Keeping it in the day

Great post, thankyou!

Keeping it in the day

[QUOTE=jakec;4847770]Thank you for being so honest.

I can relate to this a lot. Sometimes I would relapse and feel guilty for the fact that I was actually enjoying those first drinks/drugs. But I would always sober up. It was like I could almost feel the drug, milligram by milligram, being eliminated from my body and I just wanted to die. How could something so seemingly beautiful become so ugly so quick? It was never enough.

Please don't give up! Try again tomorrow. But don't keep telling yourself that "i'll just start again tomorrow" because I know, for me at least, that if I keep "starting tomorrow" there will eventually be no tomorrow.

Jake[/QUOTThank you for this post. I too keep thinking that "one day" has now become today!!

Nonsensical

If you expect that you can silence that voice because you don't want to hear it, then you are setting yourself up for disappointment. That voice doesn't come from any part of the brain you can consciously control. You may as well stare at a skin rash and try to heal it with your thoughts. I don't like you skin rash, go away! It doesn't work that way.

That voice comes from part of your brain that is addicted to alcohol. It doesn't know shame or fear or logic. It can't be initimidated, or reasoned with, or bargained with, or educated.

It CAN be ignored and it MUST be starved.

If you hate that voice and want it to go away - starve it.

YOU can do this.