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Hiya. This is the first time I've ever seeked help. Always been a weekend binge drinker with occasional bouts of drinking in the week. This has increased to drinking nearly every day over the past few years. Age 37 I really need to stop. I can't seem to have 1 or 2 and stop. My starting day is today. I'm hoping to find some support on here for when the cravings come. Thank you.
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I could never make it past 3 days usually. SR helped me do that 
We have a support thread for everyone quitting in March. Peer support can be very powerful
Why not check it out, and if you like it, just post in it to join
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...rt-3-a-13.html
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We have a support thread for everyone quitting in March. Peer support can be very powerful
Why not check it out, and if you like it, just post in it to join
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...rt-3-a-13.html
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Welcome Hope37,
One thing I keep reading is the desire for sobriety & recovery needs to over ride the desire to drink, use. Keep reading and reaching out. There is tons of support, wisdom, tools and love here.
One thing I remember from reading here last wknd, is when we have using thoughts, get busy, recognize that drinking-using is the wrong choice. One that ends up with suffering.
You can do this.
One thing I keep reading is the desire for sobriety & recovery needs to over ride the desire to drink, use. Keep reading and reaching out. There is tons of support, wisdom, tools and love here.
One thing I remember from reading here last wknd, is when we have using thoughts, get busy, recognize that drinking-using is the wrong choice. One that ends up with suffering.
You can do this.
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Welcome Hope37. My story is similar to yours. I'm 39. Started off 8 years ago binge drinking on weekends it soon turned into an every day thing. Cut back down to mostly weekends for a while but I need to stop all together. I'm on day two now and I know I will need this site come the weekend!
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WELCOME Hope...
I was pretty much the same, binge drinker to flash forward every day and spiraling down... I quit over and over for months even. I changed everything, what I drank, when I drank etc... all in the illusion of control.
Then one day I had enough, I wasn't happy, the drinking was making me feel "happy" bc it was all I wanted to feel... or ironically not feel. But I wasn't happy and I just thought to myself - Is this it? Is this MY story and how is my story going to end? And I knew it wasn't going to end well. So I gave up control. I got into therapy, I got on SR, I got in AA and I go everyday and I am rewriting my story. I don't know how it will be now, its scary but it has to be better than the pages I was writing before. Its hard and its still new but I want the rewrite more than I want the old story.
For me it just comes down to the fact that I want to be sober - more than I want the feeling the drinking gives me. - It sucks sometimes but one drink will kill me. I know that now.
And so far I feel okay - AA has been a HUGE part of that for me. I thank my lucky stars that I walked in that room every day.
Welcome Hope!! Keep Posting, keep reading, keep coming back....
I was pretty much the same, binge drinker to flash forward every day and spiraling down... I quit over and over for months even. I changed everything, what I drank, when I drank etc... all in the illusion of control.
Then one day I had enough, I wasn't happy, the drinking was making me feel "happy" bc it was all I wanted to feel... or ironically not feel. But I wasn't happy and I just thought to myself - Is this it? Is this MY story and how is my story going to end? And I knew it wasn't going to end well. So I gave up control. I got into therapy, I got on SR, I got in AA and I go everyday and I am rewriting my story. I don't know how it will be now, its scary but it has to be better than the pages I was writing before. Its hard and its still new but I want the rewrite more than I want the old story.
For me it just comes down to the fact that I want to be sober - more than I want the feeling the drinking gives me. - It sucks sometimes but one drink will kill me. I know that now.
And so far I feel okay - AA has been a HUGE part of that for me. I thank my lucky stars that I walked in that room every day.
Welcome Hope!! Keep Posting, keep reading, keep coming back....
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Originally Posted by Rubyx 
Welcome Hope37. My story is similar to yours. I'm 39. Started off 8 years ago binge drinking on weekends it soon turned into an every day thing. Cut back down to mostly weekends for a while but I need to stop all together. I'm on day two now and I know I will need this site come the weekend!
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Welcome to SR, Hope37. I hope you'll join us in the Class of March 2016 thread that Dee posted to above. It's a great way to learn from and help others who are also trying to change their lives for the better.
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