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Cant really help anyone who is drinking or is drunk.
Perhaps you need to ask for more telephone numbers.
But its advized to call them BEFORE you drink.
I know the phone can look sooo heavy.
Here is the deal. The thinking can be dealt with in time. But when the booze is in the system the brain has already given in to whatever idea you had before you picked up that drink. Some of my ideas were. I can drink normally. I will have fun this time. Nothing bad will happen. All lies. Have to find some tools that will help you before the drink. White knuckling it never works. Just going to meetings all the time doesnt work, I learned that one. Everyone puts so much emphasis on going to AA meetings. Sure it makes them feel good. So does booze. Going to meetings all the time is a rampant addiction. I found my sweet spot at 1 or 2 meetings a week. I share strictly on the solution to alcohol abuse. I do not treat the rooms as a club or social gathering as so many do. I am guilty of that and the consequence was yet another drunk. Ended up in the drunk tank so many times its not even funny. Going to the Big House, Con College is never fun. Why do I forget all the bad things that happen, and all the bad outcomes from drinking? Thats what we active alcoholics with an alcoholic mind do. We forget.
I can only speak on how have stayed sober. I stay sober by helping other alcoholics. Primarly in the AA rooms and hospital meetings. I am a recovered alcoholic. I have worked all the steps out of the book. I live on a spiritual plane today. I am happy and serene and most of all I am sober. That is all I wanted at the start, but I have gained a whole lot more. All I can suggest if you want to try a different way then what you ahve been doing. Perhaps give AA a go. Take a peak at the Doctors Opinion page. Read it 10 times over the course of the week. Go to a few AA meetings and grab ahold of someone you can relate to that has some sobriety time under their belt. Amount of time is meaningless, its the quality of sobriety that counts. Its not a contest to see who can spit the furthest. The medallions are there in the meetings to show the newcomers that - yes you can get sober and stay that way for a length of time. Oh and I just wanted a reminder that the alcoholic mind does not go away by putting down the bottle. The alcoholic mind stays with people who do not change the way they think. Some call it dry-drunk, whatever it is, it is.
Perhaps you need to ask for more telephone numbers.
But its advized to call them BEFORE you drink.
I know the phone can look sooo heavy.
Here is the deal. The thinking can be dealt with in time. But when the booze is in the system the brain has already given in to whatever idea you had before you picked up that drink. Some of my ideas were. I can drink normally. I will have fun this time. Nothing bad will happen. All lies. Have to find some tools that will help you before the drink. White knuckling it never works. Just going to meetings all the time doesnt work, I learned that one. Everyone puts so much emphasis on going to AA meetings. Sure it makes them feel good. So does booze. Going to meetings all the time is a rampant addiction. I found my sweet spot at 1 or 2 meetings a week. I share strictly on the solution to alcohol abuse. I do not treat the rooms as a club or social gathering as so many do. I am guilty of that and the consequence was yet another drunk. Ended up in the drunk tank so many times its not even funny. Going to the Big House, Con College is never fun. Why do I forget all the bad things that happen, and all the bad outcomes from drinking? Thats what we active alcoholics with an alcoholic mind do. We forget.
I can only speak on how have stayed sober. I stay sober by helping other alcoholics. Primarly in the AA rooms and hospital meetings. I am a recovered alcoholic. I have worked all the steps out of the book. I live on a spiritual plane today. I am happy and serene and most of all I am sober. That is all I wanted at the start, but I have gained a whole lot more. All I can suggest if you want to try a different way then what you ahve been doing. Perhaps give AA a go. Take a peak at the Doctors Opinion page. Read it 10 times over the course of the week. Go to a few AA meetings and grab ahold of someone you can relate to that has some sobriety time under their belt. Amount of time is meaningless, its the quality of sobriety that counts. Its not a contest to see who can spit the furthest. The medallions are there in the meetings to show the newcomers that - yes you can get sober and stay that way for a length of time. Oh and I just wanted a reminder that the alcoholic mind does not go away by putting down the bottle. The alcoholic mind stays with people who do not change the way they think. Some call it dry-drunk, whatever it is, it is.
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