Can you live without alcohol?
It can be very difficult… But if you can only partially or completely live without all the flowing substance, how do you manage? (This question only concerns people with alcohol problems who either still drink or have managed to get sober.) People who still drink can't live without alcohol, but they may still try to quit for longer periods of time…
There's never a half-cured alcoholic—you either drink or you don't. In the past, I'd tell myself the same old joke over and over again as I raised each glass, that I could quit at any time… I've since curbed my drinking and practice moderation, and I'll probably stay half-dry and half-wet for a while.
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Hello,
I’ve been dry for 14 years. I have a 4 year old “career” with 2 bottles of vodka a day and endless detoxification en behind me.
I can only say that I just didn’t want it anymore. After the last detoxification no longer started.
Fact is. You have to. Everything else doesn’t help.
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Thanks for the honest answer. Yeah, you’re perfectly right, you have to… if the will is strong enough, you can do it.
I congratulate you, it’s just the least.
Hello!
Go to a meeting of AA:
https://www.anonyme-alcoholiker.de/meetings/meetingssuche/
People there share their knowledge of how they live with joy without alcohol today.
During my alcohol withdrawal, we should think about advantages/additions consumption and benefits/additions abstinence.
Here my result:
Benefits of consumption:
Pleasure, relaxation, tolerance, societality, creativity, humor, openness, problems suppress/forget
Cons: Consumption
Disarmament, embarrassment, reluctance by others, procrastination, danger of deprivation, physical decay, lack of concentration, manic-depressive, fun brake
Advantages of abstinence:
Health/Fitness, clear head/healthy scepticism, order, cleanliness, hygiene, structure, healthy sleep, sensible jobs, understanding for alcoholics
Disadvantages:
Overthinking, lack of spontaneity, lethargy, temptations everywhere, constant struggle/examination pressure, social contact poverty, unperspectiveness, introverted, fear of relapse, must take responsibility, worry, have to take care
Conclusion: after several attempts (with withdrawals, therapies, self-help groups) without alcohol, I finally failed. I meanwhile (69, reindeer, living alone, ordered conditions) tell me: “What is it?? Have a good life. Why fight? More than 5 years old, more sober and funny fall from the stool and break the neck when in 20 years sober but as their own vegetables crawl in the retirement home.
I used 4 liters a day after I noticed how I was in my day I got up from one day to the other, you just need enough control then that’s not a problem
I usually get right without alcohol. Only at celebrations I may drink a glass of champagne and a glass of wine to eat, so once a month. Otherwise I drink alcohol-free beer with pals in the pub.
I don’t like it, I drank 2 glasses of wine last Christmas, together with my father.
I haven’t been drinking alk for almost two years. Vlt cumulative 100ml wein (symbolic apron, in bolognese or so:D )
The stuff almost destroyed me
Very good. I just need him for sauces.
I get very good without alcohol
How?