Congratulations to all those hitting milestones and welcome back to all those returning.
I really had to take drinking off the table as a solution to my problems, my social situations or my moods.
It was hard to do - I spent a few uncomfortable days and nights - but the discomfort was not as lasting or as debilitating as I'd worked it up to be in my own head.
Instead of drinking, I posted here losts (either posting as me or to others) I read lots, I exercised, I ate something...there are other things too like AA or some other meeting based group - all of them have online meetings now.
I had to put as much effort into not drinking as I did into drinking - and my effort in drinking was Herculean.
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