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Yes it is me again
Hi all i have been trying to give up the alcohol for so long now but it was only tonight when i realised when i first started drinking heavily it was 18 years ago when i lost my brother to electrocution. I have never got over it and tonight i am being honest to the group i have suffered from ocd since his death and alcohol eases the pain. Can anyone help i need to stop drinking to stop the pain of my brothers death. Hope this makes sense to someone. Thanks for reading.
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Originally Posted by tizzkins 
Hi all i have been trying to give up the alcohol for so long now but it was only tonight when i realised when i first started drinking heavily it was 18 years ago when i lost my brother to electrocution. I have never got over it and tonight i am being honest to the group i have suffered from ocd since his death and alcohol eases the pain. Can anyone help i need to stop drinking to stop the pain of my brothers death. Hope this makes sense to someone. Thanks for reading.
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Hi.
I’m sorry for your pain.
Escape from the pain we suffer from is only temporary when we soak it in alcohol.
I’d suggest perhaps some therapy, perhaps by reading and posting here and/or attending AA meetings where you are among people who understand our daily living with pain and trying to escape with alcohol.
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I’m sorry for your pain.
Escape from the pain we suffer from is only temporary when we soak it in alcohol.
I’d suggest perhaps some therapy, perhaps by reading and posting here and/or attending AA meetings where you are among people who understand our daily living with pain and trying to escape with alcohol.
BE WELL
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Welcome back tizzkins. There is definitely help available for OCD and other issues, but not until you stop drinking unfortunately...it probably makes it worse actually. Do you have access to any alcohol drug counselors or meetings nearby that you could possibly try? The first step is to put down the bottle and then you can start working on getting better.
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I'm so sorry for your loss. I've had to deal with death quite a bit here in my own life during the last couple of years.
I can tell you that in my experience, it was a million times better for me to deal with it without booze. There's no telling what kind of messes I'd have gotten into if I had drank during the death of my father or any of my grandparents.
In my experience, it was just my addictive voice that tried to convince me that drinking alcohol would somehow make it better and help me deal with it better.
What a load of bull.
If I am feeling sad or depressed over something, including death, pouring bottles of a toxic depressant into my body is NOT going to help make anything better.
I can tell you that in my experience, it was a million times better for me to deal with it without booze. There's no telling what kind of messes I'd have gotten into if I had drank during the death of my father or any of my grandparents.
In my experience, it was just my addictive voice that tried to convince me that drinking alcohol would somehow make it better and help me deal with it better.
What a load of bull.
If I am feeling sad or depressed over something, including death, pouring bottles of a toxic depressant into my body is NOT going to help make anything better.
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Originally Posted by Thepatman
Perhaps some professional therapy is something to consider.
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