stopped drinking cold turkey today
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Scottsdale, AZ
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If you're anything like me, you are going to be messed up for a while. A long while. You don't go from dozens of drinks a day for years to well-adjusted overnight. It takes a pretty disturbed puppy to drink that much for that long, and now that you've stopped drinking you get to really FEEL just how disturbed you are! Welcome to the club!
It's so awesome that you took some advice and got yourself medical support. Here's more advice: you will not get through the next days and weeks and months alone. At least if you are anything like me. I was up to 30+ drinks a day when I called it quits, and I found it had no idea how to live without drinking. I needed support, guidance, instruction and the company of other human beings for a very long time after I quit. I found what I needed in AA. Whether it's AA, church, outpatient alcohol counseling, all of the above.... I hope you continue to find it in yourself to turn to others for the support and help you'll need -- like you've already done by posting here and going to the ER.
Millions of people just like you have gone through exactly what you are going through now, and have gone on to build healthy and satisfying lives. I hope you choose to do the same. You deserve it.
It's so awesome that you took some advice and got yourself medical support. Here's more advice: you will not get through the next days and weeks and months alone. At least if you are anything like me. I was up to 30+ drinks a day when I called it quits, and I found it had no idea how to live without drinking. I needed support, guidance, instruction and the company of other human beings for a very long time after I quit. I found what I needed in AA. Whether it's AA, church, outpatient alcohol counseling, all of the above.... I hope you continue to find it in yourself to turn to others for the support and help you'll need -- like you've already done by posting here and going to the ER.
Millions of people just like you have gone through exactly what you are going through now, and have gone on to build healthy and satisfying lives. I hope you choose to do the same. You deserve it.
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