Originally Posted by PalmerSage

Obviously, I have limited experience because I've only been sober for 6 months, but I'm definitely in the "100 little reasons" camp. I don't need a DUI to wake me up and show me I'm a "real" alcoholic, because I've known that I am for a very long time. It's really the sick and tired reason...SO over it. Being in a constant fog, not even enjoying drinking, having a miserable and joyless existence, holding secrets, anxiety, looking terrible, gaining weight, irritable, isolating, only doing the bare minimum to get through the day. The most important thing for me is to remember how I felt when I was drinking, and how awful it was...it's shockingly easy to forget, you know?