drinking too much

I think if you can't have just one drink it's best to try not to drink at all but i know it's not always so easy.

I like a drink etc and i sometimes take it too far. I have embarassed myself in front of my family enough to put me off drinking around them though.

Reply 2

bone-machine

9

well it will be difficult not to get tempted at uni..but if you cant say no...then maybe you should quit totally

maybe you should try asking for really low alcho drinks at the bar?..or bring very little money out with you except taxi money so you CANT get paralitic on a night out

your right, no one likes a mean aggressive drunk, or one they have to carry home at the end of the night so i say do all you can to combat it

Reply 3

Just give up, if you feel tempted view it as a test of addiction, if you have the drink you are tempted by, tell yourself that will make you an alcoholic, no one wants to be an alcoholic so hopefully it will make you not drink.

Reply 4

OP

thanks, it's not so much "i have to have a drink" as in addiction, it's more that i want to drink so i feel more confident. But the pro's of not-drinking far outweigh the cons (in my opinion) so I've just got to remember that when im in a pub/club. What would u think of someone who doesnt drink at uni? please be honest! :redface:

Reply 5

Phantom Phoenix

13

I agree, I quit drinking for a year on exactly those grounds (told myself I was proving I wasn't addicted - I was wrong, had awful withdrawal symptoms). Now I'm drinking again (by choice) and I only have one or two. Maybe this isn't the case for everyone, but for me just getting away from it for a while really helped me.

Reply 6

I dont drink so i hope people at uni dont mind!! I wasnt sayoing you were addicted but if im tempted by a drink i accuse myself of being one, that way i have a real disinsentive to drinking, make sense? im sure as long as your up for a lugh no one will care whether you drink or not

Reply 7

bedbug

14

OP I'd rather be friends with someone who didn't drink than someone who was a nightmare drunk.

Reply 8

It's a sad state of affairs, but i have a better time when i have had a drink.

Not so much in terms of confidence, but in the sense that a drink encourages me to socialise as the prospect of sitting in a pub chatting to people is infinately more attractive after a drink. It kind of perks me up.

Reply 9

OP

if u dont mind me asking, why dont u drink? i am most definitely up for everything still, probably more so when im sober as when im pissed i dont know what im doing! i also have real trouble what happened the nest day. I sound like such an idiot on here, it's so obvious that i shouldnt drink

Reply 10

mipmapped

13

What would u think of someone who doesnt drink at uni? please be honest!

It's not a problem at all. Just drink non-alcoholic drinks.

Reply 11

I dont drink for a couple of reasons, one i got very drunk and reffered to my self as mindi (my name is indi) and just thought that was such a pathetic way to behave i didnt want it to happen again. two its very calorific so i dont see the point that way. three my body is a temple, i will not pollute it!

Reply 12

Anonymous #2

Anonymous

im one of those ppl who can never have "just one drink", meaning that when i go out i get completely pissed/paraletic. This happens all the time; my friends/family always have to look after me so i always feel like a really bad person as 1) it ruins their night and 2) I keep making the same mistake. Does anyone else get like this? Im going to uni soon & i really want to be able to say 'i dont drink.' Im just worried that I'll be tempted and then all hell will break loose!! I want to make a good impression on people at uni, and the truth is i'm a really bad, aggressive drunk.

haha I'm the same as you... but i only get like that when there's an unlimited supply of drink... - otherwise i'm generally quite stingy so I keep reasonably coherent due to this fact lol... I don't think you should stop drinking so long as you can put up with the consequences... - nights out would be ****ing dull... - try techniques like not mixing drinks (i mixed a quart of whisky with a can of beer and downed it a few weeks back - and i got so totally fooked that i almost passed out - not repeating that soon :redface:

) - stick to one sort of drink.. don't smoke a lot (it makes me feel more drunk strangely... - and you're more likely to chuck up)... order drinks that take a while to drink (not double whiskies or absynth).... Concentrate on being sober - before you lose coherency... this can probably stop the tendency to be an angry drunk - it only happens when you lose control...(ie try breathing exercises - concentrate on walking in a straight line etc)...

Reply 13

OP

that's a great way to look at it. have u ever had negative comments about not drinking/been tempted to when ur out?

Reply 14

OP

i did go through a faze of not drinking & it was fine, although i always got really high on caffeine before i went out, so maybe i should just do this @ uni :biggrin:

about the advice, i dont smoke, i dont mix & i only ever have vodka and coke....it's just that i have too much of it. im an all or nothing kinda person, so i cant just have one. it's annoying

Reply 15

no all my friends are fine with it, i have a good time anyway so they dont care what im drinking, occasionally tempted but I just remind my self why i dont want to in the first place

Reply 16

I think that remembering the absurd things that you've done when drunk is often enough to deter.

I got absurdly drunk at a posh dinner party my parents were hosting and i ended up sitting on the knee of one our our neighbours much to the annoyance of his wife and shame of my parents.

It has put me off drinking with my parents for life i think. or perhaps for a few weeks at least. LOL.

Reply 17

OP

yeah you're totally right. it's just weird cos i dont know anyone else who doesnt drink at all. I guess that's what the 'youth culture' of today is though. i find it hard not to conform to it

Reply 18

Anonymous

i did go through a faze of not drinking & it was fine, although i always got really high on caffeine before i went out, so maybe i should just do this @ uni :biggrin:

about the advice, i dont smoke, i dont mix & i only ever have vodka and coke....it's just that i have too much of it. im an all or nothing kinda person, so i cant just have one. it's annoying

I went through a 'no drink' phase at uni and my friends just didn't understand it and i felt a little bit left out. But i think that if i had always been a 'non drinker' they would've been more understanding.

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