20 years ago, my parents went bankrupt.
They were high profile in a small town.
The sheriff came to repossess the family business which included the family home.
The police were there.
My father was very very drunk and distraught and was burning his personal effects and brandishing a loaded shotgun at his family and the others present.
He was approached by my sister against the advice of everyone.
She took the gun from him and told him he had to go to the hospital for help and then to the local rehab. The local doctor was there and was on standby to arrange this.
My father dropped the fight and simply begged my sister not "to do that to me".
He has never drank again.
He is 83 now, in excellent health. My mother and he are married for 50 years.
That was his bottom.
I went to AA and stopped 2 years ago.
I guess I didn't feel like doing it the exciting way.
To each their own.
It is just a case of finding a way out of the insanity.
The acronym H.A.L.T, I learned from AA.
Don't get hungry, angry, lonely, or tired.
I don't see the religion there.
Just, before I dive head-first into a bottle of Bacardi, I am going to eat, chill out, call or visit someone or go to bed.
Anyone else have things that got them stopped?
When you had a few weeks under your belt, what kept you stopped?
Why didn't you drink after a year?
2 years?
10 years?
What is easier about your life today?
Do you look better?
Work better?
Relate to others better?
Tell us these things and quit bangin' on at other programs.
They all work.
I threw everything at it.
The more someone shares about what works the better.
I just roll my eyes at these kinds of arguments.
Pointless, pointless, pointless.
And by the time I come up with the energy to respond, the thread has been closed.
Sober Recovery.
Recovering, trying to recover, recovered, quitting, on the wagon, dragged by the wagon, whatever, we are mostly in the same wagon.
