Hello Everyone, Greetings! I am a master's student in psychology. I am currently conducting a study to assess the impact of stress and circadian rhythm on the risk of alcohol problems. This is a two-part study, the questionnaire consists of four sections, requiring approximately 15 minutes of your time. To learn more about the conditions of participating, kindly click on the provided link. Your valuable participation in this study is sincerely appreciated. Rest assured, all collected responses will be treated with the utmost confidentiality and used solely for academic purposes. Thank you for your time and contribution.

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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us, while we encounter this journey it is important to understand that we are not alone,

Hello anyone reading. I've had any semblance of control over my drinking fucked by COVID and lockdown. Genuinely not sure if I can stop without help. GP wants me to go to a private place for a month that my insurance might cover.

Anyone have a similar experience?

How did you guys get on, isolation is what I wanted when I drank but being sober isolation was not what I wanted. Forced isolation was hard but a lot easier for me as I was able to connect with people via zoom and other online technologies.

I hope you are all well and sober, let me know how you are doing.

Tis the season for new people to join the tee total wagon. Any curious folk out there?

Just curious.

Have any of yes started a new years resolution ? How was the Christmas break off?

Interesting to hear Brian O'Connell's story, how addiction is a family disease and the discussion about the treatment model most prevalent in Ireland.

https://www.rte.ie/radio1/today-with-sean-o-rourke/podcasts/

https://cdn.rasset.ie/manifest/audio/2018/1213/20181213_rteradio1-seanorourke-addictiona_c21478295_21478302_261_/manifest.m3u8

Seems a bit more quiet here but I'm glad i found the place! r/stopdrinking been a godsend. Survived bank holiday unscathed and going to bed at the end of my 30th day alcohol free ... Feels good. I always knew we are of course an alcogenic culture .. But it has magnified for me in the last 30d. Going to take day by day. Any advice from my fellow Irish as sober heads about taking this further and into social life ... I'm enjoying better sleeps, podcast , books . Any good Irish podcasts/blog about recovery that anyone has come across ? Thanks :)

Hi folks. I have set up a new meet up group for men and women in recovery in Dublin. I'm looking for a co-organiser to help me run the group, if you're interested please give me a shout. Our first meet up is at the Prana Positive Halloween Party, an alcohol free event in Portobello.

Please follow the link to join: https://www.meetup.com/Dublin-Living-in-Recovery-Group/

Where are my sober peeps at? 330 days alcohol free today!!

I just saw this on r/ireland

Hey folks, just a heads up that I've started a new informal meet up for women in recovery. It's just a place for women in recovery to make some real life connections with each other and share their experiences in recovery. It's every second Sunday at Accents Coffee Shop in Dublin. Our next meet up is on the 12th of August from 1pm. Details can be found on meetup or on Instagram under @dublinwomeninrecovery.

Not sure if this falls into self promotion rule so please remove if it does. If any men are interested in setting up a similar group, please pm me. 😊

Hey all, hope everyone is doing good.

I'm just on a mobile app and not sure what the ettiquite of this sub is.

For example, is it ok to post about personal experience with alcoholism or could that trigger other subscribers?

I just noticed that most of the posts have been locked?

Thank you.

At beyond rock bottom x

Hey folks, I know this place is a bit quiet but thought it would be a good place to start. I'm thinking of starting a recovery podcast, one that'll chat about addiction and coming into recovery but with a bit of craic and humour added in. I find that most podcasts are very American orientated, which is fine but I'd love to set up an Irish podcast and help connect with other sober Irish folk as well as take a critical look at our drinking culture here. Any ideas if folk would like to join in? I don't have experience with hosting or recording podcasts but I'd love to learn. Feel free to pm me. I am over 8 months sober a day at a time. :)

Hiii

Hi folks, I'm based in Limerick and am on the hunt for some atheist friendly support.

I've been managing okay without any support groups and the like, but I had a hard time abstaining last weekend (was in Dub for the parade and Grand Slam with friends). I've a week long trip coming up where the group will be drinking heavily and last weekend made me realise I could do with a bit of support in the run up to this trip.

Whilst I know sobriety is absolutely for the best, not drinking in social situations is a big change and I almost felt like I was grieving for an aspect of my life. I struggle to feel confident a lot of the time and the drink had helped with that (well, sort of).

I could really do with having a natter about it all, but without the 'higher Power' stuff as I find that pretty unhelpful.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

I had a great day, watched the Rugby, then went out for munchies. Woke up this morning to the Snow, that does not please me but at least I am sober and warm :)

I was surprised when I read this, but there you go. With the country doing a little better financially I thought the figures would increase.

Just a quick note to say Merry Christmas to all in SD Ireland. I'm currently in a treatment centre for Christmas, feeling a wee bit sorry for myself so just want to post my gratitude on being sober today. Hope you have a safe and peaceful Christmas. Xx

Hey I found a website called DrinkFree its a website that showcases alcohol free events and activities which are around Dublin and other areas of Ireland.

Hope this might be of interest top everyone I went to see the body exception in dublin they mentioned it was pretty cool.

Howiya,

Just in case any one comes here looking for help and think's there is no activityhere, there is. I subscribne to this and get updates whenever there is a new post.

If anyone is looking for any advice or help or someone to talk to, there are people on this sub who are there for you!

Tomorrow is Monday, great day for new beginnings.

So I have quit drinking a few weeks ago. Looking back on my drinking the past few years I've come to realise that one of the reasons I did so was to get to sleep.

I've always been a bit of an insomniac. But now I quit drinking it seems to have gotten worse. I make sure I get exercise in, I got to bed on time, I avoid screens such as my pc/phone/tv for 2-3 hours before sleeping. And I still can't sleep.

I toss and turn for hours on end. And finally I do get to sleep, and 2-3 hours later I have to go to work again. It doesn't matter that I get home absolutely shattered.. I go to bed a few hours later and the same thing repeats itself.

The past few days I'm almost reconsidering drinking, purely because I can pass out for a few hours. Compared to now, I felt more rested while drinking.

Any ideas or suggestions?

First of all, I have made a new account to use this sub to keep it separate from the rest of my activities on the site. I think this will help me be more open and honest because I know I won't be able to be identified. I got drunk on Friday night, again. I have been struggling with alcohol since I was a teen. My father was an alcoholic and drug user, my brother is a drug addict and is serving a prison sentence, and at least 2 of my grandfathers had substance abuse issues. For those reasons alone I am at risk of alcoholism. I have tried therapy but it always seems to come down to the conclusion that I can either drink to excess or not drink at all, there is no middle ground for me, I can control it for a while but eventually it always starts to consume me. I've got really into reddit communities in the last 2 years or so so I thought posting here might be useful. My life is a bit of a mess at the minute, I'm in the middle of a breakup forcing the sale of my house, I am socially quite isolated (probably as a result of the first part) my diet is mostly crap, I will have to give up my dog... In the next few months I will more than likely be going from home ownership (at least, with a mortgage) to living in a rented room and I know that my pattern will be to sit and get drunk every night and I'm not prepared to do that this time. I have quit previously, for over 2 years, but was lead back into drinking by my (now) ex partner. I want to go back to the person I used to be. I might blog about quitting and adjusting to a new life living alone, I wonder if anyone would like to read that sort of thing? All the advice out there for adjusting to living alone is aimed at kids leaving home or women leaving men, there's not much out there that I can find for guys having to start over. I would define myself as a binge alcoholic, I hold a job and function, but I am incapable of controlling my drinking, I can't just have one or two drinks and stop, if I have 1 I will have 2, then 3, until the bar closes or I run out of booze. I know these things and yet I keep trying to control it and rarely do that with any success. TLDR: I am a drinker, but I am done with drinking. Here to support and be supported. Thanks guys.

Hi i've recently decided to stop drinking (again). It's having far to many negative consquences on my life and moderation is not the answer (believe me i've tried). Just wondering what people get up to at the weekend as most things in Ireland revolve around drink. Im 28 from Dublin and i won't be drinking with you today.

Hello everyone/anyone. Forgive the throw away account. I'm just wondering if anyone has any recommendations for treatment centres for an alcoholic parent? I have been reading about Hope House in Mayo, has anyone here had treatment there? Can anyone recommend any other centres? I have a parent who is now in a desperate situation and I'm not sure what to do. They keep making excuses for not seeking help and I now realize how disastrous the situation has become after spending some time at home over the holiday period. This is now an emergency as I realize certain things have been kept from me or in other cases I have been told lies to save me from the stress of the situation (it's now rock bottom). Can anyone recommend how I go about getting them into treatment when they are actively doing their best to avoid it and are effectively killing themselves? Hope someone here can help. Also, I have been reading about prescription drugs and heard that Nalmefene was very effective. Does anyone here have experience with prescriptions or success stories with certain drugs? I was told that a course of Librium would help, but now I have been told that Librium is actually for people that have come off alcohol altogether and it is only for DT's and shouldn't be administered to someone who is still at risk from consuming alcohol (parent was prescribed Librium but it didn't work).

Alcohol was implicated in one in three deaths and remains the single most common cause of deaths over the 2004-14 period. Thankfully I am out of the loop for now \o/

Thoughts