not doing the right thing
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Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: harrison city pa
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Just was looking for a friend online...not so much a sponsor. COMPLETELY new to this and don't know how to navigate. My only experience is through a friend who went through AA. Therefore the "sponsor" word.
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Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Middle Tennessee
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Brooke,
I AM an AA guy. It's kept me sober for a long time. What is it you find offensive about AA, if I may ask? Perhaps it's some misconception or misunderstanding that I can help you with. I'm only trying to be helpful. I'm certainly not saying that AA is the only way, but it is the only way that worked for me.
I too, used to get up thinking I could stay sober when I got up. Never made it. Towards the end I was getting my morning caffein drinking bourbon & coke. I never drew a sober breath the last 2 years of my drinking. AA saved my ass even though by the time I finally started getting sober, I had been in and out of AA for 4 years.
It's what I learned in those 4 years and my own trying to do it MY way that finally allowed me to go back to AA and ask for help.
If I can be of any help, please ask.
I AM an AA guy. It's kept me sober for a long time. What is it you find offensive about AA, if I may ask? Perhaps it's some misconception or misunderstanding that I can help you with. I'm only trying to be helpful. I'm certainly not saying that AA is the only way, but it is the only way that worked for me.
I too, used to get up thinking I could stay sober when I got up. Never made it. Towards the end I was getting my morning caffein drinking bourbon & coke. I never drew a sober breath the last 2 years of my drinking. AA saved my ass even though by the time I finally started getting sober, I had been in and out of AA for 4 years.
It's what I learned in those 4 years and my own trying to do it MY way that finally allowed me to go back to AA and ask for help.
If I can be of any help, please ask.
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Join Date: Apr 2007
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There's many different approaches and methods of recovery around Brooke - here's some links to some of the main players, including AA, but with lots of other options too:
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...formation.html
I recommend you visit the Secular Connections forum if you think you may benefit from a non 12 step approach - lots of good stuff down there too
D
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...formation.html
I recommend you visit the Secular Connections forum if you think you may benefit from a non 12 step approach - lots of good stuff down there too
D
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Join Date: Nov 2013
Posts: 151
Ok you asked for uniuqe so I'm throwing this out there , sure to have many haters , I have or had the same problem, wanted to quit all day every day till about 7-8 pm then I drank 1/2 a fifth only way I broke the habit would be to go on a 3 day bender getting so hung over I just puked all day , after day 1 sober I could proceed. From there . its day 8 or 9 for me right now
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: South East England
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How are you doing Brooke?
Raising kids is a tough job...I drank throughout my kids childhood...and I wasted many years. I'm sober now, and we have re-built a great relationship..but I will always regret not doing it earlier.
Read around what has worked for others and choose a plan and stick to it. People do recover..it is possible...you can do it too.
Raising kids is a tough job...I drank throughout my kids childhood...and I wasted many years. I'm sober now, and we have re-built a great relationship..but I will always regret not doing it earlier.
Read around what has worked for others and choose a plan and stick to it. People do recover..it is possible...you can do it too.
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Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: New York
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I am in a similar boat. Must give up the wine! Once again woke at 4 AM with heart racing and breathing shallow. What an idiot! I'm the only psychologist in my house waking up at that time having mild panic attacks. I am tired of being a slave, physically and mentally.
Today would normally be that kind of day where I go out and buy another bottle of wine so my hubby doesn't think I drank all that I did in just a few days. So then I get more, and drink that back to a reasonable level so he is none the wiser (or is he). What a stupid cycle. So, I am not driving that way today. Tonight I will have to have no wine and just get through it. I will NOT buy more...
Today would normally be that kind of day where I go out and buy another bottle of wine so my hubby doesn't think I drank all that I did in just a few days. So then I get more, and drink that back to a reasonable level so he is none the wiser (or is he). What a stupid cycle. So, I am not driving that way today. Tonight I will have to have no wine and just get through it. I will NOT buy more...
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