Please help i am becoming an alcoholic how do i stop!?

Question

I am starting to drink anything alcoholic in the house

Answer 1

Get out of the house and don't take any money with you (so you can't buy more).

Answer 2

GO Mancunia!

I am soooo proud of you for admitting you have a problem.AA can save your life as it saved mine.Call the AA chapter in your area (in the phone book under Alcoholics Anonymous).You will learn that this is not your fault.Did u know that we have identified over 40 genes attributed to alcoholism.There's a reason why so many have gone there and why it's the template for most all of the 12 step groups to follow.That's because it works if u participate.You will learn that you have a lot of company.You will hear about people whose lives were very similar to yours.They learned how to turn their lives around there.There are men's meetings, small meetings, large meetings,etc.Ask the AA volunteer if u have a preference.Until I went to AA pouring out all of the alcohol in my house was hopeless but that's just my experience.Everyone differs. I know ur in a scary place but you've already done part of step 1 which involves admittance.Everyone is welcome at AA.The only requirement is a desire to stop drinking. Do you think you could handle that?E-mail and tell me what area u live in if u want and I'll try and find someone in your area if possible who may meet you at the meeting.Part of the disease is feeling like you can't stop but you can. Billions of alcoholics have.I hope you're the next example and I hope that years from now you're in my place typing about how amazing your new sober life is...cuz it will be!

Answer 3

The good thing is that you recognise early what is happening (before its actually happened)

Theres normally a cause for drinking to excess so, is something troubling you! Try and get to the ROOT of your excessive drinking.....Go to the Docs if you feel you need a chat.

So now all you have to do is make sure you avoid Pubs (until you have control over the situation) Dont keep Alcohol in the house & maybe advise people when they come over that its an Alcohol Free zone for a while.

If your embarrased about friends knowing then just say its for health reasons.......Just blame it on a diet your on at the mo!!!

All the best!

Answer 4

Recognizing it especially early on means that you are already on the road to recovery. For a lot of people, they don't get to this point until years later and having gone through much worse situations.

If the alcohol can be hidden, that may be a good starting point. When I say hidden, I mean where it is not out in plain view where you see it every time you walk by. If the alcohol is yours, don't buy anymore to have in the house. If it isn't then maybe taking the above suggestion (hiding it) would work best.

Answer 5

Bravo! You've realised you've got a problem now just use the same determination to stop that you had to use to come on here and tell everyone about it. I think that you really mean that you have become alcohol dependent meaning that you 'cannot' do without having a drink as opposed to have a regular glass of what you fancy! Good luck!

Answer 6

find something that tastes good (like coca cola or preferably something healthy) and drink that instead. get rid of all ur alcohol or lock it in a cuboard and give a friend the key. then just stop thinking about it, get a new hobby like video games play sports or something. then when you think you are ready get your friend to give you the key back. Open up that cupboard and if your addiction has stopped, you should be easily able to throw all of it down the sink. If you succeed in doing this, you have broken the habit.

Answer 7

you say you are becoming an alcoholic, so you're not one yet? well before you become one, get rid of all your acohol in the house, and evertime you feel like going for a drink, go outside and don't take your wallet with you, or stay inside and do something you enjoy that means you'll forget about the drink, or because you are using two hands, you can't have one.

Answer 8

If you think you are becoming an alcoholic you probably already are one, I don't think you can stop by yourself or just call AA, too easy to procrastinate that. Make an appt with your doctor today to be seen today. Tell them it is a personal problem you need to discuss with the doctor when you schedule the appt. He will direct you to an outpatient treatment program and some counseling which will include AA but you need more than just AA to make the initial break.

Answer 9

A person, very close to me, was suffering of hard drinking and eating of sleeping pills during this very summer.I forced her to doctor who ordered some kind of medicine to stop her drinking (for three days) as well as a medicine for her stomach (very painful because drinking) and vitamin B1, B6 and B12 (because lack of food during several weeks). A therapy for the recovery was also given very fast because she was mentally very depressed. - As far as I know, she is not drinking any alcohol at all today and works again. The key factors were the medicine for stopping her drinking (cannot remember its name) and the discussions with the mental nurse during her therapy.

Answer 10

Don't drink it....that's the only way to stop if you really want to....you can find other things to do with your time. Stay occupied by something else so you won't think about drinking, and drink allot of some other alcohol free beverage so you're not thirsty. It's mind over matter really.

Answer 11

My friend drank too much and we always got into fights. Then he got into drugs and lost his job, then me as a friend. He said he wanted to stop and never lose me as a friend, but alcohol ruined his life.

Please stop now, get rid of everything in the house and don't go back to the drink when you get depressed. I don't want you to end up like my friend.