Day 1
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Join Date: Dec 2016
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Day 1
Hello everyone, I'm the new guy. This is a very new thing for me and I hope that being on this forum will give me an outlet instead of the dreaded isolation. I'm tired of the same thing everyday. I'm excited to see how things go, I've read a lot of threads and this site seems to have many people that really care about each other!
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Welcome to the posting side of things SS. We were all the new guy "or girl" at one point, so no worries there at all. Have you stopped drinking yet? Is that your plan? We are here to help with either or.
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Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: UK
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Welcome to SR and congrats on your day 1. I am sure you will find a tonne of support here.
Feel free to join us in the 'Class of December 2016' thread. It's a group of us who are all newly sober this month
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...thread-18.html
Feel free to join us in the 'Class of December 2016' thread. It's a group of us who are all newly sober this month
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...thread-18.html
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BringingBackB posted a link to a great thread; here are a couple of others:
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...art-188-a.html
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...highlight=psst
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...art-188-a.html
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...highlight=psst
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Join Date: Dec 2016
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Yeah this is day one, (again). It's amazing the lies I can tell myself or rationalize why I drink or do something stupid. I've had a long career of drugs and alcohol (35 plus years). That's why I chose the name SlowSuicide. It's a very slow but progressive thing that will in the end kill me if not stopped
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Originally Posted by SlowSuicide 
Yeah this is day one, (again). It's amazing the lies I can tell myself or rationalize why I drink or do something stupid. I've had a long career of drugs and alcohol (35 plus years). That's why I chose the name SlowSuicide. It's a very slow but progressive thing that will in the end kill me if not stopped
I've found so much strength in the advice and stories of recovery here. It gave me the confidence to stop believing the lies and to ask for help.
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Hi SlowSuicide. Could I call you anything but that? It makes me sad, because I know that each time you log on here to find support and something to lift you up, in order to do that, you have to face those two words and the painful feelings attached to them. There is good in you and there is greatness in your future. I know that because you are here.
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Join Date: Jun 2016
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Hello Slosu. Not saying that name- let's work on changing that. Alcohol is crap. Isolation sucks. Welcome- keep posting, keep reading. Good time to look at stuff- with Xmas just over there. Prayers to you. PJ
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Join Date: Dec 2016
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You're right. It was a bad choice in names. I don't need to be reminded of that. That's why I joined this group. I need people to tell what I need to hear not what I want to hear. How do I go about changing my name or am I stuck with it now?
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Join Date: May 2016
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Welcome, SS!
It's great to see you're already listening to the advice of some wonderful posters here - there's so much to learn and so many people who are generous with their knowledge. On another forum I'm a member of (not sobriety related) we have a saying - the pull factors are more important than the push factors. I think that can happily apply to sobriety, too. Sure, the push factors (the hangovers, the DUIs etc) can send you down this path, but the pull factors - wanting to be sober for the wonderful benefits of being sober - are really what count. Focusing on the positives, rather than the negatives, can be the change in mindset that makes success more likely, I think?
It's great to see you're already listening to the advice of some wonderful posters here - there's so much to learn and so many people who are generous with their knowledge. On another forum I'm a member of (not sobriety related) we have a saying - the pull factors are more important than the push factors. I think that can happily apply to sobriety, too. Sure, the push factors (the hangovers, the DUIs etc) can send you down this path, but the pull factors - wanting to be sober for the wonderful benefits of being sober - are really what count. Focusing on the positives, rather than the negatives, can be the change in mindset that makes success more likely, I think?
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I really appreciate the concern and suggestions from everyone! My addiction tells me that I have all the answers. Being a guy with and addiction is bad enough, I'm also a firefighter/Paramedic for 25 plus years which makes it much worse. I'm not sure if I heard it or came up with it, but it doesn't matter, my thought that I tell people is that "My mind is a dangerous place for me to be alone." If I keep my thoughts to myself, I'll not make it out alive. That's why I'm here, I'm too analytical and can defend a position from a intellectual point of view. I'm a sick puppy
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