TNTStill

Feeling ok at the moment. A little irritated by this job hunting process not going the way I'd like but I'm thinking I'll hear about something soon.

Last week's drink began Tuesday was moderate. Wednesday and Thursday was a bit overboard.

Prior to that I was sober a little over 2 weeks and things were going good with my little personal training thing I was doing and a job opportunity was promising.

But...when the job didn't fall thru and the few people I was training kinda just jumped ship on me (with the exception of 1) I was kinda like F it. So that was my "give yourself permission to drink" moment.

I know now that I can't act on that because thing like that will always happen.

Like when my grandma and great aunt passed in the same week in Nov 2013. I was ready to drink then I was so messed up. But that something that was out of my control.

Guess overall I'm just working on tryin to learn to accept the fact that **** happens and drinking isn't gonna make it disappear. It'll still be there when I'm sober.

OnMyWay7

Yep - drinking doesn't take away our problems. It does make them clearer and us better to deal with them but they don't go away. Lots of people deal with **** and they don't try to drink it away. You can do this...

ScottFromWI

That's the toughest lesson to learn in my estimation, hence the need for a structured plan for our sobriety as well as our mental health.

And in reality, not only are the problems still there when you sober up, they are usually worse because we blew them off and got drunk instead.

Soberwolf

Congrats on a week sober

Nowsthetime

I like the idiom:

Cut the nose to spite the face.

Drinking because we are upset or mad only hurts us more.

Have you heard about AVRT?

That "F&@$ it" was your AV talking.

PurpleKnight

1 Week is fantastic!! Keep pushing through!!

Dee74

congrats on your week

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