Alcoholism Support Group
Alcoholism is the continued consumption of alcoholic beverages, even when it is negatively affecting your health, work, relationships and life. If you think alcohol is causing you to lose control, it's time to seek help. Our group is a safe place to vent, check in, get back up if you fall, and reach sobriety.
I need to preface this with an explanation that my husband works very hard and is at work by 5:30am everyday. This is a true conversation that occurred late last night in my kitchen.
ME: Hon, someone on DS said that the aspertame in Diet Soda is worse for your liver than beer!
HIM: Well maybe you should switch to tea? How about Green Tea?
ME: I hate decaf and those herbal kind but I'm afraid that all the caffeine in regular tea will keep me awake all night.
HIM: Well maybe you could have a glass of wine.
ME: ** blink * blink.
ME: I have a better idea, why don't I have a couple of beers to calm me down after all the caffeine that I'm drinking to keep me from drinking beers?
HIM: ...... silence......
HIM: I am really tired I'm going to bed.
ME: Yeaaa.. G'Night hon.
Anyone else have a similar experience?
ME: Hon, someone on DS said that the aspertame in Diet Soda is worse for your liver than beer!
HIM: Well maybe you should switch to tea? How about Green Tea?
ME: I hate decaf and those herbal kind but I'm afraid that all the caffeine in regular tea will keep me awake all night.
HIM: Well maybe you could have a glass of wine.
ME: ** blink * blink.
ME: I have a better idea, why don't I have a couple of beers to calm me down after all the caffeine that I'm drinking to keep me from drinking beers?
HIM: ...... silence......
HIM: I am really tired I'm going to bed.
ME: Yeaaa.. G'Night hon.
Anyone else have a similar experience?
You remind of Fred's story in the book in 'more about alcoholism':
"I went to my hotel and leisurely dressed for dinner. As I crossed the threshold of the dining room, the thought came to mind that it would be nice to have a couple of cocktails with dinner. That was all. Nothing more. I ordered a cocktail and my meal. Then I ordered another cocktail."
and...
"As soon as I regained my ability to think, I went carefully over that evening in Washington. Not only had I been off guard, I had made no fight whatever against the first drink. This time I had not thought of the consequences at all. I had commenced to drink as carelessly as though the cocktails were ginger ale. I now remembered what my alcoholic friends had told me, how they prophesied that if I had an alcoholic mind, the time and place would come-I would drink again. They had said that though I did raise a defense, it would one day give way before some trivial reason for having a drink. Well, just that did happen and more, for what I had learned of alcoholism did not occur to me at all. I knew from that moment that I had an alcoholic mind. I saw that will power and self-knowledge would not help in those strange mental blank spots. I had never been able to understand people who said that a problem had them hopelessly defeated. I knew then. It was the crushing blow."
You also remind me of me.
Sounds to me like you need AA.
See how insane that is?