Trying to make sense of it
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Join Date: May 2009
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I've been dealing with this drinking problem for 30+ years
Trying to change a 30 year old behavior pattern by yourself is close to impossible. Spending time on this website every day will help, but I think face to face support in your hometown is needed. AA can help there.
I drank for many years, and I tried to moderate my drinking so that I could drink like a normal person many times. During some desperate times I found this website and finally got my butt to AA, and that combination made the difference.
I've now got several years of sobriety, you can get that too.
Trying to change a 30 year old behavior pattern by yourself is close to impossible. Spending time on this website every day will help, but I think face to face support in your hometown is needed. AA can help there.
I drank for many years, and I tried to moderate my drinking so that I could drink like a normal person many times. During some desperate times I found this website and finally got my butt to AA, and that combination made the difference.
I've now got several years of sobriety, you can get that too.
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Originally Posted by FreeOwl 
You can.
The question is - when will you actually CHOOSE to?
I know the whirlpool you're caught in. I was in it for years.
You have more power than you are giving yourself.
Choose it.
Choose it and act to support that choice.
You can do it.
The question is - when will you actually CHOOSE to?
I know the whirlpool you're caught in. I was in it for years.
You have more power than you are giving yourself.
Choose it.
Choose it and act to support that choice.
You can do it.
I recently verbalized, several times, that "my recovery work is 99% of my life, or what I do. The other 1% includes work, sleep, fun stuff, paying bills, laundry..." That's how much time this girl chooses to spend on her recovery.
"We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem [drinking] has been removed. It does not exist for us...That is how we react as long as we keep in *fit spiritual condition.*" p 87 of the Big Book
I vote for AA to help you get started and keep you choosing sobriety. Lots of other things people have mentioned help in the day to day, too - we all need distractions at times, thought and meditation and studying consistently....others recommend ART and such...hope you try something and make it work for you. You can do it.
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