Day 2
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Join Date: Dec 2015
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Day 2
Good evening.
I believe my first post was December of 2014 (I kind of don't want to know) and haven't posted for years, but perused on and off. From the bottom of my heart I thank every person who responded and reached out to me when I was active.
Well, I don't have to tell you what happens when an alcoholic keeps drinking. It's gotten bad, but it could have gotten a lot worse. Seeing a doctor for options and forming a plan- just hoping this will go away doesn't work.
I thought I was pretty functional in 2014 and didn't even want to use the word alcoholic. If you think you are functional and can keep going, please take it from me that you can't. The heartache I would have saved myself if I stuck to a plan in 2014 is overwhelming. I'll skip the sad stories and all that has occured for now, it's just astonishing how low this can take you.
In any event I am grateful Day 2 is almost over, and that I found my way back to SR.
I believe my first post was December of 2014 (I kind of don't want to know) and haven't posted for years, but perused on and off. From the bottom of my heart I thank every person who responded and reached out to me when I was active.
Well, I don't have to tell you what happens when an alcoholic keeps drinking. It's gotten bad, but it could have gotten a lot worse. Seeing a doctor for options and forming a plan- just hoping this will go away doesn't work.
I thought I was pretty functional in 2014 and didn't even want to use the word alcoholic. If you think you are functional and can keep going, please take it from me that you can't. The heartache I would have saved myself if I stuck to a plan in 2014 is overwhelming. I'll skip the sad stories and all that has occured for now, it's just astonishing how low this can take you.
In any event I am grateful Day 2 is almost over, and that I found my way back to SR.
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Welcome back. As you well know by now, some don't make it.
If it helps, it took me years to quit, too. Oh, the misery I could have saved myself. Like you.
But, I won't dwell in the past nor will I forget it.
It's been nine and a half years for this low bottom drunk had a drink. And I was a bad case headed to self-destruction.
Sage words you wrote. I see myself in them, so thank you for reminding me.
It'll help this alcoholic not have that first drink today.
You can do it.
If it helps, it took me years to quit, too. Oh, the misery I could have saved myself. Like you.
But, I won't dwell in the past nor will I forget it.
It's been nine and a half years for this low bottom drunk had a drink. And I was a bad case headed to self-destruction.
Sage words you wrote. I see myself in them, so thank you for reminding me.
It'll help this alcoholic not have that first drink today.
You can do it.
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Join Date: Nov 2017
Posts: 617
Welcome with open arms! 
We are the fortunate ones who get a second chance at life.
And my what a wonderful life it is in the light and not the darkness.
Welcome back, keep going, one day at a time, it really gets so much better.
Hold on pain ends, remember your shame and let it motivate you to remember what it can destruct, but don't stay there in it. It's time for your new life now.
We are the fortunate ones who get a second chance at life.
And my what a wonderful life it is in the light and not the darkness.
Welcome back, keep going, one day at a time, it really gets so much better.
Hold on pain ends, remember your shame and let it motivate you to remember what it can destruct, but don't stay there in it. It's time for your new life now.
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Join Date: Dec 2015
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Thanks to all for the support and thoughts. Closing out day 3. I am so grateful I am through the first 72 hours. It could have been so much worse. Coming clean with friends and family for more accountability. It feels different this time and it has to be.
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Join Date: Dec 2015
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Thanks to all for the support and thoughts. Closing out day 3. I am so grateful I am through the first 72 hours. It could have been so much worse. Coming clean with friends and family for more accountability. It feels different this time and it has to be.
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