Class of December 2021 Part One
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Class of December 2021 Part One
Welcome Everyone!
this is the support thread for everyone who wants to quit drugs, alcohol or any kind of addiction this month of
December 2021
come and join us!
this is the support thread for everyone who wants to quit drugs, alcohol or any kind of addiction this month of
December 2021
come and join us!
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The Current Class of November 2021 thread is now here)D
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Hi I'm Sara. I joined in 2018 and found sober recovery so helpful but I was more of a lurker than a poster. I was sober for 2 years and 8 months and then in November of 2020 I decided that I would just have one white claw every now and then (red wine was always my poison so white claw seemed like a "safe"choice, ha! ). Here I am one year later drinking every day, anxiety out of control and somewhat motivated to quit again by something I did over the weekend that I'm really ashamed of. I don't I would have done it if I had not been drinking and if I was in a better place mentally. This is day two for me.
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Join Date: Jan 2020
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My sober date is Nov 27 but I'll join this class. I woke up in hospital on Saturday after drinking [redacted] on a public bench and being brought in by an ambulance. My BAC was .46 and I was in such a state they had to cut my clothes off me. I apparently had a seizure, possibly because I wasn't taking my epilepsy meds while drinking. I could easily be dead. The hospital stay was miserable and I don't ever want to go back there. So I'm done, finished. Drinking hasn't been working for a long time. Social drinking was fun when I was a teenager but I haven't been having fun in a long time. I was arrested a few weeks ago. Hospitals, police cells, that's my future if I drink. I was released with a librium taper and I'm not feeling bad WDs anymore today on day 4.
I got out of the hospital Monday and I've been reading Rational Recovery and taking acamprosate. I have a few recovery audiobooks I'll listen to when I'm done with RR. This Naked Mind spoke to me a lot when I listened before. I might ask my doc for naltrexone instead because acamprosate doesn't seem to be doing much. Going to maybe go back to AA. Don't know if I'll do the steps or anything but I think today I'll go to a zoom meeting and at least listen. I know RR says not to go to meetings but I need all the support I can get. Pills, AVRT, SR, reddit, AA. I need to take this on like it's the fight of my life because it really is.
I really feel done. Finished. I don't ever want to drink again. Being hooked up to a drip not able to sleep listening to all the beeping of the hospital machines, I was so glad to get out of hospital. Sobriety didn't seem so bad in comparison to where drinking led me.
If I give up drinking for good, I can start to turn my life around.
I got out of the hospital Monday and I've been reading Rational Recovery and taking acamprosate. I have a few recovery audiobooks I'll listen to when I'm done with RR. This Naked Mind spoke to me a lot when I listened before. I might ask my doc for naltrexone instead because acamprosate doesn't seem to be doing much. Going to maybe go back to AA. Don't know if I'll do the steps or anything but I think today I'll go to a zoom meeting and at least listen. I know RR says not to go to meetings but I need all the support I can get. Pills, AVRT, SR, reddit, AA. I need to take this on like it's the fight of my life because it really is.
I really feel done. Finished. I don't ever want to drink again. Being hooked up to a drip not able to sleep listening to all the beeping of the hospital machines, I was so glad to get out of hospital. Sobriety didn't seem so bad in comparison to where drinking led me.
If I give up drinking for good, I can start to turn my life around.
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Join Date: Jan 2020
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Originally Posted by ElizaD 
Hi I'm Sara. I joined in 2018 and found sober recovery so helpful but I was more of a lurker than a poster. I was sober for 2 years and 8 months and then in November of 2020 I decided that I would just have one white claw every now and then (red wine was always my poison so white claw seemed like a "safe"choice, ha! ). Here I am one year later drinking every day, anxiety out of control and somewhat motivated to quit again by something I did over the weekend that I'm really ashamed of. I don't I would have done it if I had not been drinking and if I was in a better place mentally. This is day two for me.
We've all done things we're not proud of. I want to crawl into a hole when I think of the things I did.
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Join Date: Aug 2019
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
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Enough is enough. I’m in. Drinking every day is frankly exhausting me. I’m 56, and I’m tired of this. Alcohol isn’t going to kill me today or tomorrow, but it will in 10 or 15 years. I feel it. The booze can’t control me anymore. The pain and depression it hides, I’ll deal with it, on my terms. Sober.
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Join Date: Jan 2020
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Originally Posted by Sobertoday54
Enough is enough. I知 in. Drinking every day is frankly exhausting me. I知 56, and I知 tired of this. Alcohol isn稚 going to kill me today or tomorrow, but it will in 10 or 15 years. I feel it. The booze can稚 control me anymore. The pain and depression it hides, I値l deal with it, on my terms. Sober.
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Join Date: Sep 2021
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Originally Posted by freedomfries
My sober date is Nov 27 but I'll join this class. I woke up in hospital on Saturday after drinking [redacted] on a public bench and being brought in by an ambulance. My BAC was .46 and I was in such a state they had to cut my clothes off me. I apparently had a seizure, possibly because I wasn't taking my epilepsy meds while drinking. I could easily be dead. The hospital stay was miserable and I don't ever want to go back there. So I'm done, finished. Drinking hasn't been working for a long time. Social drinking was fun when I was a teenager but I haven't been having fun in a long time. I was arrested a few weeks ago. Hospitals, police cells, that's my future if I drink. I was released with a librium taper and I'm not feeling bad WDs anymore today on day 4.
I got out of the hospital Monday and I've been reading Rational Recovery and taking acamprosate. I have a few recovery audiobooks I'll listen to when I'm done with RR. This Naked Mind spoke to me a lot when I listened before. I might ask my doc for naltrexone instead because acamprosate doesn't seem to be doing much. Going to maybe go back to AA. Don't know if I'll do the steps or anything but I think today I'll go to a zoom meeting and at least listen. I know RR says not to go to meetings but I need all the support I can get. Pills, AVRT, SR, reddit, AA. I need to take this on like it's the fight of my life because it really is.
I really feel done. Finished. I don't ever want to drink again. Being hooked up to a drip not able to sleep listening to all the beeping of the hospital machines, I was so glad to get out of hospital. Sobriety didn't seem so bad in comparison to where drinking led me.
If I give up drinking for good, I can start to turn my life around.
I got out of the hospital Monday and I've been reading Rational Recovery and taking acamprosate. I have a few recovery audiobooks I'll listen to when I'm done with RR. This Naked Mind spoke to me a lot when I listened before. I might ask my doc for naltrexone instead because acamprosate doesn't seem to be doing much. Going to maybe go back to AA. Don't know if I'll do the steps or anything but I think today I'll go to a zoom meeting and at least listen. I know RR says not to go to meetings but I need all the support I can get. Pills, AVRT, SR, reddit, AA. I need to take this on like it's the fight of my life because it really is.
I really feel done. Finished. I don't ever want to drink again. Being hooked up to a drip not able to sleep listening to all the beeping of the hospital machines, I was so glad to get out of hospital. Sobriety didn't seem so bad in comparison to where drinking led me.
If I give up drinking for good, I can start to turn my life around.
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Join Date: Sep 2021
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Originally Posted by ElizaD
Hi I'm Sara. I joined in 2018 and found sober recovery so helpful but I was more of a lurker than a poster. I was sober for 2 years and 8 months and then in November of 2020 I decided that I would just have one white claw every now and then (red wine was always my poison so white claw seemed like a "safe"choice, ha! ). Here I am one year later drinking every day, anxiety out of control and somewhat motivated to quit again by something I did over the weekend that I'm really ashamed of. I don't I would have done it if I had not been drinking and if I was in a better place mentally. This is day two for me.
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