Tim_OB

I only seem to get to 4 days 6 when i "try" without a drink, it's been this way for about 7 years now. I'm on antidepression tablets and i know that drink is a depressant and will make my mood worse but i dont seem to have that cut off point in me it's never bin there, the point that after a few pints i can say thats enough and go home. I'v tryed alcohol services several times but i dont think there for me, i would really appreciate any advice from people that have got through this kind of thing.

best

You don't like them or they don't fit you?

Till I listened and accepted what was being told me...I would say they were not for me either. Keep doing things my way and I keep getting the results my way gives me.

I needed something from outside myself to stop the alcohol intake.
Fear of repeating my poor behaviors sure helped me stop the intake.
I needed look beyond myself to find change for other areas that needed change.
Give AA a try and then give it a second try. It is so much easier when we look beyond ourself rather then try it alone. There are other support programs around besides AA. Give them a try if you feel AA doesn't fit.
keep trying...you will find what works.

Anna

Hi Tim,

This is courtesy of Carol and it's a list of Recovery Programs:

Alcoholics Anonymous
http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org/?Media=PlayFlash

LifeRing Secular Recovery
http://www.unhooked.com

SMART
http://www.smartrecovery.org/

SOS - Secular Organisations for Sobriety
http://www.secularsobriety.org

Women for Sobriety
http://womenforsobriety.org/


Information and analysis about addiction treatment and harm reduction:

http://www.peele.net/

A useful AA reference:
Online AA resources (not official AA):
http://www.recovery.org/aa/

Moderation Management, the one group that deals with moderate drinking; useful for the guidelines:
http://moderation.org/

Some variations on 12 Step:

Agnostics AA:
http://agnosticaa.org/

Alcoholics Victorious (Christian 12 step):
http://www.alcoholicsvictorious.org/12-steps.html

Pagan approach to 12 steps:
http://members.aol.com/JehanaS/recovery.html

Another Christian recovery site:
http://www.celebraterecovery.com/message.asp

Rabbi Twerski's interpretation of the 12 Steps from a Jewish perspective:
http://www.a-1associates.com/AA/jacs_journal_2.htm
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CarolD

Hi Time Welcome!

Please keep trying..you are so worth the effort!

Blessings

paulmh

Hi Tim, I don't know if this is entirely the case nowadays but when I got sober in the North of England there weren't really any options other than AA. Well, drug and alcohol teams, but (imho) they're worse than useless. AA is working for me, but by G*d I had to be desperate to put myself into it wholeheartedly!

Please give it a decent try. You sound like you're in a similar place to me when I went - hating drinking but unable to stop. Some great meeting around Liverpool!

Paul

ndgrace

There are some sayings from AA that have come from people that have been there and understood us, "keep coming back, it works if you work it". I felt like I had nothing in common with anyone there , and that is what kept me from getting sober. I finally had to connect, if only for a moment , with someone's story, and I realized, These people know me. For me it was denial, I did not want to surrender to the fact that I am in deed an alcoholic. (yuck)It made me feel "low" to do that. The amazing thing is once I did surrender, and allow God to take over, AA became a home for me. God began doing for me, what I could not do for myself. Staying sober is a "one day at a time" event. Praying you too will discover your way off this merry go round, and hang around long enough to just sit and listen and wait to hear a message to you.