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Meg
06-09-04, 23:08
Why I don't drink anymore ( by Tom Edwards, no idea who he is/was ) that summarises its effects neatly ::

I changed because I have the sickness of alcoholism, alcoholism doesn't come in bottles, it comes in people.

You should have seen me.

I drank for happiness and became unhappy.
I drank for joy and became miserable.
I drank to become outgoing and became self-centred.
I drank for sociability and became argumentative and lonely.
I drank for sophistication and became crude and obnoxious.
I drank for friendship and made enemies.
I drank to soften sorrow and wallowed in self-pity.
I drank for strength and felt weak
I drank for masculinity and it sapped my potency.
I drank medicinally and became sick.
I drank because I thought my job called for it and lost my job.
I drank to stimulate and blacked out.
I drank to make conversation and got to where I couldn't talk at all.
I drank to forget and became haunted.
I drank for freedom and became a slave.
I drank for power and became powerless.
I drank to erase problems and saw them multiply.
I drank to cope with life, and invited death.

Keep it under control - please

nomorepanic
06-09-04, 23:24
How very true Meg

Cheers for reminding us


Nicola

tymcintosh
06-09-04, 23:53
I drank to forget but became sober

Ty

tara
07-09-04, 08:36
Thanks Meg, this just gives me a good reminder as to why not to drink.
Cheers Tara xxx:)

Laurie28
07-09-04, 09:42
Doesn't solve any problems does it - Unfortunetly some people think it does and it isn't until it is too late that they realize how true the poem is - easy enough trap to fall into..... a hell of a lot more difficult to get out off

Thanks Meg

Lucky

Meg
07-09-04, 17:44
I remember being asked why I hadn't just opened another bottle of wine when I was starting with panic and this was from medical colleagues.
Where would I have been now ?
One does have a drink problem and the other had to have a long sabattical .

I gave up all alcohol and caffiene for 3 months and can now have as much as I like again without any extra ill effect.
I can also have my beloved diet coke again but haven't gone back to 4 -4 a day .


Meg

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind.
If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
Robert Albert Bloch

tara
07-09-04, 17:59
Hi Meg, I gave up caffine and alcohol a year and a half ago just after my first panic and i haven't touched then since, the main reason is that i am to frightened, i used to love a glass of wine but i do get afraid that i will feel good at the time but pay for it later Tara xxx

Meg
07-09-04, 18:18
If you're doing well and have been looking after yourself well nutritionally and are well on the mend you may want to try a spritzer and see how you go .



Meg

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind.
If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
Robert Albert Bloch

Peter
08-09-04, 01:20
My Father Drank, and I thank me for that lesson.

Laurie28
08-09-04, 12:18
I was lucky that the thought of alcohol never really crossed my mind...

Started having panic attacks quite young and when my anxiety got to an all time high I was either pregnant or had a young baby to look after...

Peter - alcoholic parents are a great deterent

Lucky

jill
14-09-04, 11:48
How true meg

alcohol do's not solve are problems,
it just creates more...

Jill

sal
14-09-04, 18:08
Hi Meg

So true and its things like that that we need to realise to help us stop using the drink the make us feel better. I know i only as a short term effect making me feel better but a much longer term effect of causing major problems.

Thanks.




Love Sal xxxxx

Meg
14-09-04, 19:32
When I was acute and for difficult times afterwards - like training weeks- I took valarian tablets regularly throughout the day and night . They helped me not have a gin or 3 .

Meg