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You can stop drinking today and make it your day one. 
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: New York, NY
Posts: 31
You absolutely can do this. We all were at our bottom at some point. We were all on Day 1 at some point. Today can be yours. I couldn't fathom a week without alcohol and I have been sober coming up on 7 years. Read my old posts. I was a wreck and ended up in the psych ward. I still drank after that. You can surrender today. Let go and trust that you'll be taken care of. You will.
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Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Arizona, USA
Posts: 1,598
Sounds about right that you’re hopeless, scared, alone, etc. That’s where most of us (including me) have to get to before we really decide to put the bottle down. Interestingly, it says very little about you as a person. What it does say is that alcohol has control of your life. As bad as it seems now, if you were to stop drinking today, and if you posted in this forum everyday for the next month you would be shocked how far away those feelings of worthlessness and despair seem. But it starts with one single day of not drinking. Can you get through one day? I bet you can.
I won’t lie, it will be hard and it will take work. But doesn’t drinking take work? Isn’t it hard?
Please join us us on the road to recovery.
Have you ever been to an AA meeting? If you were to ask the people in almost any AA meeting if they’ve ever felt like you are feeling now, everyone would raise their hand. And they all work together to recover. It’s a beautiful thing. Your condition is the inevitable result of what alcohol does to lives. Don’t believe your emotions right now. You are not defined by the way you feel. You are more valuable. You can get better. Glad you’re here.
I won’t lie, it will be hard and it will take work. But doesn’t drinking take work? Isn’t it hard?
Please join us us on the road to recovery.
Have you ever been to an AA meeting? If you were to ask the people in almost any AA meeting if they’ve ever felt like you are feeling now, everyone would raise their hand. And they all work together to recover. It’s a beautiful thing. Your condition is the inevitable result of what alcohol does to lives. Don’t believe your emotions right now. You are not defined by the way you feel. You are more valuable. You can get better. Glad you’re here.
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Join Date: Jan 2016
Posts: 356
Stop drinking and give it a few days. I thought I was going out of my mind, I was so depressed and the alcohol was effecting my thinking. It will get better with a few sober days under your belt, it does for everyone. Best wishes.
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Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: United States
Posts: 421
Jim is right. Alcohol only fuels depression. Like you I thought I was helping myself by drinking, giving myself a little break from the world and my own head, but it really just doesn't help matters in the long run...or even in the short term as much as it may seem to in the moment.
So you've learned this unhealthy coping mechanism. Ok. But you can learn new, healthy ones. I'm working on that myself.
Put down the alcohol, have some water, maybe a nap. Come back on here and talk some more. I'm sorry you're feeling so poorly right now, but you're in a great place here on SR.
So you've learned this unhealthy coping mechanism. Ok. But you can learn new, healthy ones. I'm working on that myself.
Put down the alcohol, have some water, maybe a nap. Come back on here and talk some more. I'm sorry you're feeling so poorly right now, but you're in a great place here on SR.
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