Alcohol against urges..

And that's how you become an alcoholic. I'm only half joking.

 

It's never too late.

 

You must be kidding right? Have you heard of term cross addiction? This is the worse advise one can give to a person trying to get rid of addiction.
Numerus studies have shown that former addicts have really hard time not to exchange one addiction for another. At the end all addictions are the same, we crave dopamine rush. You can get it with alcohol, running, opioids, gambling, sex…

 

You are playing with fire. Both alcohol and pmo cause hypofrontality, they work on the same pathways. Alcohol is like oil on the pmo fire in some people, including me.

 

It's the opposite for me, having a drink leads me to binging and ended up at square one.

 

If you're seriously PMO addicted your pre-frontal cortex looks like the one of an alcoholic or opioid addict. Mechanics behind it is the same. Alcohol "helps" you because you only exchange one drug of choice for another to get your craved dopamine spike. You can't regrowth your D2 receptors and gray matter if you keep elevating your dopamine levels -> May 24, 2019
Brains don't care where they get excessive amount of dopamine. As long as they get it, regrowth of gray matter in PFC and D receptors won't start.
But do whatever you want, it's your life.

 

I'm not angry, I just don't like when people give bad advices. Maybe alcohol works for you and you can stay at one glass of wine daily, but statistic is brutally clear. It is very dangerous to indulge in any potentially addictive behavior (= any highly dopamine rewarding behaviour), when you're in abstention period of recovery.

Watch this video. Man got rid of opioids but exchange them for alcohol and it nearly killed him:

 

Swapping one addiction with another isn't a good idea. I would stay away from anything like that (drugs, cigarettes, beer.)

 

Yeah as long as you dont get too drunk. I drink a half glass of wine sometimes and the dopamine from that helps. Get too drunk makes me want to say F it

 

The problem starts when 1 beer turns into 2, and 2 turns into 3 etc. As long as you keep it under control and it helps you, fuck yeah. Try to deal with most urges sober though, that's how you build strength against them.

 

Not me.

Drinking always put me "in the mood"