The only problem is if you already struggle with depression. Alcohol will actually make you more depressed. Possibly for a good deal of time even after it's main effects wear off. It will just make matters worse.

This post was last modified: 03-03-2008 05:04 AM by Skorian.

Okay... Alcohol.
Well, I live in london, and society is different in ways, but the core of shallow egotistical bastards stays the same.
Essentially, I was always a weird kid. I used to listen to Frank Zappa and Bjork from the age of ...(as long as I can remember actually). Either way, I was shunned out of society for being a freak.
Then, I got dumped by the love of my life, had a HUGE panic attack, and my gran died, ALL in one week.

After the panic attack I then gave up weed and resorted to cigarettes cocaine and alcohol.
EDIT: It was a very very stupid thing to do. God only knows how much damage it did to me, and in the end, its made it alot harder for me to recover. and im still working on it.
Like i said, It was stupid of me, and to be blunt, It would be extremely stupid of you to do the same.
You will ALWAYS regret it later. If you want to feel better, you have to improve upon yourself, not turn yourself into a lifeless smudge with a bottle of whiskey.
I learnt this the hard way, I'm sure you'll be the wiser.

This post was last modified: 03-03-2008 10:04 PM by Nat.

I drink usually because it helps take the pain away. I usually don't have hangovers, if I do, I know exactly how to get rid of them. It's not really that I like alcohol. I like the effect that it has. Since I'm such a shy person it helps take the anxiety away and I feel more loose. If I'm not doing anything other than worrying, then it just turns into a vicious cycle...when I drink, I don't usually get trashed, I will stop once I've had enough to get buzzed and not worry about how pathetically horrible my life is. If I'm at a bar, then there's no way I can get through the night without drinking cause I have no friends. If I had friends I wouldn't need to drink as much.

After going to many bars and pub's and having a drink to loosen me up I realiesed It just made me hate my life even more. Even If I just had a beer or 2. I dont know, I just think that although alot of drugs are illegal, alocohol is by far one of the worst. It really does induce a dull miserable film of self-hate over the drinker, unless of course they are completely happy with their life already.

I feel you, lonelyloser. I began drinking at 13 and didn't stop until this year (at 20). I always feel ugly, lonely, friendless, pathetic, etc. because I am all those things. I started due to peer pressure, and continued because being drunk seemed better than consciously living my sad life. Alcohol just suppressed these feelings, but didn't destroy them. After a few days of not drinking, the pain was much worse than it had been before. So I upped the dosage, but the pain always came back stronger. Here I was literally pissing my life away, with nothing to show for it. My grandfather battled with alcoholism, and by the time he died, he was so ill that he had been confined to a bed for 10 years. 10 YEARS of being stuck in the same place with nothing but misery as company. I realized I couldn't do that to myself or my family. I am ugly, pathetic, etc. but goddamn it, I deserve to exist. Freshman and sophomore years of college, I went out every weekend and some weekdays too, and got disgustingly drunk. But everytime I got drunk and saw all these beautiful, successful, happy people, I would feel even worse. I always felt invisible, like an intruder who was observing a world that I wasn't supposed to be in. The drinking/party culture is a very shallow one- it's not the place for people like me with self-esteem problems. My first night at college, I got so drunk that I wandered 10 miles away from campus. In the ghetto where I ended up, I just walked up and down the trash-littered sidewalk and couldn't stop crying. I felt so utterly alone, and I was. I thought I was going to die, and realized my life was a waste. A few months and some hard detox, and I'm done with the cycle of alcohol and depression. I'm still miserable, but I'm giving life one more shot.

I personally enjoy drinking. I enjoy the hell out of it. Some people have told you never take another drink, and some have said bottoms up. My opinion in the matter is that if you want to drink, drink. However, if you already know that you can't keep it under control, you should just leave it alone and be happy that you are out. Like just about everything else, it is only good if used in moderation.

That is true, If you cert do it in moderation you should stay the hell away from it.

Alcohol took nearly everything from me. Friends, Girlfriend, Job, health, it made me isolate and become very depressed and suicidal. In the end I was drinking more than a bottle of rum per day, everyday. And as Skorian wrote, alcohol in very large doses can act as a depressant and make matters alot worse if you suffer from depression or any other mental illnesses for that matter.. I don't drink anymore.

This post was last modified: 04-02-2008 10:17 PM by Blue Sky.

my parents were both kinda alcoholic (i think they probably spurred each other on, if you get what i mean), and they say that it's hereditary. recently i've been drinking every night, and starting to have a few of a morning to help me through the day... i think i need to stop before i find that i can't.

Someone told me once:bere può danneggiarsi soltanto ed altri a meno che lo usiate giustamente

meaning: drinking can only hurt yourself and others unless
you use it appropriately

This post was last modified: 04-03-2008 05:16 AM by Hijacc.