How do they do it

Internet Hero

This is my idea from my other thread about drinking a bottle of vodka. When you are an alcoholic how do they manage to drink so much one day, like i drank a bottle of vodka and then wake up in the morning and have a beer or a wine or something first thing?

How do they manage to keep drinking. I never had a feeling that i want to drink more the next day after a night out, i always feel as if i cant drink ever again. What is it that aloud alcoholics to keep drinking when a normal person cant stomach another drink the next day usualy?

Boombastic

Practice

Penn

Years of building up a tolerance to it so the same amount years ago doesn't have the same effect now.

That's why it now takes me 14 hours to masturbate.

seamus

Yeah, you get used to it. Even a raging alcoholic will tell you that the first drink of the day is like getting stabbed in the stomach, but after that it's plain sailing.

Think of it like going on a 3-day stag. Except every day.

FatherLen

if you dont stop then you wont get a hangover.

i think?

Internet Hero

seamus wrote: »

the first drink of the day is like getting stabbed in the stomach

:eek: ah seriously that should be enough to stop them doing it!

TPD

It's the hair of the dog the next day, but it just continues. Two drinks to cure what ails ye will leave you wanting a third, and so on.

minidazzler

Internet Hero wrote: »

:eek: ah seriously that should be enough to stop them doing it!

Generally the pain of being sober will seem worse for an alcoholic.

humbert

Also for an non-alcoholic the next day you are wishing for recovery and a return to normality. Take that away and why not have another drink.

cloptrop

Most alcos dont get blazing drunk all the time . Just keep a buzz going . Youd be surprised how many people you know have sneaky drinks throughout the day .
When you get arsehole drunk the shame and the guilt and fear is usually enough to get you drinking the next morning .

Boombastic

"Poor me, poor me, pour me another drink" - johnson

giant_midget

Boombastic wrote: »

"Poor me, poor me, pour me another drink" - johnson

Season 8 starts next month...:) "can you tell me...is the bottom half of me on fire?" :pac: :pac:

the groutch

FatherLen wrote: »

if you dont stop then you wont get a hangover.

i think?

works for Father Jack

giant_midget

Internet Hero wrote: »

This is my idea from my other thread about drinking a bottle of vodka. When you are an alcoholic how do they manage to drink so much one day, like i drank a bottle of vodka and then wake up in the morning and have a beer or a wine or something first thing?

How do they manage to keep drinking. I never had a feeling that i want to drink more the next day after a night out, i always feel as if i cant drink ever again. What is it that aloud alcoholics to keep drinking when a normal person cant stomach another drink the next day usualy?

Have a look at Duff McKagan's interviews of recent years, They will be on youtube...amazing what the body can take..

cloptrop

giant_midget wrote: »

Internet Hero wrote: »

This is my idea from my other thread about drinking a bottle of vodka. When you are an alcoholic how do they manage to drink so much one day, like i drank a bottle of vodka and then wake up in the morning and have a beer or a wine or something first thing?

How do they manage to keep drinking. I never had a feeling that i want to drink more the next day after a night out, i always feel as if i cant drink ever again. What is it that aloud alcoholics to keep drinking when a normal person cant stomach another drink the next day usualy?

Have a look at Duff McKagan's interviews of recent years, They will be on youtube...amazing what the body can take..

Ah rock n roll tales of excess are always exagerated .

Internet Hero

giant_midget wrote: »

Have a look at Duff McKagan's interviews of recent years, They will be on youtube...amazing what the body can take..

his pancreas exploded...

:eek:

giant_midget

cloptrop wrote: »

Ah rock n roll tales of excess are always exagerated .

yea you are right about that, I've read the book..Duff is not full of lies and tall tales. he is very humble.

Internet Hero

anyone here an alcoholic?

Irishcrx

Internet Hero wrote: »

This is my idea from my other thread about drinking a bottle of vodka. When you are an alcoholic how do they manage to drink so much one day, like i drank a bottle of vodka and then wake up in the morning and have a beer or a wine or something first thing?

How do they manage to keep drinking. I never had a feeling that i want to drink more the next day after a night out, i always feel as if i cant drink ever again. What is it that aloud alcoholics to keep drinking when a normal person cant stomach another drink the next day usualy?

They become so used to it the hangover feels like normality after a while and they won't feel 'complete' until they start drinking again , few drinks in and the hangover goes and it starts to become normal again as their getting drunk. The pain of not having a drink outweighs the feeling of being hungover.

I come from a family of alcholics , my Mam could go on 3-4 benders without any sleep drinking morning ,noon and night and she'd barely even seem effected by a hangover so long as she kept drinking. Horrible thing to watch a person do to themselves.

Ando's Saggy Bottom

I always got the impression a lot of alcoholics dont even go on binges. Theyre just topping up a little all the time just to keep them numb.

Internet Hero

Pete Campbell wrote: »

I always got the impression a lot of alcoholics dont even go on binges. Theyre just topping up a little all the time just to keep them numb.

how long can a person binge for

1ZRed

Internet Hero wrote: »

how long can a person binge for

Like everything it completely depends on the person! There's no set limit for anything like this.

Internet Hero

Holsten

Always boggled my mind too.

The idea of drinking that much makes my stomach turn, but I've seen this type of person in the flesh sadly. I think something happens to their bodies which allows them to do what they do.

EdanHewittt

OP is referring to the chronic booze fiend.

Not high functioning Alcoholics who can go a month without the booze, but then slowly creep into their old ways.

See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-functioning_alcoholic

OP is baffled as to how so much alcohol can be consumed in such small amounts of time.

I can tell you this:

It doesn't really matter how 'fit' you are, or if you have a superhuman liver and pancreas. The gist of it is:

Tolerance. Years of dousing your insides with ethanol means you become immune to it.

If you suddenly find yourself without said ethanol, you will feverishly try to find more of it, and so begins the old story of addiction.