POLL: Another one for those with one year of sobriety and over ;)
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Baton Rouge, La.
Posts: 15,234
Zero relapses since 8-11-90. I haven't
needed to pick up a drink of alcohol since
that first full day sober because I was
taught a program of recovery consisting
of steps and principles set down for those
who have the willingness, openmindedness,
and honestly to incorporate them a day at
a time in all our affairs.
Today I continue to do so and thus gives
me another day to live life sober, happy
and healthy simply by passing on that
knowledge to others still struggling with
addiction.
needed to pick up a drink of alcohol since
that first full day sober because I was
taught a program of recovery consisting
of steps and principles set down for those
who have the willingness, openmindedness,
and honestly to incorporate them a day at
a time in all our affairs.
Today I continue to do so and thus gives
me another day to live life sober, happy
and healthy simply by passing on that
knowledge to others still struggling with
addiction.
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: Wisconsin, USA
Posts: 16,945
Once I got serious about it I haven't drank since. I planned to quit countless times prior to that, but I never put in the effort so it was pointless.
That said, what should be of much more importance to you is how you plan about quitting THIS time. How many times others have returned to drinking should not be relevant to your plans at all. Your plan should be to quit now, for good, period. That's what it took for me to make it happen.
That said, what should be of much more importance to you is how you plan about quitting THIS time. How many times others have returned to drinking should not be relevant to your plans at all. Your plan should be to quit now, for good, period. That's what it took for me to make it happen.
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 3,581
Once I decided I really had a problem and needed to quit, I quit for 4 months and then screwed up and went out and drank one night. It's been 3 years since that night. So I guess you could say I relapsed once since I seriously tried quitting.
Member
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 2,126
I'm with CAPTAINZING2000 and aashron90........ZERO slips or relapses since Monday, June 23, 1986; even though I've been called 'a relapse waiting to happen,' I guess I'm still waiting........
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NoelleR
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NoelleR
Behold the power of NO
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: WA
Posts: 7,764
I relapsed once after 5 years. When it comes to getting things accomplished, I don't even bother if I feel like I am going to do an half baked job (perfectionism is a defect of mine) so whether it is in AA or other areas of my life I m not a member of the half measures club. Either I do or I don't LOL. When I do, I give it all I got.
That trait of mine is what kept me out of the rooms for 6 years. I knew it would not stick and that I was not ready so I did not feel like wasting my time "trying".
That trait of mine is what kept me out of the rooms for 6 years. I knew it would not stick and that I was not ready so I did not feel like wasting my time "trying".
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: The Deep South
Posts: 14,636
I didn't "relapse" but I did stop and start drinking a few times from the age of 25 until age 36 when I decided to quit for good. I counted up how many sober times I could remember and I averaged a sober period every 2-3 years in a 10 year period.
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Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Europe
Posts: 291
I had my first try in Jan. 2012. I lasted 4 months as i didn't have a plan and hadn't asked for anyone's help. I realized I needed to stop being a knowitall and ask for help. Went into rehab in June that year and have not relapsed since.
I suppose opening up for help combined with really wanting to quit made it successful until today.
But... As much as that sounds good & serious & politically correct, I drank so much in between those 2 attempts I could easily have killed myself. What I took away from that is that I don't have an unlimited number of "tries".
I suppose opening up for help combined with really wanting to quit made it successful until today.
But... As much as that sounds good & serious & politically correct, I drank so much in between those 2 attempts I could easily have killed myself. What I took away from that is that I don't have an unlimited number of "tries".
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: South Bay, So Cal
Posts: 6,115
At age 55 I had enough and sought help for my "drinking problem". I have not relapsed, I just know I was done with it. Ha...I guess drinking for decades made me DONE! I've heard in meetings that relapse is part of the disease, not part of recovery. I look at it from that perspective.
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