Do you ever drink "strategically"?

[venus_ziegenfalle@feddit.org]

Yes, my strategy is I don't drink and in turn I don't get hangovers

[pleasestopasking@reddthat.com]

You can abuse alcohol to negative effect without drinking every day. Binge drinking and drinking to dull your emotions are other forms of alcohol abuse beyond just the classic portrayal of a "drinks all day or he gets the shakes" alcoholic. Maybe OP is doing this very occasionally and it's not a problem for them. But if you're using alcohol to as a coping mechanism with any sort of frequency, it's probably not a healthy situation.

[i_fart_glitter@lemmy.world]

[jubilantjaguar@lemmy.world]

Rigth - and downvotes fixes it? This is lunacy and detrimental to discussion/sharing.

Thank you. But anecdotally, it seems there are few of us who think this. I still don't understand why.

[coolbeanschilly@lemmy.ca]

Yeah, I'm aware of these. I was speaking of the big boxes, not the ones like this.

I just hope that OP doesn't go down the same ruinous path that I did. Compared to where I was in my fifteen year journey with Alcohol Use Disorder, I was at about year four. Where I would drink in order to relax and be able to socialize with others.

An over reliance on a substance to ease a social situation (no matter the reason), is a potential crossroads that can lead further down the path of abusing said substance.

[underreacting@literature.cafe]

Sure, but I was also an alcoholic. Very high functioning, but still at the end 100% dependant on it.

The slope is so treacherously flat, you don't feel yourself slipping. I still have no idea how I ended up where I did, or for that matter how I ended up actually managing to quit.

I'm sure some people can use liquid courage without it turning into depending on it to do the hard things, then more and more things turning hard and needing a boost to do it, or can wash away work with a drink at the end of the week, without having to wash it away at the end of every day, and then having a quick rinse-and-reset at lunch, and so on... But it's impossible to know which one you are until it's too late.

[fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com]

I've been doing "tipsy chore day" for a while. Do a chore > glass of wine > do another chore > glass of wine.... I may as well finish the bottle > do a chore > final glass.

Chores are less boring, and you push through them to get your next glass. Has to be wine though, beer I don't get a buzz going, and spirits have me incompetent.

[quovadishomines@sh.itjust.works]

Using alcohol as a method to resolve personal problems can be a very dark path. Please be careful.

[wingsfortheirsmiles@feddit.uk]

I do, but the other way as I'm getting old and can't down them like I used to. Met up with a mate to watch the F1 in the pub garden on a sunny Sunday, just had a couple of halves as I still wanted to try a number of new drops

Though I completely understand using alcohol to loosen up a bit, for numerous social situations. Definitely used it more that way in my younger days, to varying degrees of success

[quovadishomines@sh.itjust.works]

Lower karma posts are less likely to be seen?

[joekrogan@lemmy.world]

These days i rarely drink but a glass of wine with some pasta now and again goes down a treat

[jubilantjaguar@lemmy.world]

Exactly my point. The virtual equivalent of taping someone's mouth shut because you happen not to agree with what they say.

[canadaplus@lemmy.sdf.org]

I mean, you could call it strategic, or you could call it relying on substances as a crutch to manage your emotions.

I'm not saying that's always bad, necessarily. There is the school of thought that it's just a tool, like in your edit. But, it's important to remember it can become a habit.

[richieadler@lemmy.world]

Freedom of speech as an absolute sounds virtuous until you hit the paradox of tolerance.

[quovadishomines@sh.itjust.works]

Then you do understand why people are downvoting because this is bad advice and others dont want people to see it.

[jubilantjaguar@lemmy.world]

Freedom of speech as an absolute

Of course it's not absolute, where did I say otherwise? Straw man.

paradox of tolerance

This just feels like a fancy reference deployed to back up intolerance.

[jubilantjaguar@lemmy.world]

I'll be honest, a quick review of this thread did not clearly reveal who was downvoting who for what. My position, and this other person's, is that downvoting opinions is bad manners and toxic to healthy discussion. If there was genuinely harmful advice there, then OK, downvote away.

(Obviously these days the word "harmful" is thrown around liberally so this probably just puts us back to square one.)

[grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world]

I do this every time I go visit my father. His wife is a crazy narcissistic loon and I just cannot fucking stand being around her, so I drink when I'm there because it's the only way I can tolerate being around her. But my dad drinks with me, so I dunno, our relationship has been so strained and awkward for so long, I think we both do it to ease some of that tension.

[typewar@infosec.pub]

Hmmm, may drink strategically to dodge rules like no self brought alcohol on the festival, or a way to feel the effect good enough before needing to run to the bus.

But to deal with drama? No that I'm taking fully in so I can learn from it if something similar happens again

[blackvenom@lemmy.world]

Spoken like someone who hasn't seen how easy it is to ruin a life with alcohol.