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Old 08-01-2012, 10:58 AM
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mecanix
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I think the two week thing is a hump in the road to get over . You're fresh enough to remember the routine and habbit of buying it . After about 4 - 6 weeks i think that habbit starts to receed . I think i was wary of exposure or even going down that isle in the supermarket for about 2 months . When it was christmass, after about 3 months i was able to buy drink for my mum and not worry myself about it as i felt confident in my non-drinking persona .

By giving up 2 weeks at a time you're giving yourself all the pain of withdrawl and not clearing that to where the noticeable benifits of sobriety start to kick in .

I really hope you get to it as loosing your job, houses and relationship to drink is not very nice . Sometimes thats what it takes though, it's what i had to go through to get to the point where the fear and pain of change was less than the fear and pain of carrying on .

bestwishes, M
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