Who here gets drunk regularly?

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I've been known to enjoy drinking in good company but not at most other times. I don't like that so many people here seem to be attaching a stigma to it; social drinking is a pretty common thing to do. It isn't fair to say hackneyed crap about losing brain cells in the context of something you haven't even tried.

There are 4 people in my immediate family, two of which have been alcoholics. (I use the past tense because one of those two is deceased, though in no way related to alcohol abuse.) I'm a third person, my mother is the other one, and I discovered that when I was a child both she and my father experimented with hard recreational drugs. I'm the only one in my family who hasn't done anything of the kind, and frankly having watched these people during the times when they used and abused chemicals, I can say beyond a shadow of a doubt that it did not contribute to their gaining and iota of happiness. Not one.

I'm sorry, but given a choice between aching loneliness and slowly destroying your body, killing your brain cells, and turning your innards into pulp, I'd choose aching loneliness. Seriously. There are other ways to meet people besides screwing with your chances of long-term existence. I just can't think of anyone I love that much that I would willingly take sledgehammer to my insides, even in a metaphysical sense.

Don't do it. Find another way. Any other way. Choosing between lots and lots of drinking and anything else is like standing on a track while the train is bearing down on you--it doesn't matter which way you jump to get off the track, just get off.

i drink fairly often. i find it helps me socialise quite a lot. and also, if i establish a friendship with soomeone while drinking over the coursse of a few evenings, i then find it much easier to relate to them when sober. i'd say i probably get rather drunk 3 or 4 nights of the week.

although i do overdo it at times. some nights i can have maybe 10 or 12 pints, and end up acting bizarrely or saying things i regret to people.

I don't drink.

Tim

I never have drank and nor will I ever drink.

I drink just about everyday. It's not something I'm very proud of. I find that I enjoy to go out and get loaded at a good party or with some friends on the weekends, but I also find myself drinking now sometimes because I am bored or to help myself fall asleep.

In fact, when I was living at home going to community college, I was so depressed at the time that I found sleeping impossible, so I would sit up and try to do my work but I would be drinking too so that eventually I would just get tired and pass out. I read sometime last year about "Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome" on CNN.com, which coincidentally is actually how I started to learn about AS, and it turns out night owls often turn to alcohol among other things in an effort to get to bed earlier.

Since then, I don't typically drink to feel tired, but I started drinking more when I briefly lived in State College, PA. An accident has me temporarily home again, but I probably drink even more because I have much less to do. I'm probably a little bit more social than some people in this community, so if I am bored I would much rather spend my time at the bar with a bartender I know or a friend than sit by myself. I just worry one day it will get me into trouble.

I used to get drunk, but now I only have one drink, twice a month.

Above you are a NUTCASE, BASKETCASE.

I used to have a pint almost every day, but since the first of the year I've quit. I sleep better, but the memory problems haven't cleared up ...
I miss having a glass of whiskey, but the Missus gave it up too, so I must be on my best behaviour.