bigsky320

Hey everyone, I just wanted to be honest with myself and the community. I had a week of sobriety and I blew it on Friday. I don't even know why. I wasn't having a bad day or anything. No excuses, so anyway I wanted to hide and not post anything, but that isn't going to help. I love the support of this website and all of you. Well... here's to day 2.

ScottFromWI

Welcome back BigSky. That's a good sign that you cut things off after the one night of drinking. The best thing you can do is look back at what your plan for sobriety lacks and reinforce it moving forward. Do you follow a formal sobriety method or plan at all?

VikingGF

Back on the horse. You can do this bigsky320. Commit to yourself that you can!

bigsky320

Thanks for the replies. I do have a plan going forward. I need to go to more meetings during the week. I do have a home group that meets on Friday nights. I just don't get it.. I did not feel like I was "white knuckling" it. I will push on because I do not want to be as slave to ETOH anymore.

Ghostlight1

I never knew why I relapsed, either. So I understand. A cloudy day would make me relapse. So would a sunny one. No rhyme or reason to it.
It's common in early sobriety. I did it a hundred times. It does help to have a plan so you will have a defense next time the urge hits you.
And remember how you feel now and realize you never have to feel that way again.

Soberwolf

Hazily remember 4 doctors round me thinking I had wet brain had to go for ct scan for it on one occasion I had that abv on my hospital record
ETOH makes me feel sick seeing that term

FreeOwl

we've all been there.

what can you learn from this?

what will you do differently this time around?

robgt350

dont be hard on your self. most of us have been there, i know i have. welcome back

Dee74

A lot of us faltered a time or two.

Welcome back BigSky

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Hevyn

Hi Bigsky.

The last time that happened to me - it really was the last time. So I know you can regain the progress you made and never go back there. We are with you.

Notmyrealname

I would try to figure out why, and then make sure that "why" doesn't send you down the same road again. For me it was a reiterative process -- just don't fall off the wagon for the same reason more than once, eventually I started either running out of triggers or just got better at handling myself.

Dust off, get up, try again. Practice makes perfect and all that.