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Hard.
Well now this is hard. 3 days. It have tryed to give up previously but only last a week or so. Alcohol is my main poison but it generally leads to drugs. Maybe self medicating due to depression I dont know. It leads to me embarrassing and hurting myself and the ones I love and now I dont think anyone is left to help me pick up my pieces. I guess people can only be hurt so many times and thats ok because I really get that.
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Welcome Mee86! Glad you're with us.
The hardest part about getting sober for me was learning new things. I drank for a long time and I had forgotten how to enjoy life in other ways. I had to relearn those things, but now that I have done that living sober is super easy.
Do you have a plan for building your sober life?
The hardest part about getting sober for me was learning new things. I drank for a long time and I had forgotten how to enjoy life in other ways. I had to relearn those things, but now that I have done that living sober is super easy.
Do you have a plan for building your sober life?
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Hi Mee86 great move signing up to SR there is so much support & wisdom in abundance here at SR (sober recovery)
Get to know the site ask a mod for help with a plan or ask the forum anything related to your experiences
Good job signing up
Get to know the site ask a mod for help with a plan or ask the forum anything related to your experiences
Good job signing up
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Originally Posted by Mee86 
I dont think anyone is left to help me pick up my pieces.
And you can do it.
The road goes on forever
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Originally Posted by Mee86
and now I dont think anyone is left to help me pick up my pieces. I guess people can only be hurt so many times and thats ok because I really get that.
Lots of real useful info and patient people here to help and guide you through this.
Congrats on day 3!
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Baton Rouge, La.
Posts: 15,236
It is important to learn about addiction,
what it is and how it affects us individually
and those around us. Knowledge is a powerful,
useful, helpful tool to teach us many things
to better understand them and use it to our
own benefits.
It's not just not drinking or using anymore.
We have to have something to back it up
in order to be successful in remaining sober
or clean each day ahead of us.
Checking in with physicians you trust
in evaluating you properly, getting a
second opinion and not just be prescribed
anything and everything. Doctors can
freely prescribe meds unless we stand
strong and honest in letting them know
we are in recovery and that NO meds that
are narcotic or habit forming be administered
or prescribed.
So many meds only set us back in our
recovery because it is placing one mind
or body altering, substance in our bodies
for another.
Finding a program of recovery as a
guideline to help move you forward to
achieving a strong solid foundation to
live you life upon for many one days
ahead of you.
A support group, fellowship, folks that
have been there done the same similar
things as you and have found a solution
to this epidemic of addiction that plagues
so many.
SR is one of many tools to add to your
arsenal to ward off those demons of
addiction that try to bring you down
and steal a life of happiness, honesty
and freedom from addiction.
what it is and how it affects us individually
and those around us. Knowledge is a powerful,
useful, helpful tool to teach us many things
to better understand them and use it to our
own benefits.
It's not just not drinking or using anymore.
We have to have something to back it up
in order to be successful in remaining sober
or clean each day ahead of us.
Checking in with physicians you trust
in evaluating you properly, getting a
second opinion and not just be prescribed
anything and everything. Doctors can
freely prescribe meds unless we stand
strong and honest in letting them know
we are in recovery and that NO meds that
are narcotic or habit forming be administered
or prescribed.
So many meds only set us back in our
recovery because it is placing one mind
or body altering, substance in our bodies
for another.
Finding a program of recovery as a
guideline to help move you forward to
achieving a strong solid foundation to
live you life upon for many one days
ahead of you.
A support group, fellowship, folks that
have been there done the same similar
things as you and have found a solution
to this epidemic of addiction that plagues
so many.
SR is one of many tools to add to your
arsenal to ward off those demons of
addiction that try to bring you down
and steal a life of happiness, honesty
and freedom from addiction.
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Join Date: Sep 2013
Posts: 1,095
If you want to quit bad enough you can do it.
Today I am 50 days sober after 27 years of daily drinking. I have wanted to quit for years but it was such a habit and part of my life that I could never do it. Once I hit rock bottom I knew it is time to quit.
You will feel it in your heart and soul when it is time to change.
Today I am 50 days sober after 27 years of daily drinking. I have wanted to quit for years but it was such a habit and part of my life that I could never do it. Once I hit rock bottom I knew it is time to quit.
You will feel it in your heart and soul when it is time to change.
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Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Atlanta
Posts: 8,674
Welcome. Glad you're here- have you looked at the Newcomer's Forum and found the Class of Dec? People who quit each month have their own "section" to get to know each other.
I am a devoted AA-er and it has been critical to saving my life.
You can get and stay sober. Hope to see you around here.
I am a devoted AA-er and it has been critical to saving my life.
You can get and stay sober. Hope to see you around here.
Last edited by Dee74; 12-13-2016 at 10:29 PM.
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Join Date: Oct 2013
Posts: 11,417
Planning what you will do instead of drink with your free time,
as well as what you will do instead of drink when stressed or depressed
was critical for my success.
One day at a time is great, but maybe consider sitting down with a notebook
and writing out your plan of action when tempted, as well as the positive things
you'd like to do with the free time you will have after quitting for good.
Also, be sure to not to get too hungry or tired--ice cream was my secret weapon
for dealing with alcohol cravings. Try that if you haven't--you can do it!
as well as what you will do instead of drink when stressed or depressed
was critical for my success.
One day at a time is great, but maybe consider sitting down with a notebook
and writing out your plan of action when tempted, as well as the positive things
you'd like to do with the free time you will have after quitting for good.
Also, be sure to not to get too hungry or tired--ice cream was my secret weapon
for dealing with alcohol cravings. Try that if you haven't--you can do it!
Member
Join Date: Dec 2014
Posts: 5,453
Mee86- good job on 3 days! that is a good start. A lot of those relationships that were destroyed probably will be healed with time. Almost all of mine have been and I am at 6 months sober. Keep adding up those days! 
Post here often!
Post here often!
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Location: Australia
Posts: 211,386
welcome to SR
Mine did too Mee.
I realise now that it wasn't making plans that was the problem .
It was their almost total lack of detail (I will try and stop drinking. The End) and the lack of a certain commitment from me to see any plan through ,ore than a week or two.
There's some really good ideas here on durable plans and how we can make them 'work'
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...ery-plans.html
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My plans tend to fail.
I realise now that it wasn't making plans that was the problem .
It was their almost total lack of detail (I will try and stop drinking. The End) and the lack of a certain commitment from me to see any plan through ,ore than a week or two.
There's some really good ideas here on durable plans and how we can make them 'work'
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...ery-plans.html
D
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