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[rusty1983]

For me I fear it's definitely alcohol causing the most damage, but what to do on the weekend??? My depressed part of the week is Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and then Wednesday on in I'm fine. Wednesday I think Im actually glad that I've got over it and that gives me a boost, then after that it's gravy from then on in to the weekend.

A hangover is not just a headache now, it's bone-crushing, soul-shattering self-loathing. Even if I can remember everything, and did nothing more than drink one too many at a friends house, I still wake up hating myself. It kind of ruins you self-esteem and sense that you can control yourself. This is on a good hangover!!

Exercise can sort me out immediately though. I do enough yoga so that I cant think anymore and when I get up and move around again I feel like someone has run a huge-iron over me and Im cool again. And that's after about 30 minutes of what I do on my own.

Fruit as well, but I rarely eat that nowadays - must get back into eating fruit tomorrow.

Also I find that change in all its forms is good. I get bored, think too much then get depressed. Something as simple as a slight change in routine can sort me out for a few months. New friends also help like that.

Also, maybe you need a holiday. I went on one last week, alone, and despite my plans to go and tear it up I ended up spending most of the time alone, reading. Which really was great for me. A few seriously annoying things have cropped up in the week since and Im almost back to square one, but it's summer and I'm determined to shake it off.

Once the World Cup has finished I'm determined to quit alcohol or at least strictly limit it. I'm aiming to get in shape like never before.

[Kaypea]

I can't drink alcohol at all. And yet I do. I managed to stop for a while because I was on a low carb diet and sticking to it, but I feel good eating carbs again, and so now it's hard to stop myself. I really have to remember that I'll feel worse than death the next day... shakes, paranoia...

It's hard to get help because it's not like I'm a raging alcoholic (only do this once a week) and also, when I really get the urge to drink it's not like people can tell me not to. THEN again, I hate being the only drunk in a group, so if I hang out with people who don't drink, I don't either...

The problem is... people I like don't tend to drink, and so when I want to drink, I avoid them, and then I drink and hang around people I don't like as much. Mostly strange ajossis, unfortunately. Starting to worry about my personal health and safety