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[PaleMale]

5 Things Nobody Tells You About Quitting Drinking | Cracked.com

Thought this was worth sharing. Warning: Foul language and graphic descriptions.

[Astro]

Can't argue with any of it, and if you read the entire article it actually carries a pretty good message. Thanks for posting!

[lookinforward]

That was great....thank you for sharing.

[Ghostly]

That was absolutely amazing. If this wasn't the Men's room, I'd even admit it brought a tear to my eye, which of course, it didn't. Thanks for sharing that.

[Peter G]

Just checked it out. Great article. Not sure if anyone followed the writer's youtube link in the article but he also has a Vlog that extends from his day 1 of sobriety to now, 2 years later.

Here's his latest post there @ 2 years sober. Basically he breaks down how his life has dramatically improved since laying off the sauce. Awesome stuff.

Thanks for hooking this up PaleMale.

[Gerbosko]

Awesome article and he has a warped sense of humor like I do so I was laughing pretty hard at some of his comments but when he was serious, the message was clear.

[TheTinMan]

One of the most common nightmares among alcoholics is the terrible recurring dream where you fall off the wagon. You fight all day to stay sober, then in your sleep you relapse. So in the dream you now have to explain to the people around you that you slipped. Not only do you feel all of the guilt and shame and frustration while you're dreaming, the feelings stick with you long after you wake up.

This.

I hated those dreams.

[Flippt]

That was awesome. Lol @ the urge to murder. Almost got 2 weeks under my belt and I had pretty much all 5 of those.

[Snowbawl]

Pale thanks for the post that was a good mood lifter.

[InsertNameHere]

I haven't laughed like that in a while thanks.

INH

[NewBeginning010]

OMG that was great. I especially loved this part: #1.

The Blissful High

For a few days after a person becomes completely detoxed, his body will get an unexpected dose of oxygen, real food and natural chemicals that will put him on a natural high. It's just a symptom, just like the pooping, and likewise it won't last. Truthfully, you don't want it to.


You can't sustain this expression without being beaten constantly.

But in the mean time, rainbows will shoot out of your ass, and it will feel like the final scenes of Independence Day. You've overcome your addictions! The alien ships have been destroyed! You just did what they all said you couldn't do!

Except you haven't. There is no finish line with alcohol recovery. Ninety percent of alcoholics relapse within the first four years. There are still shitloads of ships up there, and each one of them requires Randy Quaid to improbably fly into it at the exact moment it attacks with its giant laser beam.

It turns out that drinking doesn't make a person an alcoholic. The part of a person's brain that makes him drink to excess is what makes him an alcoholic, and the mechanism for the addiction is still there. This is why people in 12-step programs say that you'll always be an alcoholic, even if you're not drinking. Alcohol isn't the disease; it's a symptom. Or rather, it's an attempt to self-medicate the disease.

It's hard for people to understand why I can't just downgrade from "alcoholic" to "moderate drinker." There are plenty of people out there who can drink in moderation. They can down a couple with their friends, **** on the hood of a cop car, go to sleep and forget all about booze the next day. I'm not one of them. Neither was my dad, who died at age 49 from this ****.

I think I'll find a better way to teach my kids the same lesson.


Perhaps some sort of terrifying puppet show ...

If you're a drunk and have started to realize that your story is going to end with a bunch of your friends telling hilarious drinking stories at your funeral, I promise you that quitting is totally worth it, despite all the bad stuff I described above. I'm one year sober as of last week, and I've never felt better or more proud of myself in my life. And in that year, I have not woken up even one time with a **** drawn on my face.

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[AnodyneShift]

That was great-- thank you!

I needed that this morning.

~D

[pangur]

from the same writer, very honest, but he's got a great style of writing, even with very serious topics.

7 Things You Don't Realize About Addiction (Until You Quit) | Cracked.com

[Peter G]

Originally Posted by pangur

from the same writer, very honest, but he's got a great style of writing, even with very serious topics.

7 Things You Don't Realize About Addiction (Until You Quit) | Cracked.com

Yep. This article is quite a bit more telling than the first actually, (IMO) and also if you ask me the whole thing should be reprinted here and posted as a sticky. So many new folks could stand to hear this perspective, to get a real feel for what's in store.

Hell, he basically answers the entire "newcomers to recovery" section's daily questions/problems in one article.

[MustStop]

Thats John Cheese, he also writes for askmen.com now. Those videos and articles helped me more than I could ever admit.