That comment about your alcoholism doing push-ups in the parking lot
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Just means that your disease is strong and it is always waiting for you to be weak. You need to maintain and work your program because your disease is not taking any time off. It is not going to go away and is waiting for us when we are our weakest. It is just a warning not to take sobriety for granted.
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Join Date: Mar 2013
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How true, Family!
What an accurate interpretation of the "push-ups" metaphor! That was my experience, anyway... after getting clean in 1999 from alcohol and cocaine, I relapsed a couple years ago after an auto accident, just being prescribed two pain pills a day. My addiction came right after me, and all bets were off.
I now have 32 days clean from those hellish pills, (of course I ended up taking a lot more than 2 a day), and now am back in recovery. Yep, my disease was out there doing push-ups all right, and sit-ups,and lifting weights, etc... I got pretty beat up..and now am on my way back to health.
Thank GOD for Sober Recovery!!!!
I now have 32 days clean from those hellish pills, (of course I ended up taking a lot more than 2 a day), and now am back in recovery. Yep, my disease was out there doing push-ups all right, and sit-ups,and lifting weights, etc... I got pretty beat up..and now am on my way back to health.
Thank GOD for Sober Recovery!!!!
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With me it is like a sucker punch even in a pleasant period. Suddenly an add for beer will say to me "try me" it's the hard stuff that I had trouble with. It doesn't happen often and within a minute is gone fortunately. Sometimes when it happens I wonder what's bothering me as I haven't wanted to drink in over 30 years. That's one of the reasons I continue going to meetings. BE WELL
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Netherlands
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It can also be seen as a reference to three effects of alcoholism:
tolerance (you will be back at the same drinking amount within days), progressive nature of alcoholism (you can't go back to a previous stage like moderate drinking) and kindling (each withdrawal gets worse after a period of drinking).
In other words, alcoholism will never subside and get weaker. The only solution is not to drink.
tolerance (you will be back at the same drinking amount within days), progressive nature of alcoholism (you can't go back to a previous stage like moderate drinking) and kindling (each withdrawal gets worse after a period of drinking).
In other words, alcoholism will never subside and get weaker. The only solution is not to drink.
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