who i was drinking with. the kind of people who say "you're not drunk enough yet! drink more!" and i really was drunk so i actually listened to them and got more drunk. i remember lying on the ground and singing "i'm a barbie girl". then i guess i blacked out. i was told i went pee a lot and stumbled around the woods on the island we were camping on. those were good times. mostly.

not EVERY weed smoker turns into a hopeless social reject you know.

i used to only be an occasional smoker. now i'd say i smoke more days of the week then i don't. BUT, through the kind-ness of my friends, they'll usually share weed with me, or give me weed in return for a favor. this way, i don't have to spend all of my money on the stuff. not like i did in the first place. i never buy weed in bulk, because that just tempts you to smoke more and more since it's there. if you buy just enough for the night that you plan to party, and smoke it all, then you'll be left with nothing for the rest of the week and there-fore won't go smoking by yourself just because you have weed to smoke.

last weekend i smoked every day from thursday until wednesday. but i still pay my bills, still go to work, have a girlfriend (who smokes too, hehe), and i made a promise to myself to never, EVER, try any drug harder then shrooms. i've done shrooms twice, and the trip was fun, but to me it's not worth the money or the risk of physical/mental damage. therefore i will never ever touch coke, e, or anything hard like that. it's just not worth it.

i drink fairly often too, but never by myself, and usually it's only on weekends. i also know my limits very well, therefore i never get stupidly insanely don't-know-what-i'm-doing drunk, nor do i ever puke. i guess you just need to find your limits like i did. or, if you already know your limits, then stick to them ;).

another reason why i don't go over-board is because i usually mix smoking and drinking at parties. therefore, i get a nice drunk buzz going, and a nice high going. when you're both at the same time, you don't puke and don't usually get out of control, but you're still nicely fucked up too. it's a happy medium.

yea you should cut back on your drinking. You're only 22, way to young to die from driving drunk or to ruin your life because of alcohol! kudos for realizing that it is time to cut back, thats the first step to recovery!

i didn't mean to give the impression that smoking weed creates social rejects. i was merely making one example from a VERY miniscule select group of people that i know.

sorry if i offended anyone.

im moe of a drinker i used to drink about 5 nights a week. well id get fucked up 5 nights a week. but now i only get shit housed maybe once every other week and the rest of the time if i drink ill only have 2 or 3. as for weed, i have friends who only think about getting highit is their goal in life. i used to smoke a few times a day when i was in high school but it never affected my grades or my social life. i made the same grades as i did before i smoked or drank as i did when i smoked. and just to let u all know im pretty much a B student. and i was when i smoked every day as well. now the i only smoke on occasion. sometimes ill be drunk and it will be offered to me so i do it and other times if im having a shitty day at work ill but enough for a nice gravity toke from the guy i work w/ . neither smoking or drinking are that bad for you as long as you are in control and not the substance. if you can tell yourself enough is enough then your good.

i didn't mean to give the impression that smoking weed creates social rejects. i was merely making one example from a VERY miniscule select group of people that i know.

sorry if i offended anyone.

That's the point I was trying to make. I'm not perfect and I've obviously done my stupid amounts of drinking, although not everyday. As sidewayz said "i have friends who only think about getting highit is their goal in life" This is what my friends have become. I quote my one friend "i need to get another job fast cause I'm out of money and I need to smoke weed and cigarettes!" It's all he cares about. He used to call me to go hang out at his house. So i'd go there and he'd be smoking. I'd sit there for 15 minutes and leave. His GF is a smoker too. They'd invite me to their friends house for a party or something. I'd go and it would be them and their friends smoking. I'd sit there quiet while everyone smoked. Eventually i'd leave. We'd go into the city for a concert, they'd want to stop in a park and smoke a bowl. It's fucking rediculous. I'm pretty sure that's why now I get blasted when large amounts of alcohol are around and they come around. It's not an excuse but I guess it's my motive.

I guess now I've had my fun and share of getting annihilated. It's time to find other ways to be social and have some fun. Time to grow up just a little bit. As you can tell by my posts and previous threads, I'm definately "that guy" at the party. I don't want to be "that guy" anymore and now it's time to sit back and watch others make a fool out of themselves. :)

Eat some mashed potatoes before you go drinking.

I once ate an order of KFC mashed potatoes and soon after slammed 10 shots of rum in the span of a couple of minutes, barely a buzz.

>snip<
as far as not knowing why you drink around your friends, i have the same problem sometimes, i think it's a subconcious peer pressure type thing goin on.who knows, this is why i'm not going into psychology or something like that.

>unsnip<

Simply the human desire to be accepted into the milieu they are responding to at the time.

Well it's not so much direct peer pressure. Nobody drinks half as much as I do.

I had a DUI once. I'm here to tell you that it's no fun. I was lucky.

So far I've lost three friends in alcohol-related car accidents. Two of them I had a talk with prior to it happening, since I was concerned. One said "I'd never do that, you know me..." and the other just laughed at me. My other friend was sleeping in the backseat of his own truck when the guy driving lost control and hit a rock cut, wrecked the truck. I feel so guilty about that one because he was supposed to be with me that night, but I wanted to stay home and he wanted to go out. Had he stayed with me he would have never been out there. Never.

All that pissed me off so bad that I can't drink alcohol anymore, I just can't do it. Lots of people think I'm retarded for it and that's fine and good, but it's just something I feel I have to do. So far it's been ten months, five days. My friends are probably proud of me, wherever they are.

I haven't driven down the road where the one crash was, I just can't do it. I take another way. It affects me that badly somehow.

MBTN, you don't want a DUI so smarten up while you still can. If anything I hope you do get a DUI so that you don't kill yourself or someone else. I wish my friends had DUI's...

Well it's not so much direct peer pressure. Nobody drinks half as much as I do.

just how much do you drink.....i bet i can top it :lol2:

and 1 natty lite (eww :disappoin )

Aww come on now thats a mans drink rite there.

thats a nasty drink, i can understand if thats what u can only buy with ur money, but damn if u can get something else then do it

natty light isnt that bad. busch heavy is some dirty shit.

well no natty lite isnt the worst tasting beer, unlike corona.....eww that shit is nasty, that and milwaukees best ewww

just how much do you drink.....i bet i can top it :lol2:
I'm not a big guy, so depending on what I ate, or lack there of, 15 shots of something would probably put me in the condition I was in friday night.

yea corona taste like piss.

I agree about setting your limits. You really should learn some self control. When I start feeling like my stomach is turning over I slow down. It's unimagineable for me to fet so drunk I black out, and dont remember whats going on.

i had a a little of 3/4 of a pint of Parrot Bay Rum....and boy was i out of it

Either I'm not to that age yet where I feel like drinking a lot or I never will be a huge drinker. I never really have liked drinking a lot.

I feel like such a loser around you guys, and all the future alcoholics that I go to school with.

Either I'm not to that age yet where I feel like drinking a lot or I never will be a huge drinker. I never really have liked drinking a lot.

I feel like such a loser around you guys, and all the future alcoholics that I go to school with.you better not like drinking a lot...............

Used to drink every day for about 7 years. When my wife was pregnant 2,5 years ago I just stopped drinking on weekdays and now I only drink on special occasions.
Hell, 5 beers is all it takes now, to get me drunk. :thumbsup:

have you ever thought of one night just getting hammered when your friends arent there?that way you'll wake up and see whta has happened,it will tell you this:YO DIPSHIT!! PUT DOWN THE SHOTS!!

Getting hammered alone is NEVER a good idea...

Alcohol is a horrible drug. All those hangovers and feeling seedy the next day. Yuck.

Getting hammered alone is NEVER a good idea...


Fuck, i guess i shouldnt still be drinking then....fuck it!

look for a piss post later!