What does alcohol destroy?
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that alcohol destroys:
1. Family
2. Friends
3. Jobs
3. Bank Accounts
4. Brain
5. Future
6. Significant other relationships
7. Pets ( I put this here because I actually neglect my dog when I drank and that makes me livid now that I think about it, cause I love animals, usually more than people lol)
8..cars
9. home
10. belongings to family and self
11. self estem.. and
12. so much lying and trying to keep the lies straight..
13. pretending that life is just grand and yet it is a big dark hole..
14......
1. Family
2. Friends
3. Jobs
3. Bank Accounts
4. Brain
5. Future
6. Significant other relationships
7. Pets ( I put this here because I actually neglect my dog when I drank and that makes me livid now that I think about it, cause I love animals, usually more than people lol)
8..cars
9. home
10. belongings to family and self
11. self estem.. and
12. so much lying and trying to keep the lies straight..
13. pretending that life is just grand and yet it is a big dark hole..
14......
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Location: milwaukee wi
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daz135.... I think this is the big part memory.. Ed is now 7 weeks out of morphine.. door open things left behind... cats are hiding most of the time... no water in their dish... he can't find half of his life.. in his daily routine.. whatever that is .. and errors in judgement so many that its scary... I am back to watching a 7 year old ADHA with big problems... but I am glad my drinking is gone.. but I am very tired of being the adult.. that has to correct everything...
Originally Posted by daz135 
Funny what you sweep under the rug when you're in denial,you just reminded me a few weeks ago when I was hungover (the hangovers that I say I don't have ) I fed my horse and went to work for the day . Came home and realized that I left his heavy rugs on. It's spring here and getting quite hot during the day. He could easily have got colic and died from being overheated all day. A lack ability to concentrate could have been very costly on many levels. Talk about 'yets' I was getting real close to some serious repercussions from drinking and couldn't even see it!
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Originally Posted by AlHowSoonisNow
"The devil will find work for idle hands to do I stole and I lied, and why? because you asked me to but now you make me feel so ashamed because I've only got two hands well, I'm still fond of you" Self-confidence Self-esteem Self-respect Self-trust Peace of mind Destruction in a bottle. Like wild fire engulfing everything in it's path. No more. Time to live.
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Originally Posted by dunkelheit
The pets thing pisses me off the most. My pets are only supposed to live for 2 years, and I fully stopped paying attention to them for the last 8 months of their lives when I started drinking to pass out.
Originally Posted by daz135
Funny what you sweep under the rug when you're in denial,you just reminded me a few weeks ago when I was hungover (the hangovers that I say I don't have ) I fed my horse and went to work for the day . Came home and realized that I left his heavy rugs on. It's spring here and getting quite hot during the day. He could easily have got colic and died from being overheated all day. A lack ability to concentrate could have been very costly on many levels. Talk about 'yets' I was getting real close to some serious repercussions from drinking and couldn't even see it!
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i wouldn't even say alcohol destroys anything. alcohol is in inanimate object, it doesn't force itself down our throats, and there are plenty of people who can use and enjoy it responsibly. we destroy ourselves and we use alcohol to do it.
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Originally Posted by tenspeedblender
i wouldn't even say alcohol destroys anything. alcohol is in inanimate object, it doesn't force itself down our throats, and there are plenty of people who can use and enjoy it responsibly. we destroy ourselves and we use alcohol to do it.
Slowly but surely if we continue to allow ourselves to abuse alcohol we lose everything .
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For me alcohol started to take over my life, that obsessive behaviour, the subtle trade offs in my mind in favour of alcohol, I found out in hindsight that the myth of "functioning" is just false, I traded many a nights sleep, healthy eating and personal enjoyment just to have alcohol, and the knock on affect was more anxiety, a loss of self worth, feeling more depressed and overall not living anywhere near to my full potential.
Looking back it affected health, finances, work, relationships, emotions, feelings . . . the list goes on and on!!
Sobriety on the other hand provides a freedom and a better starting point to build a life upon!!
Looking back it affected health, finances, work, relationships, emotions, feelings . . . the list goes on and on!!
Sobriety on the other hand provides a freedom and a better starting point to build a life upon!!
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It has stole any beauty i once had. My skin is dry and i have a lot of wrinkles now. I used to look very young for my age, not so much anymore.
It also stole some of my sons childhood. I ignored him a lot when i was drunk. Poor kid. Good thing he is 6 and i have a lot of time to make it up top him.
It also stole some of my sons childhood. I ignored him a lot when i was drunk. Poor kid. Good thing he is 6 and i have a lot of time to make it up top him.
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Originally Posted by needtostopthis
It has stole any beauty i once had. My skin is dry and i have a lot of wrinkles now. I used to look very young for my age, not so much anymore.
It also stole some of my sons childhood. I ignored him a lot when i was drunk. Poor kid. Good thing he is 6 and i have a lot of time to make it up top him.
It also stole some of my sons childhood. I ignored him a lot when i was drunk. Poor kid. Good thing he is 6 and i have a lot of time to make it up top him.
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On my last night of drinking, 4 days ago, I knew I was going to be quitting and I planned on having a last hurrah. I was camping and I tied my dog up and proceeded to ignore him the whole night. My husband put water out for him but I didn't even notice him. My husband also took him back to our campsite when we were done, but I probably would have left him there because I was so messed up. That was a big eye opener for me and I'm glad you included it. My dog loves me so much and I feel like I let him down. He is ok but it just reinforced my need to stop this stupidity.
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Very grateful -- slid through drunk at work a few too many times
Almost stole away my lifetime City employment of 32 years.
Many a coworker there got fired just short of retirement due to their drinking.
MM
Many a coworker there got fired just short of retirement due to their drinking.
MM
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Originally Posted by tenspeedblender
i wouldn't even say alcohol destroys anything. alcohol is in inanimate object, it doesn't force itself down our throats, and there are plenty of people who can use and enjoy it responsibly. we destroy ourselves and we use alcohol to do it.
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