Class of April 2024 Support Thread Part 3
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Chicago, IL
Posts: 1,243
Hi all. Sorry I’ve been MIA. Stuck in my head a lot over the last week, and stressed about work, which leads to isolating. But I also know when I withdraw, I settle back into old ways of dealing with those things. It takes constant effort, doesn’t it? I guess that’s why they say recovery is simple, but it’s not easy.
Congrats to everyone on sober time whether it’s 1 day or 1,000 days. Especially those who’ve handled AV like champions.
Congrats to everyone on sober time whether it’s 1 day or 1,000 days. Especially those who’ve handled AV like champions.
Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Chicago, IL
Posts: 1,243
Stayed pretty busy this weekend: loaded up my car FULL of household stuff that was sitting in my garage for a spring recycling event yesterday, and today dropped daughter and her boyfriend to the aquarium in Chicago. I walked around and grabbed lunch at one of my favorite spots before picking them up. I think I walked 3 miles or so in total.
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Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: NSW - Australia
Posts: 14,838
Originally Posted by freedomfries 
I hate the abstinence violation effect. Like I had one drink, might as well black out now since I'm on day 0 either way. Ifs no sense of course.
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Join Date: Jan 2020
Posts: 4,928
Originally Posted by Steely
Moreso, I hate when I’m aware of “abstinence violation effect”, yet still choose to ignore its elegance, and simplicity.
tomorrow is q new day
The Dog
Join Date: Apr 2023
Location: Fly over state USA
Posts: 5,740
How many times do you want to start over at day zero? After having 298 days I don't care to ever start over at day zero again. I would rather fight off the craving to drink then have a hangover I cannot fight off. My AV from yesterday is gone. Had I drank, the hangover wouldn't be. The choice is pretty clear to me. AV today or a hangover tomorrow. The AV will kill you if you keep fighting it with alcohol.
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Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: NSW - Australia
Posts: 14,838
Originally Posted by freedomfries
I guess I have never promised anyone a rose garden, but I implied some flowers would survive.
tomorrow is q new day
tomorrow is q new day
I want for you to survive Freedom, but you appear so totally cavalier about the whole thing. No real appreciation of the inevitable consequences.
But I guess that’s for you to know, not me.
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Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: NSW - Australia
Posts: 14,838
That is something Freedom. An important something.
It’s a worry because you have so much at stake mentally, physically, spiritually, and now legally. Not the time to be ambivalent, abstract, or cavalier. It’s real. The consequences are real.
Seems you are actively participating in your own destruction. Seems you don’t want to live in your own sober mind. But it’s what we all need to do. What you need to do. Schizophrenia notwithstanding.
What’s preventing you Freedom?
It’s a worry because you have so much at stake mentally, physically, spiritually, and now legally. Not the time to be ambivalent, abstract, or cavalier. It’s real. The consequences are real.
Seems you are actively participating in your own destruction. Seems you don’t want to live in your own sober mind. But it’s what we all need to do. What you need to do. Schizophrenia notwithstanding.
What’s preventing you Freedom?
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Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: Belgrade
Posts: 334
Just came back home from a psychiatrist , she was very nice and understanding and she adjusted my meds , but at the end of the session she said something that really bothered me , she said that only God saved me because i was mixing pills and booze , to which i replied God gave me this disorder in the first place , i certainly didn't choose it , she replied that i did this to myself , sure , i chose to not have control over alcohol , i chose to have anxiety/panic attacks and whatever else disorder i might have , what kind of thinking is that ? I think that at our next session i will have to mention this because it really bothered me , religious people will do anything to cover for their beliefs , even if they are highly educated doctors.
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