Class of November 2011 pt 2
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Join Date: Nov 2011
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So agitated right now. Feel completely overwhelmed with crap. Like George Jetson on that stupid treadmill. Won't someone please stop this crazy world so I can get a better grip! Reasons to pop open a bottle keep running through my head. I want to have a healthy life with my family but when I feel like this I am no good to anyone, so what is the point. Hell, I even dreamed about planning a relapse! How sick is that! And this is only the end of day 3. No wonder I have never made it pass day 7.
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I felt I was no good to anyone too noknewme - drinking kinda made that a self fulfilling prophecy....
You already know what drinking brings. No answers there.
Maybe it's time to see what sobriety brings? I know it's rough now but it won't always be this rough - it really does get better.
You already know what drinking brings. No answers there.
Maybe it's time to see what sobriety brings? I know it's rough now but it won't always be this rough - it really does get better.
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: New Jersey
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If you want to have a healthy life with your family, you have to not drink, noknewme. Just push through this and don't give in. Like Dee said-you've tried alcohol and look how hopeless it makes you feel-now try sobriety. I can tell you-and everyone else on this site will, too, that it's hard but it's worth it. It is SO worth it when you can see your life getting better before your eyes, in so many little ways that you never thought of. It's like getting to know yourself and a new life all over again. It's great. You really can do it. If I can make it thirty days, believe me you can.
Hang in there and keep posting! We've all been through it and you're doing great.
Hang in there and keep posting! We've all been through it and you're doing great.
a whiner. I promise to be a tad bit more cheery in the future.
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Philly PA
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Hey there Noknewme. It does get better - in place of thinking about drinking and stressing all 24 hours I now get periods where I don't think about drinking/staying sober at all and I'm only at 26 days. It will get better - just make it to 30 days then take a look at what you've done and how you feel. Don't think forever right now - just 30 days.
Thinking about you.
Thinking about you.
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Way down South in Indiana
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Day 10 here and aside from a few minor discomforts and cravings it has been much less "painful" than I expected...this after 45 years of drinking! Hope it it remains painless.
I shoulda done this many years ago.
I shoulda done this many years ago.
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 62
Thanks all for the bday wishes :-)
Alaska, we're here to listen and support each other- no need for apologies. Hope your day is going better today.
Noknewme, you've heard it several times but it really does get better. Don't stop now.
Tigger, congrats on day 26!
Alaska, we're here to listen and support each other- no need for apologies. Hope your day is going better today.
Noknewme, you've heard it several times but it really does get better. Don't stop now.
Tigger, congrats on day 26!
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Join Date: Jul 2011
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3 Quarters of the way through Day 9 here and im going good....Got some pasta cooking in the oven for dinner,gonna give the wife and kids theirs and i'll have mine when i get back from walking the dog as its freezing cold out there.....Cant believe im gonna be on Day 10 tommorow......Cheers folks....
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Roll Call, Day 3, Sober
Originally Posted by Tigger41 
Ok everyone - roll call to check in on everyone - post your day or a comment.
I'm day 26. Committed to not drinking.
I'm day 26. Committed to not drinking.
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Trudging the Road to Happy Destiny!
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Last Day 19 
Hi all,
As always nice to see everyone get that nother 24 hrs.
Today indian summer seems to have left. Chilly . My one cat Sugar Magnolia "maggie" had her kitten in the wee hours of the morning though. Always such cool thing to watch them take care of their babies for the first 4-6 weeks .
So for me today I think since I took a day off working out yesterday, must do the 2 mile walk up to the rec. For a workout , sauna ,and a swim. Then a early evening meeting.
Everyone make sure to smile and remember we are doing the best thing in our lives.
Hi all,
As always nice to see everyone get that nother 24 hrs.
Today indian summer seems to have left. Chilly . My one cat Sugar Magnolia "maggie" had her kitten in the wee hours of the morning though. Always such cool thing to watch them take care of their babies for the first 4-6 weeks .
So for me today I think since I took a day off working out yesterday, must do the 2 mile walk up to the rec. For a workout , sauna ,and a swim. Then a early evening meeting.
Everyone make sure to smile and remember we are doing the best thing in our lives.
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Join Date: Nov 2011
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Stevie I must say I'm impressed!
Alaska I'm so glad you're feeling better and more positive.
Hang in there nkm, don't give up!
Good job everybody!
Dee it is really not nice to complain about the heat while the rest of us are heading into winter!
You know I kid.
Alaska I'm so glad you're feeling better and more positive.
Hang in there nkm, don't give up!
Good job everybody!
Dee it is really not nice to complain about the heat while the rest of us are heading into winter!
You know I kid.
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Michigan
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Originally Posted by alaskasunshine
I have a fear if he went to alanon that he would be advised to leave me, so I'd rather he not. I know, that is wrong, sick and twisted. But that's the way I feel. Scared as hell right now. He would never go anyway, his attitude is that he isn't the one with the problem.
And not just about my bf. I have 3 boys to make up to, three boys, ages 19, 21 and 13 and they are all pretty upset to say the least, I feel like my heart has been pulled out and stomped on. I feel despair, I feel like I have finally made that final push into my disease where family and friends go away. If I had been told when I first got married and started my family that it would have all ended up this way I would have never, ever believed it. This is the exact opposite of the way things are suppose to be.
Day 3 and still very depressed. Had lunch with my 13 year old he was just so sad.....
And not just about my bf. I have 3 boys to make up to, three boys, ages 19, 21 and 13 and they are all pretty upset to say the least, I feel like my heart has been pulled out and stomped on. I feel despair, I feel like I have finally made that final push into my disease where family and friends go away. If I had been told when I first got married and started my family that it would have all ended up this way I would have never, ever believed it. This is the exact opposite of the way things are suppose to be.
Day 3 and still very depressed. Had lunch with my 13 year old he was just so sad.....
I think letting people know "where you are at" in recovery, spiritually etc is a good thing. If people that you love and want to help, then they should know what is going on. If they do not know, then they cannot help as much as they might. If people know what is going on then it is easier for them to help.
Have faith sister, we can overcome this....
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Great Job, Berdant!! 
Welcome NoKnewMe.... going to the doc sounds like an excellent idea! I hope they can give you some help. But hang in there... it DOES get better... really! Then you're head will be clear and you'll wonder what how in the heck you could get so much done in one day
Nice 30 IP! Congrats.
Alaska.... glad you're doing better.... you can do this... we all can do this!
Day 5 here and only just had a fleeting craving sweep by when I logged on. Crazy little voices must be stopped
Welcome NoKnewMe.... going to the doc sounds like an excellent idea! I hope they can give you some help. But hang in there... it DOES get better... really! Then you're head will be clear and you'll wonder what how in the heck you could get so much done in one day
Nice 30 IP! Congrats.
Alaska.... glad you're doing better.... you can do this... we all can do this!
Day 5 here and only just had a fleeting craving sweep by when I logged on. Crazy little voices must be stopped
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