kitkat1

Wow, freshstart - I'd never thought of the decision to take a drink as taking a day off from FREEDOM. That's some profound stuff. I will carry that with me in my sobriety tool bag in the future. Thanks.

Kat

Delilah1

Hope you will be starting 2013 sober Mittens!!!

mittens2020

Thanks to everyone for the support and advice. I made it through the new years without slipping. So I am on new day 3 (or old day 15). Happy New Year to all!

Dee74

good to have you back and on track Mittens

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Fandy

Mittens, Happy New Year indeed!
I can't do the counting thing, it makes me too anxious, i get obsessed. I just give grats for waking up sober every morning.

stepping

YAY!!! I knew you could do it Mittens HAPPY NONHUNGOVER NYD!!!!

mittens2020

I think that the counting is going to become a problem for me. I am a little (ok - more than a little) OCD. The numbers started to mean something more than the sobriety. I need to focus on the sobriety first, the numbers second. I am very thankful that I work up today sober and have a day planned that will keep me from falling into my old NYD habit of hitting the bar to watch football. I am going to do this!

mittens2020

that was supposed to be "woke up today." Can you tell my "work" is stressing me out!

nycguy83

I don't think humans are that simple. People who drink when they want to and don't when they don't probably don't have a problem...

Everyone has conflicting desires, and addiction is sort of the ultimate conflict. We drink (or drug) when part of us doesn't want to, against our better judgment, in spite of whatever destruction it is wreaking in our lives, even when we have decided we are never going to do it again. That is the definition of addiction! That is what makes it so insidious!

Mittens, don't give up and don't judge yourself! Most people struggle in the beginning but it will get much easier with time!

Just look at Robert Downey JR, how many times he wound up in rehab, and where he is today! And I'm not breaking his anonymity bec I have no idea whether he is in 12-step, but he struggled with alcohol and addiction for years and finally made it, he is always a big inspiration to me.

TrixMixer

Mittens,

Never doubted it! If you were going to real relapse you would not have been able to go back to two days of sobriety!!!

That is why I am Happy to say

CONGRATULATIONS ON DAY 15!! YEAH MITTENS WAY TO GO!!

Beat wishes --you should be very proud of yourself
Trix

Pondlady

Happy New Year Mittens! I too don't really count days. I know I quit alcohol in June - but don't think about exact days. I do think I will make note of when it's a year though

Pondlady

Mittens,
How are you doing?

nogard

glad you back, but post here whatever is going on mittens