Alcohol As A Way Of Forgetting?

[BluUte]

Does anyone use alcohol as a way of trying to beat their depression or illness?

[Blue]

Kels,

That was my biggest problem, I was drinking to treat my own depression.

And that is bad ... way bad!

Whats the point of drinking just to make you feel good? What goes up must come down! As the saying goes.

So now I am honestly trying to get up drinking, not that I am an alcoholic... I dont think I am ... but I have set myself a new goal and not had a drink for 18 days now ... wish me luck ... as I am dead serious about giving it away forever.

[BluUte]

Good for you Billy..

I think way back when I was in my teenage years, I had a 'slight' problem with booze & weed... I was trying to blot out my past & to numb the depression.
Unfortunately, the weed only made it worse, and I ended up getting paranoid.

Wishing you luck with the quitting!!! It 'aint easy, to quit anything.

[chickybabe]

Kels,

That was my biggest problem, I was drinking to treat my own depression.

And that is bad ... way bad!

Whats the point of drinking just to make you feel good? What goes up must come down! As the saying goes.

So now I am honestly trying to get up drinking, not that I am an alcoholic... I dont think I am ... but I have set myself a new goal and not had a drink for 18 days now ... wish me luck ... as I am dead serious about giving it away forever.

hi billy firstly let me say congratulations and wish you all the best for taking controll of this alcohol beast. i do not drink nor do i suffer depression. but i do need some help. my husband and i have recently separated.due to his drinking.. this started when he was medically put off work due to stress (4 years ago). instead of enjoying retirement he went deeper into depression which is being treated, but he also started drinking a lot, and as a result has cirrhosis. i am finding it very hard to cope as i work and look after my mum and dad, mum has dementia and dad has a heart condition as well as starting to loose his memory. i feel i have tried everything with my husbands drinking but he is and always has refused any kind of help. in fact he does not believe he is sick from the alcohol but blames everything else has anyone got any ideas that i may not have tried..

[who am I]

I try not to drink to much now. I know that I fall into using that to attempt to help.
It wipes me out physically and mentally. Now I dont drink as much I notice that my thinking is slower after a big night. I have also noticed that when I am emotionally hurt by someone I go all out on the grog. Not a good way to deal with it.
I try not to keep it in the house anymore. Easiest way to do it. And I NEVER have a drink when I am going to drive.

Chicky babe-- I hope you get some Ideas. I know from experience with family members that sometimes they are on a mission to destroy themselves. It's a long slow way to commit suicide.

[chickybabe]

thanx for your reply . i is very sad to see someone destroy themselves in that way . my husband was drinking + very strong medications and driving, untill i got a call from the local police to say he had collected about 10 white posts , another driver reported him. the police found him 3/4 of an hour later in the garage ,engine running and asleep behind the wheel. i asked them to suspend his licence, which has been done. some of my friends said that i did the wrong thing but i couldnt live with it if he had killed someone. that is when we split up, we are still in the same house but i have one end he has the other

[Blue]

thanx for your reply . i is very sad to see someone destroy themselves in that way . my husband was drinking + very strong medications and driving, untill i got a call from the local police to say he had collected about 10 white posts , another driver reported him. the police found him 3/4 of an hour later in the garage ,engine running and asleep behind the wheel. i asked them to suspend his licence, which has been done. some of my friends said that i did the wrong thing but i couldnt live with it if he had killed someone. that is when we split up, we are still in the same house but i have one end he has the other

As someone mentioned on a friends blog the other day

Drinking is but a symptom of greater problems that lie beneath the surface. Have you admitted that you are powerless over alcohol and that your life has become unmanageable? That first Step is the hardest to do.The fact that you use the word ‘dry’ tells me that you have just stopped but you aren’t doing anything to else??? I may be mistaken. Maybe you should consider more meetings. We don’t get sober alone.
Cheers
A ‘Member of AA”
Jeremy

Your husband needs to accept that he has a problem, he is the only one who can help himself, he needs to make that first step, to give up drinking.

Check out www.aa.org.au and http://www.aa.org.au/info/newcommer.php?nav=nc

Thats the only real advice I can offer you, the aa website is full of information.