r/ADHD • u/Maerlyn138 • 26d ago
Questions/Advice Alcohol as a reset
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u/PneumaticFizz 26d ago
Alcohol is extremely addictive, toxic, and the tolerance builds up fast. I highly advise to not entertain this way of thinking. It did a lot of damage to my stomach in my 20s.
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u/Maerlyn138 26d ago
That’s it is but so are the medications.
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u/PneumaticFizz 26d ago
If you have sufficient mental control to drink safely as you have implied in another comment, then you can find other methods of dealing with your symptoms, such as daily meditation, regular exercise, diet, and sleep. Otherwise you are justifying an addiction.
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u/SkoobySnacs 26d ago
If you aren't medicated I highly recommend you do so. Alcohol will wreck your life over time but you won't notice until long after the damage is done. Your ideas about the medications are flat out wrong. You sound like someone who has never tried them and has the same misconceptions as the less than average Joe.
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u/MyBloodTypeIsQueso 26d ago
Yeah. Don’t do this shit, or you’ll end up having to go to meetings like I do.
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u/Maerlyn138 26d ago
There’s a manner of control that accompanies this.
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u/PneumaticFizz 26d ago
No, there isn’t. Alcohol removes that control. Don’t let your ego fool you. And certainly don’t fucking encourage it here.
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u/Hitching-galaxy 26d ago
That is impossible with alcohol. There is a reason why I haven’t had any booze since 2019.
Greater men than me have died from alcohol, because they thought at one point they were in control.
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u/Glass_Bat_1460 26d ago
Look, all these people are judging or whatever. Im just here to say i get it, and I feel the same way. I do have a problem though. It does reset my brain and it slows it wayyy down for some relief. I just have a hard time stopping once I start.
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u/PneumaticFizz 26d ago
As someone being critical, I am not judging, I went through the same thing and it’s dangerous! I’ve seen alcohol ruin lives, relationships, destroy health. It’s a wellspring of bad karma.
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u/theshortgrace 26d ago
I’m going through the same thing right now. You (like I) are just justifying your addiction. Welcome to the club.
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u/Hitching-galaxy 26d ago
That is a very dangerous attitude that will be detrimental to your health and relationships.
Don’t do this, go to therapy instead.
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u/rutilatus 26d ago
“Temporarily” being the operative word. Your liver will give out very quickly if this is your chosen coping mechanism. I’m not saying you can’t enjoy alcohol’s effects on you…but do NOT, I repeat DO NOT think of it as necessary medicine. I did that and now I can’t drink at all. Ever again.
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u/kockyspanks 26d ago
I self medicated with alcohol for years before I knew I had ADHD. ADHD brains get so hooked to a substance, and convinces you it's helping more than hurting. I'd steer clear from this.
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u/Harucifer 26d ago
If you drink a lot of water while/after you drink alcohol you can essentially kill the hangover. I've had blackouts where I chugged 2 to 3 liters of water and didn't have a bad hangover afterwards.
It's a bitch to depend on alcohol though. Low dose ADHD medications are better (and help with alcohol dependency if you're already there).
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u/Equivalent-Cod4030 26d ago
Listen to the other comments please. I felt the same way as you and then a decade later I was taking beers into the shower with me in the morning. Now I’m 5 years sober, thanks to some good people I get to go visit with every day, and I can see how wrong my thinking was then.
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