Who else here uses alcohol to temporarily block out their problems? :/

[RaisingSand]

I do ... and I really know I shouldn't ... but still. :( Who else does this?

[Sapphire]

You're not alone :hug:
I've been drinking a hell of a lot lately. It's getting out of control really. Only been one day in about a month and a half without any alcohol...Not good. Most the time for me it's just a way to relax and take my mind off things.

It's a positive sign that you are acknowledging that it's not a good or healthy thing to do!

[RaisingSand]

Meh, I did it again tonight though. :/ I now feel pretty drunk and it's taking me ages just to type this out.
Btw, could we talk on MSN at some point Carole? Send me a PM or just add me to MSN.
Churs.

[Hyper]

Yes in a way.

[Hauptmann Kauffman]

In Germany i used to smoke Marijiuana and drink to drown out problems, but ive been free for awhile:D

[RaisingSand]

Yay, a drug and alcohol free 14 year old. XD LOL

[Hauptmann Kauffman]

lol:D

[RaisingSand]

I know there's beer in the shed and I really want it. :/

*attempts to go find keys to it*

[Fiending_the_freedom]

lol right here. but i must say its much more fun thatn cutting to "solve" your problems temorarly
lol sorry had to say.

[RaisingSand]

Um .. sorry, say again?

[Underground_Network]

Angie, what I think she meant was that drinking alcohol is a better way to drown out your problems than cutting. I don't drink alcohol, nor do drugs. If I get really down I just go straight to attempting suicide, or I take it out on someone else (usually my dad, but sometimes on other people). I can't say that you shouldn't drink alcohol (a lot of my friends do), but I'm not going to promote it. I myself hate cigarettes and really any drugs. I hate needles, my nose already bleeds a lot, and I like my lungs :P. But, although drinking isn't great for you, and I have drank some alcohol (I've never been drunk though), I don't think of it as that bad, as long as you don't drink too much of it.

[RaisingSand]

Yeah, I figured that out after I re-read it this morning XD (was majorly overtired last night). I agree, it is.
But in my opinion, I drink too much, because when I do have alcohol, I do get pretty drunk on purpose (provided I have enough alcohol to get me to that state in the first place).
I really want to try and cut down though, I'm determind not to end up dependent on alcohol to try and fix my problems.
First step ... cutting down to light beer? XD

[RaisingSand]

Well, that was bloody sucessful ... (SORRY FOR DOUBLE POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!). I'm not trashed again. :/

[Hyper]

So your going to cut yourself instead of drinking alcohol?

Aka your going to move from one dependancy to another?..

[lucki_scotti]

well firt theirs something wrong iwth this thread alcohol doesnt block your problems temporally or permentally...it just makes you so damn drunk you forget about them which doesnt block them.

i have an uncle who has screwed his life up from drugs and othere stufff so i try to stray from anything that is addictive cuz i know ill get hooked and ruin my life...

dont get me wrong a lil bit is fine once in a while but dont drink evertimg you have a prblem

[Serenity]

well firt theirs something wrong iwth this thread alcohol doesnt block your problems temporally or permentally...it just makes you so damn drunk you forget about them which doesnt block them.

I believe that's what she meant. When there's something she doesn't want to think about, she gets drunk so she doesn't have to, thus 'blocking it out' of her mind. She didn't mean she uses alcohol to make her problems go away, everyone knows that's not going to happen- rather the opposite if it becomes a dependancy.

[chuckroast]

that was me every night this past year...

drinking to blackout and passout. smoking an 1/8th a day... all to try and block any emotion. i was suicidal, and believe me... i tried (and have the -~-scars-~- to show for it.

i started "treatment" for depression, but really i still feel like shit.

[free2bme]

ya know i dont c any problem w/ getin drunk i do and i dont think its a problem jst as long as u dont do it 2 much but i gotta ask how would somone go about getin drugs not askin so i can use um but ive been ponderin this 4 a while ive never been offered drugs and the worst i c people do is smokin ciggs but yet suposidly people are gettin all types of drugs i just dont understand how it works