This
and when they stop functioning, they do it dramatically, my father was one of those until a cardiac arrest almost killed him and left him with a dilated heart and a treatment of seven pills a day.
You can't stay high-functioning forever. What starts as "I had a stressful day, I'll just have a second drink tonight right after dinner" turns into two or three drinks each night. What starts as "It's 5pm, time for a drink" becomes "It's 4pm and I'm not doing anything, it's basically 5". You need a bigger hit to get the same sense of relief. If it was just about the act of drinking something, you would drink juice or tea.
What makes it last a long time is that it stops being about pleasure or socializing and becomes about relief. You can go years stressing yourself out all day, then drinking yourself into relaxing each night. But this only enables you to continue living with the stress as it grows. You won't manage it or reduce it, since you can just drink it away after work. Eventually it's bigger than you are, and you stop being high-functioning. That's really true for any form of relief that doesn't address the source of stress - drugs, alcohol, masturbation, video games, whatever.
You want to keep drinking, cut back and fix some of your problems first. And if some of them are unavoidable due to the nature of your job or family or whatever, at least do what you can.
> t. work with a bunch of lawyers and almost all of them are or were high-functioning alcoholics
Those can still fuck you up mentally if you use them a lot. Especially ecstasy if you use it more than once a month and dont give your brain enough time to refill your serotonin levels
>Mushrooms: least harmful, natural, grows every year in the UK, benefits people >UK Government: das a class A 'armful substance rioght there if I ad ever seen one lad
Alcohol is way more common than heroin, so total negative impact on society is greater. +100 damage for each heroin user, +1 damage for each alcoholic, but 1000x more alcoholics than heroin users means 10x more damage from alcohol.
this. Fucking 0.1% of the population understands how to look at a study critically its so fucking infuriating. Thats how we end up with "omg guys red meat causes cancer!"
Nice bars. What does this mean? Are those totals for the whole population, or is that a per-user average? How is the "damage" measured? What the hell does "community, economic, and environmental cost" even mean? >That which is submitted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence
>Oh no I like the way I look:
American psychologists: you're a narcissist >Oh I enjoy drinking a few times a week:
American psychologists: you're an alcoholic >Oh you have a lot of random hobbies:
American psychologists: you have ADHD >Oh you see the state of the world and feel angst
American psychologists: you have depression
This isn't at all how it is you tard. No one says the guy who has a beer with friends on the weekends and Fridays is an alkie. The guy blacking out alone in his apartment on a Wednesday is an alcoholic.
>No one says the guy who has a beer with friends on the weekends and Fridays is an alkie
Does "the guy" have more than 3 drinks in his weekly benders ?
Yep, that's an Alcohol.
Doing well with family and friends and job but I'm fat don't sleep well and can't it 1/2/3/4 for years so I'm quitting save for special occasions and even then stopping at 2
leaky heart valve and doctors didnt catch it and that gave him multiple strokes from them trying to fix his blood pressure from a doctors visit
he smoked cigarettes like a chimney too
I mean he was overweight but other than that he was perfectly healthy until the doctors gave him pills. doctors said alcohol and cigs had nothing to do with it
How do I keep high functional?
I love alcohol but I also love being in shape, my family and money
Don't overdrink retard
cocaine
keep bac under .04
All alcoholics are high functioning until they're not.
This
and when they stop functioning, they do it dramatically, my father was one of those until a cardiac arrest almost killed him and left him with a dilated heart and a treatment of seven pills a day.
You can't stay high-functioning forever. What starts as "I had a stressful day, I'll just have a second drink tonight right after dinner" turns into two or three drinks each night. What starts as "It's 5pm, time for a drink" becomes "It's 4pm and I'm not doing anything, it's basically 5". You need a bigger hit to get the same sense of relief. If it was just about the act of drinking something, you would drink juice or tea.
What makes it last a long time is that it stops being about pleasure or socializing and becomes about relief. You can go years stressing yourself out all day, then drinking yourself into relaxing each night. But this only enables you to continue living with the stress as it grows. You won't manage it or reduce it, since you can just drink it away after work. Eventually it's bigger than you are, and you stop being high-functioning. That's really true for any form of relief that doesn't address the source of stress - drugs, alcohol, masturbation, video games, whatever.
You want to keep drinking, cut back and fix some of your problems first. And if some of them are unavoidable due to the nature of your job or family or whatever, at least do what you can.
> t. work with a bunch of lawyers and almost all of them are or were high-functioning alcoholics
My cheat day is me just drinking for 8 hours straight
Here you go alcoholics. Now defend your poison
>Ecstasy, LSD, and Shrooms all at the bottom
Ravefags we just keep winning
Those can still fuck you up mentally if you use them a lot. Especially ecstasy if you use it more than once a month and dont give your brain enough time to refill your serotonin levels
I'm aware, I read the graph
>Mushrooms: least harmful, natural, grows every year in the UK, benefits people
>UK Government: das a class A 'armful substance rioght there if I ad ever seen one lad
Whoever makes these charts lol
How is heroin or meth less worse than alcohol? Have these people ever seen a heroin addict in their life?
Alcohol is way more common than heroin, so total negative impact on society is greater. +100 damage for each heroin user, +1 damage for each alcoholic, but 1000x more alcoholics than heroin users means 10x more damage from alcohol.
this. Fucking 0.1% of the population understands how to look at a study critically its so fucking infuriating. Thats how we end up with "omg guys red meat causes cancer!"
Who cares about society? Those gays only care about me when I don’t pay my taxes.
Chart is bunk. Meth is way underrepresented for the red portion
Nice bars. What does this mean? Are those totals for the whole population, or is that a per-user average? How is the "damage" measured? What the hell does "community, economic, and environmental cost" even mean?
>That which is submitted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence
Being sober sucks
>Oh no I like the way I look:
American psychologists: you're a narcissist
>Oh I enjoy drinking a few times a week:
American psychologists: you're an alcoholic
>Oh you have a lot of random hobbies:
American psychologists: you have ADHD
>Oh you see the state of the world and feel angst
American psychologists: you have depression
It's getting old.
This isn't at all how it is you tard. No one says the guy who has a beer with friends on the weekends and Fridays is an alkie. The guy blacking out alone in his apartment on a Wednesday is an alcoholic.
i feel attacked
>No one says the guy who has a beer with friends on the weekends and Fridays is an alkie
Does "the guy" have more than 3 drinks in his weekly benders ?
Yep, that's an Alcohol.
Doing well with family and friends and job but I'm fat don't sleep well and can't it 1/2/3/4 for years so I'm quitting save for special occasions and even then stopping at 2
My uncle was a high functioning alcoholic
had scotch or whisky or something in his coffee every morning, a couple of beers for lunch, and end the day drunk.
every day he did this and continued to lead a normal life
Damn how'd he die?
leaky heart valve and doctors didnt catch it and that gave him multiple strokes from them trying to fix his blood pressure from a doctors visit
he smoked cigarettes like a chimney too
I mean he was overweight but other than that he was perfectly healthy until the doctors gave him pills. doctors said alcohol and cigs had nothing to do with it
some people have lucky genes with those things, but they are very rare cases
>destroys your body and brain
I only drink 2-3 times a week because im a neet and it would be too easy to do every day