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Old 11-19-2013, 05:57 AM
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Hi Lady, I agree. It's being honest with myself and accepting that I cannot drink. You said it.
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Old 11-19-2013, 06:11 AM
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I'll have to try later, because the question isn't answering itself this morning.
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Old 11-19-2013, 06:45 AM
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It's a toss up.... I was sober a year before finding SR, so if it can only be one thing, I would say for me, Yoga. It keeps me sane and sober.
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Old 11-19-2013, 07:29 AM
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The truth of what alcohol really is.
Poison.
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Old 11-21-2013, 01:54 AM
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Yup..brutal honesty. And even with my broken moral compass I just couldn't shake how much of a "bad person" I had become. I was straight up and honest with myself and my fiance and it was the first step of many to get to where I'm at today. It hit me like a sack of bricks to the face that "MAN! I've got a problem!"
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Old 11-21-2013, 03:50 AM
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a liver ultrasound which revealed I had a fatty liver. I stayed sober thanks ro the people at SR
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Old 11-21-2013, 04:20 AM
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It doesn't matter what my mind tells me, not one molecule in my body can deal with alcohol normally anymore.

Game over.
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Old 11-21-2013, 08:07 AM
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If you could attribute your success to one thing.....

Realizing/accepting/understanding that my life will be just fine, without alcohol. And... it has been/is.

There are other "attributes" but the above would have to be THE one, for me.
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Old 11-21-2013, 10:40 AM
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Picking just one is difficult, and isn't the answer I want to give, but it is what it is. FEAR.
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Old 11-21-2013, 11:06 AM
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The realization I can never have the life I want if I continue drinking.
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Old 11-21-2013, 11:11 AM
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I neither had a plan to quit...but what has helped me most is: a rock solid commitment all aspects of recovery.
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Old 11-21-2013, 12:24 PM
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I would attribute my success to REALLY understanding what an alcoholic is... and I was that person.
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Old 11-28-2013, 04:38 PM
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I quit drinking because I was sick from drinking so much for so long. Sick and shaking every day only feeling "normal" after a few shots.

I was tired of being a falling down drunk with constant cuts and bruises all over. After I fell backwards hitting my head on the toilet and knocking myself out cold, splitting my scalp I said to myself, "This has got to stop."

I kept saying that to myself and a month later I was in rehab. Haven't fallen down in 15 months.
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Old 11-28-2013, 06:13 PM
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Admitting to myself that I was a drunk.

And then realizing that trying to quit drinking by myself was the equivalent of taking a drunks advice on how to get sober.

That led to finding this website and then finding the courage to go to AA.
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Old 11-29-2013, 03:49 AM
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Reading Under the Influence.

I recognized where I was and more importantly where I was headed if I didn't stop...and I didn't want that life for my children.
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Old 11-30-2013, 08:59 AM
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Hello,
In all honesty I wouldn't even know the meaning of the above term until I I started to see large black insect-like creatures sprinting across my bed as I lay there completely crucified by 30 years of drinking. The physical withdrawal symptoms after a bottle or two of vodka daily for 7-10 days of consecutive immersive compulsive and utterly terrifying days of oblivion interrupted only with the need to buy more. 2 years sober February 19th 2014. **** happens, some of us die, some make it. Who knows the answers, not me. Love to all you brothers & sisters starting out on your struggle.
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Old 12-01-2013, 12:08 AM
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The one thing that I did when I decided to get sober was to tell everyone that I do not drink! I was such a good "closet-drinker" that no one even suspected why, but now everyone knows to NOT invite me to happy hour because I will not go. At the company Christmas party last year, I told the boss that I do not drink so I was not attending. He was a little agitated, but he got over it. I refuse to be around alcohol and people that are drinking. I refuse to be tempted!
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Old 12-01-2013, 12:10 AM
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Good for you enough ...i need to heed your advice .
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