Drinked one beer
1 beer leads to 2 as you just articulated. We can't have just 1 or 2. We are alcoholics. Per AA "1 is too many and 1000 are never enough".
Please keep posting and get a meeting under your belt.
J
Please keep posting and get a meeting under your belt.
J
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Well, I tried what you are trying many times, have a few here than there. Never worked for me. If you're anything like me, those two beers, than four beers will eventually turn into a six-pack, than 12-pack, than a 12-pack with a pint of vodka and off I go. For me, either I drink or I don't. Never changes. Hope you dump the beers you have left. Wishing you the best. John
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The doctors opinion
I drank like that for 31 years till I tried to quit. Then I couldn't. I found myself in an AA meeting 12-28-16. When I read the doctors opinion and listened to these 2 guys Joe&Charlies big book study ( on you tube) I had my last drink. From there I read the rest of the AA big book , got a sponsor, took the steps, jumped into service, and work with others now that are doing what you are attempting. I haven't had a drink since and the obsession of drink has been lifted, as it was promised. If your ready to quit then get your abs to an AA meeting, not the gym.
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Once you get back here and read this thread you might try to stay exactly where you are instead of taking the next drink and looking closely at how this time feels, how you are thinking, pay attention as best you can hopefully with a hangover, rather than with a few in your belly.
But regardless ... pay attention as best you can. For me from Day one going outside and sitting in a chair and watching the world quietly was very important to my new sobriety (and that was in December in the wind and snow).
No matter what ... Keep reading here and pay close attention to how things are drunk, hung over, or coming out of the fog ... once you change the cause of how you think and feel (drunk) you will find that the conditions around you will change and perhaps feel a renewal of hope for sober life to be a nice place to be.
my heart will be with you on your journey.
But regardless ... pay attention as best you can. For me from Day one going outside and sitting in a chair and watching the world quietly was very important to my new sobriety (and that was in December in the wind and snow).
No matter what ... Keep reading here and pay close attention to how things are drunk, hung over, or coming out of the fog ... once you change the cause of how you think and feel (drunk) you will find that the conditions around you will change and perhaps feel a renewal of hope for sober life to be a nice place to be.
my heart will be with you on your journey.
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Well, I tried what you are trying many times, have a few here than there. Never worked for me. If you're anything like me, those two beers, than four beers will eventually turn into a six-pack, than 12-pack, than a 12-pack with a pint of vodka and off I go. For me, either I drink or I don't. Never changes. Hope you dump the beers you have left. Wishing you the best. John
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I drank like that for 31 years till I tried to quit. Then I couldn't. I found myself in an AA meeting 12-28-16. When I read the doctors opinion and listened to these 2 guys Joe&Charlies big book study ( on you tube) I had my last drink. From there I read the rest of the AA big book , got a sponsor, took the steps, jumped into service, and work with others now that are doing what you are attempting. I haven't had a drink since and the obsession of drink has been lifted, as it was promised. If your ready to quit then get your abs to an AA meeting, not the gym.
Until the individual becomes ready. Until they actually become sick and tired of being sick and tired they often won't stop.
I certainly didn't want to stop drinking. It wasn't until I had enough of the problems associated with my drinking along with feeling burned out all the time that I decide to check out AA.
I was well aware of AA a good ten years before I actually went to a meeting.
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Thx evryone. I understan one thing clearly, if i want my life back i hawe to dont get that first drink. Because im not able to stop with one or two beers actually.
Yesterday, after my post here i just keep going till nine beers. Thats it i will never lie to myself again. I never been a social drinker abd i cant be one.
Yesterday, after my post here i just keep going till nine beers. Thats it i will never lie to myself again. I never been a social drinker abd i cant be one.
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So, as a friend in my AA home group says - finally, "that sh*t stopped working for me. Then I had to figure out what the solution was." For him- and me- it's AA.
You are telling us that drinking is definitely not "working" for you. What's the next step for you to take to get and stay sober? You can do it- you have to CHOOSE to be sober and there is a lot of support if you want it.
Hope to see you around here.
You are telling us that drinking is definitely not "working" for you. What's the next step for you to take to get and stay sober? You can do it- you have to CHOOSE to be sober and there is a lot of support if you want it.
Hope to see you around here.
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