Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Oxnard (The Nard), CA, USA.
Posts: 13,867
At first when I first started drinking/drugging the pleasure was great and the negative consequences were minimal or manageable.
As time went on the pleasure was still high when I drug/drank and the negative consequences were still manageable, although there was more to manage.
Near the end of my drugging and drinking there still was pleasure drink/drug, except the negative consequences were becoming less manageable and more frequent with a sooner onset.
It wasn't until the pleasure of drinking and the negative consequences of drinking went hand and hand. That I decided to stop my active addiction.
Now pleasure comes without all that negative crap and seems to last longer in sobriety.