What's wrong with me?
What's wrong with me?
Hello Everyone,
I use to be an SR member a few years ago and now I'm back. This forum helped me a lot and then I stopped coming on. Stupid of me to think I could stay sober on my own. I was in an intensive outpatient program for a few months and then my boyfriend and I broke up due to my drinking in July and I relapsed. Ever since then I have been going on week long binges at least once a month.
Hence I'm sitting here at home sick after another binge. Trying to detox on my own with lots of vitamins and green tea. I should be in the hospital doing this the right way but I need to try to get to work tomorrow.
I need to change AND TODAY! I've lost so many jobs, relationships and my children because of my alcoholism, i'm not even 40 yet and I can't let this continue to happen. I'd appreciate any tips from anyone with long term sobriety. Obviously what I've been doing doesn't last very long.
Thank you for reading.
I use to be an SR member a few years ago and now I'm back. This forum helped me a lot and then I stopped coming on. Stupid of me to think I could stay sober on my own. I was in an intensive outpatient program for a few months and then my boyfriend and I broke up due to my drinking in July and I relapsed. Ever since then I have been going on week long binges at least once a month.
Hence I'm sitting here at home sick after another binge. Trying to detox on my own with lots of vitamins and green tea. I should be in the hospital doing this the right way but I need to try to get to work tomorrow.
I need to change AND TODAY! I've lost so many jobs, relationships and my children because of my alcoholism, i'm not even 40 yet and I can't let this continue to happen. I'd appreciate any tips from anyone with long term sobriety. Obviously what I've been doing doesn't last very long.
Thank you for reading.
Welcome back SoberChicNJ. I bounced in and out of sobriety for a long time too. The thing that turned the corner for me was finally accepting my addiction for what it is. By that I mean I admitted that drinking even one drink will never, ever be an option for me. Once I did that I was able to move forward and use some of those tools you mentioned and continue to keep using them.
If you have concerns about the detox and have had a need for medical help in the past, please be safe and seek it again.
If you have concerns about the detox and have had a need for medical help in the past, please be safe and seek it again.
I feel for you, only my binges were a few days apart.
I could not quit on my own. I came here, I went to AA and met people just like me who were maintaining long term sobriety.
I turned it over to the God of my understanding and things happened quick.
I was a bad drunk. And by admitting it, finally, to myself and others could I get sober.
I'll be six years Christmas Eve, if I don't drink before then, that alcohol has crossed my lips.
It took work. Mental work, a reprogramming, if you will. I paid dearly for the consequences of my boozing life. Now I'm reaping the rewards of sobriety.
But sobriety, for the problem drinker, is reward enough. At least for this drunk.
Sobriety can be achieved, but it may take action on your part.
I wish that for you.
I could not quit on my own. I came here, I went to AA and met people just like me who were maintaining long term sobriety.
I turned it over to the God of my understanding and things happened quick.
I was a bad drunk. And by admitting it, finally, to myself and others could I get sober.
I'll be six years Christmas Eve, if I don't drink before then, that alcohol has crossed my lips.
It took work. Mental work, a reprogramming, if you will. I paid dearly for the consequences of my boozing life. Now I'm reaping the rewards of sobriety.
But sobriety, for the problem drinker, is reward enough. At least for this drunk.
Sobriety can be achieved, but it may take action on your part.
I wish that for you.
Sounds like AA would be worth a try.
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