Can't stop binge drinking
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Join Date: Jul 2011
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Sure you can...
You'll get a DUI and go to jail. No booze there. It's not if, it's when. Read the horror stories here.
Bottom line, if you have the will to stop, you'll get the help to do it. Not many can do it alone (a few lucky ones could).
You'll get a DUI and go to jail. No booze there. It's not if, it's when. Read the horror stories here.
Bottom line, if you have the will to stop, you'll get the help to do it. Not many can do it alone (a few lucky ones could).
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welcome back seared - remember what you said last time?
I think that acceptance is very important. Support can really help too.
I know how hard it can be to reach out - but I really don't think any of us does this alone.
Reaching out to others and listening to what they had to say was pretty much the smartest thing I ever did - after quitting drinking
You can get back to being that non drinker
Do you have any kind of a plan from here, Seared?
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It took me a long time to accept the fact that I can't drink, as I remember clearly all the parties and great times I had while drinking. After a while it became tough to have fun without it. My light at the end of the tunnel is that I lived the first 17 years of my life without drinking, and it is possible to do without it.
I know how hard it can be to reach out - but I really don't think any of us does this alone.
Reaching out to others and listening to what they had to say was pretty much the smartest thing I ever did - after quitting drinking
You can get back to being that non drinker
Do you have any kind of a plan from here, Seared?
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Originally Posted by eJoshua 
Are you willing to take action to stop your drinking? If so, what action are you planning on taking?
I am also powerless over alcohol, but I've been sober for 7 months.
I am also powerless over alcohol, but I've been sober for 7 months.
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Welcome Seared!
I started out binge drinking, too. Never got in trouble, but I think I was just lucky. (Or maybe I wasn't, because I didn't have any reason to stop?!) I sure did do and say things I wouldn't have if I were sober.......
Getting support (like posting/reading here) is what helps me stay sober. It's easy to "forget" what happened the last time we drank, and thinking we can control it. If you're like me, though, I was never interested in having a one-or-two drinks kind of night. I always, always wanted one more, no matter how much I'd had.
Stick around, read and post. We know what it's like......
I started out binge drinking, too. Never got in trouble, but I think I was just lucky. (Or maybe I wasn't, because I didn't have any reason to stop?!) I sure did do and say things I wouldn't have if I were sober.......
Getting support (like posting/reading here) is what helps me stay sober. It's easy to "forget" what happened the last time we drank, and thinking we can control it. If you're like me, though, I was never interested in having a one-or-two drinks kind of night. I always, always wanted one more, no matter how much I'd had.
Stick around, read and post. We know what it's like......
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Originally Posted by artsoul
If you're like me, though, I was never interested in having a one-or-two drinks kind of night. I always, always wanted one more, no matter how much I'd had.
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Originally Posted by eJoshua
Are you willing to take action to stop your drinking? If so, what action are you planning on taking?
I am also powerless over alcohol, but I've been sober for 7 months.
I am also powerless over alcohol, but I've been sober for 7 months.
That's an awesome statement.... Same deal for me. I'm personally just as powerless over it now as I was 55 months ago but I found some additional power - an external battery pack, so to speak.
And unfortunately for many of us who are hell-bent on solving the problem ourselves.......the answers come in doing a lot of things you may not believe will 'work' and doing a whole lotta stuff you probably won't want to do. I guess that's logical cuz most of us, when we're drinking, are pretty-much living our lives the way we see fit........and, for an alcoholic, that just doesn't work. --hope that make sense.
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