If you don't think you can quit.
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Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Atlanta
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If you don't think you can quit.
I've got good news. You can.
I was, in the end, seemingly hopeless after a thirty year drinking career.
Drinking whiskey at 8am. Then beer from there out.
Homeless and hopeless. Sleeping on friends couches. Still drank.
Lied to drink. Stole to drink. Begged to drink.
I went through the really bad, and won't even call them hangovers they were something else altogether, drinking for ten years.
The quaking fear and anxiety. Remorse. The shakes. The terror.
I could go on. But I hope you get the idea. I was a bad alcoholic. A bad drunk.
In the end, everyone knew it. I still drank. Let them think what they want. And then the remorse of the next day, 'How could it happen again'? I really did care what they thought.
I didn't think too much of myself, though. A seemingly bottomless drunk.
One extremely bad morning, having fits, I asked my Higher Power for help.
That precipitated a call to AA.
They sent an Angel. He knew where I was coming from. He had drank like me and was successfully abstaining.
I wanted what he had was prepared to go to any length to get it.
I did.
I went to AA. I came here.
This is getting too long.
Suffice it to say, if I don't have that first drink today, I will have ten years sober.
For anyone who thinks they can't get a daily reprieve from alcohol, you can. If you are willing to go to any length to get it.
I was as about as bad as it gets, and I'm posting this in the Newcomers section so you know.There is hope.
Just don't give up trying. Never give up trying. It took me many, many failed attempts. But here I am today. Sober, happy and free.
You can do it too.
I was, in the end, seemingly hopeless after a thirty year drinking career.
Drinking whiskey at 8am. Then beer from there out.
Homeless and hopeless. Sleeping on friends couches. Still drank.
Lied to drink. Stole to drink. Begged to drink.
I went through the really bad, and won't even call them hangovers they were something else altogether, drinking for ten years.
The quaking fear and anxiety. Remorse. The shakes. The terror.
I could go on. But I hope you get the idea. I was a bad alcoholic. A bad drunk.
In the end, everyone knew it. I still drank. Let them think what they want. And then the remorse of the next day, 'How could it happen again'? I really did care what they thought.
I didn't think too much of myself, though. A seemingly bottomless drunk.
One extremely bad morning, having fits, I asked my Higher Power for help.
That precipitated a call to AA.
They sent an Angel. He knew where I was coming from. He had drank like me and was successfully abstaining.
I wanted what he had was prepared to go to any length to get it.
I did.
I went to AA. I came here.
This is getting too long.
Suffice it to say, if I don't have that first drink today, I will have ten years sober.
For anyone who thinks they can't get a daily reprieve from alcohol, you can. If you are willing to go to any length to get it.
I was as about as bad as it gets, and I'm posting this in the Newcomers section so you know.There is hope.
Just don't give up trying. Never give up trying. It took me many, many failed attempts. But here I am today. Sober, happy and free.
You can do it too.
And congrats on ten years sober. 
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Thanks Ghost.
I'd like to add...if I can stop drinking, anyone can.
I drank for years, on and off. By the end I was seriously ill and drank around the clock continuously for months. That wasn't a new thing, it was slightly worse than the last time(s). It IS a progressive disease.
I have the willpower of a deranged gnat.
I have the moral fiber and strength of character of, well, let's just say it's probably not the first thing that comes to mind when people think about me.
I am not a pillar of honesty, the community, nor anything much else.
"If you need something done, call Mindful. If he says he'll do it, it'll happen." Said no one ever.
Yet I was able to stop for close to two years now. And I will never ever drink again.
Count on that.
If I can do it, anyone can. Srsly.
I'd like to add...if I can stop drinking, anyone can.
I drank for years, on and off. By the end I was seriously ill and drank around the clock continuously for months. That wasn't a new thing, it was slightly worse than the last time(s). It IS a progressive disease.
I have the willpower of a deranged gnat.
I have the moral fiber and strength of character of, well, let's just say it's probably not the first thing that comes to mind when people think about me.
I am not a pillar of honesty, the community, nor anything much else.
"If you need something done, call Mindful. If he says he'll do it, it'll happen." Said no one ever.
Yet I was able to stop for close to two years now. And I will never ever drink again.
Count on that.
If I can do it, anyone can. Srsly.
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Thank you sweetichick. I know you're in the battle, but remember don't give up hope.
I believe in you and know you can do it.
Thanks for taking the time to write. You are loved here. Don't forget that, ok?
I believe in you and know you can do it.
Thanks for taking the time to write. You are loved here. Don't forget that, ok?
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