Jill23

My last drinking experience was the farthest thing from a hurrah. After blacking out after the super bowl and waking up sick and sad, I quit!

peanutty

My last drinking experience was a blackout at Thanksgiving. It was the anti hurrah. There are no hurrahs left in booze for me.

PaperDolls

The last time I drank it nearly killed me.


Found this today...

http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...lco-holly.html

Oldselfagain

I said "goodbye"

PaperDolls

Dear Jerkface,

I'm done letting you lie to me. You've been trying to kill me slowly, painfully. I want to live. I'm worth it and I deserve it.

Don't call, don't text, don't email. Ever.

Love,
Paper

FeelingGreat

Such a boy thing

1newcreation

No last hurrah for me. Woke up & was shaking so uncontrollably 'twas pathetic. My last drink was smthg I hated-vodka. & only drank it coz ran out of Jb...loh anyway, personally I despise it when folks say "ya I need to quit but new yrs will be my last" or whatever day. 90% of em still drink after coz it's setting one self up to fail. But if just put it down & say enoughs enough, success is almost guaranteed

Marcee

Instead of saying goodbye to alcohol why not say hello to a new life that is free from the guilt and shame that many alcoholics feel. Never mind no alcohol for rest of your life just abstain a minute at a time if necessary. For this minute I will not drink/use. I have found that if you ride it though, if you can achieve sobriety you find that at the end of the rainbow you will not want to drink. You will find that you will not need to drink...and a minute at a time will do it.

Brian316

Wow.....reading these posts. It brings a lot back for me. Yeah my "last harrah"'s almost killed me also. I don't recommend them either.

silentrun

No hurrah for me. Like most other people I quit because one day I just realized I couldn't do it anymore. I lost my desire to contain the drinking so I could still appear to be normal. It didn't feel like a decision more like a reaction.
This song pretty much sums up how I felt right at that moment
Pink Floyd - Run Like Hell - YouTube

krysti28

it was feb 13th I was doing my weekly binge drinking episode I found myself at the kitchen sink with my alcohol and said I am not doing this anymore and poured the rest of my alcohol down the drain and took the empty bottles to the garbage and shortly after joined a ed/cd relapse prevention group and the rest is history I also got a women in recovery medallion to remind me of my choice that night

Dan Dare

Dee thanks for sharing that heavy, heavy story.
It's good that you're here and it's good to interact with you.

It's good that you're OK.

Notmyrealname

I took an accounting of sorts of my drinking and how it has consistently been a factor in every failed plan, every broken relationship, every missed opportunity . .

. . every regret, every shameful and cringe-worthy moment . .

. . every disappointed look.

And I was like, "damn, that's kind of messed up, right?"

Actually I didn't say that at all, I think I cried.

Then I wrote it all down and vowed that if I had another drink it would only be after reading through that list. Put list in wallet. Still have it. Haven't had to read it yet.

Life got much better in a lot of ways, and maybe got worse in a few, too, but life's kind of a mixed bag anyway, you know? Only thing guaranteed is that this movie doesn't have a happy ending.