Drunk Texting

Conas

The issue of texting well drunk has become a problem for me, and a very embarassing one too. I don't know how many people on here have done it before, and I'm sure it wouldn't be something you'd like to discuss the next day. But I seem to be doing so much these days it's becoming insane, messaging people on my Facebook, women asking them out on dates, and I don't even know them, sending kiss symbols, all my words slurred and messed up. Sending love heart stickers.

I was also on sleeping tablets before, and the same thing happened again, woke up the next morning, and here I had sent off loads of messages, all slurred, and bizarre.

I go out, and enjoy my night everything is fine, but then when I'm at home, and half asleep, I seem to have got into this terrible embarassing habit. I feel embarassed and ashamed of it.

tinkerbell

If you're drinking and you are doing stupid things while drunk then stop drinking do much. Or switch your phone off when you get home.

Conas

tinkerbell wrote: »

If you're drinking and you are doing stupid things while drunk then stop drinking do much. Or switch your phone off when you get home.

I'm fine when I'm out, but I seem to wake up in my sleep, at about 4am, and it happens. I'm just embarassed about it. It happens with the sleeping pills aswell, and is just as bad. But I'm wondering if it common for this to happen, and have many people done this kind of thing before.

Starokan

i used to do this too, you have two options, leave your phone laptop iPad etc somewhere where you cannot get them while your drunk.

the second option is more difficult and that is to recognise that you are unable to cope with the quantities of alcohol you are consuming. its making you behave in a way that will continue to shame you

Conas

Starokan wrote: »

i used to do this too, you have two options, leave your phone laptop iPad etc somewhere where you cannot get them while your drunk.

the second option is more difficult and that is to recognise that you are unable to cope with the quantities of alcohol you are consuming. its making you behave in a way that will continue to shame you

But when I'm out, I know what I'm doing and where I am. It's sort of like I sleep walk a bit when I'm back home, with the effects of the alcohol. I'm a very shy person, and I just don't like this happening. It shames me, it really does. I've never been in a fight, never arrested. But the way the texting is making me feel it's just as bad. I have to talk about it, because it's making me very anxious and depressed.

Snake

Conas wrote: »

But when I'm out, I know what I'm doing and where I am. It's sort of like I sleep walk a bit when I'm back home, with the effects of the alcohol. I'm a very shy person, and I just don't like this happening. It shames me, it really does. I've never been in a fight, never arrested. But the way the texting is making me feel it's just as bad. I have to talk about it, because it's making me very anxious and depressed.

Then don't drink anymore it's pretty simple mate.

Conas

GrayFox208 wrote: »

Then don't drink anymore it's pretty simple mate.

But I like drinking, and this is the only problem I seem to have. I'm wondering is messaging people well under the influence common? and what are people's opinions on people who do it?

CaraMay

Conas wrote: »

But I like drinking, and this is the only problem I seem to have. I'm wondering is messaging people well under the influence common? and what are people's opinions on people who do it?

But it's not a small problem. It's a big problem as you are making a bit of a nuisance of yourself and tbh it comes across as very sleazy.

Stop drinking

Conas

CaraMay wrote: »

But it's not a small problem. It's a big problem as you are making a bit of a nuisance of yourself and tbh it comes across as very sleazy.

Stop drinking

Thanks, I come here to ask about a personal problem, now I'm worse off. Fine I'll give up the drink then. I feel embarassed, that I'm now a sleaze bag. This just can't get any worse.

Oink

You're saying that you get drunk regularly, to the point that it has a bad effect on your life. When someone pointed that to you a couple of posts above, you said something which read to me as "it's ok, except when it's not".

You'll find a way out of this, but you need to face up to the facts. Read your own post agsin very carefully and think about what you're describing, hopefully it will help.

All the best.

Conas

Oink wrote: »

You're saying that you get drunk regularly, to the point that it has a bad effect on your life. When someone pointed that to you a couple of posts above, you said something which read to me as "it's ok, except when it's not".

You'll find a way out of this, but you need to face up to the facts. Read your own post agsin very carefully and think about what you're describing, hopefully it will help.

All the best.

It's not just alcohol, it also happend with sleeping pills. I will find a way out of it, but I just hope it never happens again. I'm a bit of a loner anyway, so these people don't know me that well. Which is both a good thing, and a bad thing.

Ka_yl_ei_gh

I've never drunk texted, but whilst on sleeping tablets once, ambien, I sent a guy a picture of a bed with twister styled bed sheets and asked him if he wanted to play twister.

Conas

Ka_yl_ei_gh wrote: »

I've never drunk texted, but whilst on sleeping tablets once, ambien, I sent a guy a picture of a bed with twisted styled bed sheets and asked him if he wanted to play twister.

Yes that's the sleeping pills I took, and still have in the press, called Ambien (zolpidem). Thankfully someone has sent a post, who have had the same problem.

Ka_yl_ei_gh

Conas wrote: »

Yes that's the sleeping pills I took, and still have in the press, called Ambien (zolpidem). Thankfully someone has sent a post, who have had the same problem.

It's never happened with alcohol but when it happened with sleeping tablets, it was because I needed a lower dose.

yaya*

There are apps to stop you sending texts and calls between certain times or else they ask you to answer a complicated question to prove you're not totally intoxicated. Do a search for them.

However, I'd echo what other posters have said and I would take a look at your drinking habits and be honest with yourself.

Good luck!

Conas

Ka_yl_ei_gh wrote: »

It's never happened with alcohol but when it happened with sleeping tablets, it was because I needed a lower dose.

I only take the sleep pills because if I didn't I'd go days without sleep. I was put on antipsychotics for my schizophrenia, but muscle spasm, and side effects were bad. All these pills, and alcohol, just make me feel and do crazy things, like messaging.

Ka_yl_ei_gh

Conas wrote: »

I only take the sleep pills because if I didn't I'd go days without sleep. I was put on antipsychotics for my schizophrenia, but muscle spasm, and side effects were bad. All these pills, and alcohol, just make me feel and do crazy things, like messaging.

That's why I was prescribed them too. You're really not supposed to drink alcohol on those type of pills.

Conas

Ka_yl_ei_gh wrote: »

That's why I was prescribed them too. You're really not supposed to drink alcohol on those type of pills.

No I never mix, I just don't take the pills on the nightout. I also take 20mg of Ambien because I built up a tolerance.

Conas

Ka_yl_ei_gh wrote: »

Edit: Also, have you ever tried zopiclone? It's a less severe sleeping tablet, but it does the job, you also need it on prescription.

I haven't taken that, but I have taken about 13 others pills that they fired at me. I'm years on pills, they've messed with my head.

Tokyo

Hi Conas,

considering that the thread has steered away from being an issue with alcohol, and has now delved firmly into the territory of being an issue with medication, I'm afraid that I have to put a halt to this. The fact that you are describing possible reactions with anti-psychotics, sleeping pills and whatnot means that you really need to speak to your doctor regarding the medication that you are on, whether you should be going off it on nights out, and whether you should be drinking alcohol while on medication. With the best will in the world, nobody here is qualified to advise you on this. Thread closed.

Regards,
Mike