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Feeling positive today. Yesterday was tough and the day before. I will be trying to get on a normal sleep schedule today. So I am going to make sure I am tired by eleven and not stay up all night. My class ends with a final test on Monday so that is going to be the hardest day to not drink. My AV will be telling me I deserve a drink. I hope to stay strong and learn to live without alcohol.
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I would like a pet but I cannot have any where I live. Maybe I can volunteer at the humane society or something. I will reward myself with something positive on Monday. This has been a really difficult thing to do, and the class has made it even harder. But I am proud of myself and ready to take more steps toward the life I want to have one day.
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Originally Posted by Acheleus 
What does it mean when they say no major changes in the first year of sobriety?
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When I first decided I was potentially an alcoholic, I was getting divorced, moving to another state, selling my property in the old state, and quitting my job, buying a new house in the new state.
I tried to stay sober, but the stress of all these things kept triggering me to drink. I drank and drank and drank. I finally drank enough to send me to the ER. Once out of rehab, I still had to deal with all the fallout from these major life issues, but I plodded through. It may have been much easier for me had these things not been going on in my life.
When I finally cleaned everything up, I just kind of hibernated for another year until my sober self was much stronger.
Still a couple years after that, I was hesitant to do anything major.
I tried to stay sober, but the stress of all these things kept triggering me to drink. I drank and drank and drank. I finally drank enough to send me to the ER. Once out of rehab, I still had to deal with all the fallout from these major life issues, but I plodded through. It may have been much easier for me had these things not been going on in my life.
When I finally cleaned everything up, I just kind of hibernated for another year until my sober self was much stronger.
Still a couple years after that, I was hesitant to do anything major.
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Originally Posted by Acheleus
Well I was planning on applying to a program for next year but I guess I will work and see how I feel after one year. Having a bad craving for coffee and cigarettes now. Time to eat something I guess.
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