InApickle

Because the world does not seem as rotton as it really is intoxicated!!!

2ndhandrose

But neither could I see the beauty in the world and in my life, while I drank.

biminiblue

A lot of that doom and gloom mindset is caused by alcohol.

I was a grumpy angry sad cynical person when I drank

Now I'm just realistic.

There is every bit as much good in the world - if not more so - than bad. It's all in how I look at it, and on what I choose to put my focus.

InApickle

I just did 6 weeks or over sober, and yet I still saw how rotten it is

mfanch

I drank because I was awake. I am wired to drink. I loved a good buzz. But to be happy without chemicals, I definitely needed a rewiring job. Thank goodness for neuroplasticity.

biminiblue

Six weeks is not enough time to fully appreciate recovery. It took me much longer.

If you are looking for excuses to drink, you'll find them.

If you look for reasons to be sober, you'll find that.

2ndhandrose

in my experience, it took longer than 6 weeks of sobriety. that was a drop in the bucket to my 30 + yrs drinking career.

if you give it time.

you won't ever regret it.

InApickle

Not sure you're living on the same planet that I am?

Ok don't read the news, don't watch television or follow any of it!!!

Let's set ourselves free here, do what we want to do, wander the planet care free ?

Build yourself a house wherever you wish , walk into countries whenever you want, fly as free as a bird !!!

InApickle

Thanks in advance to everyone looking in on this thread

InApickle

Ahaaa

gregknight

Though not the reason for every drink I have ever taken, my alcoholism was a manifestation of my clinical depression/self-loathing and anxiety. As one movie line put it, "Why do I drink like that?" "To kill that rotten S.O.B., that's why."

biminiblue

alright...so you're drinking now, then, right?

Usually when someone gets that argumentative and then starts posting YouTube songs, that is the case.

And, yeah. I don't read the news. I live where I want to live, and I am pretty care free. But then I'm a child of the sixties, it goes with the territory. Once a hippie always a hippie.

Carry on! Maybe someday you'll understand where we are coming from. Hopefully it will be before your life spirals down. It's just a matter of time.

InApickle

What if your depression is not wrong? What if it's right?

gregknight

Illnesses are not right. When you are clinically depressed, your mind is not thinking correctly. You can be justifiably sad, stressed, despondent, but depression and self-loathing are mental maladies. They are not reflexions of the truth. It took me years to finally deal with my alcoholism with mental health care, together, and I can tell you, I would give anything had I been smart enough to have done it much earlier. Life is worth living. You are worth being alive to experience it. You have the power to change it. Not alone, but it's up to you to cooperate with the help that is available.

I don't have a lot of time being sober, but I have learned that.

InApickle

I drink to distort this false reality bred into all of us, that's my excuse and it holds weight !!!

InApickle

And it is not an illness !!!

tomsteve

I could find just about every excuse in the book to drink. i did it because i was suffering from untreated alcoholism. that simple.

i think it would be wise to step away from the forum until ya sober up.

i didn't have any false realities bred into me, so please dont speak for me on that.

InApickle

It's a battle right ^^^ yes you are right tomsteve

Done4today

I drank because I am an alcoholic. As an alcoholic my perception is askew. Thank god I found glasses to help me see the world more favorable. Took many different pairs and prescriptions through trial and many errors.

Congrats on 6 weeks!! For me I am at 15 months and still a working on sobriety.

FreeOwl

you drink because alcohol is an addictive, alluring, deceitful drug that takes hold of your brain and leads you to surrender control of your own life to its wiles and the desires of your reptilian brain.

you drink, probably, because you're addicted to alcohol and the effect it delivers your mind and emotions on a short-term basis.

you drink, probably, because things haven't yet gotten terrible enough to make you realize how deeply and badly you need to stop drinking.