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Thank you
I just wanted to thank everybody from the bottom of my heart that helped and gave me advice yesterday. You got me through the day sober!
I met with my therapist for the first time today and she told me something unexpected. That binge drinkers like me often take the longest to help because we can go through weeks without drinking anyway! There you go, bet nobody ever thought there was a possible silver lining to being a physically dependent alcoholic but there it is. I like her, I think this is going to work!
I went to work today, the sun was shining, my new shoes were delivered this morning and I got to play with the kitty's. Life is good and I'm greatful. Thank you God.
I met with my therapist for the first time today and she told me something unexpected. That binge drinkers like me often take the longest to help because we can go through weeks without drinking anyway! There you go, bet nobody ever thought there was a possible silver lining to being a physically dependent alcoholic but there it is. I like her, I think this is going to work!
I went to work today, the sun was shining, my new shoes were delivered this morning and I got to play with the kitty's. Life is good and I'm greatful. Thank you God.
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So glad you made it through a tough day. And that your therapy went so well.
I am curious about why your therapist feels binge drinkers take longer to treat. I get that it would be harder to prove you're succeeding as counting days wouldn't be as useful a yardstick, but is she saying it's harder for them to stop?
If so, all I can think of is that in order to stop drinking you probably need to admit you have a problem, and people who can go weeks without a drink are perhaps less likely to admit that. Or is there more to it than that?
I am curious about why your therapist feels binge drinkers take longer to treat. I get that it would be harder to prove you're succeeding as counting days wouldn't be as useful a yardstick, but is she saying it's harder for them to stop?
If so, all I can think of is that in order to stop drinking you probably need to admit you have a problem, and people who can go weeks without a drink are perhaps less likely to admit that. Or is there more to it than that?
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I'm a binge drinker and I've been having a lot of trouble maintaining complete sobriety, it makes sense because I don't drink everyday and can manage one bottle of wine a week- the problem is I am torturing myself, I don't want to moderate I want to quit!!!
I'm now working on complete sobriety but its taken me since december to get here, that's almost a year.
I know I'm an alcoholic, regardless of drinking everyday or not, maybe its been hard for me because I keep telling myself I'll quit completely later, right now I'm not doing too much damage- but as we all know, later rarely shows up and at some point it needs to get dealt with before years fly by
I'm now working on complete sobriety but its taken me since december to get here, that's almost a year.
I know I'm an alcoholic, regardless of drinking everyday or not, maybe its been hard for me because I keep telling myself I'll quit completely later, right now I'm not doing too much damage- but as we all know, later rarely shows up and at some point it needs to get dealt with before years fly by
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