Alcohol - where do you draw the line

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feel the same way, but i lost a lot of that b/c of my bad semester.

In reply to: ...i lost a lot of that b/c of my bad semester. friends....? popularity....? respect.....?sorry, you lost me.how did you have a bad semester?

all of the above. People did want to hang around me, I did dumb things and lost friends, and that just lead to a loss of respect.I started off strong but fucked it all up b/c of my drinking. It is hard to come back from that, but I am giving it all I have because I have to, for me, for my parents, my family, my friends, for everyone.

yeah , i know a guy like that in highschool he was real timid. that was till one night everyone chanted his name as he downed drinks. well needless to say weeks and months later he continued to do this till he was showing up to school drunk and everywhere else drunk he lost his part-time job and just turned into a real ass. he was always funny at first but then he'd just turned into and ass then he'd like pass-out in the middle of the party. i tried to help him but like they say you cant help someone that dont want to help themselves. there was a rumor that after highschool he was walking down the road and some guy(s) picked him up and he was found in a park naked, on the verge of dieing from alcohol poisoning and appearantly been raped. i heard the story on the news and was later told that was him the news was talking about.i also have some relatives that got lost in alcohol. so i've always known what it can do to a good person. now that i got into real-estate i have a lot more free time. it's basically wait for a phone call, make a bid, if i get the house, then call the bank, apply for grants, then call the property management firm, and then sit and wait for the check. i could see how it would be easy to just sit around and get f*cked up. but i think it all boils down to what your priorities are.

Oh do not get me wrong I had great priorities it is just that I was kind of thrown into a new school, enviroment, and was being treated like an adult and I freaked and drank, but everyday now I am working harder and becoming a better person.

yeah i hear ya....i think just about everyone does that when they find themselves when they first break away from home. i know i did! it just made it hard for me to maintain good grades

"i'm a stonner, i can live with that, but alcohol can truly ruin lives and i dont want to be another casualty"

Wow....that's funny. But back on topic. You are not having a problem, you're just social weekend drinker like myself. I used to have a major problem with drinking though. I couldn't sleep without a beer, I went through a case a night easily. My work was affected by showing up late and such. I'd wake up not knowing where I was or how I got there. Hell, I lost a good pair of pants once like that. On top of everything else I accquired bad acid reflux. After spending a month constantly feeling like I had to throw up I stopped drinking completely. Once things started calming I'd have a beer here and there, but still I won't get trashed like I used to.

im 15 and i cant stop drinking, i spend all my money on it. its probably cuz i have older friends that can get me to it. but what do i do to stop?

As you know, it can affect your relationships. You need to get your drinking under control, or it will destroy you. If you have a tendency toward alcoholism, hanging out with people who drink is like hanging out with nuclear waste.I've seen the results of alcoholism, and they're not pretty. You absolutely have to get some help.Are you doing OK in school? Do you plan to go to college? Do your parents have any idea what's going on?

yeah steve is right. It gets real ugly if you let things continue. Just think it will be better for you to stop.