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Alcohol Problem
Hi everyone, I am a college freshman and i think i see a problem starting to form in my life.
I have recently started drinking a lot while in college, often blacking out and not remembering the night i had. I sometimes drink just to feel drunk and carefree. I spend most of my money on alcohol and I usually go through about a fifth of alcohol on any givin night. My friends are starting to become concerned and they tell me that i am not the same person drunk as i am sober. They also tell me that when i start drinking i will not stop until someone physically takes the alcohol away from me. I don't know what to do and i'm afraid that I might have a problem.
How do i get help with letting anyone (including my friends and parents) know about the situation.
Thank you all.
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Well, from what I've heard you say and from what I've experienced regarding somebody getting hooked on alcohol, quite frankly you're are on the road to inevitable destruction! You need to make some major changes in your life, and I mean now! Because if you don't, and you keep drinking alcohol your life will become a miserable hell! Next to Coke, Crack and Speed, Alcohol is one of the most addictive and physically and mentally destructive drugs on the legal free-market. It also has destroyed many families and still is only because it's legal and socially accepted to begin drinking at a young age as you yourself have begun to do. But, Alcohol is an extremely,slowly but surely, extremely addictive drug that will always make you feel like drinking just a little bit more each time you decide to drink. Which in turn makes you become more addicted to it and wanting to drink more each time you drink. Then, eventually you will go from drinking a 12 pack of Beer on a Friday night to three or four shots of hard alcohol instead. Because it's much easier to satisfy your uncontrollable thirst for alcohol by just taking three, four, five, or even six shots of hard alcohol like Vodka, Scotch or Rum, etc..
And,by then it's much too to easily get you to stop drinking alcohol!
So, in short fix your problem now before it's too late! And I don't want any weak minded friends like you who cannot control your serious bad habits!
You are facing inevitable destruction of your personal life! Fix it!
Why do the alcohol industries spend millions of dollars every year trying to keep Pot from being legalized? The only reason they do this is to keep a safe and controllable party favorite from being legalized. Because they know if the US Federal Government approves Pot for being safe enough for the public's use, and if Pot becomes legal to be purchased by US citizens then it sets in motion for the inevitable near demise of your largest alcohol manufacturing companies. The people who own and control the alcohol companies don't care about its negative effects in society and most importantly our families at home. Alcoholism kills more people on the freeways and roads in communities than anything else.
The reason I mentioned this about the nature of the persons who run the major alcohol industries is to remind you about the fact how those people don't give a damn about you personally! They don't give a damn about you becoming so addicted and hooked on alcohol that it will eventually ruin your family, your personal relationships, your friendships, and your ability to learn and train your brain while in the college that you or your family has spent fortunes on giving to you so that it improves the quality of your life and future. So, HOW DOES IT FEEL TO KNOW THEY WANT YOU TO BECOME HOOKED ON THEIR ADDICTIVE DRUG CALLED ALCOHOL ?!! And you are seriously addicted to alcohol and probably not quite aware of it,yet.
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I have been doing the same thing! However, I suffer from some sort of depression and am currently seeking help. I started at your level when i realized that I don't drink to have fun or get on. I drink to black out and not remember anything. I have been through alot in my past so yeah...
But you have to sit down and ask yourself why do you drink is there some sort of dperession? Does it run in your family? I hope I helped somewhat.
OH YEAH I am in college to and most of my money goes to alchohol too! lol. See if you can go to a counselor and find out what's going on.
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Most colleges have counseling centers where students seek counseling.
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If you need a stranger to tell you that you have a drinking problem then let it be me. YOU HAVE A DRINKING PROBLEM. That is the bad news. The good news is that you realize to a certain extent that you do have a drinking problem which is the first step to solving the problem; or if you will follow my advice, the first step to recovery.
You are a problem drinker, an Alcoholic. My brother in-law is a recovering alcoholic and has been for over 20 years. My brother in-law credits AA, Alcoholics' Anonymous, for saving him. My brother in-law tells me that the first thing they tell you at AA is that in order to to get help you must first admit you have a drinking problem. This is the only thing you have to do yourself; after the AA can help you with your recovery.
I have also been told that everyone who admits to having a drinking problem has hit bottom and that everyone's bottom is different. His was waking up in the drunk tank. The funniest think to come out of that is that the cop that put him in the drunk tank is now one of his best friends and the two of them work together at programs to stop teenage drinking and drunk driving.
The only advice and the best advice I can give you is to contact AA and find a meeting to go to. The meetings are free. Talk to them and ask for their help. Below is the AA national Web address search site. Type in your zip code to locate a group in your area. I would not be surprised if there was a meeting site right on campus.
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You have taken the first step, now just follow through and go to an AA meeting.
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