I dont know how rich people get sober. if i was rich, id NEVER do that shit. Every problem i had drinking would be solved with wealth. It was poverty forcing me to get sober more than anything else. If you can stay drunk all the time without fear of homelessness or unemployment, that must be fantastic. I cant think of any problem being rich wouldnt solve, as a drunk. Piss off your friends or family? Get new ones. Get dumped? Get a new woman or fuck expensive prostitutes. Burn down your house or trash your car? Buy new ones. Legal trouble? Throw the best lawyers at it. Health trouble? Throw money at it. Hangovers? get the best drugs. Get your blood pumped out at a swedish rich guy spa. Unhappy? Go do something aweseome that only rich people can do. Flying to paris at 2am on a whim to go to my private hotel just because i can would solve any depression. I guess if you kill someone youre fucked, but that could happen to you if youre poor, just as much.
My man, sorry to say that but I think you have bigger problems than alcohol.
no, i just have the proper persepctive.
If you honestly think that you would do any of those things, especially dump friends and family after you mistreated them while drunk, you have some serious personal issues that sobriety will not fix.
its not the ideal solution, the point is, you have options.
We all have the option to drink or not drink, rich or poor. Quitting drinking is free.
I often dream about being rich, none of the things you mentioned have ever crossed my mind, nor would they ever appeal to me. What you describe is a soulless person.
I mean it might be the other way around and they dump him so I kind of see his point there
He specifically stated "Piss off your friends or family? Get new ones" in the original post.
Nothing about you reads "proper" in this post 😂
Your liver/heart can't tell how big your bank account is.
Are you perhaps double dipping with alcohol?
ETA: My brother is rich and also an alcoholic. He also doesn’t believe in empathy.
As the saying goes, you can’t buy happiness.
im not currently drinking or doing any (non prescribed) drugs.
Okay, good.
thats a lie. You can totally buy happiness, what you cant buy is imagination, which is the real problem for people who think you cant buy happiness.
Get help, bro.
if i need help, its not for any reason YOU could think of.
To think that I almost skipped this episode of “r/dryalcoholics”! 🍿
ha.
It can solve some things but its hard to solve for why we drink. Even as a rich person. Why do we drink. Everyone has their reasons. Even i don't know why sometimes. It changes often. Sometimes I'm bored. Sometimes I'm overwhelmed. Sometimes its neither and I still do because i just want to. Some people do it to drown feelings. I dunno. Being rich helps but why the fuck do we do this? Only you can answer that question for yourself. Goodluck and hope it gets easier for ya.
The guy's soul is rotten. Victim of society's design. Can't change a perspective like this without shattering the earth if no desire to stop is present.
well if i win the lottery it will, ill let you know
I make enough money to be pretty comfortable. It doesn't solve for this affliction we have. Can still search within yourself to try and find why we do what we do.
comfortable isnt rich.
If you say so
i do! because its true.
Ok
Yes of course because there aren’t countless stories of this exact thing being untrue. Check out the sober celebrities page instagram page to get some more insight.
If I were uber rich, I'd be dead with the amount of excess I would indulge in so I'm very thankful I'm not.
Yeah I feel like in 2 minds. On the one hand, having unlimited resources to get fucked up, you'd just die faster. On the other hand, I've needed a year or two off for about 2 decades now. There have been many times when I was genuinely mentally ill and should not have been at work, I have no kind of safety net, so I've drank to cope with it as it felt like no way out, just gotta soldier on. I've had numerous sobriety attempts begin Friday or even Thursday only to crack on Sunday night as I know I have to work and for various reasons, can't get another job. It's hard not to feel like having money wouldn't have solved that.
I've now made it - fuck, I need to check my calculator. Last Thursday before xmas, so 11 days. This is my longest streak in 5 years and being off work since xmas until early Jan isn't hurting.
I'm not sure I'd want to buy new friends and family from a catalogue though, that sounds like an entirely different issue.
thats not my first choice, just saying, its an option if youre rich.
Fair enough! It kind of is :)
Yeah, I grew up lower class, so making medium-high professional salary as a solo dude in a one bedroom apartment is crazy large. Every time I work I just sock away money because I know I’m gonna need it.
I spent 18 months at my last job—I really tried this time—but I got let go for “departmental restructuring.” But because I always forecast the worst I have like 18 months of runway.
Life is tough sometimes—the best we can do is plan ahead. In my case I decided from the end of November till January 8 it was all me time.
It’s going to be a long, painful slog to get another good job. I’ll need all those reserves.
Also, OP needs some perspective at the least.
i think id be ok with it. if it happens, it happens. I feel like a short rich life is way better than a long poor one.
It's not.
nah, it is.
Money wouldn’t solve my problems at all
i guess you dont have the same problems as me
I say this ALL THE TIME. If I was rich I would most likely be dead or go full Britney Spears. Pretty sure I would have a xanax hook up on speed dial and would just use those for withdrawals/hangovers and slowly drink myself to death (while traveling of course)
There's a rich person who doesn't drink because he seen what it did to his brother.
This post is evil
nah, its not.