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Old 05-03-2015, 09:02 PM
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Soberween
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Pacific Northwest
Posts: 645
I always try to remember that in the end of my drinking days, alcohol wasn't the problem, it was the solution. The problem for me was anxiety and the solution was dealing with the anxiety by abusing alcohol. I'm somewhat introverted and this really causes a lot of problems for me socially. For a long time, alcohol worked great and then eventually it stopped working. Bad things started to happen. I had to really work on myself through therapy and other means to learn to deal with life head on and not try avoid dealing with anxiety through alcohol. I've had years of sobriety, but it only got easier with absolutely no desire to bring it back into my life once I started working on myself and how I respond to things that stress me out. Congrats on two years. I think that is fantastic and maybe you can step up your program and add things that will help you to happily stay on your sober path.
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