Stop Drinking

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This is a place to motivate each other to control or stop drinking. It is also a place for non drinkers to discuss and share.

We welcome anyone who wishes to join in by asking for advice, sharing our experiences and stories, or just encouraging someone who is trying to quit or cut down.

Please post only when sober; you’re welcome to read in the meanwhile.

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Hi! I wanted to document my new journey here. Hope you don't mind! (self.stopdrinking)

submitted 1 year ago by Rando to c/stopdrinking

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I've been drinking quite a bit since I was 21. I'm now in my mid 40's and COVID really pushed me over the edge - lots of day drinking. I've tried to stop drinking a number of times now, but the most I usually ever made it was a couple days or at most a week. I got to the point where I think I was getting on the edge of DT's when I tried to stop sometimes. I made it a few weeks (not consecutively) this summer. I slipped the week before last and was drinking quite a bit from about 10AM/2PM until I passed out later in the evenings. On Monday (July 24) I thought I'd try to stop again. I quit drinking sometime in the early afternoon. I wasn't feeling too bad when I went to bed, but then I started to feel the dread/doom creeping over me. I spent the night not being able to sleep and feeling like I was going to die until about 2AM when I felt I had to break into my "emergency stash" I had gotten in case this were to happen. I drank 3/4 of bottle of wine by 4AM Tuesday morning and felt I'd see what would happen. I was able to fall asleep for a few hours. I woke up later that morning and worked, did my normal routine for Tuesday. That night I had the same experience, but it wasn't quite as bad. I couldn't sleep and still felt the impending doom, but I managed not to drink any. I held strong on Wednesday, and was actually able to get a good night's sleep (thank goodness!). Now it's Thursday. I was feeling pretty good which of course my brain was telling "just a few drinks tonight won't hurt anything". I was able to ward it off though and I'm looking forward to another good night of sleep tonight! Stay strong friends!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sorry I'm a little late. I just joined this community and there aren't too many posts yet. I hope you're still doing well!

That is huge getting the first good night of sleep after you haven't in a while. I can say from personal experience that it was a real struggle to get much sleep at all while I was detoxing from alcohol. Probably around 2 weeks before I started getting some good rest at night. Using alcohol as a sleep aid was one of my many excuses to poison myself throughout my twenties, so when I no longer had it, I also had to figure out how to get to sleep like a normal person. Thankfully, it was simple for me: just keep not drinking and sleep will come easily. Now-a-days I still don't get enough sleep, but its not because I'm up late getting wasted, its because I'm up late playing video games. I've been a night person since I was young though, so it really isn't much different from before I started drinking either.