Lucky Day #13
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Lucky Day #13
Hello all, this is my first post on SR. I have for the last few week and a few years ago cruised the posts in here to help in my battles with addiction. I figured this time around I would start utilizing the forum to share my story. Today I am on lucky day #13 being sober.
I won't bore you with my whole life story, but will summarize my history as an alcoholic.
Teens: I was introduced to alcohol at the age of 13. The first time I drank it gave me a feeling of confidence that I never seemed to have. I was instantly hooked, but didn't become an alcoholic. I was just the typical teen who would drink on the weekend, but definitely had a problem as I would binge, and drink to get drunk.
Age 18 to Mid twenties: This is where it really started. I moved to Whistler out of high school, and lived with my Uncle and three of his alcoholic friends. Not a good atmosphere for a potential alcoholic. There was booze around every day and night. I wouldn't drink during the day, but as soon as five o clock rolled around the party got started. There were typically no nights off for a period of a year. This set the tone for a habit/dependency to drink every night, even after I moved away as a result of meeting a girl (to whom I am married to now and have two wonderful children).
Age 26: This is when my Dad passed away and my drinking turned for the worse. I still held my job and was a functioning alcoholic, but I would typically drink and pass out everynight for the next two or so years. It really upset my wife and made her anxious to say the least.
Year 2009: I felt my health was suffering coupled with wanting to have kids, I went cold turkey sober for I think it was 181 days. Then a career milestone hit and the excitement got the better of me and drinking started again. It was different this time; it wouldn't be every night like before, sometimes I would go weeks or a month without it, but it seemed like when I drank that I was trying to make up for lost time.
I maintained this until about a half year ago. I decided to take six weeks of parental leave for a second child, the day I was leaving work our bank account got just about drained from fraud; we got the money back but the stress got the better of me. For most of this six week period I was drinking mickeys of vodka almost every night without anyone noticing. Back to work I went as nothing happened. It's been on and off since then, but it has created so much anxiety and grief inside of me.
Anyways, that's my short version of a long story. I am happy to finally join this forum and look forward to receiving some help. I am on day 13 and this time I am looking for sobriety to stick. Happy new year to all!!
I won't bore you with my whole life story, but will summarize my history as an alcoholic.
Teens: I was introduced to alcohol at the age of 13. The first time I drank it gave me a feeling of confidence that I never seemed to have. I was instantly hooked, but didn't become an alcoholic. I was just the typical teen who would drink on the weekend, but definitely had a problem as I would binge, and drink to get drunk.
Age 18 to Mid twenties: This is where it really started. I moved to Whistler out of high school, and lived with my Uncle and three of his alcoholic friends. Not a good atmosphere for a potential alcoholic. There was booze around every day and night. I wouldn't drink during the day, but as soon as five o clock rolled around the party got started. There were typically no nights off for a period of a year. This set the tone for a habit/dependency to drink every night, even after I moved away as a result of meeting a girl (to whom I am married to now and have two wonderful children).
Age 26: This is when my Dad passed away and my drinking turned for the worse. I still held my job and was a functioning alcoholic, but I would typically drink and pass out everynight for the next two or so years. It really upset my wife and made her anxious to say the least.
Year 2009: I felt my health was suffering coupled with wanting to have kids, I went cold turkey sober for I think it was 181 days. Then a career milestone hit and the excitement got the better of me and drinking started again. It was different this time; it wouldn't be every night like before, sometimes I would go weeks or a month without it, but it seemed like when I drank that I was trying to make up for lost time.
I maintained this until about a half year ago. I decided to take six weeks of parental leave for a second child, the day I was leaving work our bank account got just about drained from fraud; we got the money back but the stress got the better of me. For most of this six week period I was drinking mickeys of vodka almost every night without anyone noticing. Back to work I went as nothing happened. It's been on and off since then, but it has created so much anxiety and grief inside of me.
Anyways, that's my short version of a long story. I am happy to finally join this forum and look forward to receiving some help. I am on day 13 and this time I am looking for sobriety to stick. Happy new year to all!!
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