Blackpill Being an alcoholic is hard work

[Gendocel]

It's harder than it sounds like.

Everyone can get drunk 1 day. But doing it every day seriously cuts into your finances, time and health, because resistance builds up.

Try it yourself. Every subsequent day after getting wasted takes more effort to get wasted. I don't know how real alcoholics do it. Because in theory it sounds like a good cope.

 

[ArcticAngel]

I'm not an alcoholic but I've developed tolerance without heavy drinking, when I started one beer could get me buzzed and now sometimes not even 2 beers are enough.

 

[CrackingYs]

It becomes a really shitty life. Especially when your tolerance gets to a point where you can't get drunk anymore. Like it's not just your liver that builds up a tolerance, it's your brain and cardiovascular system too. Eventually the dopamine rush from alcohol is completely gone. And all you have is the bite of a harsh whiskey to quench the need for more alcohol.

Then the bad times start. For me my liver started hurting fucking bad. Could hardly sleep. Then cause alcohol was no longer enough I started smoking weed and my life really went to shit.

I eventually snapped out of it, but it sucked. Totally sober now. Being sober sucks too in different ways but at least I can function now and hold down a job for longer than 6 months like I was doing before.

 

[ArcticAngel]

It becomes a really shitty life. Especially when your tolerance gets to a point where you can't get drunk anymore. Like it's not just your liver that builds up a tolerance, it's your brain and cardiovascular system too. Eventually the dopamine rush from alcohol is completely gone. And all you have is the bite of a harsh whiskey to quench the need for more alcohol.

Then the bad times start. For me my liver started hurting fucking bad. Could hardly sleep. Then cause alcohol was no longer enough I started smoking weed and my life really went to shit.

I eventually snapped out of it, but it sucked. Totally sober now. Being sober sucks too in different ways but at least I can function now and hold down a job for longer than 6 months like I was doing before.

How much can you reset your tolerance if you stop drinking for several months?

 

[Mecoja]

Yeah, any addiction is way too expensive.

 

[Gendocel]

It becomes a really shitty life. Especially when your tolerance gets to a point where you can't get drunk anymore. Like it's not just your liver that builds up a tolerance, it's your brain and cardiovascular system too. Eventually the dopamine rush from alcohol is completely gone. And all you have is the bite of a harsh whiskey to quench the need for more alcohol.

Then the bad times start. For me my liver started hurting fucking bad. Could hardly sleep. Then cause alcohol was no longer enough I started smoking weed and my life really went to shit.

I eventually snapped out of it, but it sucked. Totally sober now. Being sober sucks too in different ways but at least I can function now and hold down a job for longer than 6 months like I was doing before.

It seems the best compromise is to get wasted only every 2nd or 3rd day. Doing it daily just ensures absolute disaster.

 

[incelerated]

 

[CrackingYs]

It seems the best compromise is to get wasted only every 2nd or 3rd day. Doing it daily just ensures absolute disaster.

I'd say more like 2 weeks or more. That would give you enough time for your body to recover. Or just not bother with alcohol at all, it's not as good of a cope as it seems.

 

[CrackingYs]

How much can you reset your tolerance if you stop drinking for several months?

Mine didn't reset very much. I didn't have hardly anything to drink for about a year, and went back to drinking for a while. And it's not like I got drunk right away, it was more like I got hungover right away and barely got a buzz. There's kinda no point in drinking when that's the case, so I eventually just quit entirely, about 18 months ago.

 

[VersoffenerAssi]

It's harder than it sounds like.

Everyone can get drunk 1 day. But doing it every day seriously cuts into your finances, time and health, because resistance builds up.

Try it yourself. Every subsequent day after getting wasted takes more effort to get wasted. I don't know how real alcoholics do it. Because in theory it sounds like a good cope.

It's brutal af sometimes.
Especially the physical deterioration. Sometimes I can hardly get out of bed, but I need my alcohol...
I have been an alcoholic since 2008.