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I hate myself. I want to erase myself with that poison. I want everyone who tries to abuse me and ask me for anything see no response, for I burned myself to death. I wait for some time when I would be just free, but whenever it comes, I'd just drink through it so I wouldn't even remember it. It feels like I had no free time at all, and here comes another morning, another Monday. I want to die.

I want to isolate myself from all this noise, these requests, these fucking routines. And alcohole helps me there. But then I have problems even waking up, a racing hearth, a bloody nose, these flashes in my already tired eyes. I feel like I pushed it too far, I eat vodka instead of a proper food, and it feeds into my generally bad acceptance of food.

I feel like it's nothing. I can race, I can growl, I can hate for whatever this diete of vodka and barely something can carry me for.

It makes me prepared to still work the job I hate. It makes me do work for people I love. It makes me not alone.

I feel embarassed by people around me, for they can smell that I've been drinking from me. In elevators, on the ladders and especially in the office space. Many of them are so kind to ignore it, but I know all of them know it. Even persons I don't know personally know I'm a drunk piece of shit.

I hate myself, why I'm even there? All I can think of is hate, Hate, HATE. But if I'm unfit to my job, where I can even find a job with that bad temper.

Honestly, I just want to drink myself to death, when I wouldn't care of all these things and my self-hatred.

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[–] HaHaHamennn 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You need to give up alcohol right away. Lowering the degree, reducing the amount of alcohol consumed or the number of drunks will not benefit. It is important to remove any alcohol from the house and enlist the support of friends. Understand what makes you want to drink. By resorting to alcohol, a person avoids emotions. It is important to establish their type, to understand how to fix the situation without alcohol. Avoid disruptions. The first few days are not easy to drink. However, over time, the need for alcohol will increase. Focus on the desire for sobriety, do not give in to the urge to drink alcohol. Fight the guilt. During intoxication, a person makes a lot of mistakes. . When the intoxication passes, the realization of what he has done comes. As a result, there is a strong sense of guilt. However, it is impossible to correct the past. Self-destruction will not do any good. It is better to focus on the future and try to avoid such situations.

In addition, you can read several useful books "Changing for Good" by James Prochazka and "Staying Sober" by psychologist Terence Gorsky. I also think you should look online for like-minded people, maybe with online meetings. And I think there are various smartphone apps for getting rid of alcoholism.

[–] andrew_bidlaw 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thank you. Especially for the last paragraphs with recomendations. Guess, it would be harder to drink if one hand is occupied with a book.

I also think you should look online for like-minded people, maybe with online meetings.

I'm hilariously bad with keeping long-living connections to people or projects. Something like what you see in ADHD memes although I'm not diagnozed. Guess it's one of the reasons I have problems to build a long time realtion with sobriety.

[–] HaHaHamennn 2 points 10 months ago

It is not necessary to maintain long-term relationships with them, you can appear periodically as needed and the need for it, besides, it can be turned into a daily routine. And you can also use existing connections :), for example, ask a friend, partner or family member to help. Maybe they will remind you daily that today is sobriety day, or they will ask you if you are going to drink today, etc.

In addition, about books if you are from Russia, it seems they were translated into Russian, which can help in reading them.