Orbot_Vectorman said:
I'm feeling a bit down and I'm looking to drink enough alcohol to send myself into oblivion. So does anyone out here have any suggestions to help me along that path?
Don't drink.. seriously, it's the absolute worst way to deal with your problems.
Alcohol doesn't calm you down. People
feel like it calms them down because they lose their inhibitions and get numbed out for a few hours, but actually alcohol exaggerates your emotions. If you drink when you feel sad, you will not gain a new perspective on the situation, you will not come to terms with it and feel more relaxed about it, it will just make you feel more miserable.
Furthermore, when you get up the next day, none of the things you thought you were dealing with will have gone. In fact, they'll seem worse because a) you pissed an evening away instead of cognitively dealing with them and b) you'll feel wretched anyway because you've been drinking.
Finally, drinking while in a bad mood is a really good way to do stupid things and alienate people.
I'm probably being alarmist, it's hard not to be because I have to spend a large chunk of my life trying to care for someone who started out feeling a lot like you and is now alcohol dependent (that's the point where your body physically needs alcohol and withdrawal becomes so brutal it can kill you, seriously, alcohol is worse than heroin in that regard), but I feel I need to give this advice anyway because I've also been there myself. Drinking doesn't help, at best it defers your feeling bad for a few hours. If you just face up to it and let yourself feel bad it will go away in time (if it doesn't, then you need to see a doctor because you have clinical depression).
Everyone has things go wrong in their life. Trust me, as this post has already probably hinted, my life isn't exactly fun and games either. In fact, I don't think many people ever feel like they're doing particularly well in life, and those who do tend to be shallow cunts. What defines functioning people is not that they have happy lives, but that when their lives aren't particularly great they focus on the things they can control, they work to make their lives better rather than wallowing in misery about the bits which are always going to be shit anyway.
I'm not great at doing that myself, but I've found it's worth trying. Make of that what you will.
Seriously, get a friend to come round. Buy a bottle of wine or something equivalent and just drink slowly through it over the course of an evening so that you stay in the nice alcohol buzz stage for as long as possible. It will loosen you up and make it easier to talk about whatever's bothering you, and then when you wake up next day you won't feel so horrible because you'll have actually done something to help yourself beyond blacking out and vomiting.