Sounds a lot like alcoholism.
Maybe, but this is pretty common. Getting a drink to celebrate a good day, vs getting a drink after a bad day because you deserve it.
Nah if you can drink one beer and be done you’re not an alcoholic.
If you’re getting shitfaced every night that’s a different story.
If you need to have a beer every night that sounds a lot like dependency.
Yeah but those are different things.
An alcoholic isn’t gonna stop at just one.
And coming from an alcoholic I’d definitely prefer just drinking one per night.
Both are bad but one of them isn’t gonna threaten your livelihood/life/personal relationships as much as the other.
For me it’s not so much that I want alcohol as it is I want to not be stressed out. Alcohol facilitates that. I can de-stress without it but I rarely have the time I would need to do after a workday. Having a beer/drink when I get home gets the ball rolling so I can enjoy things again rather than just sit around with fried nerves.
I’m an alcoholic and reading your replies you are definitely one too. “I can take it or leave it” is such an addict thing to say. Also drinking doesn’t help with stress, it just kicks the can down the road making it harder to deal with in the future
Don’t project your problems onto me. Its one drink when I’m on edge after work and it does help with stress, it takes the edge off enough that I can do things that I enjoy which reduces my stress.
Um, no. Problematic use of alcohol, perhaps - “alcoholism” implies addiction, impact on relationships and rest of life etc, which is not implied in the previous comment. A lot of people use a beer or two to deflate after work or stress without it necessarily being a problem. You have to look at the whole picture.
I disagree. I don’t need that drink, it’s just helpful because I don’t have unlimited free time to do breathing exercises or run or whatever other stress management would otherwise work. I have maybe 1-1.5 hours after I get done with everything else I need to do to try and watch a show or play a game or something else that’s fun and if I’m still stressed from work I can’t enjoy those things. If I have to use other methods to calm myself first I won’t have enough time to actually do the fun thing.
I rarely drink on weekends unless it’s socially. It doesn’t even occur to me to do so.
I was in this picture. One or two, maybe even three tall ones every evening, for years. And then I discovered untappd and drinking became gamified. A beer while watching TV can’t be alcoholism, right?
For a while I’d been noticing things like a lack of energy and interest, bad sleep, being irritable and impulsive, and bad memory. After a while I had to take magnesium and other supplements. I just considered it all side effects of aging.
Now I’ve switched to alcohol free beer since about 2 months and every day I’m surprised how much better the QOL already is. I feel fully rested, feel more confident at work, can remember stuff my kids talk about. For lack of a word, I feel more present.
And that experience completely changed my opinion about drinking alcohol regularly.
Came in to say this… just making an excuse whether positive or negative to drink alcohol.
Came in to say this
Two inevitabilities on Lemmy -
Mention a problem with Windows. Reply -
I don’t have this problem because I have Linux
Mention anything about alcohol. Reply -
Oh my god it’s a poison, how dare you like the taste?!?
*Rips bong, not realising the mental health problems it’ll cause them later in life
How does weed cause mental health problems? It does for some but some people smoke their whole life without problems
God gives his tastiest beers to his drunkest drivers.
Getting bevved is the cause of and solution to all of life’s problems.
“Did you ever, under the influence of alcohol, question the teachings of the Mormon church?”
This is so real and is why I stopped drinking. It’s like uhhhh I can be apathetic without the expensive pisswater
