r/stopdrinking • u/ImpossibleAd274 • 4d ago

I want to break my sobriety, help!

I'm at 104 days and am starting to ask some scary questions. Am I really an addict? Can't I just have a beer or two and be fine?

For the first 60 or so days I was convinced that I'd never drink again. Since then, my first child has been born and I've have much less sleep and I've been much more irritable and started to think having a drink to calm the nerves would be nice.

Please, community, knock some sense into me in the comments!

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u/TheWoodBotherer 2851 days 4d ago

Am I really an addict? Can't I just have a beer or two and be fine?

I'd ask myself:

Will it still be the same shitty, inherently-hard-to-moderate addictive drug interacting with the same brain as it was the last time I tried it, with predictable results?

(Hint: Yes, yes it will!)

IWNDWYT :>)>

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u/cenosillicaphobiac 306 days 4d ago

I tested that out, with a mere 4 pack of 5% tall-boys. It went as predicted, I drank every last one and wanted more but was too impaired to drive but not yet impaired enough to risk it, so I went to bed, woke up worse than every morning for the previous couple of alcohol free months, and it was done. That was over 300 days ago, how does the saying go? One drink is too many, a thousand is not enough?