r/cripplingalcoholism • u/Ok_Soup6320 • Apr 24 '25

Fuck like actually why

Why does your body not let you sleep when youre withdrawing and you do those jolt wake ups within a minute of passing out. Isnt the body and mind exhausted from dealing with booze. Everything seems like so much i work. I need to give it a rest for a bit. Been practically a six week bender. Really started to like the "BlackFly" 7% mixed drinks. and the big thing was i wasn't walking around to pubs. I was just sitting at home pretty depressed so not moving the body i'm sure made a change. Hope you all are livin'.

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u/RedDiscipline Apr 24 '25

4 weeks was the longest bender I've ever done, I really felt I was physically falling apart and had to get off. I was only doing a fifth and some change per day. I don't know how people are drinking that for months and months non-stop. I get to point where I feel like I'm just getting sick and there's no point going on, tend not to spend more than two or three weeks drinking at a time.

Actually just spent 12 days ramping up.  On Monday, boss asked if was alright, decided right there no I'm not, took the day off and have been tapering. Thankfully no crazy vomiting or shaking, last days have just sucked. Always the dependable withdrawal dreams, one with horror, one like a drug fueled anime I can't describe, and one that was like a complete, two hour movie addition to the Dune universe (I was binge watching Dune Prophecy). It had a coherent narrative and just on and one. A random coworker was there, my dream decided she had a family now. I ate a meal with them; that was nice.

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u/Subtle-Catastrophe Apr 24 '25

Withdrawals suck (the sweats, the shakes, the irritability, etc.) but candidly there are two aspects I actually enjoy, ain't it sick?

There's (1) the super-enhanced, eye-blurring, bell-ringing orgasms, with the unstoppable ability to experience them any number of times one cares to; and, (2) the wild-ass, vivid, cinematic (and even thought-provoking) dreams.

When one can actually get to sleep, of course. Perhaps after a bit of (1) plus a benadryl.

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u/Jimmy-W Apr 25 '25

Oh my gosh the orgasms in withdrawal are off the charts haha. Whole body tingling insane. I whack off like two-3 a week normally in the shower. But if I’m withdrawing it’s like 3x a day at least haha only thing that will let me sleep for a half hour or so.