Originally Posted by
GetItTogether 
Luckily I'm so broke right now I won't be able to afford booze for weeks. I'm hoping by then I'll have stayed away from drinking long enough that I'll be able to fight the urge. I know I can do it. I managed to stop drinking for almost 3 months last year but a stressful job got me back on the bottle. At least I don't have to worry about job stress any more.
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We have tried every imaginable remedy. In some instances there has been brief recovery (3 months?)
followed always by a still worse relapse. We learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were alcoholic. The DELUSION that we are like other people or presently maybe had to be smashed.
From 1st edition.
It's not the stressful job, or any external factor. It's alcoholism. This is what happens to alcoholics who fail to realise the seriousness of their situation.