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What was the main psychological reason why you would binge drink alcohol? (Feel free to answer your own comment below)

1 month ago | [YT] | 55



@GettingSoberAgain

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4 weeks ago | 0

@samanthamitchell4115

If I had a bad day at work I would drink to feel better, if I had a good day at work I'd drink to celebrate it. Then of course weekend drinking to relax. Any excuse, really. Now that I am 6 months AF I feel like I am finally living life, not just living for the next excuse to drink. Your channel has helped me A LOT!! Thank you so much for all your work, it is a service to humanity!!

1 month ago | 9  

@RobbDepp

Frankly all of them in conjunction with one another

1 month ago | 26  

@Username_Invalid

To escape! Only to return with all the same problems and more.

1 month ago | 13  

@hunterpittman8504

Definitely emotional numbing I have 64 days sober today ❤️‍🩹 again

1 month ago | 4  

@leea1988

At first, to stop being awkward and to numb the anxiety. Then to keep up the appearance that I wasn't anxious and awkward. Then to keep feeling good. Finally to not have to think.

1 month ago | 2  

@AnnaKron19

Hard choice. Basically to numb myself emotionally from any form of negative stress and have fun.

1 month ago | 5  

@fortythreenorth2518

As much as I'd like to say loneliness and isolation I was more drawn to the euphoria and how it made everything more fun and enjoyable including music. I used to enjoy it more when I was buzzed. Alcohol did help with the loneliness of being in a new city in my senior year of high school and having no meaningful friendships. I would get drunk at any opportunity that I could get served underage. That was 30 years ago now.

1 month ago | 4  

@Chebab-Chebab

It was habit. Ride home, pop into the shops and buy a 6-pack. Or it was the weekend, and I'd make beer part of my routine. Now 87 days clean.

1 month ago | 4  

@enialisnailo17

I think it was just me chasing that happy drunk high. But we all know it starts with 1 drink to feel good, and then it gets worse the more you drink.

1 month ago | 2  

@prometheus1672

Equal parts coping with stress/anxiety and isolation/loneliness. I substituted going to the gym, which has helped a lot with stress and anxiety! Still working on the isolation, but being around other people at the gym is slowly helping ease the social anxiety so I can start actually going out again socially 👍

1 month ago | 2  

@AnswerswithAzza

Mine is it become the norm ... like I find it hard to watch sm tv n films or listen to music without beers as its what I've always done it become the norm

1 month ago | 1  

@GlassOfWater87

loneliness and isolation mostly but also the reward.

1 month ago | 1  

@whosman817

All of them

4 weeks ago | 1

@dmrgen

I was never in a bad mood cause I was drunk all the time, I purely sought joy with it

1 month ago | 1  

@stephenedgar9203

Dopamine for ADHD i think. Spent 30 years drinking and it never really occurred to me until 2 years ago.

1 month ago | 2  

@Joe_Joe_The_HvacMan

I don’t binge drink or at least I don’t start out to binge drink and I’ve rarely done that but I have but not intentionally. I love talking to people and get to know them. So I’ll go to a brewery just to start conversations. I just get caught up in conversations with people and just enjoying the moment and I don’t want it to end so the beer drinking continues the more I get involved with other people. I don’t get hostile. I just get more talkative and even crazier, very energetic! Alcohol doesn’t take me down it actually jacks me up. Of course I could do this sober as well. It’s just a natural part of me. I definitely don’t need a social lubricant nor to drink to be funny, but it’s just become a natural part of the environment.

4 weeks ago | 0  

@lucyloose6727

Boredom.. lockdowns.. just trying to escape from reality..

1 month ago | 1  

@adriannunez1051

I think it's pride & also self identifying with alcohol.

1 month ago | 2  

@paigeelizabeth345

Grief

1 month ago | 2