[RozG]

What do you do when you're so hacked off (to put it politely) you just wanna get high & don't give a damn even though...ffs you're old enough to know better?

[Perna]

You're gonna be the death of me, KJ; I had to find out what "hacked off" meant:

http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/h.htm

Change your perspective. Get curious as to why you want to drink at "that" particular time (versus 6 hours ago or when you woke or last night, etc.). Nowadays, I'm old enough so I don't feel very well after drinking some; headaches, sleepiness, nausea, etc. and I dislike that more than the original state.

See if you can shift your response to finding/reading a good book or some other activity until some of the urge has passed.

If you live in Texas, USA, it's conceivable you could get arrested: http://www.slate.com/id/2138331/

I've often just gone to bed/sleep, knowing things will look different in the morning/later. If I read up on dreams, I can hope for an "interesting" dream and follow that up (which is all an activity so takes my mind of getting drunk/drugged).

Open all the liquor and pour it down the drain and then forbid myself to leave the house to buy more.

Write.

Plan/fine/execute a good meal instead. Sometimes I'll drink while I'm eating but won't need to get drunk if the food is really good.

A moving target is hard to hit so I keep working/resisting, choosing something else and eventually I outrun the feeling.

[RozG]

Perna

1. Cheers for the giggle...can't believe you've never heard hacked off.

2. I'm talking drugs here not booze.

3. I live in a ganghood where dealers come to YOU making it kinda hard to say no when you're in that place.

4. Thanx for the advice.

[splitimage]

Do you go to NA? If so you can ring their central line. Hell you can ring there central line even if you don't go. I call the aA hotline all the time, If I can't get a hold of anyone else and I'm having a craving.

I try to remember that whatever is pissing me off is not worth losing my sobriety over, becasue odds are, I'll still be pissed off only with a hangover.

Sometimes I get on-line and jsut rant in my on-line journal or post on another board, similar to PC saying I'm struggling and I need help.

I'll go on cleaning binges just to burn of the energy - some of my best floor washing has been accomplished while swearing.

the most important thing is to remember this is just a feeling an urge and you can ride it out.

splitimage

[RozG]

Thank you splitimage, it's all good advice and it does help hearing how other people deal with it.