We should have known we were in trouble when ...
dopeless hope fiend
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Here. Now.
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blackouts
daytime drinking
jail
daytime using drugs
jail again
morning drinking and drugs
multiple day benders
selling drugs while intoxicated out of my mind
jail yet again, then prison
jail again
lost job
lost friends
jail again
stole to support my habit
daytime drinking
jail
daytime using drugs
jail again
morning drinking and drugs
multiple day benders
selling drugs while intoxicated out of my mind
jail yet again, then prison
jail again
lost job
lost friends
jail again
stole to support my habit
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: New York, NY
Posts: 69
Also -
- developed controlled-drinking plans or limited periods of the day/night when drinking would be acceptable, only to later make exceptions
- endlessly compared ourselves to people who drank more and wound up in worse circumstances
- considered every black-out or really bad night an aberration
- sought the company and comfort of those who told us we didn't have a problem
- found fewer and fewer people who wanted to go out or come over
- developed controlled-drinking plans or limited periods of the day/night when drinking would be acceptable, only to later make exceptions
- endlessly compared ourselves to people who drank more and wound up in worse circumstances
- considered every black-out or really bad night an aberration
- sought the company and comfort of those who told us we didn't have a problem
- found fewer and fewer people who wanted to go out or come over
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Toronto ON
Posts: 1,180
- drinking multiple types and sources of alcohol so as to disguise the true volume from loved ones - ie. hit a bar on the way home from work for a couple of stiff ones, then drink a combination of beer, rye, wine and back to rye again so that there would be only incidental evidence within each subset of the drinking that took place.
- "topping up" your drink every time your wife leaves the room so that she seldom sees you mixing another one.
- going to bed as soon as you hear your wife in the driveway so that she doesn't see how loaded you are.
- reading your kids their bedtime story with a rye and coke in your hand.
- "topping up" your drink every time your wife leaves the room so that she seldom sees you mixing another one.
- going to bed as soon as you hear your wife in the driveway so that she doesn't see how loaded you are.
- reading your kids their bedtime story with a rye and coke in your hand.
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Toronto
Posts: 205
In that case when I was 21 or 22, I was working nights and would come home at 8:00am and drink beer until passed out, sleep until 10pm, wake up and head back to work. I was doing that daily and thats where it all began.
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Posts: 34
Getting home from work, loading the fridge with a fresh case of beer, and taking 4 to the computer so I didn't have to get up as often.
Half hour to 45 minutes later, going to the fridge to get a few more.
An hour later repeat etc until bed time.
Waking up at night with the sweats
Shakes in the shower a couple of times in the morning.
Visits to the hospital with racing heart only to be told nothing was found wrong.
Half hour to 45 minutes later, going to the fridge to get a few more.
An hour later repeat etc until bed time.
Waking up at night with the sweats
Shakes in the shower a couple of times in the morning.
Visits to the hospital with racing heart only to be told nothing was found wrong.
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