Another Day 1
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Another Day 1
After 5 tears of sobriety, I started drinking again around 2 years ago. Of course it has now gotten to a level similar to when I first quit. For the last couple months I’ve repeatedly sworn off only to last a week or so. I’m hoping that the support of this community will be one more tool in my sobriety toolbox.
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Location: Upstate New York
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Welcome, Golfanatic. I was lost & feeling alone when I found SR. It helped so much to know there were people who could relate to everything I was feeling as I tried to get sober.
I drank for decades & had 3 yrs. sober once - decided I could be a social drinker again - and went back out for 7 yrs. That's when I found SR. I was a shaking, miserable mess - with a life in ruins. It was much worse when I picked up again after the sober years. I'm so thankful to be free. You can do it.
I drank for decades & had 3 yrs. sober once - decided I could be a social drinker again - and went back out for 7 yrs. That's when I found SR. I was a shaking, miserable mess - with a life in ruins. It was much worse when I picked up again after the sober years. I'm so thankful to be free. You can do it.
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Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Soberville, USA
Posts: 4,174
When you had quit for 5 years where you attending AA?
Did you understand the science behind the addiction?
Dopamine alteration and endorphins?
You were cleaner longer than me and I still crave. I know that I will crave for life (e.g. even if I am 25 years clean, I will still crave).
Obviously, the crave will not be physical, but mentally it can take on many forms.
I am an addict for life.
Let me know.
Thanks.
Did you understand the science behind the addiction?
Dopamine alteration and endorphins?
You were cleaner longer than me and I still crave. I know that I will crave for life (e.g. even if I am 25 years clean, I will still crave).
Obviously, the crave will not be physical, but mentally it can take on many forms.
I am an addict for life.
Let me know.
Thanks.
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Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Atlanta
Posts: 2,872
Hello and welcome. You'll find a lot of support here.
I never quit and restarted for the time you have but I've had hundreds of day ones.
I swore it off, poured it out and made solemn oaths. None of them worked.
Have you tried a recovery method like AA? I found it invaluable to finally get a daily reprieve from alcohol.
Best to you and I hope you stick around.
I never quit and restarted for the time you have but I've had hundreds of day ones.
I swore it off, poured it out and made solemn oaths. None of them worked.
Have you tried a recovery method like AA? I found it invaluable to finally get a daily reprieve from alcohol.
Best to you and I hope you stick around.
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Join Date: Aug 2019
Location: Colorado
Posts: 347
"Another Day 1."
No it isn't; it's Day One. Forget the past.
Hang out here, but I also hope you can get immediately into a face-to-face daily program like AA, but if not AA something similar.
I quit drinking and I guarantee you haven't sworn off drinking as many times as I did! You can probably make it this time if you work a good plan.
p.s. I had a hole-in-one once...165-yard par 3, thirteenth hole, with an 8 Iron. How do you like them apples? (Now, I wasn't drinking, you know.) I had another hole-in-one on a par-three executive course, 134 yards, but I'm not sure that counts not being a regulation full-size course.
Let's get you back to golfing without a drink in the cart.
No it isn't; it's Day One. Forget the past.
Hang out here, but I also hope you can get immediately into a face-to-face daily program like AA, but if not AA something similar.
I quit drinking and I guarantee you haven't sworn off drinking as many times as I did! You can probably make it this time if you work a good plan.
p.s. I had a hole-in-one once...165-yard par 3, thirteenth hole, with an 8 Iron. How do you like them apples? (Now, I wasn't drinking, you know.) I had another hole-in-one on a par-three executive course, 134 yards, but I'm not sure that counts not being a regulation full-size course.
Let's get you back to golfing without a drink in the cart.
I hope our support can help you get sober for good. 
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