New Here (Day 3)
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Join Date: May 2015
Location: Edmonton AB
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New Here (Day 3)
Hello all,
I am new here, as the title suggests. I have been drinking heavily for 4 years now and I am an alcoholic. So glad to have found this forum as I can't readily get to 90 AA meetings in 90 days yet.
Funny how this journey usually starts the same for most of us. At first, drinking was soothing, relaxing, and made me happy and outgoing. Then it became a habit, and now a necessity.
I am now facing the reality that drinking never solved my problems, rather it just added one more to the pile. I always prided myself on being a hard working single mom, going to school, and giving my children everything they needed. I have evolved into a drunken, self absorbed, slob.
Well, no more. I can't wake up feeling physically, mentally, and morally corrupt. Knowing I am slowly killing myself. Knowing I am doing the wrong thing day after day.
I want to fight for my life again. I want to take pride in the things I do. I want to be happy about the choices I make. I want to contribute to society. I want to be free from this alcohol addiction.
Maybe one day, with lots of hard work and white knuckling, I can help someone else.
Anyways, thanks for this site and I hope to be here to remind myself of what I am fighting for.
I am new here, as the title suggests. I have been drinking heavily for 4 years now and I am an alcoholic. So glad to have found this forum as I can't readily get to 90 AA meetings in 90 days yet.
Funny how this journey usually starts the same for most of us. At first, drinking was soothing, relaxing, and made me happy and outgoing. Then it became a habit, and now a necessity.
I am now facing the reality that drinking never solved my problems, rather it just added one more to the pile. I always prided myself on being a hard working single mom, going to school, and giving my children everything they needed. I have evolved into a drunken, self absorbed, slob.
Well, no more. I can't wake up feeling physically, mentally, and morally corrupt. Knowing I am slowly killing myself. Knowing I am doing the wrong thing day after day.
I want to fight for my life again. I want to take pride in the things I do. I want to be happy about the choices I make. I want to contribute to society. I want to be free from this alcohol addiction.
Maybe one day, with lots of hard work and white knuckling, I can help someone else.
Anyways, thanks for this site and I hope to be here to remind myself of what I am fighting for.
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Welcome to the SR family. 
Three days sober is a great start. Keep in mind that it can get a little 'bumpy' in early recovery. You won't always feel great. But it gets better, the longer you're sober.
And if you get the urge to drink, come here and post instead.
Three days sober is a great start. Keep in mind that it can get a little 'bumpy' in early recovery. You won't always feel great. But it gets better, the longer you're sober. And if you get the urge to drink, come here and post instead.
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