GRRRRR.... Wanna Drink!!!!
~sb
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: MD
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Start a journal, get that stuff out. Big hugs here. You can get through life without a crutch of drink. Life happens. Feelings change. Do something like clean the bathroom. Take a walk. Help another suffering alcoholic, DO something to get away from your situation. It will help you. It CAN be done. You CAN do this! Drinking will only make things worse, getting through this will help to make you stronger!!!!
Stay strong and stay stopped!
Stay strong and stay stopped!
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: New England
Posts: 259
It won't go away by drinking...it will be waiting there for you when you sober up. Try and do something, anything, to change the negative mental chatter...post and read here until your fingers are sore...There is hope as long as you are breathing. BIG HUGS
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Florida
Posts: 316
Originally Posted by sugarbear1 
Start a journal, get that stuff out. Big hugs here. You can get through life without a crutch of drink. Life happens. Feelings change. Do something like clean the bathroom. Take a walk. Help another suffering alcoholic, DO something to get away from your situation. It will help you. It CAN be done. You CAN do this! Drinking will only make things worse, getting through this will help to make you stronger!!!!
Stay strong and stay stopped!
Stay strong and stay stopped!
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Australia
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I'm sorry for your bad day Candi.
My friend Ann always says the difference between a bad day and a good one is only a day or two...I've found she's right
Drinking won't help...it just keeps us mired in the sadness and pain.
Lean on us for today
D
My friend Ann always says the difference between a bad day and a good one is only a day or two...I've found she's right
Drinking won't help...it just keeps us mired in the sadness and pain.
Lean on us for today
D
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Originally Posted by DeepBreath2012
It won't go away by drinking...it will be waiting there for you when you sober up. Try and do something, anything, to change the negative mental chatter...post and read here until your fingers are sore...There is hope as long as you are breathing. BIG HUGS
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I used to drink to make bad feelings go away but now that I'm sober I don't have as many bad feelings to bother me. I think a lot of my pain was caused by drinking in the first place.
I hope you don't give in and drink. It'll just make you feel worse.
I hope you don't give in and drink. It'll just make you feel worse.
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Originally Posted by least
I used to drink to make bad feelings go away but now that I'm sober I don't have as many bad feelings to bother me. I think a lot of my pain was caused by drinking in the first place.
I hope you don't give in and drink. It'll just make you feel worse.
I hope you don't give in and drink. It'll just make you feel worse.
I drank away my emotions.. And realized I had some mental health issues to deal with. Now that those are being dealt with and I'm working out my sobriety- It seems that the pains are not so bad. I realize I can handle it more sanely..
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Originally Posted by Dee74
I'm sorry for your bad day Candi.
My friend Ann always says the difference between a bad day and a good one is only a day or two...I've found she's right
Drinking won't help...it just keeps us mired in the sadness and pain.
Lean on us for today
D
My friend Ann always says the difference between a bad day and a good one is only a day or two...I've found she's right
Drinking won't help...it just keeps us mired in the sadness and pain.
Lean on us for today
D
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Join Date: Aug 2012
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Originally Posted by sugarbear1
Next time, leave the credit card home.
Way to go!
Call someone and ask how they are today....just a suggestion! (I lived on the phone in early sobriety!)
Way to go!
Call someone and ask how they are today....just a suggestion! (I lived on the phone in early sobriety!)
Thanks
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Join Date: Apr 2012
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good on ya!! i know one thing my sponsor wanted me to do is not to wait to call. if i was( or am) stuck in my head, dont wait to call.
now that i have a couple sponsees, i see the depth of the importance of not waiting. i have one who had a hard time callin. he didnt want to bother me. i calle dhim at 3 am one morning and told him," i dont care if you call at 3am" and hung up. the next morning, at 3 am, he called and said,"ok" and hung up. been a blesing for me to get them calls from others.
now that i have a couple sponsees, i see the depth of the importance of not waiting. i have one who had a hard time callin. he didnt want to bother me. i calle dhim at 3 am one morning and told him," i dont care if you call at 3am" and hung up. the next morning, at 3 am, he called and said,"ok" and hung up. been a blesing for me to get them calls from others.
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Location: Mississippi
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I always try to remind myself that drinking means waking up with the same problems AND a hangover on top of that. A good night's sleep makes things seem a little more manageable too.....
Hooray to you for coming here and not giving in! Things will work out - keep your chin up!
Hooray to you for coming here and not giving in! Things will work out - keep your chin up!
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Originally Posted by tomsteve
good on ya!! i know one thing my sponsor wanted me to do is not to wait to call. if i was( or am) stuck in my head, dont wait to call.
now that i have a couple sponsees, i see the depth of the importance of not waiting. i have one who had a hard time callin. he didnt want to bother me. i calle dhim at 3 am one morning and told him," i dont care if you call at 3am" and hung up. the next morning, at 3 am, he called and said,"ok" and hung up. been a blesing for me to get them calls from others.
now that i have a couple sponsees, i see the depth of the importance of not waiting. i have one who had a hard time callin. he didnt want to bother me. i calle dhim at 3 am one morning and told him," i dont care if you call at 3am" and hung up. the next morning, at 3 am, he called and said,"ok" and hung up. been a blesing for me to get them calls from others.
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Originally Posted by artsoul
I always try to remind myself that drinking means waking up with the same problems AND a hangover on top of that. A good night's sleep makes things seem a little more manageable too.....
Hooray to you for coming here and not giving in! Things will work out - keep your chin up!
Hooray to you for coming here and not giving in! Things will work out - keep your chin up!
Thank you so much!
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