What is your trigger?
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Originally Posted by Mark75 
...I will get a little wistful...
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Originally Posted by backbeat
Personal accomplishments. Finishing a big project at work, some big stress that gets lifted, is usually a trigger for me.
I had to go to treatment to save my job... I hated it and it was really difficult on so many levels... (It was a good rehab and I have nothing but respect and good things to say about the, well... institution, LOL) I was there two months... It was a beautiful, sunny, early November day, I was driving home, through the farm fields... it was done, huge waves of relief washing over me... and my first thought?? Yea, you can guess...
That was almost 4 years ago... Now I just enjoy the scenery.
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Originally Posted by RobbyRobot
Bob, why do you say you're "inclined" -- defined as: Feel willing or favorably disposed toward (an action, belief, or attitude) -- to get drunk.
You've been in the fellowship for 24 yrs, and you're still "inclined" to get drunk?
Seriously?
What sober message are you passing on with your disclosure? I gotta tell you, for me, its not a hopeful message of how sobriety works in AA...
Is your alcoholism not beyond triggers yet, after 24 years?
You've been in the fellowship for 24 yrs, and you're still "inclined" to get drunk?
Seriously?
What sober message are you passing on with your disclosure? I gotta tell you, for me, its not a hopeful message of how sobriety works in AA...
Is your alcoholism not beyond triggers yet, after 24 years?
I was trying to remember what it was like back then to feel the compulsion to drink.
It has been decades since I have desired a drink.
Do your own inventory.... don't bother doing mine.
PM me if you have an issue with my sentence structure or syntax.
All the best to everyone.
Bob R
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My triggers, or as I call them "mental or emotional 'invites'" would have to be just about everything under the sun. Holidays, cold weather, dealing with my stepson who has ADHD, fights with the hubby, boredom, milestones of sobriety. Fear of success is also a trigger.
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Originally Posted by 2granddaughters
My reply was directed to the original poster.
I was trying to remember what it was like back then to feel the compulsion to drink.
It has been decades since I have desired a drink.
Do your own inventory.... don't bother doing mine.
PM me if you have an issue with my sentence structure or syntax.
All the best to everyone.
Bob R
I was trying to remember what it was like back then to feel the compulsion to drink.
It has been decades since I have desired a drink.
Do your own inventory.... don't bother doing mine.
PM me if you have an issue with my sentence structure or syntax.
All the best to everyone.
Bob R
But, you clearly don't want to discuss this in the open, so be it. I still think it, your post, was a disingenuos way to be part of the discussion of what triggers are to individual folk, okay? Hardly a syntax error, but moving on now...
You know, of course, I won't be doing any pm's....
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Welcome to SR, Jake.
Look around and keep reading and posting, and as you go, you'll get lotsa support to make an informed decison on what to do next. Start your own thread, here in Newcomers, and share a bit about yourself for the most feedback.
Look around and keep reading and posting, and as you go, you'll get lotsa support to make an informed decison on what to do next. Start your own thread, here in Newcomers, and share a bit about yourself for the most feedback.
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Recently... absolutely nothing, now that I think about it. I went on holiday with my mother, grandmother and sister last weekend and honestly, even though the wine was very much flowing, my AV did little more than slightly twitch.
At the beginning being in those situations were difficult, not because I wanted to drink but more because it was abnormal for me to be sober during them. I also found, at the beginning, that I wasn't properly 'celebrating' because I didn't have a drink when we had good news, etc, but a few months later and I celebrate by being happy!
Triggers before I quit were... everything. Like has been said before a few times - they were just excuses.
At the beginning being in those situations were difficult, not because I wanted to drink but more because it was abnormal for me to be sober during them. I also found, at the beginning, that I wasn't properly 'celebrating' because I didn't have a drink when we had good news, etc, but a few months later and I celebrate by being happy!
Triggers before I quit were... everything. Like has been said before a few times - they were just excuses.
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Thanks all, this was a very interesting thread and I appreciated all the different views. I think the main thing I take out of it is that triggers are just excuses. It is learning to deal with any stress or trigger rather than clinging to it as that excuse. Thanks everybody for sharing!
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Like others, I have a lot of them....work, marriage, insomnia, breakfast, weekends, weekdays, 4:30 PM, cooking, restaurants, celebrations, saddness -- alcohol has been my constant companion for quite awhile.
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