TOPIC: If We Want To Quit Drinking, We Are Going To Have To Quit Drinking Hi Im Sharon and Im an Alcohol. By the Grace of my HP and people like you here in SR I havent found it necessary to pick up a drink of alcohol since 8-11-90. For that and you I am truely grateful. There's No Other Way........ We have seen the truth demonstrated again and again "Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic." Commencing to drink after a period of sobriety, we are in a short time as bad as ever. If we are planning to stop drinking, there must be no reservation of any kind nor any lurking notion that someday we will be immune to alcohol. This for me is quite true. I had countless times to quit drinking on my own to only fail countless times. Going to rehab i learned that what i have is a disease of alcoholism. As with most disease, wheather, cancer, diabeties etc....they can kill if not delt with. Most treatments require daily shots. A change of diet. Abstenience. From there to the simpliest of going to an hour AA,NA or Al-anon meeting. So i stopped on my own numerous times during pregnacies, horrible accidencts, and finally death knocking at the back door. During several stops I returned to drink to only consume more alcohol than ever before. Today i know that to drink is to die. Alcohol...even one drop would trigger my desire to drink excessively with never having enough to satisfy my cravings for it. So to do is to die. I think i like living better without alcohol and going to an hour meeting than to be so miserable and wanting to die. Restraint may be hard. Will Power alone doesnt work......help however from a 12 step program and faith in a Power whatever that maybe works well for me. To quit drinking I had to QUIT drinking all together one day at a time. Thanks for letting me share. |
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