Nearly died and still drinking
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Nearly died and still drinking
After surviving a ruptured brain aneurysm nearly two years ago I immediately went back to drinking soon as I could. Now after several attempts to quit drinking I am bound and determined to quit permanently. I have been displaying all the bad habits that go with the addiction like drinking and driving and drinking while I'm primarily responsible for my children. It's going to be a long road. My longest timenot drinking in the last 35 years lasted only two and a half weeks. I felt great at that time and don't know why I keep going back to it. I will continue to follow this site and look forward to any help and encouraging words from people. I have never joined a site like this before for anyting and I'm looking forward to people sharing stories
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Glad you are here! Now sounds like a great time for AA - IRL support, possibly doctors' care, counseling - those are all things I have done to come to a place in recovery from my own brink of death.
It's a process- but you CAN quit. Best to you and hope to see you around here.
It's a process- but you CAN quit. Best to you and hope to see you around here.
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Welcome CFL 
the place was a game changer for me. it meant so much to find a community that understood and was available 24/7.
I could not routinely get past day 3 when I got here. Now I hgave over a decasde of recovery
I know we can help you too
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the place was a game changer for me. it meant so much to find a community that understood and was available 24/7.
I could not routinely get past day 3 when I got here. Now I hgave over a decasde of recovery
I know we can help you too
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The title of your thread was real alcoholic stuff. I relate totally. The warning of a doctor, and or a near death experience was not enough to get me to stop. The doc once told me "If you drink much more, you gonna die" - Man, I needed a drink to get my head around that one! My drinking buddy Murray, had a heart attack and was told the same thing. He hit the bottle, had another heart attack and died. And I continued to drink.
Turned out I was suffering from an illness that only a spiritual experience could conquer, I had crossed a line from which there was no other way back. Completely hopeless, mad, sad and bad, I went to AA with an open mind, followed a few simple suggestions and made a full recovery.
Turned out I was suffering from an illness that only a spiritual experience could conquer, I had crossed a line from which there was no other way back. Completely hopeless, mad, sad and bad, I went to AA with an open mind, followed a few simple suggestions and made a full recovery.
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Every one of us want you to get well and stay well by not drinking .
We all know what it's like and how powerful addiction is but there are many many success stories around here , proof that a sober life is more than possible .
While we will all support you as much as possible the hard work must be your doing , you must want sobriety more than anything else in the world and when you get that the world is a much happier healthier loving place .
We all know what it's like and how powerful addiction is but there are many many success stories around here , proof that a sober life is more than possible .
While we will all support you as much as possible the hard work must be your doing , you must want sobriety more than anything else in the world and when you get that the world is a much happier healthier loving place .
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Welcome.
Many of us have been there - warned by circumstances or even doctors that if we continue to drink like we do, we will die.
I found these words in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous spoke directly to me:
There is a solution, follows these words.
And there is. You don't have to live like this anymore. Reach out for help. I found mine through my doctors and AA.
(Quoted words from the 1st edition of Alcoholics Anonymous)
Many of us have been there - warned by circumstances or even doctors that if we continue to drink like we do, we will die.
I found these words in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous spoke directly to me:
The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink. Out so-called willpower becomes practically nonexistent. We are unable, at certain times, to bring into our consciousness with sufficient force the memory of the suffering and humiliation of even a week or a month ago. We are without defense against the first drink.
The almost certain consequences that follow taking even a glass of beer do not crowd into the mind to deter us. If these thoughts do occur, they are hazy and readily supplanted with the old threadbare idea that this time we shall handle ourselves like other people. There is a complete failure of the kind of defense that keeps one from putting his hand on a hot stove.
The almost certain consequences that follow taking even a glass of beer do not crowd into the mind to deter us. If these thoughts do occur, they are hazy and readily supplanted with the old threadbare idea that this time we shall handle ourselves like other people. There is a complete failure of the kind of defense that keeps one from putting his hand on a hot stove.
And there is. You don't have to live like this anymore. Reach out for help. I found mine through my doctors and AA.
(Quoted words from the 1st edition of Alcoholics Anonymous)
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