Day 1 version 15
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Day 1 version 15
this is my last chance. Nasty nightly binge habit for years. Getting older and health problems starting to multiply. Prediabetic, hypertension, high cholesterol, obesity. I haven’t felt well in a long time. The last time I quit I lasted 11 days. I don’t have a recovery plan but feel I should get one quick. Really worried I won’t make it this time and that will be that. I will die.
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Lots of info in the Newcomer's sticky's about making a plan, SSS.
I did have a' did-not-make-it this time' event, I did die. Not a pleasant experience.
Well done on posting- brave and positive. Over Xmas- post at SR, join some threads- get involved.
A safe and peaceful Xmas to you.
I did have a' did-not-make-it this time' event, I did die. Not a pleasant experience.
Well done on posting- brave and positive. Over Xmas- post at SR, join some threads- get involved.
A safe and peaceful Xmas to you.
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Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Atlanta
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Sounds like you've got some pretty serious reasons to stop drinking.
I would quit right now and worry about formulating a plan as you are able to with alcohol out of your life.
Eleven days is great. You can do it again. Just don't drink today.
I found taking it one day at a time, and I drank like you, is more manageable than thinking a year or even month down the road.
I found I could not drink for one day. Those days added up. And the better my life became and the less I craved alcohol when I could reflect on its devastation it had caused me with a sober mind.
We care about you. We don't want any of the horrors some of us went through to happen to you. And, take my word for it, they will happen.
I speak from experience. I lived like you are now for ten years.
I don't know how I survived.
Grab onto sobriety and hold on. You can do it.
I would quit right now and worry about formulating a plan as you are able to with alcohol out of your life.
Eleven days is great. You can do it again. Just don't drink today.
I found taking it one day at a time, and I drank like you, is more manageable than thinking a year or even month down the road.
I found I could not drink for one day. Those days added up. And the better my life became and the less I craved alcohol when I could reflect on its devastation it had caused me with a sober mind.
We care about you. We don't want any of the horrors some of us went through to happen to you. And, take my word for it, they will happen.
I speak from experience. I lived like you are now for ten years.
I don't know how I survived.
Grab onto sobriety and hold on. You can do it.
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welcome back sallysallysue.
reading and posting here daily, or multiple times daily, certainly helped me.
The ongoing support was invaluable.
This group helped me turned my life around - I knoe we can help you too
this is a good link on making a recovery action plan
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...very-plan.html
good to see you back
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reading and posting here daily, or multiple times daily, certainly helped me.
The ongoing support was invaluable.
This group helped me turned my life around - I knoe we can help you too
this is a good link on making a recovery action plan
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...very-plan.html
good to see you back
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SallySallySue, is this Day 1? If you feel like **** this morning remember you never have to feel that way again. I am living Day 35 and I don't know how I lived. The downward slide is filled with misery and wretchedness but I am proof that healing is possible. I drank to excess for 3 decades and the last 10 years, insanity. As you said, stay here and post on this thread and keep letting us know how you are doing. I am sober which means that ANYONE can be sober. Let's hit 2020 and the new decade with some sober days under our belts. There is amazing support on this site.
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Join Date: Jan 2014
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Thanks Phoenix, I will need reminders soon about how horrendously sick I have been every single morning and every day for a long time and why I can’t, don’t want to drink. I don’t ever want to feel like that again. The further you get from it the less you remember though.
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our choice is between miserable unhappy drunken drinking and all the consequences
or
not taking 1 drink
its the 1st drink that gets us drunk ... not the 10th
we cant get drunk if we dont take that 1st drink!
or
not taking 1 drink
its the 1st drink that gets us drunk ... not the 10th
we cant get drunk if we dont take that 1st drink!
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