age the penny dropped
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 10,912
I did not have problems with drinking until ~32 and quit a month before I turned 40. My alcoholism had a rapid progression in the first 3-4 years and then I was kinda trying to hold it together with alternating cycles of better and worse. In retrospect, trying to hold it together like that on the surface was more difficult and painful than any part of getting sober, including the monster cravings I experienced in the first few months of sobriety.
A.K.A Bri
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Houston TX
Posts: 159
26...
Granted, I'm on day two as a result of relapsing a couple months ago but I was 26 when I made the conscious decision to get sober and I'm still 26 as im going at it for the second time.
Bri
Granted, I'm on day two as a result of relapsing a couple months ago but I was 26 when I made the conscious decision to get sober and I'm still 26 as im going at it for the second time.
Bri
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: California
Posts: 2,693
I had serious organ damage by age 31. Stopped at 32.
I would have been one of those alcoholics that would have died by 35 and left everyone saying "but Melinda was so young!"
I drank hard, fast, and daily from 24-32. Never less than 12-14 drinks a night. I used up my life's allotment very quickly.
I have been sober for nine months.
(The damage is reversible with complete abstinence. I was one of the people who's doctor said, in no uncertain terms: stop drinking NOW or you will die very soon.)
And to think I had always planned to stop in my 40's or 50's. What a surprise!
I would have been one of those alcoholics that would have died by 35 and left everyone saying "but Melinda was so young!"
I drank hard, fast, and daily from 24-32. Never less than 12-14 drinks a night. I used up my life's allotment very quickly.
I have been sober for nine months.
(The damage is reversible with complete abstinence. I was one of the people who's doctor said, in no uncertain terms: stop drinking NOW or you will die very soon.)
And to think I had always planned to stop in my 40's or 50's. What a surprise!
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Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: UK
Posts: 6,902
I've been sober since 5th March 2014, when I would have been 41. I had unsuccessfully tried 'moderation' for a few years before that, and even had a few one-month abstinence periods (for charity - I mean, if people actually pay money for you to stay sober, that must say something hey!). Mostly though I have surrounded myself with mostly other heavy drinkers (undeclared alcoholics?!) and thereby convinced myself that my drinking was 'Normal' (with a capital 'N').
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