View Poll Results: What are your triggers?
Stressful situations
39
62.90%
Seeing it on TV or reading about it
13
20.97%
Talking about it
7
11.29%
Driving past stores/old dealers
15
24.19%
Having money in your hand
7
11.29%
other
27
43.55%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 62. You may not vote on this poll
What are your "triggers"
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Between the Moon & the Stars
Posts: 211
Life was my trigger. I couldn't and didn't do anything without drinking. When I got sober I had to change EVERYTHING. It was hard and it took time. I'm comfortable doing anything now without drinking.
A huge trigger for me early in sobriety was watching football on TV. So I skipped the entire NFL season. May seem a bit drastic but I knew it was a trigger at the time. the trigger eventually passed. So much that I attended the Super Bowl last year completely sober. Never had so much fun being stone cold sober!
A huge trigger for me early in sobriety was watching football on TV. So I skipped the entire NFL season. May seem a bit drastic but I knew it was a trigger at the time. the trigger eventually passed. So much that I attended the Super Bowl last year completely sober. Never had so much fun being stone cold sober!
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Posts: 625
Shared with the intention of giving hope only...
I don't have any triggers. There is nothing in life that makes not drinking or using difficult. Nothing that makes me crave it. Neither alcohol or drugs have any power over me any longer.
I don't have any triggers. There is nothing in life that makes not drinking or using difficult. Nothing that makes me crave it. Neither alcohol or drugs have any power over me any longer.
Member
Join Date: Mar 2013
Posts: 59
Originally Posted by milly4me 
Cooking - I love to cook, and my husband designed this beautiful kitchen for me to cook in. It just feels so glamorous and fun to drink red wine and cook.
Adventures In SpaceTime
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Ottawa, Canada
Posts: 5,827
Yeah, no triggers here either, anymore. As the years of a sobriety lifestyle go on, life changes so much, being a recovered alcoholic drug addict successfully disowns all the triggers of my past drinking daze.
I just drank.
Member
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Miami, FL
Posts: 1,701
Sexual feelings are my trigger.
I never really enjoyed sex until I found my drug of choice. So whenever I think about having sex, there is at least a small craving.
I accept that I have to remain celibate, but sexual desire is part of our makeup so I also accept that I may never completely be free of cravings.
I never really enjoyed sex until I found my drug of choice. So whenever I think about having sex, there is at least a small craving.
I accept that I have to remain celibate, but sexual desire is part of our makeup so I also accept that I may never completely be free of cravings.
Member
Join Date: Nov 2012
Posts: 1,618
Originally Posted by ScoutBall
I somewhat doubt I am unique in this...but I don't have "triggers".
I drank when I was happy.
I drank when I was sad.
I drank when I was anxious.
It just didn't really matter. I just drank. Socially, hiding alone in my office, sketching at the beach, or putting the finishing touches on a piece.
Didn't matter.
Pretty much anything could be a "reason" to drink. A party. A birthday. Dinner. Lunch. Saturday.
Probably not what you were after...but, it's my experience.
I drank when I was happy.
I drank when I was sad.
I drank when I was anxious.
It just didn't really matter. I just drank. Socially, hiding alone in my office, sketching at the beach, or putting the finishing touches on a piece.
Didn't matter.
Pretty much anything could be a "reason" to drink. A party. A birthday. Dinner. Lunch. Saturday.
Probably not what you were after...but, it's my experience.
Member
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Arizona
Posts: 494
I work in a restaurant and we often have educational alcohol tastings which I have opted out of but sitting at a table with booze in front of me has been hard. Long nights at work, rude customers. Social events have triggered me but usually in the moment ill be ok as long as I have a plan in place.
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Join Date: Mar 2013
Posts: 223
Originally Posted by legna
Shared with the intention of giving hope only...
I don't have any triggers. There is nothing in life that makes not drinking or using difficult. Nothing that makes me crave it. Neither alcohol or drugs have any power over me any longer.
I don't have any triggers. There is nothing in life that makes not drinking or using difficult. Nothing that makes me crave it. Neither alcohol or drugs have any power over me any longer.
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Join Date: Mar 2013
Posts: 223
Friday, Saturday, seeing wine in the fridge, seeing beer in the fridge, having a fight with my hubby, being home alone, housework, cooking. I had 9 days before easter and was going so well, I could hardly believe how strong I felt... until... i went downstairs to the other fridge to put something in it as there was no room in the fridge in the kitchen and I found a cask of wine that I'd forgotten about. It was Thursday night before Easter. That lead to a binge. Had a blackout on Easter at family gathering, nobody has said anything so I'm hoping I didn't do anything too bad, but not remembering is really REALLY horrid. Did I do something but nobody is saying? Did I say something bad? I'm too scared to ask as nobody knew I was drinking. Was sneaking drinks, feeling guilty, hiding everything, thinking nobody knew but maybe they did. It's day 4 again today.
Sober since Jan 1, 2012
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Colorado
Posts: 1,583
When I first quit, it was being hungry. So I ate, all the time! And of course gained weight. Now, I realize when I'm hungry and when I'm not, and am trying to make better food choices while working out to lose that weight I gained.
It seems that when I'm tired, I begin to feel tired of being sober. It's weird. And I can't ever seem to figure out I'm tired until the next day!
I went to a restaurant with my husband and two couples of old friends of ours. They were looking at the wine menu to get a bottle. Didn't bother me. My husband said, I like pinot noir. And all of a sudden I was bothered. That was OUR wine!! When the wine came, that didn't bother me. Them drinking it didn't bother me. The fact that our waitress wouldn't stop trying to put a glass in front of me didn't bother me (that one was funny). Just my husband's 3 words got to me. Weird.
I can't say I really have triggers any longer. I don't place myself in iffy situations (bars, etc.), or if I do, it's brief and my backups (excuse for leaving, mode of escape, nondrinking partner (my husband)) are in place.
The obsession to drink has been lifted from me and I'm so glad.
It seems that when I'm tired, I begin to feel tired of being sober. It's weird. And I can't ever seem to figure out I'm tired until the next day!
I went to a restaurant with my husband and two couples of old friends of ours. They were looking at the wine menu to get a bottle. Didn't bother me. My husband said, I like pinot noir. And all of a sudden I was bothered. That was OUR wine!! When the wine came, that didn't bother me. Them drinking it didn't bother me. The fact that our waitress wouldn't stop trying to put a glass in front of me didn't bother me (that one was funny). Just my husband's 3 words got to me. Weird.
I can't say I really have triggers any longer. I don't place myself in iffy situations (bars, etc.), or if I do, it's brief and my backups (excuse for leaving, mode of escape, nondrinking partner (my husband)) are in place.
The obsession to drink has been lifted from me and I'm so glad.
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