Hey people, I have a question: I am from Europe, I currently work in Asia for at least one year and I am an alcoholic. I usually stop drinking when I know I've had enough and when I know I should already stop in order to prevent a hangover, but my problem is that I really drink every fucking evening and there are few days on which I don't have at least 4 drinks, whether it is just beer or hard liquor (vodka, rum, anything) +something with a lot of sugar and no alcohol like coke.
So what would you do if you were me? There is really nowhere I can go... I am not rich enough to afford to go to a therapy in Asia, I don't want to go back to my country, and there are not even self-help groups at which I can speak English. However, I know that my health goes downhill, but what shall I do? Alcohol is fucking cheap and I ahve not become an addict here, but I already was one when I arrived here, but now it got even worse...
>>16969168
id quit. if i needed help, id use the buddy system. i have an obsessive personality, but not an addictive one. so its pretty easy for me to drop alcohol (which i had to recently).
the issue here is that you boxed yourself in on purpose
>cant afford
>dont feel like
>meh english
nothing comes without sacrifice. if you dont have the will power, then you gotta sacrifice something.
boomp
>>16969191
>bumping instead of responding to existing posts
the other question is: how long can I live with my alcoholism without having to face any really bad consequences, especially concerning health... if I plan to be here for only one or two years and if I think that I will be able to get rid of my addiction after I return without any horrible long-term effects, then why should I be worried? but on the other hand, I am not a doctor and I can't look into my body... I don´t know whether my inner organs like my liver can handle the amounts of alcohol I drink or not... It could be that I can go on drinking for the next five years without any bad effects, but it could also happen that I will need an organ transplantation in 2 years if I continue like that
>>16969275
Sorry, I bumped 4 seconds after the first reply had been posted..
>>16969277
the 'oh i can fixi t in 2 years' mindset is how things never get fixed mate. in 2 years it becomes 'i drink regularly and im fine no reason to fix it'.
why stay there another 2 years if your life is so fucking shit? why not go home? tehy arent paying you that well otherwise you'd be able to afford a little rehab.
i bet your ass they do have english speaking support groups there as well.
>> why not go home?<<
Because money is not everything in life. And alcoholism is not the only thing my life is about at the moment, I would not even call it a shit life... Alcoholism is just a problem that makes my life worse, but even though I do not get rich here, I would say that I rather benefit from the experience of spending time in a country and in a culture that are completely foreign to me... So why would I throw that away just because I have 4-6 drinks each evening? Actually I do not see any negaitve effects of my drinking on my life, I know it is harmful to my health, but everytime I drink in the evening, I just get up the next morning and go to work as if nothing had happened the evening before. So at the moment, my alcoholism has just an effect on what I do between 8 PM and 12 PM, sometimes 2 PM, if I do not need to get up early the next morning. But it has no effect on the rest of my day, so why give it all up?
The only thing I know is that I WILL have consequences sooner or later if I keep on boozing, but at the moment I just live an almost normal life..
>>16969332
>why would i throw away time in another culture spent entirely inside drinking so heavily im not experiencing anything
>Whats health compared to being drunk somewhere foreign?
>>16969332
But I am not too drunk to experience anything..
Drinking is a problem that affects me after 8PM, So at least 3/4 of the day I live a standard normal life..
And concerning health: I do not have any health problems at the moment. I am scared that I may get some in the future if I continue like that, but as I said... My day just finishes at 8 PM and then I get up the next morning and start a new day..
and I would also like to point out that I never feel a need to drink during daytime, as long as it doesn't get dark outside I do not even think about alcohol
bamp
boompieboomp
>>16969424
>>16969457
>GUISE IM DRINK BUT DONT WANNA DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT GIVEM E ADVICE I HAVE A PROBLEM BUT I DONT XD
