Pressmetilihurt

I'm starting to realize that no one can do this for me. Sure I'd love to take a month and go into treatment but I can't right now. My plan:
Go to meetings
Take my medication
Exercise

That's it.

january161992

and ask God for help

great job

anxiousrock

I keep hearing people here, and at AA saying that they didn’t get sober until they did some sort of treatment. It gets me wondering if there is any other way to do it?
I’m hoping it’s possible since there is no way I can leave work any even a day, let alone months.

Ghostlight1

I was a very heavy drinker for thirty years and didn't go to treatment. I've been sober six years ten months.
In a way, AA is treatment. it's just not inpatient.
As my first sponsor told me years ago, treatment is where you pay thirty thousand dollars to get told to go to AA meetings. And he had been inpatient treatment five times.
I, personally have no experience with it, so I took his word.

SereneEdition

PMTIH - Awesome that you have your plan. Let us know how you do.

Anarock - I think when you are ready to give it your all, that is when you get sober & stay sober. For some people that correlates with being ready to go into treatment. I personally didn't go into treatment, opting instead to make major changes to my lifestyle. I believed that I would die if I did not stay sober & I was willing to give up everything to avoid dying. Luckily, I had much more to gain being sober.

Dee74

You can do this Press

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Stronger2017

You can do it😀

August252015

Great plan!

For me, AA has been a lifesaver and my recovery is the foundation for everything else in my full, wonderful life. I had to CHOOSE to get well - and my last choice was AA.

In 20+ mo I have heard all kinds of reflections/comments/judgments on whether treatment was worth it for different people, or not.....bottom line is that each of us has to decide to quit drinking completely, then have a plan of action to keep sober and begin a life of recovery.

My program is AA - then devotional/spiritual work, SR, lRL support from sober friends and supportive normies (I ONLY let people trying to live their own best lives a seat at my table) lots of exercise (now, I do hot yoga 6x a week and my fiance and I run a 5K every month, so I sometimes run on my off days each week), sleep, diet, devotion to my fiance and step-daughter to be.....all good stuff that makes up a complete, happy life.

You can do this.

Hawkeye13

I was also unable to leave work and keep my job
so I did it on my own

What it took was a daily plan of action,
which for me was exercise, journaling, taking up a hobby,
a short course of weekly cognitive therapy, excellent nutrition
and self-care, and really engaging with the painful stuff underneath
in my emotional self that triggered the drinking.

It wasn't easy--I was rotten sick with withdrawal and PAWS for weeks,
but every day I actively worked on building a sober life,
I got more comfortable leaving my drinking life behind.

The only thing I would do different would be to go to the doctor first
and get some support before the physical part.
I didn't realize how dangerous quitting cold turkey could be then.

I haven't been perfect, but I've got almost five years of sober-time now.
Life is, at this point, "normal" when I'm not drinking.
The relapses I have had thinking I can drink "normally" or that
I miss drinking and all that goes with it are what feel strange
and dangerous to me now, despite the desire and initial "glow"
the first few have. It doesn't last and frankly, I don't want it to.
I like the sober me much better than the drinking me.

Press, the biggest piece of the sobriety puzzle is determination
to not drink no matter what. No slipping, no deals, no wistful thinking.
Fill that time with something else.
Reflect on what you're really thinking or feeling when you have cravings,
and take action to distract and redirect yourself.

This works--you've done it before and you can do it this time,

tomsteve

that "some sort of treatment" you hear in AA could be working the steps.

dwtbd

add
-Don't drink
to the list , plan on not drinking, you got this