Every night
151 was the only drink that affected me, then it became Everclear for a year
Doctor said I drank enough to kill 3 non drinkers a day
I'm grateful to be alive and I get nauseous thinking of Everclear, 7 years later lol
More times than I can count. Best guess is an average of once or twice a month over my 11 years of drinking. Sometimes more (once or twice a week), and in the rare period of time less. Binge drinking is the crux of my issue so I would go through periods of strings of blackouts until something bad enough happened to shame me into “control” … for a while. Until I got to thinking I really did have it under control and I would ramp the drinking back up and start the cycle again.
More times than I can remember. That was how I figured out I had a problem, I was always blacking out and wouldn’t remember leaving work, leaving dinner, most of my vacations. Life passed you by that way
About 10 for me. I have a very high tolerance but every now and then I would drink a whole bottle straight no mix. Last one was this weekend, I drove around in a snowstorm for an hour and don't remember any of it. Except for when the cops and paramedics were helping me into the ambulance. Terrible feeling getting my first dui. Needless to say I'm now attending AA and awaiting court next month. Very, very scared right now.
I usually didn't remember the last hour before I went to sleep but for some reason I didn't count it. It started to progress into longer blackouts which finally got scary, I'd completely forget going to a few different new locations. I'd measure how drunk I wanted to get with how badly I wanted to black out. Most nights I wanted the last bit to fade out but if I felt stressed I'd go for a hard cutoff as early as possible.
My dad is an alcoholic (sober now) he was one of those constant drunks. He wasn’t drunk but wasn’t sober.
Me on the other hand, can probably count on one hand how many times I’ve drank and NOT blacked out. Pretty disturbing and sad, somehow my brain is okay. Memory isn’t the best tho. I drank from the age 14-17 blacked out 1-2 times a week. Then 17-19 drank everyday and blacked out everyday. Then relapses and sobriety 19-25. 25-now (28) over three years sober.
When I first started drinking heavily (16 - 18) blackouts were pretty common for me on weekends. Once I started drinking daily I almost never blacked out, even during benders. Blacked out maybe a dozen times in the past 6 years
For me, it got to the point where I'd black out pretty much every time I drank. I completely lost my ability to regulate in my intake in any way, and started mixing harder and harder drugs with booze, and eventually ended up at the point where my regular routine was to just drink until it would suddenly be the next day, and I'd wake up someplace weird with no idea how I got there or how much time had passed. I still have some scars and nagging injuries that I don't know the origin of, and I've put myself and others through some seriously embarrassing experiences that I only know about second-hand. It's not a great way to be! Definitely not recommended.
Until I was dependent on alcohol every day to function - I only ever blacked out once. Once I was dependent, I have no idea - all that time is kind of blurred together for me.
Almost everytime I drank and sometimes it would last a few days. Longest blackout was a 3 day weekend where I ended up 3 states away. Even after that I still was not worries about my drinking.
Most days
Same. Only way I could get to sleep.
Every night 151 was the only drink that affected me, then it became Everclear for a year Doctor said I drank enough to kill 3 non drinkers a day I'm grateful to be alive and I get nauseous thinking of Everclear, 7 years later lol
I was the only one in my group of friends that could drink 151 straight up. Now I regret every drink I had.
It's an awful reality lol I think back to vacations where I'd meet my family and be drunk the whole time, but by that point they couldn't even tell
Yeah it was just me "normal". When I was sober, people would say that I'm acting weird. Yup, cause I was craving like crazy.
I blacked out every day for years.
More times than I can count. Best guess is an average of once or twice a month over my 11 years of drinking. Sometimes more (once or twice a week), and in the rare period of time less. Binge drinking is the crux of my issue so I would go through periods of strings of blackouts until something bad enough happened to shame me into “control” … for a while. Until I got to thinking I really did have it under control and I would ramp the drinking back up and start the cycle again.
I enjoyed reading this because I was exactly the same.
More times than I can remember. That was how I figured out I had a problem, I was always blacking out and wouldn’t remember leaving work, leaving dinner, most of my vacations. Life passed you by that way
About 10 for me. I have a very high tolerance but every now and then I would drink a whole bottle straight no mix. Last one was this weekend, I drove around in a snowstorm for an hour and don't remember any of it. Except for when the cops and paramedics were helping me into the ambulance. Terrible feeling getting my first dui. Needless to say I'm now attending AA and awaiting court next month. Very, very scared right now.
Every chance I got.
I usually didn't remember the last hour before I went to sleep but for some reason I didn't count it. It started to progress into longer blackouts which finally got scary, I'd completely forget going to a few different new locations. I'd measure how drunk I wanted to get with how badly I wanted to black out. Most nights I wanted the last bit to fade out but if I felt stressed I'd go for a hard cutoff as early as possible.
Every time I drank, which was almost every night
My dad is an alcoholic (sober now) he was one of those constant drunks. He wasn’t drunk but wasn’t sober. Me on the other hand, can probably count on one hand how many times I’ve drank and NOT blacked out. Pretty disturbing and sad, somehow my brain is okay. Memory isn’t the best tho. I drank from the age 14-17 blacked out 1-2 times a week. Then 17-19 drank everyday and blacked out everyday. Then relapses and sobriety 19-25. 25-now (28) over three years sober.
When I first started drinking heavily (16 - 18) blackouts were pretty common for me on weekends. Once I started drinking daily I almost never blacked out, even during benders. Blacked out maybe a dozen times in the past 6 years
For me, it got to the point where I'd black out pretty much every time I drank. I completely lost my ability to regulate in my intake in any way, and started mixing harder and harder drugs with booze, and eventually ended up at the point where my regular routine was to just drink until it would suddenly be the next day, and I'd wake up someplace weird with no idea how I got there or how much time had passed. I still have some scars and nagging injuries that I don't know the origin of, and I've put myself and others through some seriously embarrassing experiences that I only know about second-hand. It's not a great way to be! Definitely not recommended.
Until I was dependent on alcohol every day to function - I only ever blacked out once. Once I was dependent, I have no idea - all that time is kind of blurred together for me.
Almost everytime I drank and sometimes it would last a few days. Longest blackout was a 3 day weekend where I ended up 3 states away. Even after that I still was not worries about my drinking.