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Old 02-19-2017, 12:24 PM
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Daucuscarota
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I have been drinking more than a bottle of wine pretty much daily for more than half of my adult life. I have never been able to moderate it.
I stopped for each of my pregnancies, and when I finally accepted that I have a serious problem several years ago, I stopped for 5 years, with the help of Allen Carr's book. Then a severe trauma happened to me, and I started again---- I picked right up where I had left off and it continued for a few years until last spring, when I quit for a month. After I passed the 1 month mark, I told myself that I could have "just one"----that I could moderate it.
Of course it didn't work.
Each time I started again, I was drinking even more.

For me, it is torture to try to moderate.
Now, I have just passed the 2 week mark again (for the 3rd time)
and I feel so free from the chains of alcohol. No more arguing with myself, no more shame, no more anxiety.
It is so much easier for it to be a non issue.

Now begins the hard work of working through the pain and grief
that I have been trying to numb and drown with alcohol.
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