Is it time to stop?

[Sparkle900429]

Sunday morning and I’m hungover, the kind of hungover where you question if you might die.

I know I embarassed myself, know I said stupid things and acted like an idiot.

I don’t drink regularly but when I do this is how it ends, hating myself for days trying to remember what I said or did.

I think I want to say goodbye to alcohol, has anyone done the same? Everyone I know drinks and I will be the only one not but I can’t do this anymore.

any words of wisdom?

Plough your own furrow !
Just because others drink, doesn’t mean you have to. If drinking is their only entertainment, that’s sad.
Just do what suits you.

It's so annoying when in the pub and someone offers and asks what you want and I say orange juice or whatever and they always always say have a proper drink! Yawn.

I woke up one morning feeling like you several years ago, after a period of excessive drinking fuelled by simultaneous, significant life events/changes. I don't know if it applies to you or not but I was in a bad place and I knew it.

I stopped drinking and I started eating better and going to the gym, because I knew starting to look after my physical self would have a knock on effect on my mental health, which I didn't feel I had so much control over at the time.

I can't tell you how life altering the decision to invest in myself has been, and it is/was one of the best decisions I've ever made.

I’ve been wanting to stop drinking for a while, I use it to be more confident as I can be quite socially anxious but the next day the anxiety and paranoia eats away at me and I feel physically awful.

I just need to do it and stop, no “I’ll just have a few” or just for a “special occasion”.

I’ve known people behave truly horrific when drunk and I don’t want to reach that point, I’m like a completely different person when I’ve been drinking and I don’t think I want to be that person anymore!

why is it though that people look at you like you’re insane when you say no I really did just mean a lemonade.