Can't stop thinking about Rain in My Heart Documentary
Choosing Life
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Montana
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Guzzling and then puking ... and then guzzling again. Wow. I think a DVD of this movie should be attached to every bottle of wine/whiskey/spirits and every 6/12/24 pack. Funny how the pleasant side of alcohol is attached to every advert, but the dark side is always left out. We are all walking advertisements for what it can eventually do to you.
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: MD
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The Immortal Alcoholic
A woman's struggle as her husband drinks himself to death. She writes well.
We don't have to drink anymore. We can help others, too.
Big hugs to you,
A woman's struggle as her husband drinks himself to death. She writes well.
We don't have to drink anymore. We can help others, too.
Big hugs to you,
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Ireland
Posts: 379
I first watched Rain in My Heart in January of this year.
I stopped drinking January 1 this year and in the very first week I still had the creeping thoughts that I could still moderate. After 20 years i was still looking for excuses...
Bad that documentary changed me. A couple of parts that really stuck out for me were the young woman who lost her son. She was talking about going out and even though she knew drinking would kill her, she was saying she would have x amount of wine and the rest a soft drink so she was saying it was not like drinking at all. The denial knows no bounds.
The other was mark drinking the red wine from a pint glass and throwing it up and imediately drinking again.
I will never forget those images.
I knew Vanda had passed away after googling the documentary. The whole documentary is tragic, but i am glad I watched it and very glad I never sunk to those depths.
May they all rest in peace.
I stopped drinking January 1 this year and in the very first week I still had the creeping thoughts that I could still moderate. After 20 years i was still looking for excuses...
Bad that documentary changed me. A couple of parts that really stuck out for me were the young woman who lost her son. She was talking about going out and even though she knew drinking would kill her, she was saying she would have x amount of wine and the rest a soft drink so she was saying it was not like drinking at all. The denial knows no bounds.
The other was mark drinking the red wine from a pint glass and throwing it up and imediately drinking again.
I will never forget those images.
I knew Vanda had passed away after googling the documentary. The whole documentary is tragic, but i am glad I watched it and very glad I never sunk to those depths.
May they all rest in peace.
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Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Australia
Posts: 282
I have seen people like this in the ICU where I work for the last 10 years and ignored it with the thoughts of 'it'll never happen to me' and 'I'm not that bad'. Truth is in the last 2 years I've been drinking as much or more as some! I'm half way through watching this doco and am so thankful I've found the path to sobriety before I got ill too. It's definately a myth that the only alcies that get sick are all day every day drinkers. We have plenty of highly functional nightly drinkers with major problems too. Thanx for posting about this doco, gonna go watch the rest now....so sad 
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Republic of Ireland
Posts: 93
I've not seen the documentary. Has anyone a link to it?
But after reading the comments from folk on here about it, I don't want alchohol to ever be a part of my life again.
Just the thought of vomiting with it makes me want to be sick now. And yes I agree there should be real stark warnings of bottle, beer etc of what the poison does to you.
But after reading the comments from folk on here about it, I don't want alchohol to ever be a part of my life again.
Just the thought of vomiting with it makes me want to be sick now. And yes I agree there should be real stark warnings of bottle, beer etc of what the poison does to you.
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Portland, OR
Posts: 1,635
Someone in my HG called drinking and puling "sink drinking". I have done it. Even when my body was rejecting alcohol I continued trying to drink it. Some are sicker than others and I am one of the sicker. Thank God my liver is normal.
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