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03-04-2008, 12:44 PM

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nandm

Life the gift of recovery!

Join Date: Aug 2007

Location: Home is where the heart is

Posts: 7,061

My experience is that the key is surrender to the following:

I am an alcoholic
when I drink I lose control of my drinking
my life becomes unmanageable when I drink
quitting under my own power was not possible

I did not have one last bender prior to quitting. My last "bender" was 6 months prior to quitting drinking. I also did not go to treatment. I walked in the doors of AA, followed directions, and did the foot work to stay. I will have been sober 7 years on the 13th of this month.

I was relieved of the obsession to drink before I was 6 months sober and although drinking has crossed my mind it has not returned as an obsession. The difference being an obsession is something that takes over our mind until we get it. A thought is just that, just comes and goes but does not take over our thoughts. When the thoughts come they are easily relieved by playing out the tape in my mind of what happens when I drink. The picture is always the same at the end; insanity, misery, destruction, and loneliness.