Budding drinking problems

[cybermule]

I think when you get into your early thirties, and you grew up with alcoholic parents, you start to notice friends whose habits are becoming unhealthy.

People who arrange their entire lives around days off to deal with their binge-drinking.

People who think that cancelling a date is OK if they've got a hangover.

People who are in a really bad mood, bitch that your driving makes them sick, or have a really lousy time at a planned event because they drank too much the night before.

It's sad. I look at them, and without being patronising, I can see them starting on their own personal downhill spiral :(

Comments

[eve-of-hades.livejournal.com]

But... You're talking about 90% of this country!!

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

That's not good :( I guess I just try not to hang around with people who's drinking bothers me. I just know a few people now who skip work a few times a month, never turn up for anything, always seem ill. You know what I mean?

[eve-of-hades.livejournal.com]

Ok, that's 80% of this country then... Sad figures, I know.

[sagefemme11.livejournal.com]

It may also be the sky-rocketing progesterone that causes these maternalistic feelings. We all age and develop not-so-healthy-habits. Don't even ask me about how hard it's been to forego chocolate for the last 23 days.

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Hahah - it could be. Plus, I'm fairly hard-line on drinking problems, which always make me worry.

It certainly wasn't a post about being better than them - I have enough bad habits of my own. It was more a kind of requiem to a couple of people who seem to have stopped having a good time any more and just seem to be either drunk or hungover :/

[malcygoff.livejournal.com]

I'm worried that I'm drinking a bit too much; but I think that's not the real problem. The terrible state of affairs is when someone doesn't realise it - and then proceeds to deny it, no matter how gently people try to help :(

[amiga500.livejournal.com]

I have a friend who no longer drinks because a DUI finally made him realise he has a problem. At parties, we'll give him a champagne-esque bottle of fizzy juice, and that seems to work well. Oddly enough, when he mentioned a behaviour pattern in his daughter I thought sounded unhealthy, I was able to tell him to try to stop it, and it seemed to help. You know what alcoholism looks like, I know depression and eating disorders, I suppose. When I started to have a problem with the latter, out of nerves, rather than body image, my grandmother yelled at me, ans that took care of it. Denial really is dangerous.