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It was different every day but the absolute minimum was a 6 pack. That was on a day I had things to do. If I had a day where I had obligations, I’d settle for a six pack with a 6%abv because I could regulate it by the hour because of my body weight.
On average I was drinking a handle a day. Easy.
On days I was trying to “regulate myself” I was still drinking 9%abv IPAs.
Was in it.
Edit: if you start hiding any of your drinking even in the slightest, it’s time for a life change. Also, all of the above was when I was in my early 30s. In my 20s, I was buying 30 packs of Busch daily
Thank you for the insight and well done from staying sober!
Sorry the answer wasn’t so concise. I was drunk everyday and learned to mask it. Some days I failed masking it or shorthanded how much I’d had to drink and it caught up with me.
Have had MANY incidents that would keep the layperson up at night for the rest of their lives. I’m just built different.
I’ve spent a collected 1 year in county jail. 6 months was the longest stretch. I’ve avoided prison but that 6 month stretch made me wish for prison.
I’ll say my boredom now (when I drank it helped speed up the day, I just wanted the day to be over) is constructive. I’m playing piano and guitar again. I’m writing.
Things still suck but I know they’ll suck whether sober or drunk so I just do sober. Saves me money
Edit: also saves me from being alone. I’m in the greatest relationship and I can’t jeopardize that. It means more to me than being numb
A handle meaning 1.75 liters of something 40% ABV? A day?
Seems almost hard to believe. Did you have any seizures or anything when you quit? Did they taper you off on some medication?
No seizures. DTs landed me in the icu a few times with major hallucinations going on.
It was recommended I taper with gabapentin. It helps manage but I still have trouble with nearly nightly sweats and insomnia. I still shake and tremble if I try and do something that requires finesse or dexterity.
A handle EVERY SINGLE DAY is a no, that was overstated. 4 days out of the week, yeah. Red stag was my liquor of choice for a long time. I’d blackout and just keep going until I woke up wherever. Drunk tank, ER, in the grass on the side of the road in the middle of the night.
Last summer through fall I restarted drinking after nearly a decade of very light occassional drinking, about 12 or more ipa's a day, two hearted ipa and a local one.
Roomate was cool but drank a liter of scotch a day, happy drunk though, both of us. Worst he did was exitedly tell or play things for you he had previously, especially of his glory days.