Feeling like a Drink!
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Feeling like a Drink!
Hot day, feeling really disillusioned about life, bored, and rather feeling like a drink.
Coming up with the old arguments.
Moderate drinker for more than 10 years.
Nothing wrong with a few once or twice a week.
Alcoholic is just a buzz word, with pseudo implications.
The whole day, just basically mediocre/dull.
Alcohol free day 33
WEll that sets me up for today anyhow!
Coming up with the old arguments.
Moderate drinker for more than 10 years.
Nothing wrong with a few once or twice a week.
Alcoholic is just a buzz word, with pseudo implications.
The whole day, just basically mediocre/dull.
Alcohol free day 33
WEll that sets me up for today anyhow!
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Nothing wrong with a few once or twice a week.
do you think you qualify Murchovski?
I have a railway station in Flinders St you might like to buy LOL
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If every person in the world had a drink or 6 whenever they were bored.... well...
Okay, so it's hot... have a soda! You are 33 days sober? Blunt language coming up; don't **** it up like I've done several times.
Okay, so it's hot... have a soda! You are 33 days sober? Blunt language coming up; don't **** it up like I've done several times.
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I'm on Day 34. I've had a similar sort of evening to your day. A few hours bored and I'd always fancy a drink. Would definitely solve the boredom.
I've just got to find something more productive to do with Friday evenings. They were always 'drink night'. Reading some of the posts in the spirituality forum here seems to have helped me though.
I've just got to find something more productive to do with Friday evenings. They were always 'drink night'. Reading some of the posts in the spirituality forum here seems to have helped me though.
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Had a conversation in "my head" earlier this week, sounded a lot like what you shared. So glad I posted here, instead of buying the booze/drinking till I was out of it. Glad you posted instead of drinking.
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Originally Posted by LostinWA 
From someone on day 3 think about what you have gone through to get where you are at. Then think not again ever......not again ever.
Alcohol free 33 days
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Good for you!
Let me just say I said back on Christmas after about 3 months sober that I was just going to drink on holidays or vacations. Then it increased to nights out with friends. Then it VERY quickly became drinking several nights a week, alone then every night. Then I found myself drinking a 2:30 in the afternoon and 10:00 in the morning. I'd never been much of a day drinker before and here I was thinking that after proving I could get sober it meant I could control drinking
Not so much. Led me down the same path of self destruction, put me in a very dark place, where I was feeling very very very low and making VERY poor decisions. I have just made the decision to get sober and haven't had a drink since noon. And let me tell you it's scary for me to even have to think of it in terms of hours, it truly IS a progressive thing as I was never like this before originally getting sober.
And to think two months ago it was "Just on holidays" and it's ended up worse than it ever was! It always ends badly you know? You thinking drinking could help and maybe for like a fraction of a second it does then you're right back to square one or even 10 steps back from square 1. Not worth it.
Drinking in moderation is impossible, somehow it can be easy to forget that but I promise if you were to pick up again you'd be in for a harsh reminder
Let me just say I said back on Christmas after about 3 months sober that I was just going to drink on holidays or vacations. Then it increased to nights out with friends. Then it VERY quickly became drinking several nights a week, alone then every night. Then I found myself drinking a 2:30 in the afternoon and 10:00 in the morning. I'd never been much of a day drinker before and here I was thinking that after proving I could get sober it meant I could control drinking
Not so much. Led me down the same path of self destruction, put me in a very dark place, where I was feeling very very very low and making VERY poor decisions. I have just made the decision to get sober and haven't had a drink since noon. And let me tell you it's scary for me to even have to think of it in terms of hours, it truly IS a progressive thing as I was never like this before originally getting sober.
And to think two months ago it was "Just on holidays" and it's ended up worse than it ever was! It always ends badly you know? You thinking drinking could help and maybe for like a fraction of a second it does then you're right back to square one or even 10 steps back from square 1. Not worth it.
Drinking in moderation is impossible, somehow it can be easy to forget that but I promise if you were to pick up again you'd be in for a harsh reminder
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