Any robots successfully quit drinking?
I can get to about a week but then the despair makes me crumble
yea, because all my money gets spend on heroin and rock cocaine. wish i was joking.
>>24571340
There's an oddly high number of heroin users on this board.
that's a big leech
>>24571340
so weird
ive been on pain pills multiple times in my life but they never really gripped me in the way alcohol does
seems like the opposite for a lot of people
>>24571304
I did for about a year and a half. I don't even consume a quarter of what I did in the past.
>>24571399
Right its a fucking mutant
I've binged on meth and I'm not addicted, what's your excuse?
>>24571368
cause it's the ultimate comfy drug
>>24571399
Wanna see a bigger one?
>>24571304
>quit drinking
good one
>>24571399
phour you
>>24571733
go ahead
>inb4 it's a fat woman
I've actually been getting drunk more often. I'm 26 and it helps me forget just how much life goes downhill past 25, and it also brings out creativity in me. My normal mode of operation is that of a simple, logical robot. Not a robot in the /r9k/ sense, but an automaton that just goes to work, eats, sleeps, watches porn and plays bf4. Been practicing piano and sketching what may be a simple animated skit
>>24571304
>I can get to about a week
Well that's about six days longer than I can manage.
>>24571809
>im 26
me too senpai
i drink about half a big bottle of whiskey every night
i cant stop, which is weird, but im completely functional
>>24571304
what the fuck is he doing
>>24571713
yes but most people who get into will end up selling there computer and furniture to pay for it
>>24572560
feeding his pet leech
>>24572560
Feeding his pet.
I wish there was a more efficient way of feeding them other than using your own blood or making your blood sausages out pig blood and shit.
Drank for a week in a row recently (alcoholic of 2 years before hand) ended up in A&E for codeine + alcohol slight overdoseage.
Doctors spoke sense into me. I cba with the shitty feeling anymore, the money the achy organs and the stigma.
Do yourselves a favor and stop, if you want to get high try something non as addictive and that feels better anyway.
If you're numbing yourself then sort out the route of the problem out, you'll thank yourself soon rather than looking back in 12 months and thinking "well I'm still drinking all day every day and now I feel worse than before"
You can do it robos, also don't stop drinking too quickly without diazepam handy or without halving your drink taken daily as you can risk seizires/death.
Drink is a shit tier drug anyway.
>>24572678
>>24572695
>doesn't beat around the bush like other pets, just leeches directly off of you instead of metaphorically
>has a pretty good way to reject a women ("I have enough leeches in my life!")
bretty gud pet, might get one
>>24572600
I didn't, I try it once every few months, it's pretty swell. I guess I'm just lucky.
I've started drinking more often. I have a cider in the evening quite often now, on my own. Maybe this is the very early stages of a problem, although my flatmate seems to have like 3 beers a night and he's fine.
>>24572678
>>24572695
that's fucking horrible that thing doesn't even what
does he pet it? that's disgusting. it does even less than nothing
what a shitty pet
>>24572802
>I've started drinking more often
Funny how it creeps up on you. I used to only drink at the weekend and only 2-3 beers at that. A couple of years later and I drink nearly every night, only 3-5 beers but still I'm steadily drinking more. I think the next step will be switching to vodka or whiskey.
>>24572802
2 -3 a night is fine for prolonged periods of time but it will spiral out of control quite often so nip it in the bud man, I promise you you're not missing out.
>>24572876
yep. you'll be drinking the cheapest possible, strongest drink all day every day soon enough. be careful robofriend
>>24571304
>tfw I can't quit smoking without quitting drinking.
>>24572758
This is so fucking stupid
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3033815/Man-keeps-giant-leech-pet-feeding-blood-s-hungry.html
You britbongs are subhuman
>>24572826
Losing blood will make your body produce new blood, making your immune system better and overall you will live 10-20 year longer.
>>24572826
Does about as much as a hamster.
It's cute and provides comfort.
Probably lives longer too and are nicer to hold when they're not biting you.
>>24572908
In fairness, since dogs have been banned in the United Kuckdom so as not to offend muslims, they have to improvise new pets.
>>24571304
wtf is in the picture?
>>24572908
>>24572956
>he carries all his excess blood around with him
>he thinks he needs all his blood, while living as a NEET
>It is not known where the leech-lover and his adoring pet live, but it is thought the film was shot in Japan.
Come on, at least skim the article.
>>24572924
>overall you will live 10-20 year longer.
That's stupid. We would have seen people constantly bloodletting and tons of 120 yr olds if this was the case.
>>24573078
>implying they want you to know the secrets of living a long life
I bet you don't realize most "incurable" diseases have been cured long ago.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2789909/i-three-inch-leech-nose-month-backpacker-saw-poking-nose-trip-round-south-east-asia-dismissed-congealed-blood-motorbike-crash.html
fucking jewish noses desu
>>24573120
Oh yeah, because Big Pharma can make more money treating it than curing it, despite having free rein to charge whatever they want for the cure.
And I suppose YOU'VE deduced this, and the rest of the sheeple just need to wake up and accept the truths you give.
>>24573181
>The graduate said: 'He had been curled up in a big ball, using my nostril as a little nest, so I called him Mr Curly. At one point, I could feel him up at my eyebrow'
>Mr Curly
cute nameRIP Mr Curly ;_;7
>>24573165
Kek my post got deleted
I guess they are really shutting it down
>>24573324
>implying it's not easy as fuck to go down to the local lake and get your own leech
I highly doubt anybody would pay thousands of dollars for a worm they could get almost everywhere.
>>24571304
Being drinking almost everyday for over two years now. Anytime I try to stop I start feeling anxious. Most times I give and drink. Guess I'm headed for a problem but fuck it, drink takes the edge off my shitty life.
>getting drunk on Lomza right now
>>24573489
It may have something to do with the "blox"
>>24572600
dude who gives a fuck
I know I'm on my way to becoming a crackhead, but there's no fucking better feeling then chasing the dragon!
What, you think all these people sell their shit just because they are addicted? You do this because there's almost nothing as good as the H!
>>24573516
You'd need a lot of leeches if you were using the normal kind I think, they don't usually grow to that size so it must be some specific breed of giant leeches. And in order to not have to go hunt leeches to the lake and dump stinky stagnant water filled with dead leeches once they die, I guess you'd also need to set up a tank which simulated optimal conditions for them to thrive and breed. Also, wouldn't you be at risk of getting some kind of illness from them? Not necessarily blood-borne of course since you'll be feeding them your own blood, but letting pond scum routinely pierce your skin with their proboscis can't be hygienic.
Actually you could set up a spa with the surplus leeches and cater to the alternative medicine folk where they rent their own tank of leeches and go to the spa to let them suck their blood. Plus it'd be like pets once they got familiar enough with their tank, so you could sell "home kits" and make them pay a fee for taking their old tank home.
I have the opposite problem. As I get older drinking just makes me feel more and more like shit to the point where I avoid it as much as possible. I get too many headaches as it is without alcohol. About to go to the bar to meet my borderline alcoholic family, dreading it.
It didn't used to be like this.
>>24572876
Don't switch to spirits. Once you do, the downward spiral just goes faster and faster. Next thing you know you'll be sieving your vomit and drinking it in the morning to stop the shaking.
>>24572907
Such a fucking bummer. Quitting smoking is what I need to do, but everything else goes with it.
>>24573921
Thanks for the tip on how to feed my pet leeches if I ever get them.
I'll just get idiots to pay to do it for me.
>>24572802
>a single drink in the evening
>thinks it might be a problem
>>24571304
I quit drinking, excessive masturbation, cigarettes, weed, pills and just all drugs in general.
The hardest thing I have left to quit is caffeine (especially energy drinks), video games, and 4chan/NEET life.
>>24571304
Anyone else wish they had a cozy bar nearby where they could hang out with other alcoholic losers all day and just shoot the shit?
The drinking threads are the closet thing I have to that.
>>24574268
me kinda but then id have to wear pants
>>24574106
I stick to beer/wine these days when drinking alone for this reason. Harder to get shitty drunk so I usually end up with a nice buzz.
>>24571304
Too slav to get drunk, considering to try again some time soon though, but I'm already undereating so not sure how my well-being would get affected by alcohol.
I used to drink a shit ton, i quit because it was massively fucking up my life. I drank to bury painful memories from my childhood and my time as a soldier, it never really helped much really.
Who /drinkbecauseyoureveningisboringotherwise/ here?
>>24571304
Hungover as fuck Ive been drinking way to much. First day sober just going to /blaze/ work out and read now
>>24574163
>specifically said "early stages of a problem"
Do people even bother reading posts any more?
Recovering Alcoholic & drug addict here. 5 yrs totally sober.
AA. Seriously. It may seem like religious bullshit at first but if you just keep a tiny bit of an open mind and give it a real shot (meetings, sponsor, do steps) you'll see that it's really just a way to help yourself be happy without having to be drunk or high all the time. You don't have to convert to Christianity or any other stupid ass cult bullshir. No one is going to try to make you doing anything you don't want to do. It's just other people with similar problems and life experience sharing what they've done that has worked for them.
>>24575572
>No one is going to try to make you doing anything you don't want to do
that's such a lie, they'll judge you for even having a beer with your family or something. the "no relationships your first year" rule is just fucking stupid.
I've been trying to quit since June. Had a few relapses but I finally found success this past month through medication assisted treatment. It's come to the point where I need a pill that makes me sick if I drink. I hope I won't have to take it for the rest of my life, but if it prevents me from fucking my life up like I was before, then I'm happy to take it.
>>24572876
Vodka is the alcoholic's choice.
>at least 40% ABV and possibly more
>tastes damn close to water, easy to chug straight
>when mixed with OJ or cranberry juice, it is almost completely masked, even in a 50/50 40-proof concoction
>"quit" for the "last time" 4 times this week
>literally just sat down 2 seconds ago from buying a big bottle and some chips and dip
>muttered "i'm such a piece of shit" under my breath the entire walk home in the rain
HERE COMES THE FUN PART THOUGH
> never lost functionality and drank for ten years
> took some RC etizolam to try and quit
> ended up in the hospital for alcohol withdrawal
> tapered off with ativan
now i only drink a beer when i'm out and feel pretty great
even if your life doesn't feel ruined, consider what you can do with more sober hours in a day
>>24571304
Quit drinking before it was awesome stayed sober for a year. Going to try and do it again I just lost my job yesterday I've been drinking heaps because I'm stressed as fuck. Looking forward to it desu I fucking hate drinking hungover today got a joint ready to chill out and watch movies
>>24575711
>vodka
>not whiskey
are you even fucking trying dude?
Ya I quit drinking cold turkey after having stomach problems. I really miss it. Like I fantasize about it 3-4 times a week. Alcohol just does it for me. The lowered inhibition makes me feel like I can actually be myself.
What would it feel like if you put that thing on your dick?
Yeah. It wasn't some test of willpower or anything. I just didn't care enough to go out and buy booze anymore. The internet is a much better drug.
>>24577591
nothing at all, leaches have a anesthetic that makes them undetectable when they clamp on you. They also suck blood very slowly.
>>24577645
well then
what would it feel like if you plopped it on your dick while it was that big without letting it suck any blood?
I wonder if that would feel good, it looks pretty slimy and pulsating so I'd say so
>>24575618
That's not an actual "rule" dude. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. You can do whatever the fuck you want. Get married after a week sober for all I care. It's just that some people suggest holding off on serious relationship for a little bit so you can focus on building a somewhat stable, happy-ish life despite not being drunk or high for the first significant period of time in many years. Sometimes it's tough to do that unless you just focus on yourself for a little while. But again -- anyone who tries to tell you about "rules" like that is talking directly out of their anal sphincter and should be disregarded. If you spent any significant time in AA you'd know that.
As for being "judged" for having "a beer" with family:
1) what's the fucking point of having anything less than 5 beers anyway? I don't know many alkies that are content to just sip one beer and then call it a night. I drank to get fucking drunk, and because I believed that my life sucked without it. Do you even want to quit drinking?
2) who gives a flying fuck about how people in an anonymous support group "judge" you?
3) your feeling that you will be judged exists only in your head. Can you see the future and read other people's minds? Personally, I've found AA to be one of the least judgmental groups of people I've ever been around. Remember, most of these people have been through the same shit you have, probably worse. The purpose of the group is to stay sober yourself and help others do the same, not make people feel like shit or be a petty judgmental prick. That's the exact opposite of what groups are trying to accomplish.
Most of the shit I see/hear bashing aa is just people with little or no aa experience repeating rumors and memes they heard second or third-hand. The truth is that if you want to stop drinking and be happy and you are having trouble doing so, it's one of your best options, and it's completely free.
>>24571304
>tfw starting to get blood in my shit again
Just means I'm gonna probably stop for a few weeks, than drink almost every day for a month or two, then repeat. At least I'll get to be thin and handsome again for a bit.
My heart rate is fast all the time, my kidneys and blood vessels hurt, and I'm tired of having diarrhea all the time.
This is it. My last pint sits in front of me. I also have a supply of beer, for tapering after tonight.
How should I taper? I read you're supposed to reduce the number of drinks you have by 2 each night until you hit 0, then buckle up and hold on. After that, you're supposed to stay dry at least 3 months (but really you should stay sober)
Anybody had success with tapering? How did you do it? Please help, I made my mom cry today and I really can't keep going on like this.
>>24578064
If you're not at the level of drinking-all-day alcoholic, it's far easier just to quit cold turkey, I've found.
>>24571304
I don't drink, but if I ever had an encounter with that creature in your picture, I'd die from alcohol poisoning.
>>24571304
Same
I don't have the compulsion to drink every day, but I can't go more than 3 or 4 days without it either
>>24572907
Yup.
If I didn't drink at all, I wouldn't smoke at all.
>>24578111
I usually swig some booze for breakfast, go to work for 9-10 hours (I don't drink during), then I come home and drink a pint of booze plus 3-4 strong beers. So I'd say I'm pretty close to an all-day alcoholic. Maybe I could quit cold turkey, but I had a friend wind up in the hospital trying that, so I won't chance it.
>>24572907
desu I basically did both for about 5 months without much struggle. My trick was that one night a week I'd have a no holds barred fuck off no rules night and just get belligerently drunk and smoke about a pack. The next day I'd be so hungover I couldn't bear to smoke without fear of vomiting or passing out, and then I'd be good for about a week or so. That worked until I missed that day once and then drank and smoked the entire next week.
>>24578064
1. see a doctor
2. do what he says
3. think about whether alcohol is doing more harm than good in your life
4. if alcohol is doing you more harm than good, consider sobriety
5. it is possible to be simultaneously happy and sober. perhaps not at first (you'll probably have to "white knuckle it" for a while in the beginning). but it can be done and others have done it. find other people who have done it and ask their advice and follow it.
>>24578111
Just take antabuse if you want to quit alcohol.
It'll make you sick as fuck if you try to drink on it.
>>24578272
What I do know is that alcohol has lost all enjoyability, it is now a physical compulsion and nothing more.
I have hit the end of the line.
Probably not the best way to cope, but whenever I get really bad cravings I whip my back and legs with a belt. I've been 100% clean for a couple months, so I guess it works.
I tried big couldn't make it. I was panicking and my heart felt weird. So I bought a 40 and a bottle of whiskey. Slightly buzzed now. Starting to realize in an alcoholic. Not sure if I can be functional or not.
>>24575572
I go to AA, it helps. The peer support is why it works, there's really nothing magic about the steps. The first 3 are the only ones that really matter.
Coming to terms with the fact that I could never drink or get high on anything ever again was the hardest part. I started going for court, but after a few months of it I started going on my own.
>>24578318
it may not seem like it now, but what you're going through is actually a very good thing. it is commonly referred to as "hitting bottom" and if you seize this opportunity and finally fucking give up the fight you will look back on it as one of the best things you ever did.
see >>24575572
Once I started drinking, it became more and more for two years. By the third year, I started drinking liquor every night, and I could do this without ever getting hungover and I was drinking a lot.
Three years after that, the anxiety hit for the first time. Had an awful nightmarish year after that.
Now, I do drink every night, but not nearly as much as I used to.
All I'm saying is be careful.
>>24577886
>Blood in your shit
What's the story senpai? How long have you been at it and what do you do?
Why not instead of quitting just moderate it? Like only drink on the weekends.
>>24578471
Thanks anon. I'm gonna give it my best shot.
I'm leaving /r9k/ too. This place is a joke now, all the feels and brotherhood have been replaced by bitterness and normie shitposters. Any ideas where I should go?
>>24578649
Nigga do you even alcoholism?
>>24578649
more power to you if you can do it successfully. personally i just found that path torturous.
>>24578649
I've tried that upwards of 20 times now and it still hasn't worked, so I gave up.
>>24578664
google "[name of your town] aa"
find list/schedule of meetings in your area
find a meeting near where you live at a convenient time
go to meeting with an open mind. all you need to do is sit down and listen. just take what you find helpful from what is said at the meeting and ignore the rest.
if you feel up to it, ask someone at the meeting who looks like they know their shit what their favorite meetings are in the area. write these down and check them out when you have time. again, just sit and listen -- no need to do anything / believe anything / prove yourself to anyone.
GL breh. as for quitting r9k, i can't guarantee itll help with drinking issues, but i can see how this place can be toxic/distracting, so if you think it'll help, peace out and happy trails.
>>24578664
Don't make the mistake of thinking that cleaning up means you'll be happy. I'm still unhappy and suicidal, I just don't drink anymore.
>>24571304
That leech just reminded me of an awesome episode of the Twilight Zone where an alcoholic goes to some mystery shop for a miracle cure to his addiction and it's some sort of parasite in his stomach that causes him to experience the worst pain imaginable when he drinks.
I like the Twilight Zone.
>>24572060
>>24571809
what is high functioning alcoholic
>>24578227
Yea booze is one of the only things they say not to quit cold turkey. It's funny tho how they treat alcohol wd's with Xanax and xanax is another drug you can die wd from.
>>24578970
I understand, I think. But I do want to live. I think I still have something to live for. I just don't know what it is yet.
>>24571304
There was a guy on /an/ that took care of a leech a few years back. He wrote a pretty detailed guide on how to take care of them.
It was neat.
>>24578970
the way i see it, sobriety is necessary, but not sufficient, for my life to be happy. but at least i have a halfway decent shot at happiness (through learning, relationships, self-improvement, travel, etc) if i'm not sinking into a black hole of addiction / alcoholism. also its tough to be happy if you're dead or in jail b/c of some stupid shit you did while lit.
who /numbfingers/ /coldsweatyfeet/ here?
