Essentially I treat all narcotics as I would LSD/Mushrooms/DMT. You should not be consuming unless you're in an overall happy, positive point in your life.

If negative emotions always come out while drinking, you're not there yet.

Quit boozing for a few months and then see if you want to pick it back up.

Alcohol and cocaine specifically are two substances I logically have no reason

Stopping drinking is much better for your health.

Only you can make that decision for you.

Coffee. It's a great ice breaker.

Bro. Let me tell you. I had an alcoholic ex. She would always talk about quitting and regret never having a drink again. It's all bullshit justifications.

You need to hear this: You have a drinking problem from what I've read and you know it.

Alcohol adds zero value to anyone's life. Period. Go without it. Just the fact that you can't makes a good case for why you need to be strict with yourself.

Same answer. You need to prioritize what you're trying to focus on over whatever perceived benefit you get from drinking

The truth is you're not pacing yourself. You prioritize whatever you're doing less than what you want from drinking

No magic answer is going to help you dude your prioritizes are ass about drinking

Like i said on the last post, if you're going to drink that much wait till you're home alone, have nothing else to do for the evening, and can't fuck anything up with it

It does sound like you have a problem, so quitting couldn't really hurt as an experiment and could be really good.

The social lubrication thing is really the only helpful thing about alcohol but to do that and stay sober you would need a hard and fast 2 drink rule. 2 standard sized drinks to get socially lubricated. Never the third. If you could do this, it would be OK but can you? You would need to answer that one with experiment.

Stop drinking. It will be a couple of difficult months but then it becomes easier.

You'll have to learn how to socialize without the lubricating effect but this too gets better with time. As a matter of fact, since most people around are drunk at night, you can easily intellectually and socially dominate them.

If you can't pace yourself you need to not drink.

It's that simple.

If you're asking the question then the answer is you should stop now. Furthermore sobriety isn't a "forever" question, it's a "daily", even hourly question. That is, you ask yourself "will I stay sober today?" And then next day ask yourself the same question. And keep doing it until you realize you've gone days/weeks/months/years without drinking.

Note that there are plenty of people who are able to control their drinking. It sounds like you're not one of them. Forget its effect on your social life. Quit before something far worse than embarrassing yourself in front of your mom, happens. Like drunk driving leading to a manslaughter or murder charge. There are worse things in life than a shitty social life and drug addiction is one of them. You need to have your priorities in order and get right before you hit rock bottom.

Now, once you've been sober, can you drink again? The textbook answer is no: the risk of relapse is too high. I know people who've done it though, so I can't say it never happens, but this is a question you can answer after you get sober first.

Regarding your social life, sure right now drinking is a large part of it, but it doesn't have to be. People who don't drink also have social lives, wives/gfs, etc. but it's through different venues, and likely different friend groups, and you'll have to learn some new skills. But it's definitely doable.

Fwiw, I hear you on the social lubrication part. Just about the only time I drink is when I go out with the guys to a bar or club, and it's fun to get plastered, even with the hangover that comes the next day. But even in those nights, I'd say we just as easily pull women during the dinner (when we're still sober) than the bar and club after. And regardless, like I said, if you truly don't have control over alcohol, then getting sober is far more important than almost anything else, even if it hurts your social life.

To me alcohol is a bad drug, which alters my mind and state of being in a very bad way, the night of drinking and also for days/weeks to come. I am not myself with alcohol in my blood, and I avoid it. It is shitty supstance which adds ZERO value to my life (but takes some away). Also beside psychological effects we all know it is bad for the body as well.

To be honest it is kind of easy for me, because I do not indulge in night life at all (hitting the bars here and there but already home by midnight). My drinking years were 18-24, thats when I found out all I need to know about alcohol.

For all the younger folks here, I would even encourage you to drink when you are younger (18-25 age bracket) so you can leave that shit behind you after certaing age and start living properly. Nothing worse then guy binge drinking in his 40s because he did not do it earlier.

To OP: you are opening a post here asking if you should stop; dude we all know it is a point where it is obvious you need to stop. Good luck quitting!