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Pinchy 01-11-2018 10:37 AM

Keeping going
 
Techniques on keeping sober

Mac4711 01-11-2018 12:52 PM

The Big Four:
-Express gratitude
-Learn to forgive
-Exercise
-Help others

Offthemast 01-11-2018 12:56 PM

Day 10 here. The cravings are like a snowball rolling downhill. The beast within is raging. Does this get any easier? Amazing how you don't know how embedded the hook is until you try to get loose.

tekink 01-11-2018 12:59 PM


Originally Posted by Offthemast (Post 6743294)
Day 10 here. The cravings are like a snowball rolling downhill. The beast within is raging. Does this get any easier? Amazing how you don't know how embedded the hook is until you try to get loose.

It does get easy but it can take some time, just hand in there. It is scary to realize how much damage has been done and how long it takes to get loose.

For me the first six months were really hard but it's a lot better now after 11.

tekink 01-11-2018 01:00 PM


Originally Posted by Mac4711 (Post 6743287)
The Big Four:
-Express gratitude
-Learn to forgive
-Exercise
-Help others

-Don't Drink Alcohol is also a big one.

Mac4711 01-11-2018 01:47 PM


Originally Posted by tekink (Post 6743300)
-Don't Drink Alcohol is also a big one.

Lol, thank you, that makes it the ‘Big Five’ then!

january161992 01-11-2018 01:58 PM

go to meetings
clean house
work with others

Mac4711 01-11-2018 02:04 PM


Originally Posted by Offthemast (Post 6743294)
Day 10 here. The cravings are like a snowball rolling downhill. The beast within is raging. Does this get any easier? Amazing how you don't know how embedded the hook is until you try to get loose.

Like tekink said, it takes time. For me it started to get easier after about 4 months. Some evenings it’ll feel like fighting some demon in the underworld, just stay the course - the challenges will come in waves, but eventually you will make it to the other side!

DontRemember 01-11-2018 02:07 PM

Acceptance and seeing alcohol/drugs for what they really are; bad for me. Once I stopped and got some time behind be,booze was no longer on the pedestal I once placed it on.

Dee74 01-11-2018 03:40 PM

Posting and reading here daily helped me a lot Pinchy - welcome to SR :)
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least 01-11-2018 03:48 PM

Welcome to the family. :grouphug:


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