odaat

I know it is but it doesn't feel like it. My life was unmanageable with drinking and I thought I could never give it up. I did though, 6 years without a drink.

It was the most destructive thing I didn't, so I suppose I hit rock bottom quickly. I have other issues, they are slow burning, and the unmanageableness is all internal. I'm not likely to stop functioning or cause dreadful calamity. It feels like its the only thing keeping me sane, and what would I be like without it? I feel like I'm keeping the monster at bay. If I stop, what would happen?

It is so stupid, there isn't anything wrong (grow up and stop whining they'd say) but I just don't want to carry on :-(

least

Yes it is quite possible to live a sober life. I'm doing it right now and have been for the last three years. I think if you want anything enough you can find a way to get it. And I wanted sobriety more than anything.

Dee74

Are you counting on that tho? That might be a mistake.
Things do get worse.

It's very possible to quit before the wreckage of your life is a smouldering ruin - but I didn't take that option.

I progressed from 'not too many problems' and 'noone would know' to life destroyed, and being a very public drunk.

It didn't take that long, but it was incremental so I didn't notice until it was too late.

I used to think alcohol was the only thing that kept me sane too - I wish I could have stepped out of myself and seen just how 'sane' my life and my thought processes were.

For 20 years I never gave not drinking a chance.

I was convinced sobriety was not for me, but actually, I had very little experience of it and knew very little about it.

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