Introducing ME!
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Introducing ME!
Hey Everyone,
I'm new here but not new to sobriety. Had an 18 year stretch then brain injury from a car accident set me back a bit. Now looking at 5 years sober. I look forward to sharing more. I'll poke around this forum to get the lay of the land.
Don
I'm new here but not new to sobriety. Had an 18 year stretch then brain injury from a car accident set me back a bit. Now looking at 5 years sober. I look forward to sharing more. I'll poke around this forum to get the lay of the land.
Don
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Wow, what a warm welcome. Thank you all.
To answer Zebra, it's been a combination of things over the years. A bit of 12 step in the beginning, lots of counselling, a long stretch as a drug prevention speaker (gotta stay sober for that gig), but mostly the tacit knowledge that if I drink bad stuff happens. I black out, drive drunk, get into physical altercations, end up in Emerge and most important of all, I don't have the confidence that if I drink I won't die. Drinking has almost been the end of me and I can't kid myself into thinking that it would ever be different. Alcohol and me simply don't mix and if I want to live a quality life I just don't drink today, not a first drink, not any. Simple really. I turn 50 in a couple months and history proves that alcohol is essentially poison for me.
To answer Zebra, it's been a combination of things over the years. A bit of 12 step in the beginning, lots of counselling, a long stretch as a drug prevention speaker (gotta stay sober for that gig), but mostly the tacit knowledge that if I drink bad stuff happens. I black out, drive drunk, get into physical altercations, end up in Emerge and most important of all, I don't have the confidence that if I drink I won't die. Drinking has almost been the end of me and I can't kid myself into thinking that it would ever be different. Alcohol and me simply don't mix and if I want to live a quality life I just don't drink today, not a first drink, not any. Simple really. I turn 50 in a couple months and history proves that alcohol is essentially poison for me.
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I turn 50 in a couple months and history proves that alcohol is essentially poison for me.
That's one of the reasons I hang out here and go to AA meetings, to remind myself. I had a long period of sobriety a few years back which led to me getting complacent about alcohol. You can probably guess how that ended.
That's one of the reasons I hang out here and go to AA meetings, to remind myself. I had a long period of sobriety a few years back which led to me getting complacent about alcohol. You can probably guess how that ended.
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