official sober thread
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- autoflavour0
Sadly not be design.. only it's so fucking expensive to drink in Sydney i just can't drop $100 to only feel a bit drunk..
- Hey but all the fucking draconian laws stop you drinking too late. It's like they're saving us money!MrT
- pango-3
WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!?!?!
- bklyndroobeki0
- this is/was me... except for the skin care infomercial.fooler
- Why do I think this guy is like 4 foot tall?detritus
- He is. He lives under a bridge and eats children that try and crosskona
- I think he's trying to do some goodbklyndroobeki
- 4'2" bro, get it right.section_014
- bklyndroobeki1
- I'd love a decent bath house culture in London. Miss Japanese onsens.mugwart
- Problem in UK is, if you opened a cool stylish cafe that you'd find in Asia (Tokyo/Taipei etc) that served nice foods/cafe drinks/ beer+wines - it'd be trashedfruitsalad
- and intimidated by the hoards of binge drinkers, the aggressive drunks, shouting and smashing up things.fruitsalad
- You'd leave stylish cafe at 11:30pm to be met with severely intoxicated football hooligan types.fruitsalad
- I know! its a colossal culture shift. Especially when most of UK seems to be void of culture. 'urh your different'mugwart
- its a great shame. If we could improve this UK would get so much better.mugwart
- shit a uk sober - they might actually see the TV and newspapers are. We might get a revolution!mugwart
- is it that bad?bklyndroobeki
- mugwart6
Been constantly sober for about 2.5 years. One of the few decent decisions I've made in my life!
Then again I did grow up in Watford, spiritual home of the football hooligan's ...
- notype8
Made a commitment a couple weeks ago.
Can conclude, as I inch towards another relaunch around the sun, the experience I've had on this journey is nothing like I'd ever imagined.
Life feels so much more promising.
- Go forth!BonSeff
- Stay thirsty for sober life.Longcopylover
- Huzzah!DRIFTMONKEY
- semi-emotional reading the positive thoughts here on my train ride home. Bon, Long, Drift I appreciate you guys. Hoping that this marks my way on to morenotype
- positive aspects: new home, marriage, kids? who knows. hoping to report back in 5 years ;)notype
- The Naked Mind by Annie Grace really helped. Reading it for the second time today.notype
- zaq1
can't have a sober thread without Tool
- imbecile-4
sober like legal to drive?
- lemmy_k17
I've managed to make it 24 years without a drink or a drug on the 8th of this month. Never thought I'd live this long much less be married, own a home and be raising a son.
- Congrats.Hayzilla
- Wow.DRIFTMONKEY
- incredible! Well done.mugwart
- How old are you?********
- i like how your sober and called yourself lemmy!mugwart
- ...so great!notype
- yupmekk
- I will be 50 this year freedom. I drank for ten years before I stopped.lemmy_k
- I'm pretty sure I never drank on the 8th of this month for the last 24 yrs as well.pango
- lol pangoMrT
- Congrats again mi bredah’notype
- PhanLo4
3 years of no booze. It's pretty boring sometimes and I miss meeting my mates in the pub.
- I've stopped drinking too but will never stop meeting my mates in the pub********
- I have this problem as well.DRIFTMONKEY
- congrats. think its about 4 years for me. Just go to the pub. Dont need to drink.mugwart
- I do still go to the pub, just not as often. Usually the conversation gets so abstract later on, the ginger beer just doesn't work against the beers.PhanLo
- Yea it's tough. I usually leave pretty early these days. By about 10pm I'm bored out of my skull.********
- This is awesome Phan. I don't miss drinking pals at the local at all in hindsight. They weren't real friendships which was what I was needing.notype
- I've stopped drinking too but will never stop meeting my mates in the pub
- de4k6
I'm about six weeks in. After a good steady classic British binge drinking habit for nearly 30 years. I presume it's going to take a while for my body to reconfigure and this first month has been up and down. I don't crave booze at all just want to feel amazing all the time, and maybe some telekinesis and x-ray powers that you should be rewarded with when you decide not to drink. Not as emphatic as that is it?
- telekinesis might make me stop drinking!sarahfailin
- I got the power of being smug and memory the following morning! People hate that the most!mugwart
- I'd be happy with the power of good decision making.lemmy_k
- Ha yes Mug and Lemmy — these things both incredibly improved.de4k
- I keep thinking of the drink as an awful ex I just broke up with. Went through this process with an actual person not too long ago, why not this too?notype
- It's the thing of "I know I deserve more than this"...notype
- DRIFTMONKEY3
144 days for me. I fell off the wagon hard during the holidays. It sure does get boring sometimes.
- renderedred8
About 9 months with no alcohol. It's not easy, I had moments when I just thought "fuck it" and bought beers or something. But no, somehow I did it...
* I had a habit of drinking hard for more than 30 years...
- ...have you read Naked Mind?
btw, I think this is awesome. Congrats... one day @ a time.notype - no i haven't read it, will look it up, thx. yup it's a day by day thing, now it's easier and i can talk about it, even sit in a bar and have a lemonade ;)renderedred
- been listening to it almost every other day renderedred, definitely changed my view.notype
- ...have you read Naked Mind?
- shapesalad4
A lot comes down to genetics or psychological position. There's plenty of credible research to indicate certain people are more prone to addiction.
Living in Lisbon for the past year with local wines as cheap as €1.49, it felt like an offence not to indulge and try all the wines.
I'm not prone to addiction, but after 10 months of wine, at least a small 10cl glass per day - I started to feel it's addictive attraction. Probably, since the brain has plasticity, I've over time, widened the pathway between alcohol = stress relief/feel good within the circuitry of my brain.
I'm lucky to not be easily addicted, so it was simple to stop. No wine for me for the past month, don't miss it. Feel overall better without it.
- the theory that more people are “prone” to addiction has definitely been debunked with science to back it up.notype
- mort_3
A fascinating book on addiction that among other things connects it to a dopamine (reward and pleasure neurotransmitter) deficiency caused by excess cortisol (stress hormone) passing from stressed mothers to their babies while in utero.
- +++ loved the personal histories
awesome book and very easy to understand, it's recommended for every single person here :)sted
- +++ loved the personal histories
- jaylarson2
i take sabbaticals from grass a couple times a year. Nice to take a break. And besides, increased tolerance!
- utopian1
I'm lit like a Christmas in July.
- ********-1
Why is there two Moon's? We just need the one. Damn.
- notype6
Still going strong, at the gym 6x wkly (though can't get gains, LOL not sure why- 0 regimen?), running 3-4x wkly.
All that time I wasted in bars (solo, hoping to string connections) makes me want to tear up when I think of it. $5K saved up in 6.5 mos sent to dead Sallie Mae.
Things aren't all rainbows but certainly better than they were, even when I slowed down and thought it was in moderation. Moderation is not for me.
If anyone needs anything over the holidays. I'm here.
Going to be offline for a bit, see you all in 2019!