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Old 12-11-2013, 04:08 PM
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THank u everybody for youre responses. I must admit it has scared me reading that its possible going so long without alcohol and then falling back inTO the trap. That truly is a frightening prospect.. I Think i have done well going a few months without drink sometimes but if someone goes 20 years without it and them relapses it really does make u think about how bad this disease is. I Dont think theres much hope. I sometimes feel like a weirdo as there isnt really anybody else who has the same problem as me ,,who lives near me, banyway once again you people have made me feel better, so i thank u again, xx
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Old 12-11-2013, 04:36 PM
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THank u everybody for youre responses. I must admit it has scared me reading that its possible going so long without alcohol and then falling back inTO the trap. That truly is a frightening prospect.. I Think i have done well going a few months without drink sometimes but if someone goes 20 years without it and them relapses it really does make u think about how bad this disease is. I Dont think theres much hope. I sometimes feel like a weirdo as there isnt really anybody else who has the same problem as me ,,who lives near me, banyway once again you people have made me feel better, so i thank u again, xx
I'm not far from you and originally from South London so there's another weirdo here mate :-) And I'm 24 if that helps ;-)
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Old 12-11-2013, 04:43 PM
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started at 12, quit multiple times over the years. Official quite age : 42. I wish I would have listened to myself earlier, wish I would have noticed the obvious signs. FOr me,at 27, I knew something was wrong.
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Old 12-11-2013, 04:59 PM
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26....lasted 19 years. Came back at 47, going on 2 years abs now.
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Old 12-11-2013, 05:54 PM
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46. I'm pretty sure the body just stops handling it as well then which is why you see so many in the 40s. At least that's my theory.
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Old 12-11-2013, 06:12 PM
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I was/am 42. Quit about 7 1/2 months ago.
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Old 12-11-2013, 06:14 PM
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46. I'm pretty sure the body just stops handling it as well then which is why you see so many in the 40s. At least that's my theory.
I believe this too.
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Old 12-11-2013, 06:32 PM
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27 but I knew I was an alcoholic pretty much the whole time I was drinking. It was something I "joked" about as a teen. By my mid-twenties I was no longer having any fun with the drinking and by 27 I was struck with a desire to quit and I took the out.

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Old 12-11-2013, 06:49 PM
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Old 12-11-2013, 06:53 PM
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First rehab at 18, so I wasted a lot of time. But it took what it took to get me here.
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Old 12-11-2013, 06:57 PM
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I made the decision to quit one month before my 30th birthday. I don't want to live my 30s like I lived the second half of my 20s.
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Old 12-11-2013, 07:05 PM
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46. I'm pretty sure the body just stops handling it as well then which is why you see so many in the 40s. At least that's my theory.
Yup, this for me too. Diabetes, in fact. But I am 49. Been struggling for sobriety for 3+years.
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Old 12-11-2013, 07:06 PM
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Met a 30 year old tonight who has 12 years of sobriety......
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Old 12-11-2013, 07:13 PM
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Adding, I wish I had the strength and courage to be sober at 27. I was not then drinking alcoholically, but had an alcoholic mother and had always said I would never be like her. I never got to her sort of problems, but she was a binge drinker, I was more of a regular drinker. So, I think I drank as much or more than her at her worst, just never during the day, and never was an angry drunk, like she was. So, because I identified her anger and daytime drinking, and hard liquor drinking with her alcoholism, my wine habit snuck up on me.
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Old 12-11-2013, 07:13 PM
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36.. now.. 23 days ago

I have never been serious about quitting before. I always accepted it was part of my life, a BIG part. I never wanted to. I had an A HA moment and I will never drink again.
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Old 12-11-2013, 07:36 PM
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Old 12-11-2013, 07:47 PM
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Quit the year of the BIG 50.

I finally figured out that it wasn't everyone around me that was an a**, it was me. That and how quickly things were progressing towards the end in terms of the need for it and my actions were also getting progressively worse.

Sober now 6.5 months and never been happier.

Now I can accuse others of being an a** and they have to own up to it.
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Old 12-11-2013, 08:31 PM
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I actually went to Rehab at a very young age of 19. On and off the wagon all my life. Now 49. It came to the point of a necessity to quit. For good.
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Old 12-11-2013, 08:58 PM
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I quit 10 days before my 50th birthday. I'd wanted to make it to 50 without giving up my longest, favorite addiction, but I couldn't quite make it. I should have quit when I was 16.
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Old 12-11-2013, 09:11 PM
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My worst drinking was at 27-28 but if anyone had told me I had a problem, I wouldn't have listened. I ended up quitting at 36.
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