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1000 Days Without Drinking

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by surprisetalk

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I'm currently ~150 weeks into 1000 Weeks Without Drinking! Highly recommended.
[0] https://taylor.town/1000-weekends

by uslic001

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I stopped alcohol 570 days ago using the Scott Adams reframe of "alcohol is poison". I quit because my son was abusing alcohol and I wanted to set a better example, and show him that you can still have a good time without alcohol. I definitely sleep better than I did when I would drink socially.

by matt-attack

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I’m a casual drinker. Enjoy nice wine with a nice meal, am repulsed by beer, fix myself cocktails maybe a few times a week. Never drink to being drunk but certainly get buzzed off of two glasses of cab.
Anyone know if I have a risk of becoming an alcoholic? I’m 50 and never really started drinking until my late 20s.
What should one look out for?

by eawgewag

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> I have a theory, based on many years of research and practice with Anki, that true healing from any kind of psychic illness only starts to set in place when you start to genuinely forget what it was ever like to be ill at all.
I found this line thoughtprovoking.
From 5-20 I was severely depressed. Now it's been 10 years, and I'm not depressed anymore. In fact, those years feel like a factual moment in my life, not something whose emotional state I can really recall and bring in my present life -- unlike, for example, the grief of losing any pet in my life. That still comes back with raw power.

by general1726

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I love to drink alcohol. I enjoy the taste of whiskey with ice or a cold beer during summer. Unfortunately for me, I also suffer on occasional migraines and alcohol started triggering them even that it did not do so. Thus I have been forced to become abstinent or suffer head splitting pain. I was not drinking for over a year.

by more_corn

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I quit five years ago. I lost track of the day count. I wish I’d quit in college or never started. I’m pretty sure every catastrophic hangover caused permanent reductions in my recall ability. I’d probably be a lot smarter if I hadn’t done myself all that damage.

by dnel

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welcome to the 4 digit club! I'm on day 1,360 and still today gaining new insights into my drinking habits and learning more about myself without it.

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by immibis

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I am extremely concerned about the page behind the hyperlink "suspect I was the kind of alcoholic who gave alcohol a bad name". The logic on that page leads to giving death sentences for minor crimes, as a deterrent so there will be no crimes. And the author calls himself a libertarian...