I was bordering suicidal this morning due to some of the dark feelings I felt. Slowly coming away from that now, but still feel like hangovers just destroy me now

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drink at least one pint glass of water for every alcoholic drink

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Actually very good advice. I just got so shit faced this time I forgot to drink water and pace myself and I paid for it today.

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if you forget at the time, second best is to slam a whole bunch of water before sleeping (wait to pee before you crash though)

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I haven’t had that issue but yeah, pretty much everything is harder to recover from and takes longer to recover at 38 than it did at 30. Age is real and it sucks and people who say “:I can’t wait to be old” are extremely strange people.

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I have a scab on my hand from where it hit a metal rack while I was stocking a few days ago. A decade ago it would have been healed by now.

Shit sucks dude

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Utter bullshit. Just utter bullshit. Aging is criminal and we should abolish it.

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If aging didn’t exist Kissinger would yet live. I’m willing to die so that the people I hate also share that fate. Just wish it wasn’t so slow and humiliating.

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Yeah this shit ain’t fun. I just am starting to not be able to do what I could when I was young

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I just am starting to not be able to do what I could when I was young

like what? besides drinking

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We just can’t wait to have money. I have a 25 year plan to buy the car I want.

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Early 30s guy who got blackout drunk daily as well as doing as many uppers as I could, staying awake for days not eating, almost getting scurvy as a vegan, and otherwise doing everything you can to your body thars bad for it drawing the line only at needles for most of my late teens through my 20s, the longer term damage will start to be problems all at once and won’t go away, they just won’t get worse if you smarten up. There’s no healing some stuff, there’s just not making it exponentially worse. Parts of me don’t work quite as well as other people now and I’m just kinda stuck that way now. So yeah, don’t fuck around kids.

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Here’s how I do it:

Do not, under any circumstances, drink beer, wine or mixed spirits to get drunk. Guinness as a meal substitute is ok, as a source of getting drunk is not.

Just sip straight spirits out of the bottle, preferably while ranting about something. If at a bar, get XYZ on the rocks. Gin & Soda water if you want to drink slower.

Drink 2-5 liters of water before passing out anywhere that’s not a bed. In the last 5 weeks, I have passed out on: A lawn, a different lawn, the back seat of a car, the floor (carpeted), the floor (hardwood, with a persian rug), a couch, a computer chair and leaning against a tree.

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Let me get this straight, your advice to cope with post-drink depression is to get so shit faced that you pass out and wake up some place else?

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Yeah idk I’ve made it work, although that could just be the line cook’s special ability. Like closing after dinner service, downing 5-700mLs of Tequila to catch up with friends so you have some semblance of a social life, wake up at 9 to get to work by 10 for post church Sunday brunch. The usual.

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Guinness as a meal substitute is ok

What? Please elaborate.

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Like you can have a pint in lieu of dinner, but DO NOT drink enough to get drunk. Several pints of guinness will fill you up like a sponge in a bucket.

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Who drinks beer instead of eating? Even a 330mL can will increase my hunger if I haven’t eaten before.

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Do not, under any circumstances, drink beer, wine or mixed spirits to get drunk.

What? Why? I’m not made of money

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Oh it doesn’t have to be single malt scotch or anything. The house vodka on the rocks stops burning your throat after a couple years.

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I was hungover a few days ago watching young couples shop as I stocked the store. I’m partially convinced (or telling myself at least) that the minor alcohol withdrawal of a hangover is why I felt like a failure and wanted to die knowing that isn’t on the cards for me.

Blame the booze and keep drinking because I know it ain’t true….

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Yeah a nasty hangover will bring those kinds of feelings out and then if there’s more alcohol around, you end up drinking more to fix the anxiety and depression from being hung over.

It’s pretty shitty.

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You find a solution let me know lol

It’s not like the anxiety and depression aren’t there anyways.

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Hangovers aren’t withdrawal, they’re hangovers. There is a major difference

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I read an article saying it was, I’ll believe you though given how enshittified SEO has made everything

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I guess in a very literal sense, it’s like a poison withdrawal or whatever but it’s not like the you could die of a seizure alcohol withdrawal that is what I’d associate with the term

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Alcohol is this is Allah (超绝万物) tell you to stop

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So if I feel great the next day, that’s Allah telling me to drink more often?

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