waynetheking

Let's look at this realistically. If you're an alcoholic, then drinking is nothing but a dead end street. Going down that road will most certainly cause you misery and pain. Physically, emotionally, financially and with your relationships with other people. Possible death awaits you as well. Its a no good, full of potholes, dangerous street to go down.
Heres the good news. Theres a u-turn ahead. All you have to do is stop drinking. Its that easy. life will most certainly improve. The road to happiness and improved health awaits you if you decide to take that u-turn. The further you get away from that dead end street the easier it becomes to stay on the right path.
why did I start this thread? Its just a reminder to all of us that drinking alcohol is a losing propistion. Nothing good will ever become of it. Never.
I wish you all well!

SoberLife2014

Thank you for this waynetheking. I totally agree!

MIRecovery

It is literally a dead end street. Alcoholism is a fatal disease plain and simple

desypete

i agree with all you say however i have found for myself i couldn't just stop on my own or i could stop but couldnt stay stopped
i would be off the drink for weeks or months and still find my own way back to the drink

so no matter how many times i woke up in a police cell or where ever i woke up full of fear guild shame and remorse and i would swear thats it no more

somehow someway i found myself right back there again

so i needed help for me and today i have come to see i am going to need this help for the rest of my life other wise i am going to end up drinking again

its like a dr who tells you that you need medication to help you get over an illness i need my help to help me with my own illness which is alcoholism

thats what i believe helps me only because i tried it on my own so many times and failed

PurpleKnight

Nice post!!

timeforchange78

I needed that. Thanks waynetheking!

Soberwolf

Love the username lol well said a brilliant truthful post

Tonymblue

Great post. Sums it up for me.

AlexThedude

I did that for 3 years. As soon as I turned 21, I was hooked, I took a few breaks, yet it always crept back in. It brought me a lot of depression, stagnation, laziness and pessimism. I do not miss the bottle, although I still crave it from time to time.

bunnezjp

A dead end street, and you may/can/will wind up dead. And its not a nice death.

Bunnez

mercurial me

Truer words never spoken about this disease.

jutam

AMEN! to that

YoungAndClean

I wish logic ever made any difference when it comes to this disease. Because the problem lies in my brain thinking has led me back to another relapse countless times. I've asked myself as an alcoholic why couldn't I just say no to that first drink on a daily basis. Sometimes it seems ridiculous how I would introduce the #1 destructive force back into my life time and time again. I think it took years of relapses and short stints of sobriety for me to really grasp the fact that I have a disease. The drug/drink is no longer the drug/drink, it's the way I'm going to survive the next 15 minutes of life. God help us.

matt4x4

Yeah you say that now, thinking rationally. When the urges to drink come at you, then you think alcohol is a freeway to a better, richer life.