restlessmama

Hi!
I am just wondering if we can all share our age? just curious to see....
How old are you now?
How old were you when you quit?
How old were you when you realized drinking was a problem for you?

Thanks

restlessmama

I am 29 years old.
I quit very recently...fresh blood here
I realized drinking was a problem for me about 9 years ago. (WOWZA) Thats when I knew I drank too much and thats when it began to cause friction in my life.
I started tho when I was about 13 years old....craved it like crazy, did it every chance I could. For the past 9 years I have drank pretty well everyday!! (except for when I was pregnant with DD) crazy stuff......

whiskerkissed

I'm pretty fresh blood, too...:-)

I'm not an alcoholic...but I've done my share of drinking.

44 now
10 smoking pot & drinking beer
The next 18 yrs were experimenting and finding my fav DOC - speed.
The next 15+ yrs was relatively mild...foo foo drinks, rx pills every now and again, ate the hell outta Stackers, other gas station energy pills and caffeine.
Relapsed a couple weeks ago on Lortabs...still hung up there but tryin'.

nogard

56 years young
quit 3 years 1 month and 2 weeks ago

Originally quit when I was 25 (1976) was a common garden addict. Stayed clean for 20 years, relapsed on Alcohol for 11 years and when hopeless enough asked for help and am a member of NA.

Was a hopeless dope fiend, now a dopeless hope fiend

Kevin

faith08

I am just wondering if we can all share our age? just curious to see....
How old are you now? 43
How old were you when you quit? still trying to find that path
How old were you when you realized drinking was a problem for you? i think i knew right from the very beginning 27+ yrs ago

LibertyorDeath

39 now
39 when I quit (almost 70 days ago )
17 when I knew it was a problem. I wrote a poem about the "wicked wine" that "stole my soul" at that age. I still have it. Painful, really.

I feel like a kid again. I am learning how to live. Some of the things that gave me comfort as a child...writing, playing guitar...have given me comfort yet again. I am finding the old me beneath the layers of **** I piled upon myself. I'm not so bad after all. I have hope again.

22NGONE

45
45
40

sct

How old are you now?

20.

How old were you when you quit?

20. (Six months ago, clean of alcohol and everything else I was filling my head with.)

How old were you when you realized drinking was a problem for you?

I probably realized it was going to be a problem when I started drinking every day about 12 years ago. (Yeah, I know.)

Surlyredhead

I am 42 now (well, for the next two weeks anyway).
I was 28 when I quit.
I knew it was a problem in my teens, but I didn't care at the time.

Horselover

41 until August.

Knew there was a problem in my 20s and tried to quit back then. Quit again at 41.

SoosieQ

I am 36 now. Relapsed several times. First got sober when I was 27 and maintained it for 2.5 years. At 27, I didn't want to admit I had a problem but I had started transitioning from reckless social drinking (I played in bands and was always socially illiterate, so it was the "norm" to be stoned and drunk). All of a sudden, my friends were getting on w/ their lives while I was still pleading w/ some of them to meet me at bars, even tho' I was rarely comfortable there. Eventually, I started drinking at home, alone.

I relapsed due to depression/ anxiety/ life circumstances. Well, no excuses. I simply relapsed. Got sober again for another few years. I was doing well until last November when I finally hit another "emotional" wall. Looking to move through the rest of my thirties in a sober state!

SoosieQ

PS-to horselady
just to clarify, I got accused of being an old lady driver a few years ago. I am not so far behind as you think!

kelsh

I am 67 now.

I quit for good when I was 48.

I knew when I was 30 I was drinking too much...had depression & don't know which came first...depression or drinking to treat depression.

kelsh :day4

ThisIsTheDay

Well I am 46...still working on the recovery/quit thing!

and I realized drinking was a problem for me, many years ago (late 20's)
....only tried to quit here in the last couple years.

sailorjohn

51 1/2 now

50 when I quit-bday is sobriety date

31 the first time, was dry for a very long time, most of it without a program, was definitely not a happy camper.

Realized I had a problem in my late twenties, 'quit' when I was 29, but ex-wife #1 didn't have a problem if I smoked dope or whatever, took the wreckage of marriage #1 to get me in AA.

Stormy1119

How old are you now? 24
How old were you when you quit? 24
How old were you when you realized drinking was a problem for you? I suspected I might have a problem from the summer when I was 21. I don't think I really absolutely knew for sure I had a problem until I was 22. I was 24 before I could admit that I was completely powerless over it and that no attempt at "moderation" would ever work for me.

buttercup1

I am 33 years old.
Still working on quitting, been off the wagon more than on lately...

I think I realized I had a problem about 4 years ago, but never really admitted it until the last 8 months or so...

tanyapmc

I am 41 now.

I quit when I was 39 (17 1/2 months ago)

I knew I had a problem my first semester in college. I was 18.

Thanks to God and AA I am clean and sober now. Life is good and sobriety rocks!!

Ananda

i'm 49

i knew i had a problem in 1984....got sober in 1985 age 28...got drunk, got sober, got drunk, got sober......

after 8 years of daily drinking i became sober on July 25th of last year!

feeling good and going strong!

frstnm

39 yrs old currently
39 when I quit but my fisrt attempt was at age 26 /1993
I was probably thinking that I had a problem around 18 years old.