Solosweat

What a mudslide I let myself in. 35 days, 5 weeks of sobriety and I really thought I could have a day of drinking? What a wake up call. Three days later and I am still feeling the effects. I really hope I am strong enough to get back on track.

Moderation is obviously not something that I am capable of.

Serenity1972

I found that moderation never worked for me. I tried and tried and tried only to fail over and over again. I am glad you are ready to give sobriety another chance and welcome!

TexasMichael

Welcome back, Solosweat.

Moderation never works for anyone very long. After almost a year of sobriety I decided to have a beer after work. Nothing bad happened. Did not feel any need for more. That went OK for a couple of weeks. Then abeer or two every day. Within two months I was back to 10+ per day. Took me 3 1/2 years to quit again. I'm at 168 days sober now and will never try moderation again.

Quit while you can. It gets harder to stop each time.

FourSeasons

Hello SoloSweat... I too never had too much success with moderation... Hence, the reason for my signature line. Every time I post, I read my signature line just in case I once again get the GREAT idea to give moderation another go...

lessgravity

Moderation is another way to say I-cant-quit-drinking-even-though-I-must.

Non-problem drinkers wouldn't even know wtf moderation would mean.

Simple as that.

Hevyn

Hi Solo. Sometimes we need further proof that we have no control. It took me years to finally get it - I can't touch the stuff.

Glad you lived to tell the tale and returned here for another go at it. You learned something valuable. We know you can do this.

soberclover

Been there, done that. I think many alcoholics try everything and anything to be able to continue drinking without causing too much harm to themselves or others. This didn't work for me..........at all. Sobriety works much better for me....and everyone around me

ImperfectlyMe

Thank you for your post I'm glad you have more certainty about your sobriety. And thank you for reminding me why I should never test the water there are sharks in there. Be thankful you got right back up

dwtbd

I guess I tried moderation in the past, but it was really just trying to not drink 'too much'. I'm 46 and now realize that the fact there always seems to be 'too much' was the problem.
I am built in such a fashion that not drinking 'too much' is not enjoyable, I will not be satisfied with less than 'too much'. I no longer drink because for whatever reason if I do , I won't be done until I reach 'much', which is 'too'.

It took a long time to get that through my skull, but it's there now , it's true, and I will never forget it.
Luck of the draw?
Made it that way through abuse ?
Doesn't really matter, now, facts is facts.
Can't change facts, but I can change the way I handle them, you ?

not2late

I know I can't have just one. I would panic if I thought I might run out. I would get "extra" the weekend only to have it all gone a few hours later. Moderation didn't work for me either.

lessgravity

All this talk of moderation today is driving me nuts!

There is No Such Thing.