Day five..I'm doing it...
Life is an unlikely miracle.
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Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: England
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Day five..I'm doing it...
I'm doing it. Can't sleep, feeling jumpy, brain on overdrive, but I'm doing it. Scary the withdrawals I'm getting...
I actually poured a glass of wine last night - looked at it for a while- sniffed it-remembered why I'm doing this -and poured it away, and the rest of the bottle. Probably the most difficult thing I've ever done. So close...
I am not going back there. I know what time my cravings come so Solitaire is now my new best friend for about half an hour, between about 9pm and half past. After that it's not so bad.
Better alive and sober than drunk and dead.
THANK YOU everyone for your warm welcome and immediate support
Xxx
I actually poured a glass of wine last night - looked at it for a while- sniffed it-remembered why I'm doing this -and poured it away, and the rest of the bottle. Probably the most difficult thing I've ever done. So close...
I am not going back there. I know what time my cravings come so Solitaire is now my new best friend for about half an hour, between about 9pm and half past. After that it's not so bad.
Better alive and sober than drunk and dead.
THANK YOU everyone for your warm welcome and immediate support
Xxx
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Join Date: Sep 2014
Posts: 668
Well done on day 5! And for pouring that glass and bottle away. You can do this! You are doing it! I'm on day 7 and had a major wobble on day 4, so posted on here and got support. So next time you feel like a drink, post. Talk. Everyone will help 
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A tip I've learned...If you find yourself at the point of wanting to drink.
Just stop and say to yourself *I won't drink RIGHT now...If i still want to drink in ONE hour, i'll have this conversation with myself again.*
It's a total mind trick...But the obsession with alcohol resides in my mind...This little trick helps me get past the initial *I need to drink now! craving/cycle*
Most of the time 1 hour later never comes...Because the craving/thought passes and i'm onto something different
Just stop and say to yourself *I won't drink RIGHT now...If i still want to drink in ONE hour, i'll have this conversation with myself again.*
It's a total mind trick...But the obsession with alcohol resides in my mind...This little trick helps me get past the initial *I need to drink now! craving/cycle*
Most of the time 1 hour later never comes...Because the craving/thought passes and i'm onto something different
Life is an unlikely miracle.
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Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: England
Posts: 1,859
Thank you everyone, I couldn't have got this far without this forum, it's amazing. There are some hard truths about myself I need to look a, but that's ok, I'm grown up enough to handle it now. I know that I have an addictive nature, and it will always be there, but I can cultivate new habits. Last night, that 9pm danger zone never came as I was helping my daughter with her college homework from 8.30 to around 10. I slept for ten hours too. I am shocked and appalled by my withdrawals, and it just goes to prove how much of a drinker I was. Awful to think that I could still be in that same hopeless state ! So glad I'm not !
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