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12 Step Recovered Alcoholic
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: New Zealand
Posts: 6,613
Welcome back Cuckoo. I don't want to be hard on you. Drinking isn't a criminal offence. I think you are suffering from an illness to which there is a solution. The question is are you desperate enough to do "X", or not desperate enough to do that yet.
I really think that desperation might have been a gift. I was presented with a solution and grabbed it with all the desperation of a drowning man. Perhpas getting to that stage of desperation really was rock bottom.
I really think that desperation might have been a gift. I was presented with a solution and grabbed it with all the desperation of a drowning man. Perhpas getting to that stage of desperation really was rock bottom.
Member
Join Date: Aug 2017
Posts: 304
Thankyou Gilmer and Gottalife.
I am ready to start my journey now. I cannot continue with living like this.
I am ready to fight now.....if feels like the right time.
I am going to post very often and probably bore everyone........
13 hours sober
C
I am ready to start my journey now. I cannot continue with living like this.
I am ready to fight now.....if feels like the right time.
I am going to post very often and probably bore everyone........
13 hours sober
C
Member
Join Date: May 2018
Posts: 51
Originally Posted by lessgravity 
no one is coming to save me.
I'm in early recovery, but I would probably still be drinking if I hadn't started feeling liver pains.
For years, I had hoped that my friends, my family, a girlfriend, a stranger, SOMEONE, would intervene and force me to quit drinking or scream at me to show how much they cared.
It never happened. Maybe that's a reflection on me more than anything. Maybe they never knew how bad I'd gotten.
We all need help but the truth is only we can save ourselves from this disease.
Member
Join Date: Jan 2013
Posts: 1,920
I had guns held to my head not too long ago. High crime city. No one was coming to save me.
I read an article a few weeks ago and the author quoted a scientist who referred to humans as encephalized apes.
I think as addicts we act a lot like children when we are in active addiction. We tend to not care who we hurt or how are actions affect others.
I read an article a few weeks ago and the author quoted a scientist who referred to humans as encephalized apes.
I think as addicts we act a lot like children when we are in active addiction. We tend to not care who we hurt or how are actions affect others.
Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: East Coast
Posts: 1,906
Originally Posted by timm84
This. This is a terrible truth that we have to face.
I'm in early recovery, but I would probably still be drinking if I hadn't started feeling liver pains.
For years, I had hoped that my friends, my family, a girlfriend, a stranger, SOMEONE, would intervene and force me to quit drinking or scream at me to show how much they cared.
It never happened. Maybe that's a reflection on me more than anything. Maybe they never knew how bad I'd gotten.
We all need help but the truth is only we can save ourselves from this disease.
I'm in early recovery, but I would probably still be drinking if I hadn't started feeling liver pains.
For years, I had hoped that my friends, my family, a girlfriend, a stranger, SOMEONE, would intervene and force me to quit drinking or scream at me to show how much they cared.
It never happened. Maybe that's a reflection on me more than anything. Maybe they never knew how bad I'd gotten.
We all need help but the truth is only we can save ourselves from this disease.
An I'll also add We can go though recovery together, but nobody makes the choice to stay sober except us.
reminds me of a quote from the big book...
"what we have is a daily reprieve contingent upon the maintenance of our spiritual condition."
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