Please tell me it gets better....
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Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: Indiana
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In my opinion, drinking takes it alllll awayyyy alright...
However, it does not discriminate; it takes away the GOOD, the BAD, the EVERYTHING. I got tired of numbing out my life and waking up to realize that 7-8 years had passed right by without me even noticing.
However, it does not discriminate; it takes away the GOOD, the BAD, the EVERYTHING. I got tired of numbing out my life and waking up to realize that 7-8 years had passed right by without me even noticing.
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Wisconsin near Twin Cities
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It is so hard to get past a miserable now when a drank will make it some so much more bearable. It is a very common human condition, to struggle with forgoing current wants to me long-term goals. It can sometimes be a simple matter of faith that things will get better and easier with long-term sobriety - and at the very least, it will break the misery of the current cycle. I try to stay focused on this fact on a day to day basis. I will use the quote in my avatar as a reminder and for motivation.
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: The Sooner State
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Wow Wow...
I can relate. The part where you say only one thing takes it awwwaaayyy! Yep, that one part kept me drunk for years. That part drew me back after i got sober. As you know the first few days are rough but its worth it. Only you can stop the cycle. I know you can!
I can relate. The part where you say only one thing takes it awwwaaayyy! Yep, that one part kept me drunk for years. That part drew me back after i got sober. As you know the first few days are rough but its worth it. Only you can stop the cycle. I know you can!
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Join Date: Sep 2013
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Yes it does get better! For me, quitting was one of the hardest things I've ever done. Dealing with the layers lying under why i drank takes a lot of work, but you feel like you are finding the person your ment to be each time you go down a layer!
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Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Midwest
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Boy, do I sure understand this post! Everytime I do the same spiral drinking you do. They say the deinition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. I'm also struggling to get off the CRAZY TRAIN! That's what it does to me anyway.I've felt like death all day after three days of drinking and isolation. Yet, drinking has crossed my mind a hundred times today! STAY STONG!
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I saved a fortune on fines and lawyer fees the past 15 plus years. That's not counting the money I've saved on drinking.
Not having flu like symptoms every morning going to work is an added plus.
Not having flu like symptoms every morning going to work is an added plus.
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Join Date: Nov 2014
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Originally Posted by JensDestiny 
In my opinion, drinking takes it alllll awayyyy alright...
However, it does not discriminate; it takes away the GOOD, the BAD, the EVERYTHING. I got tired of numbing out my life and waking up to realize that 7-8 years had passed right by without me even noticing.
However, it does not discriminate; it takes away the GOOD, the BAD, the EVERYTHING. I got tired of numbing out my life and waking up to realize that 7-8 years had passed right by without me even noticing.
I just realised yesterday where the hell have the last 5-6 years gone in life i remember ... Its like a huge blurrrrr i guess alcohol really does screw up everything in the mind.
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Join Date: Nov 2014
Posts: 269
I really struggled for the last week. Was in a lot of discomfort and anxiety, just wishing the pain would go away. I did everything I could, went to 2 meetings a day, called people, read / posted here, prayed, meditated, exercised, went to therapy, really just about everything i could think of.
Today i have tremendous relief.
One day at a time!
Today i have tremendous relief.
One day at a time!
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Posts: 3,095
This has been the truth for me.
Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol. The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is injurious, they cannot after a time differentiate the true from the false. To them, their alcoholic life seems the only normal one. They are restless, irritable and discontented, unless they can again experience the sense of ease and comfort which comes at once by taking a few drinks-drinks which they see others taking with impunity. After they have succumbed to the desire again, as so many do, and the phenomenon of craving develops, they pass through the well-known stages of a spree, emerging remorseful, with a firm resolution not to drink again. This is repeated over and over, and unless this person can experience an entire psychic change there is very little hope of his recovery.
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Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol. The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is injurious, they cannot after a time differentiate the true from the false. To them, their alcoholic life seems the only normal one. They are restless, irritable and discontented, unless they can again experience the sense of ease and comfort which comes at once by taking a few drinks-drinks which they see others taking with impunity. After they have succumbed to the desire again, as so many do, and the phenomenon of craving develops, they pass through the well-known stages of a spree, emerging remorseful, with a firm resolution not to drink again. This is repeated over and over, and unless this person can experience an entire psychic change there is very little hope of his recovery.
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