tekink

Dr told me I was killing my liver and thus myself.

Gem010918

I echo that

Dee74

I was scared for my life.

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CreativeThinker

For the first time in my life I had begun to lose hope. Scared the crap out of me!

comtnman740

It had gotten to the point that looking at all of the evidence up to the day i got sober it was either get sober or jails, institution or death. I admitted that i was powerless over alcohol and my life had become unmanageable.

wayforward

In addition to turning me into an unpredictable mess that nobody had anymore tolerance for, my alcohol use really started to take a toll on my body. I wasn't getting quality sleep, couldn't stay in shape, just felt miserable. And then there is the toll it took on my relationships and finances.

woowinnielrrm

Got sick and tired of being sick and tired. Don't want to spend the next half of my life worrying about my health.

plop

Maybe there was some fun in drinking, a long time ago. But after twenty years those days were long gone, and I realized I was addicted to something that had absolutely nothing to give me but it could very well take everything away.

FlawedNFntastic

My ex-husband drank himself into kidney failure and brain damage. My little boy said, "It'd be awful nice to know that's not going to happen to you."

Dustitoffman

A medical specialist gave me a hypothetical kick in the nuts and in that moment of clarity I chose life!🙊

ubntubnt

I had a 3 day bender where for the first time in the midst of it I didn’t care if the drink killed me. When I sobered up finally my wife told me she would leave me if I did that again. That was my bottom.

Oregongirlsite

Yes.

Bailey3

I was tired of it. It was the source of everything that was wrong or had gone wrong in my life.

Zebra1275

Drinking became just an awful experience, after the first two drinks it just wasn't fun anymore.

However, when I tried to stop, the physical symptoms, the shakes, bad hangovers, guilt and shame would go away if I had a couple of drinks.

I realized I was circling the drain, and I need to stop before I went down for good.

Aspen16

All of that. Specifically, after ruining our Christmas with my angry drunk behavior and seeing the misery and disappointment in my husband's eyes, recognizing for the first time he was living in total hopelessness and despair, and realizing he'd finally, completely, lost all hope that any of our dreams for our future would ever materialize. I suddenly realized, he's crazy for not leaving me, I deserve to lose him, but I desperately don't want him to leave. I know he'd been feeling that way for a long time, but I was numb to it. For some reason I finally truly saw it and could actually feel his pain in that moment. I don't know why that time was different, but every time I think about drinking now, I'm able to conjure what I felt in that moment and it actually really helps.

VikingGF

This, exactly.

VikingGF

I was actually scared that I WASN'T scared for my life....