Finalcall

I have a love hate relationship with alcohol.
Like that so called friend who stabs ya in the back.
I keep trying because life without addiction must be better.
To take a positive....i feel as if you were never addicted to something you havent really lived.
One life own it.
Its not easy

ThomPom

".i feel as if you were never addicted to something you havent really lived"

May be. But if you haven't be free of addictions, you haven't really lived either. And, there is a huge difference between devotion and addiction.

tekink

I thought I loved alcohol, I really did. I was even an expert! (what is that)

It's a trap, it took me a while to realize this but some sober time made it apparent.

In the end it was just my AV trying to take me down.

edit: Alcohol isn't the only thing I've been addicted to, I'd not wish this on anyone.

Finalcall

Is it any better being addicted to money?

Finalcall

Im also addicted at getting out of bed to go to work 6 days.
Its the consequences of the habit or addiction.
I need more healthy thoughts. More happiness.
Alcohol is stopping me from achieving that happiness.

Dee74

I play a lot of guitar but it's not an addiction.
Addiction depleted me - my passions augment me

I know - they're just words.
Why get caught up on semantics?

For me, any sort of ambivalence - even linguistic ambivalence - in my struggle against my addiction was a weak spot and my addiction loves weak spots.

I'm glad you're in the fight finalround

D

courage2

Well you'll never know the counterfactual to that.

Me, I loved loved loved liquor, but nothing that came of it ever made me happy. Or proud or loved by anyone else.

Great insight! Reason enough to quit.

Linden18

Im the same. cant remember what you said. Its your life try and manage it

Buckley3

Rubbish. Nothing positive there - literally. It's just a rationalization, and blatantly false one at that. Plenty of people have lived extraordinary lives without addiction.

Unless a person starts seeing the wreckage and unmanageable nature of a life under addiction for what it is and stops with all the nonsense we are capable of telling ourselves I fear sobriety will be fleeting. Addiction isn't a game.

You are at a recovery website talking about addiction. What does that tell you? Did you come here to play games of semantics or to start to confront the beast? I hope it's the latter. This is a good place for it. You are not alone here.

There's support here. And a lot of wisdom and success stories. Lot's of educational material as well. Knowledge is power.

Best to you-

B