If you could attribute your success to one thing.....
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Join Date: Feb 2013
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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!"
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.
There are other "attributes" but the above would have to be THE one, for me.
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.
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.
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.
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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Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Belfast
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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.
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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Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Soberville
Posts: 38
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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