Originally Posted by
Dee74 
I have to be honest the only stats that I care about are my own - 100 % sober thanks to continued diligence and effort.
The fact that some others may relapse is I think a reflection on their journey and not on mine.
I will not relapse.
If something grabbed your heart when you read that, that's your inner addict...
It's completely harmless when you absolutely refuse to do whatever it suggests, however beguilingly
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definitely 100% today.
the great fact for me with statistics is I have the choice,too, of what side of the statistics I want to be on.
in 2006 when I was diagnosed with cancer, for some reason one of the 1st things I read in all the literature I was given was the survival statistics- of patients diagnosed stage 3 melanoma, 23% survive 5 years. scared the crap outta me. I was sober 13 months, got sober because I was gonna die, and now reading I was gonna die.
talk to a friend about it.
his words made me say ,"HUH!"
"tom, ya need to take yourself out of the 77% and put yourself in the 23%."
and here I am, 11 years later.