5 months and...
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5 months and...
I feel beyond incredible.
I used to come home from work and drink while on the computer. I started e-mailing people crazy e-mails, began drinking more and more, until I was showing up for work the next day embarrassed and hung over.
Each weekend I would buy loads of beer and looked forward to drinking alone on the computer.
Gradually (over a five year period) I pretty much was angry at everyone around me, and pretty much lost my job -but covered up the reasons to my friends.
I eventually went out to drink and got so hammered I had an accident in my car -I covered up the reason for this too, and ended up...well, doing stuff I wouldn't have done sober.
At this point my wife wanted to leave me, so I knew I had to change or kill myself.
I stopped cold turky (I can't cut down because I'll always spiral back to drinking too much)
The first few months I felt crazy, then gradually I became tearful all of the time.
I had a few instances where I went out and drank and did something I regreted.
Gradually I tapered off from it -although 5 months ago I drank and got wasted.
Now, I'm 5 months away from it, and my life is 99% better.
If anyone's not sure what life's like after, I can tell you:
You have a hoard of free time (time before spent drinking)
You never wake up hung over
You always remember what you did or said
You're always in control
The stress of life gets easier (because you're not sick all of the time)
And you start going out and doing stuff (because of all of the extra time you have)
My life is 99% better, and I intend to be a Teetotaler until I die.
Go for it; once you get over the first 6 months or so, life gets amazingly easy, and you get amazingly stronger.
I used to come home from work and drink while on the computer. I started e-mailing people crazy e-mails, began drinking more and more, until I was showing up for work the next day embarrassed and hung over.
Each weekend I would buy loads of beer and looked forward to drinking alone on the computer.
Gradually (over a five year period) I pretty much was angry at everyone around me, and pretty much lost my job -but covered up the reasons to my friends.
I eventually went out to drink and got so hammered I had an accident in my car -I covered up the reason for this too, and ended up...well, doing stuff I wouldn't have done sober.
At this point my wife wanted to leave me, so I knew I had to change or kill myself.
I stopped cold turky (I can't cut down because I'll always spiral back to drinking too much)
The first few months I felt crazy, then gradually I became tearful all of the time.
I had a few instances where I went out and drank and did something I regreted.
Gradually I tapered off from it -although 5 months ago I drank and got wasted.
Now, I'm 5 months away from it, and my life is 99% better.
If anyone's not sure what life's like after, I can tell you:
You have a hoard of free time (time before spent drinking)
You never wake up hung over
You always remember what you did or said
You're always in control
The stress of life gets easier (because you're not sick all of the time)
And you start going out and doing stuff (because of all of the extra time you have)
My life is 99% better, and I intend to be a Teetotaler until I die.
Go for it; once you get over the first 6 months or so, life gets amazingly easy, and you get amazingly stronger.
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