new face, just lied my way through 1st detox, but...
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new face, just lied my way through 1st detox, but...
Hi, lurker for a couple of weeks and seems like a really helpful place, sooooo - had an alcohol and drugs addiction that (with a few decent gaps) has lasted 15 years, and a sleeping pill one that's been about 2. Did my 1st out-patient detox over the past 2 weeks, been drug-free for 3 weeks and benzo free for almost 2 (can't believe the latter) but didn't even go 1 day without booze. Standard addict liar stuff, worked out just how much I could drink (which was at least quite a way down from before) to get a zero breathlyser reading, which was the condition of getting my meds daily. Guess people can imagine the mix of success and failure I'm feeling.
Seeing my main counsellor Monday to assess the detox, seriously thinking about AA for the 1st time as I think anything more 'tolerant' just isn't going to work.
I am an alcoholic (just practising for the 1st meeting ).
Seeing my main counsellor Monday to assess the detox, seriously thinking about AA for the 1st time as I think anything more 'tolerant' just isn't going to work.
I am an alcoholic (just practising for the 1st meeting ).
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Raider, really didn't get the outcome I was expecting. I felt more hopeless about the benzo dependence than anything else and finally something came along and (early days) helped. Same to a lesser degree with drugs. Flipside, I know it was lousy of me not to be honest about drinking, and the worst of starts, but at least I now have only 1 problem to solve rather than 3. Hope that makes semi-sense.
I hate to tell you this but A A is about the most tolerant you will ever find. No one will care if you choose to be untruthful. One of the bedrock principles of AA is, "To thine own self be true."
AAers will go to hell and back to support your sobriety but if you want drink/drug no one is going to stop you. AA will not keep you from drinking but they will supply the tools that will enable you to keep yourself from drinking
AAers will go to hell and back to support your sobriety but if you want drink/drug no one is going to stop you. AA will not keep you from drinking but they will supply the tools that will enable you to keep yourself from drinking
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