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Drinking Alcohol to Avoid Withdrawal and Depression
I drink because it makes me feel better and if I don't I just feel depressed. I think I need medication but when I told my doctor how I feel he said I needed to cut down on my drinking before I should try medication because it could be the drinking that is making me feel depressed. The thing is without drinking I feel so bad that I never can make it more than a couple of days without drinking It s a catch 22 situation. The drinking is making me feel bad but I feel so bad I need to drink to feel better. Should I find another doctor who will prescribe me the medications?
Read answer →Teen Binge Drinking Can Lead to Blackouts and Alcohol Dependency
If I have blackouts when I get drunk most of the time does that mean I am becoming an alcoholic. I am in my senior year of high school and we have parties most nights during the summer vacation. I never feel like I need a drink but we get wasted most nights anyway.
Read answer →Vegan vs. Vegetarian Diet as an Intervention for Alcohol Recovery?
Are there any issues with a vegan diet for a person who is coming off a long bout with alcoholism? I am about to receive my cousin to come stay with us on our organic farm. We are all vegan here so he will also eat that way. He intends to stay for a long while while he recovers his health. I know that alcoholics can have some particular vitamin deficiencies so I want to be sure that our diet here, which is healthful for an average person, will be up to his nutritional needs.
Read answer →In Recovery: "First Things First"
I drink every day. I got very drunk a couple of nights ago and then I got a panicky surprise phone call in the morning from my ex wife to go get our son from school. He had fallen at morning recess and they needed a parent to take him for x-rays since they thought he had a broken ankle. I went to the school to pick up my son and then they asked me to wait while they coordinated his homework with is homeroom teacher. I thought it was a bit weird to have to wait but my son was not in pain when he did not stand on the leg so I obliged. 10 minutes later a police officer walked into the principal’s office and I was asked to take a breath analyzer test, which I failed with a 0.085. I was very surprised but I guess I was still drunk from the night before and I must have really smelled of booze which is why they called the police instead of letting me take him in my car. I probably didn’t look too great either. They threatened to charge me with DUI and child endangerment but in the end because I was there in an emergency and because I had only been drinking the night before they let me off with a warning and I had to walk home. My ex wife had to come from work to take our son. All in all it was one of the most humiliating and degrading days I have ever experienced. And my son saw it all and now my ex wife is saying that she won’t allow me to see my son for a while. And the worst thing is I was feeling so bad about it all that I stopped off on the way home and bought a bottle of rye. I have been drunk ever since. My car is still at the school and I am too ashamed to go and get it. I am going to lose my kids unless I stop drinking but I just don’t know how to do that. It is noon right now and I am staring at a bottle and trying hard not to take a drink but I think I am about to have one. If this isn’t rock bottom I don’t know what is. I am ready to stop drinking but I don’t know how to do that. What’s the first thing I need to do?
Read answer →Alcohol Gastritis is Caused by Excessive Use of Alcohol
I am in my last year of high school and am on a trip with some friends. We have been drinking beers every night. I start drinking at about 1 or 2 and I will have 15 or 20 beer by the end of the day. I am usually pretty heavy but this week has been a lot even for me. I am starting to get this really painful stomach feeling that is difficult to explain in the morning after drinking beer. After a few beers it usually goes away but the next day it gets worse. I have had this before when I drink a lot a bunch of days in a row. I am 17 and have only been drinking for about a year so I don’t think I can have hurt my liver yet. None of my friends gets the same way as me but I probably drink more than them. How come drinking is starting to make my stomach hurt so much? Is it something I need to be worried about?
Read answer →Borderline Intellectual Functioning, Alcohol Abuse, and Treatment Considerations
My son has borderline intellectual capacity. He has an IQ of about 70. He is 25 now and he is living independently with some financial support from us and he is working as a bagger at a local supermarket. He has started to get a taste for alcohol, which is something he never really had when living at home. His employer is a personal friend of the family and he called me yesterday to say that my son is starting to show up for work obviously hungover and smelling of alcohol. He notified us as a courtesy and he was very apologetic when he said that unless things changed for the better that he would have to let my son go. I can see this spiraling out of control unless we get ahead of it. I have tried talking to my son but I don’t think he gets the severity of the situation. Is there some sort of program we could get him into for people that are at risk of alcohol problems with diminished intellectual capacity? I am sure his boss would agree to give him a leave for a couple of weeks so he could go and get some help if that’s what would be best.
Read answer →Excessive Alcohol Use Is Associated with the Acceleration and Intensification of Menopause
Is menopause ever a cause for excessive drinking. My wife is going through menopause right now and she is having a hard time with things. She is getting a lot of the usual symptoms like the hit flashes and sweats and she is also very emotional and sometimes, to my mind, she is not acting very rational. She is also drinking a lot more than she ever has before. She always liked to have a glass of wine with dinner and maybe a couple on the weekends but now she is getting drunk more than a couple nights a week, When she gets drunk she is much more likely to have an emotional ‘meltdown’ and it is very hard on me, but especially hard on our two high school aged kids. They know what she is going through and they’re good kids and they are trying to be sympathetic but they are also too often the target of her irrational anger and it’s hard for them to know how to handle this well. If she was acting like this a few years ago I would have been encouraging her to seek some help but as it is right now I know that her moodiness can be explained by the hormonal fluctuations. Is the drinking something that is also being caused by the menopause? I am kind of hoping this thing is just going to run its course soon enough but if the drinking is getting of control and it is not associated with the menopause then maybe I should encourage her to get some help. I have already tried just asking her to drink less and that didn’t go very well.
Read answer →Hidden Symptoms of Alcoholism Do Not Offer True Escape
I have a drinking problem that I can sort of control but which mostly controls me. I go through these back and forth phases of not drinking and binge drinking. What I do is quit drinking and get focused on getting in shape and doing better at work and being a better dad and being a more spiritual and mindful person. I do this for a while and after a couple of weeks I start feeling really great, much better than I ever feel when I am drinking. And then after a while I am feeling so great and there will be this reason to have a few glasses of wine or an old friend will come through town or whatever and I will end up having a few drinks. And then a few days later I will have a few more drinks and then it will just escalate until I am drinking between 6 and 12 beers every night. Once I am in a drinking phase I get obsessed with thinking about drinking and I will be thinking about getting and drinking beer all day long. Because my family knows about my battles with drinking I am also obsessed about hiding my drinking so they don’t know how much I am really having. After a while, things will get bad enough that I will quit drinking again and tell my wife that I am done with drinking again. I know myself very well and this cycle has repeated itself enough times that I know it’s like a pattern I can’t break free from. I am on my first day of not drinking again today after a health scare that I thought was related to drinking but wasn’t – but since I am in my 40s and have been drinking for decades, it very well could have been. I really want to break free from this cycle and stay sober for good. I have been to AA meetings before and I did not like them. I can easily quit for a few weeks or even months so I don’t think I need rehab. I just don’t know how to keep myself from slipping up a month or two down the road. How can I stop myself from repeating this pattern of my life?
Read answer →Families Often Need Help First Before the Alcoholic
I'm trying to get some help for my son he is addicted to alochol and he is living on the streets of baltimore I'm looking fgor a state funded rehab for him please help me
Read answer →Alcohol Consumption Can Cause Complications to Heart Disease
I have early stage heart disease and my doctor says I need to quit smoking and drinking. I know the smokes are killing me so I cant make any more excuses but quit but I did not know that drinking beer only was bad for my heart. If I cut down and I only have 1 or 2 beers every day isn’t that supposed to be a good thing for my heart. I think it would be much easier for me to have 1 or 2 a day rather than not be able to have any at all. I have been drinking about 12 a day for a while.
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