TOPIC: How Can They Know?
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Thread Starter
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Baton Rouge, La.
Posts: 15,237
TOPIC: How Can They Know?
Hi Im Sharon and Im an Alcoholic.
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.
"I Know How You Feel"
How can you if you haven't been
there, done that before?
Don't let anyone tell you they
know what it feels like:
To have Cancer...
To have been raped....
To have been sexually abused....
To be an Alcoholic....
To be physically abused....
To be verbally, emotionally abused.....
Etc......
Unless they have experienced it
themselves.
Right?
No one understands about how
I felt then and feel today about
having experienced physical abuse
as a child except me and those
who have experienced it them-
selves.
Because of the misunderstanding
and non support thru the yrs, i
drank to numb those aweful, re-
sentful feelings.
Almost 20 yrs sober i havent had
to drink over those feelings even
tho they crop up from time to time.
Today I accept those that don't
understand and seek out others
who do understand.
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.
"I Know How You Feel"
How can you if you haven't been
there, done that before?
Don't let anyone tell you they
know what it feels like:
To have Cancer...
To have been raped....
To have been sexually abused....
To be an Alcoholic....
To be physically abused....
To be verbally, emotionally abused.....
Etc......
Unless they have experienced it
themselves.
Right?
No one understands about how
I felt then and feel today about
having experienced physical abuse
as a child except me and those
who have experienced it them-
selves.
Because of the misunderstanding
and non support thru the yrs, i
drank to numb those aweful, re-
sentful feelings.
Almost 20 yrs sober i havent had
to drink over those feelings even
tho they crop up from time to time.
Today I accept those that don't
understand and seek out others
who do understand.
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Posts: 587
I agree. Congratulations to you being os long sober. I had a friend visitng and she told me yesterday we an buy a bottle of wine, we do not need to finish it, jsut can have 2 glasses and then put the lid back on. I looked at her and said no, I cannot do that, I have to finish it once I take the 1st drink. She thougth I made a joke.... However I told her I will not buy any liqor and that it is not tolerated in my hosue, she can drink somewhere else. Arghhhh, why is it so hard for people to understand....
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Baton Rouge, La.
Posts: 15,237
I've learned over the years
that it's important to take
care of ourselves cause no
one else will.
This is what we call being
responsible.
Still....i do understand what
you shared SASA. I also wish
people closest to us understand
us as people who just cant drink
normal like they do.
And it's not just us as alcoholics
but those who have gambling
problems and even sex poblems.
For me....family think that my
addiction is all in my head. That
since i havent had a drink i many
yrs, that i am cured.
Or they say that it's all in my
head and im looking for attention.
Sure, i wish i was cured, but
hey, im not dead and im happier
today cause im not in a fog.
Maintaining a program simply
by sharing with other my own
experiences, strengths and hopes
of what it was like before during
and after alcohol and incorper-
ating a 12 step program in my
everyday affairs, is proof enough
to see that im better off now sober
than drinking like i did before.
that it's important to take
care of ourselves cause no
one else will.
This is what we call being
responsible.
Still....i do understand what
you shared SASA. I also wish
people closest to us understand
us as people who just cant drink
normal like they do.
And it's not just us as alcoholics
but those who have gambling
problems and even sex poblems.
For me....family think that my
addiction is all in my head. That
since i havent had a drink i many
yrs, that i am cured.
Or they say that it's all in my
head and im looking for attention.
Sure, i wish i was cured, but
hey, im not dead and im happier
today cause im not in a fog.
Maintaining a program simply
by sharing with other my own
experiences, strengths and hopes
of what it was like before during
and after alcohol and incorper-
ating a 12 step program in my
everyday affairs, is proof enough
to see that im better off now sober
than drinking like i did before.
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