In One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (one of greatest films of all time bar none) Chief says something like 'everytime my dad put a bottle to his mouth, he didn't suck out of it... it sucked out of him'When you drink to any excess you dont really sleep, not in the true sense anyway. Your body is trying to mend itself, dealing with the toxins and stresses alcohol puts on our organs. It doesn't get chance to recover, hence the health issues it always causes.
After quitting, the body goes into a kind of shock stage, it doesn't know what's going on, and it doesn't like it, not one bit. It fights you, telling you it needs some alcohol. Feed me and i'll shut up, i'll let you sleep, you'll feel good I promise.
This is the one time you dont listen to your body, you tell that voice to fuck off, you do the sleepless nights and the sweaty days, you drink 4 litres of water a day. You eat fruit, you eat cake, whatever. You dont have a drink though. 3 weeks later you have the best nights sleep you"ve had for years. You sleep like a baby and you wake up feeling fantastic. This continues and not having a drink is a small price to pay for how good you feel. People can talk to you at work before 10 am, you're actually cheerful instead of the miserable **** you were when you drank. Life looks, feels, tastes and smells better.
You may have a wobble, but that will just make you stronger, more determined to beat it on your terms. At least an ambulance wont have to come, or a friend wont find you dead on the sofa. Your friends and family want you to live for as long as is humanly possible, because they love you.
Life is so so short, drink will make it shorter if we let it.
P.s. this wasn't aimed at you westy, just needed a vent.
It’s the days off that are good for my head as well as my insides :)Hey really sad about your parents. Glad you've been able to keep it in check. My old fella drank too much, finished him off too early. I like a drink too much too. Have managed to keep it to Weds Fri and Sat, but really have too much then. You really do need those days off.
Thank you.
I find it so hard to talk about my own problems, and I know there are people out there with far worse.
I originally started this thread to encourage people to share and discuss, come on and have a rant or a moan, etc.
I"m in no position to offer advice, but just reading all the posts on here has helped me a lot.
Thanks again bud
Then its tempting to drink Thursday and Sundays!!It’s the days off that are good for my head as well as my insides :)
My consumption is creeping back up on the days I do drink partly due to the fact I don’t go out to work Fridays and Mondays .. Not worrying levels of boozing though
Yep, always wine on a Thursday,, has been for years.Then its tempting to drink Thursday and Sundays!!
Thursday drinking has always been a 'thing' in the British military. Maybe it's a tradition linked to pay day?Yep, always wine on a Thursday,, has been for years.
If i do have to work on a Monday ill only have a couple of beers.. I'll hold off drinking those until as late in the evening as possible..
What makes it easier for me to not drink the amount I used to is that I get so hungover.. I always though this was a curse.
But if I woke up and felt OK, I know I'd drink a lot more.
For us it was because most lads went home on a Friday. Thursday was lads night out then fri/sat most of us went back home for the footy/lasses etc.Thursday drinking has always been a 'thing' in the British military. Maybe it's a tradition linked to pay day?
Yup. Lot of bases/garrisons are pretty dead at the weekends.For us it was because most lads went home on a Friday. Thursday was lads night out then fri/sat most of us went back home for the footy/lasses etc.
Pretty sure it is linked to payday, My mates and I in the early eighties all got paid on a Thursday, nothing to do with the military..Thursday drinking has always been a 'thing' in the British military. Maybe it's a tradition linked to pay day?
I've never thought of it before but that's right about Thursday's. My Platoon always went out together on a Thursday night when in the UK, no exemptions were allowed, probably because most of us cleared off home on a Friday. It didn't happen in Germany though.Thursday drinking has always been a 'thing' in the British military. Maybe it's a tradition linked to pay day?
Thirsty Thursday!Thursday drinking has always been a 'thing' in the British military. Maybe it's a tradition linked to pay day?
Is that similar to twofer Tuesday?Thirsty Thursday!
In Czechia they have plug in Wednesday. Nothing to do with drinking though :)Is that similar to twofer Tuesday?
We used to have a mandatory 'Friday 5 o'clock club' when we were on day shift, and the mandatory mid-shift day off merriment used to kick off about 11:00. Getting up for day shift the following day at 0600 was always a bit emotional to say the least.I've never thought of it before but that's right about Thursday's. My Platoon always went out together on a Thursday night when in the UK, no exemptions were allowed, probably because most of us cleared off home on a Friday. It didn't happen in Germany though.
Also closely linked to the other military tradition of doing fuck all on a Friday and getting an early stack.Thursday drinking has always been a 'thing' in the British military. Maybe it's a tradition linked to pay day?
Ah, you mean the Royal Navy?Also closely linked to the other military tradition of doing fuck all on a Friday and getting an early stack.
I carried the coffin of I guy I joined up with. He was in his late 30's and drank himself to death. He was on terminal leave when he died. Missed a medical appointment and was found dead a week later by his sister when she went to his house to find out where he was. He'd been dead over a week when he was found.Don’t go on Facebook much but opened it up yesterday to find an old RAF colleague had passed away after liver complications due to alcohol, tbh from his posts over the years he seemed fine but apparently had struggled last few years, in his late 40s early 50s, leaves a wife and kid, so sad. I must admit it shocked me, someone my age to die is a bit of a wtf moment.