Finally Getting Help
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Finally Getting Help
After playing golf for 20 years with very little improvement, I signed up for a series of lessons earlier in 2016. Watching my swing on video compared to a fundamentally sound swing was so eye opening and a little bit embarrassing at first. It wasn't comfortable to do the fundamentally sound swing, it didn't feel right. My old swing had been with me for 20 years, it felt right, it worked, most of the time. But when things started to go wrong, I didn't know how to fix it.
I committed to the plan, I did what the instructor told me to even when it felt uncomfortable, worked the drills and built a better golf swing. My game improved!
For 20 years I've also drank on again, off again, often problematically, sometimes not. I've quit on my own for 9 months recently which was great and then decided to attempt moderation (recurring pattern here).
It resulted with me starting off this fine new year with a blackout, a 2 day hangover and a profound sense of shame that I ended back there.
So I have not drank for 11 days, starting to feel better but I also know my own attempts at long term abstinence and sobriety have been comfortable and on my terms, and have not yielded results.
Tomorrow I have an appointment at a treatment center for an initial assessment and to determine a recommended course of treatment, it's now time to get uncomfortable and let the professionals show me what I'm doing wrong.
I committed to the plan, I did what the instructor told me to even when it felt uncomfortable, worked the drills and built a better golf swing. My game improved!
For 20 years I've also drank on again, off again, often problematically, sometimes not. I've quit on my own for 9 months recently which was great and then decided to attempt moderation (recurring pattern here).
It resulted with me starting off this fine new year with a blackout, a 2 day hangover and a profound sense of shame that I ended back there.
So I have not drank for 11 days, starting to feel better but I also know my own attempts at long term abstinence and sobriety have been comfortable and on my terms, and have not yielded results.
Tomorrow I have an appointment at a treatment center for an initial assessment and to determine a recommended course of treatment, it's now time to get uncomfortable and let the professionals show me what I'm doing wrong.
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3rd,
It is addiction. Like being addicted to crack cocaine or heroin.
Look in the mirror and see a drug addict.
Once i was over that difficult hurdle I could embrace sobriety and fight addiction properly.
The physical addiction goes away in about a month or so. The mental addiction is a life long issue. It never goes away.
I quit smoking about 15 years ago. I still crave them sometimes.
I quit drinking 21 months ago. Still crave at times.
The crave fades by the moment. It gets better and better each day.
Read and post.
Thanks.
It is addiction. Like being addicted to crack cocaine or heroin.
Look in the mirror and see a drug addict.
Once i was over that difficult hurdle I could embrace sobriety and fight addiction properly.
The physical addiction goes away in about a month or so. The mental addiction is a life long issue. It never goes away.
I quit smoking about 15 years ago. I still crave them sometimes.
I quit drinking 21 months ago. Still crave at times.
The crave fades by the moment. It gets better and better each day.
Read and post.
Thanks.
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