Members with less than 2 weeks-Welcome! Part 11
Forward we go...side by side-Rest In Peace
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Serene In Dixie
Posts: 36,740
Gee Jay.....maybe that is why it's called addiction?
We drink...in good and bad times....we drink for no apparent reason
we drink despite knowing better....alcoholics simmply keep drinking
But you really can quit and stay quit....
I did ...millions do....so can you.....
Here are links you might find interesting....
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...influence.html
And
How We Get Addicted - TIME
Have you considered making a list of the benefits
and problems your drinking is doing?
That might be interesting
We drink...in good and bad times....we drink for no apparent reason
we drink despite knowing better....alcoholics simmply keep drinking
But you really can quit and stay quit....
I did ...millions do....so can you.....
Here are links you might find interesting....
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...influence.html
And
How We Get Addicted - TIME
Have you considered making a list of the benefits
and problems your drinking is doing?
That might be interesting
Member
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: ozstrayleeya
Posts: 2,950
Day 6
..wow jay77,only said hello yesterday....fantastic!!
..enjoy the day,a bit tough at times,but so what..feeling good,confident,
happy....and those precious little girls will love you forever..
..hi to you all,well done...xox...ozy..
Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: massachusetts
Posts: 2,216
Welcome and great going Mellie, Jay and North!!! I. too, like that analogy, Mellie. Funny that you should bring it up becasue recently I have been thinking about the 2 distinct phases: getting sober and staying sober. I was stuck in the getting sober phase for way too long. In hindsight, I never gave sobriety enough of a chance, mentally or physically. It was as if I couldn't see beyond the pain, the effort, the wreckage...it was too overwhelming and back to the bottle I would go. Then, miraculously, something changed and I was able to build up, bit by bit, some sober time. As foreign and unattainable as sobriety once seemed, is now how my drunken loop appears to me now. I look back and think...what a waste...how bizarre (altho it made sense to me at the time) my behavior was...how my whole life revolved around drinking...how much I sacrificed. For what? I was miserable and every time I returned to the bottle, all I was doing was deepening my misery. But what they say is true...here and in AA and in SMART and whatever other program that pulls people from the pit. There is a light at the end of the tunnel and it DOES get brighter and one day, you will look back into that darkened hellhole and wonder what it ever was that chained you there.
On that note, Dean, when I found SR I was reading "Eat, Pray, Love" and the author was asked to describe herself in one word. She couldn't decide between "Hide" or "Seek". I really related to that and felt myself at a pivotal juncture; I had to make a choice to either "Hide" or "Seek". Thank God I made the right one.
On that note, Dean, when I found SR I was reading "Eat, Pray, Love" and the author was asked to describe herself in one word. She couldn't decide between "Hide" or "Seek". I really related to that and felt myself at a pivotal juncture; I had to make a choice to either "Hide" or "Seek". Thank God I made the right one.
Member
Join Date: Feb 2010
Posts: 26
Day 1 is in the bag. I feel much better already. I watched a movie with my wife for the first time in months. It felt good to not be in a rush to get away so I could start drinking. I just relaxed and enjoyed the moment... I can't remember the last time I've done that.
Thanks everyone for the support. I'm nervous about the next week.
Thanks everyone for the support. I'm nervous about the next week.
Day 7 
Member
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Southern US
Posts: 5
I was to 3 months until last Dec. I don't think I have EVER gone that long in my adult life. I was feeling wonderful. I had just started a great new job, my first-ex was actually talking to me again, and my folks were giving me thumbs-up right and left.
Then I had that wonderfully rational idea, "3 months of sobriety!?!? This is great! Why don't I celebrate this with a drink!" *face-palm*
Well, 3 weeks and about 30 bottles of vodka later, I managed to squeak in almost a month of sanity. Then the Superbowl hit...
I am now on day-2. My stomach is feeling some better, and the shakes are now going away long enough to type for a few minutes, but the next few days are gonna suck.
Man, why do I do this to myself?
Then I had that wonderfully rational idea, "3 months of sobriety!?!? This is great! Why don't I celebrate this with a drink!" *face-palm*
Well, 3 weeks and about 30 bottles of vodka later, I managed to squeak in almost a month of sanity. Then the Superbowl hit...
I am now on day-2. My stomach is feeling some better, and the shakes are now going away long enough to type for a few minutes, but the next few days are gonna suck.
Man, why do I do this to myself?
Forward we go...side by side-Rest In Peace
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Serene In Dixie
Posts: 36,740
DreadPirateJay.......
Welcome to SR and to support thread
Many of us had false starts before we
found solid sobriety. I sure did.
You do know you can quit...that's a start...
Do you have a plan for staying sober this time?
Welcome to SR and to support thread
Many of us had false starts before we
found solid sobriety. I sure did.
You do know you can quit...that's a start...
Do you have a plan for staying sober this time?
Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: massachusetts
Posts: 2,216
Well, DP, to answer your (rhetorical, I assume) question as to why we do this...becasue we are alcoholic. Personally, I'm a self-sabotager. I came to the realization one day that I had just as hard a time facing the "good me" as I did the "bad me". Things would be going along nicely and ****Bam*****, I'd screw up. A fellow SRer posted on another thread:
"I realized that alcohol wasn't my problem, it was my solution".
Wow, that's a pretty succinct summation, IMHO. We have to learn to take alcohol out of the equation, once and for all.
So, the good news is, you've done this b4 and you can do it again. Unlike people who are new to abstinence, you know the benefits. You've been to "the other side", so to speak. So.....
"I realized that alcohol wasn't my problem, it was my solution".
Wow, that's a pretty succinct summation, IMHO. We have to learn to take alcohol out of the equation, once and for all.
So, the good news is, you've done this b4 and you can do it again. Unlike people who are new to abstinence, you know the benefits. You've been to "the other side", so to speak. So.....
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 3,581
Hi guys..checking in on day 13. Amazing how much better my mood is overall..those hangovers really take a toll on me!
Toasted at Val Day dinner with water last night. That's not really that tough for me though, as I don't want a glass of wine with dinner...I want a carafe..and preferably without people around.
Hope you all have a great day and Happy VD to you !!
Toasted at Val Day dinner with water last night. That's not really that tough for me though, as I don't want a glass of wine with dinner...I want a carafe..and preferably without people around.
Hope you all have a great day and Happy VD to you !!
for 14!
Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: massachusetts
Posts: 2,216
ABSOLUTELY, HW and Congrats to you!
Mirage and Oz, GREAT going! Isn't it terrific to wake up refreshed, no "blank" spots, no cringing as to what might have been said or done????
YAY EVERYONE and HAPPY VALENTINES, to boot!
Mirage and Oz, GREAT going! Isn't it terrific to wake up refreshed, no "blank" spots, no cringing as to what might have been said or done????
YAY EVERYONE and HAPPY VALENTINES, to boot!
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