Drowning My Sorrows

Duke O Smiley

After a rather unpleasant break up yesterday, three days before my birthday, a friend and I went into Dublin for a few beers. I'm not usually one for drinking, but I thought it rude to decline the offer. And it beat going for a coffee.
I'm not one for clichés, but it felt good to drown my sorrows, as it goes. By about midnight I hadn't a care in the world, and I felt a lot better. And even today I feel quite good and I owe it to alcohol.

So reader, does it work for you?

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Omackeral

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JONJO THE MISER

What you need is a proper bender for 10 days or so followed by the fear and staying in bed for 3 days after, that should sort you out.

hatrickpatrick

Getting drunk has the opposite effect on me, tbh. If I'm already buzzing and I get locked, I buzz more. If I'm miserable and I get locked, I sink into a deep depression wherein whatever I was miserable about is amplified to the point of seeming far worse and more insurmountable than it really is.

I've since learned to simply avoid drinking altogether if I'm down.

I always thought alcohol had this effect on more or less everyone, IE, amplifying your current mood rather than changing it?

Banjo String

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

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ratracer

Did ya at least get the sympathy ride??

Bongalongherb

Ah the ole alcohol. Only for alcohol I'd have kids all over the place. Thankfully the amount of alcohol I have been drinking messed my sperm up so couldn't get any woman pregnant after drunken sex throughout the years. I have no kids thankfully so I give alcohol a 10/10, it saved me many a headache of problems that could have manifested.

The only downside is the Fear, and tummy aches.

Junkyard Tom

I avoid cliches like the plague too but at the end of the day you've got to get back up on the horse.

MilesMorales1

Doesn't sound like it'd end well.

Birneybau

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

After a rather unpleasant break up yesterday, three days before my birthday, a friend and I went into Dublin for a few beers. I'm not usually one for drinking, but I thought it rude to decline the offer. And it beat going for a coffee.
I'm not one for clichés, but it felt good to drown my sorrows, as it goes. By about midnight I hadn't a care in the world, and I felt a lot better. And even today I feel quite good and I owe it to alcohol.

So reader, does it work for you?

P.S - brand new in box Michael Kors watch for sale. PM me for details.

Michael Kors is for people that don't actually know what luxury goods are.

Duke O Smiley

Birneybau wrote: »

Michael Kors is for people that don't actually know what luxury goods are.

People like my ex girlfriend

donegaLroad

its ok so long as you don't do it over a period of say, 10 years..

Drink always puts me in great form, but had a tendency to try to prolong it. So would be the last man ordering drinks in the bar, the late bar, looking for a party, staying till dawn. And wouldn't drink often, just when I did it wasn't controlled, I could never do the 4 pints and home thing. So found it good for dealing with stress in the short term. But it really is short term, and it causes stress in other areas without solving anything. So wouldn't knock it at all, or those who reach for it at certain times.

Cold War Kid

Are Conor74 and Conorh91 father and son?

conorh91

Cold War Kid wrote: »

Are Conor74 and Conorh91 father and son?

There's also a "conor 1992" and a conorhal, who regularly crops up in the same thread as one of us. As far as I know none of us are related, but it is odd.

NachoBusiness

Alcohol can be an excellent reset button.. but only some problems can be solved with a reset, unfortunately.

Cold War Kid

Cold War Kid wrote: »

Are Conor74 and Conorh91 father and son?

No, my daughter is all of 8 months old...hence the reason I talk about my late late nights drinking largely in the past tense!

Cold War Kid

conorh91 wrote: »

There's also a "conor 1992" and a conorhal, who regularly crops up in the same thread as one of us. As far as I know none of us are related, but it is odd.

Yeah i mix you up with conorhal too.

But anyway, back on topic: once you don't become utterly dependent on that feeling from drink in order to feel better about things, it's grand to have a few beers at the weekend to unwind and yes, even to forget troubles temporarily. Then tackle them again Sunday.

Arytonblue

Alcohol only gets you so far OP, now mix it up with some well sourced narcotics and you're onto a winner, and possibly jail time to help you forget your troubles even easier.

Duke O Smiley

Arytonblue wrote: »

Alcohol only gets you so far OP, now mix it up with some well sourced narcotics and you're onto a winner, and possibly jail time to help you forget your troubles even easier.

The only high I need is happiness my friend

Cold War Kid

Cold War Kid wrote: »

Yeah i mix you up with conorhal too.

But anyway, back on topic: once you don't become utterly dependent on that feeling from drink in order to feel better about things, it's grand to have a few beers at the weekend to unwind and yes, even to forget troubles temporarily. Then tackle them again Sunday.

I used to find that I was pinning everything on my blow outs, on Friday Id be looking at the clock, texting others to make plans...and one day in the weekend was always written off afterwards. I loved them, I was good on drink and the life and soul type, but I had 20 years of it - though it used to be 3 or 4 nights, it petered down to 1 or 2 in the last few years. I look back now and wonder why I depended on it so much, why I was the fellow looking for the party, out dancing, telling everyone it was tequila next etc. I didn't even drink that much, 10 or 12 pints and then the silly stuff, but now it's more about control, the hours (if I go out now, I'm back for 10 or 11), the environment (no more 5am parties) etc.

skittles8710

I can be completely erratic on the booze. Last night for example I was feeling sh!t hot, high on life boogying away like a mad yoke. Then I took a turn, looney toon drunk calling people looking for attention. Then I was on a downer for a while. Thankfully all that is not a common occurrence!