Is it a start? or playing with fire?
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I'm with Dgillz......if your plan is to get sober then the move now is to eliminate all alcohol. My experience is that cutting back worked for about a minute before I was right back at the same if not more old consumption amounts. Amazing how I could cut down but wham I would always go right back at it.
Wish you well Fat....and know that after 10 years of hardcore drinking and the last few years being daily.....that I was able to get sober and into recovery and am now approaching a year. What worked for me man was accepting and removing it my from life. I am far better person without it. I am sure you are too
Keep it going!
Wish you well Fat....and know that after 10 years of hardcore drinking and the last few years being daily.....that I was able to get sober and into recovery and am now approaching a year. What worked for me man was accepting and removing it my from life. I am far better person without it. I am sure you are too
Keep it going!
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Originally Posted by FatRat 
It's never a good thing, when a person that you have accused of embezzlement becomes your boss.
I think the reduction in drinking is good only in that it might make withdrawals a little better if you give up 100%. I have been looking for awhile and never heard a moderation story with a happy ending.
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Re:Is it a start? or playing with fire?
Can anyone say progression...I would stop now before it's too late. If you can't, then give an addiction counselor a call and stop by an AA meeting as well. We will pray for your recovery -one day at a time.
~God bless~
~God bless~
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It never worked for me. I would go days after a particularly horrid drinking episode swearing I would cut down, never drink again and so on and so on. It NEVER worked. I always wound up back in the same place. Miserable, depressed, frustrated, embarrassed, and DRUNK.
Best Wishes To You
Best Wishes To You
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Join Date: Mar 2011
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Last Christmas, I tried saving up all of my liquor for Christmas. I bought four bottles of vodka and was determined to save some for Christmas and of course have some that day.
Anyway, long story short, by the next day, I didn't have any liquor left. I couldn't save it up for squat. I needed it all then.
Anyway, long story short, by the next day, I didn't have any liquor left. I couldn't save it up for squat. I needed it all then.
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Personally I was, on many occasions, able to moderate or reduce my drinking for a certain period of time. However, I always ended up "bouncing back" to the level I had been at, and more. The only thing that has worked for me consistently is not drinking at all.
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I was driving to work early in the morning the other day, still dark out, five children in the car, and habitually rolled through a stop sign out in the middle of nowhere. A mile down the road the red and blue lights of a Kansas Highway Patrol Officer lit up my rear view mirror.
I pulled over and rolled down my window.
The polite officer asked me if I knew why he pulled me over?
I replied "No."
He said, "You did not stop at the stop sign."
I replied, "Yes, but I slowed down."
He then said, "Sir, I do not think you heard me, I said you did not stop at the stop sign."
I replied, "OFFICER, you I think did not hear me, I said I SLOWED DOWN!!"
He then said "Sir, I will tell you one more time, YOU DID NOT STOP AT THE STOP SIGN!!!"
I replied, "Officer, I will tell you one more time, I SLOWED DOWN!!!"
He then reached through the open car window, grabbed me by my necktie, pulled me out of the car through the window and began beating me with his billy club.
He said, "NOW, DO YOU WANT ME TO SLOW DOWN OR STOP????"
I pulled over and rolled down my window.
The polite officer asked me if I knew why he pulled me over?
I replied "No."
He said, "You did not stop at the stop sign."
I replied, "Yes, but I slowed down."
He then said, "Sir, I do not think you heard me, I said you did not stop at the stop sign."
I replied, "OFFICER, you I think did not hear me, I said I SLOWED DOWN!!"
He then said "Sir, I will tell you one more time, YOU DID NOT STOP AT THE STOP SIGN!!!"
I replied, "Officer, I will tell you one more time, I SLOWED DOWN!!!"
He then reached through the open car window, grabbed me by my necktie, pulled me out of the car through the window and began beating me with his billy club.
He said, "NOW, DO YOU WANT ME TO SLOW DOWN OR STOP????"
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So why does everyone have to be an alcoholic? If someone who drinks a lot is considered a "Hard Drinker" wouldn't slowing down be good enough? If any "Hard Drinker" can slow down and drink a pint a week more power to him. If this pint a week escalates back to a quart a day it may be time to admit we're powerless.
Until then not everyone is an alcoholic and we shouldn't assume they are.
Until then not everyone is an alcoholic and we shouldn't assume they are.
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FatRat,
You might consider going back and reading your old posts. Exactly how many times did you detox in how many years? How many times in two weeks? I think you know the answer to your own question, that is if you are honest with yourself. The question I have for you is "Do you want to do anything about it?" "Or are you content to play the "moderation relapse" game?
Susan
You might consider going back and reading your old posts. Exactly how many times did you detox in how many years? How many times in two weeks? I think you know the answer to your own question, that is if you are honest with yourself. The question I have for you is "Do you want to do anything about it?" "Or are you content to play the "moderation relapse" game?
Susan
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