re: Do you drink to celebrate or drink to forget?

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Never drink when you are down / sad. It'll be the beginning of the end.

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Heard this from several alcoholics.

Thankfully, when I'm down or sad, I don't have alcohol urges. I have long shower urges or hard labor urges (like a hard workout or working hard in the yard).

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He realized he only drinks to celebrate (and tgif counts!) Most alcoholics I know said they drink to forget/cope.

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I used to drink only in social environments- not necessarily a restriction I placed purposefully. I just never was much of a drinker outside of get together an and whatnot.

After the helicopter crash in 2010 and the subsequent life altering shite that was the rest of that year, I quit drinking altogether. Mainly because I isolated and found it extremely difficult to be social for quite a while.

I’ve only recently started drinking again a few years ago. I think for me, I grew tired of the Baptist Bible Belt telling me alcohol was a sin and society in general dictating my life choices.

I also got to a point in my life/age where I gave a great big huge “frick right off” to all the bullshite life throws at me.

TL:DR
I drink when I’m celebrating something, I drink socially, I enjoy wine each light when I’m relaxing at the end of a work day, and sometimes when I’m sad I’ll drink bc it helps me cry. (I find it very difficult to cry- not sure why that is but crying doesn’t come easily for me).

I drink because I like beer.

Asked and answered.

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Her mind is Tiffany-twisted,
she got the Mercedes-Benz, uh
She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys
that she calls friends
How they dance in the courtyard,
sweet summer sweat
Some dance to remember,
some dance to forget

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I drink cause I'm bored

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hard labor urges (like a hard workout or working hard in the yard).

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This is exactly what I do! There's always a fence that need repairing and by the end of the day you are to tired to drink anyway. Stay busy work hard sweat it out! Then maybe get a beer with friends at the end of the day!

I drank to cope. Used it as a crutch.

Sober since the new year. Not a drop.

I used to drink to get a good buzz. But it ended up making me more and more depressed to the point of just not caring anymore… I’d have a real nice buzz and still have beer left and drank them anyway even though I did not need them. Best choice I’ve ever made was to stop drinking all together….

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Sober since the new year. Not a drop.

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Congrats, man. Hopefully, I'm right behind you. I've been trying to quit and attending AA meetings while dealing with the hurt I've caused my wife (who's an absolute saint, by the way). Never thought it would be this difficult, but here we are...

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I've been thinking about my drinking splits for the last 10 minutes because of this thread. I think it is this: 40% to relax either after work, by the pool/on the patio, or after a mowing the lawn, etc. 50% taste - love a good bourbon or martini, love a great wine pairing with food, love some good craft beer 10% celebrate/socialize - combining these because I don't celebrate alone Not drinking Monday-Thursday has really helped my overall health (and sleep). But I still go hard in the paint on weekends

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That’s about me too all around. Sometimes I’ll celebrate a little on Wed night and not Thursday.