Old 10-03-2007, 02:14 AM
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findingout
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Thank you for posting this. When I read it, it makes me shudder at how close to the edge I was when I got to treatment. It also makes me realize how strong denial and the desire to minimize my problem can be. Even today, I'm reading along thinking "Well, sure morning drinks had become a habit and there were days where I was afraid to leave the house without one, but I could still hold a pencil so I wasn't really that bad." Yikes! That bad compared to what?!?!

Even before I was drinking almost 24/7, it's not like I didn't know that alcoholism could get this bad. I just believed it would never happen to me. I was different. Pretty much like thinking that I can jump out of a plane without a parachute and land on the ground unscratched because I am different. But hey, jumping out of a plane without a parachute would be insane...
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