Plethora2012

I always want that last night. How do I get past that?

stillsleeping

Hey Plethora, welcome to SR. I'm doin it by not actually telling myself I can't have one. I mean, I'm saying that I can drink on Saturdays, if I want to. I didn't drink last Saturday and I'm not going to drink tomorrow, but I [I]could[I] if I wanted to. If I thought I was never going to drink again I'd start cryin and never stop. This way, I'm just making the right decision, over and over again.

Sounds weird. And it's taken me 15 years to get here. But am on day 13 and it's workin so far...

Let me know how you get on

Still

instant

I always did even when I stopped. That's the way it works. There is never a good time to stop.

langkah

Losing the idea there's anything good left for you in a drink was a part of what's worked well.

sugarbear1

When's the last time you truly had a good time drinking? Use that night. I couldn't recall one....

InsertNameHere

That is what worked for me eventually making myself believe that there is never a good day to quit. Which became, "the only good day to quit is today."

desertsong

For me, every night was my "last night." At some point, a decision had to be made that tomorrow really would be "Day One" or that merry-go-round ride could have gone on until my "last night" put me 6 feet under ...

Sapling

I think when I honestly realised almost every problem I had in my life was connected to my drinking....That's when I could throw in the towel and I could get serious about working on my recovery..

Threshold

I liken it to a romance that went really off. It's natural to want "closure" but there were a few times I've tried it...and it was always worse, more disappointing , more of the same bad thing that caused the breakup. Trying to have one last good time with the person never worked. I felt worse, not better.

And I tried that same thing with drugs...oh, one last time, for the good times...yeah, not so much.

some things are better left dead. Vampires and zombies are the result of raising the dead.