Still drinking but cutting down
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Still drinking but cutting down
The pub helped me today I told them how many drinks I wanted and extended my time by an hour before going. I talk on an AA website all day. I still can't do anything not even wash up. I intend to get back to 830 pm when I can only have time for one 8 drink bottle. I am doing 16 tonight down from 40. My psychiatrist won't give me any more valium so the shakes become unbearable. He is not nice. I will get through this somehow.
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Eventually go back to f2f meetings. I do 2 online meetings a day.. but I need real people. One of the last meetings I went to this girl was high and really disruptive. Kept yelling out. She was just out of jail and left halfway through. I am physically alone everyday except if I have to go out. I am really committed to AA now. But I can't live with bad withdrawals. 40 a day is a lot to come down from. I still feel it now. At least I will get some kind of sleep. I may seem weak but doing the best I can
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I might be wrong, but it often sounds to me like you don’t have the confidence or think you are capable or worthy to be sober. But you CAN do it and you ARE worth it. I know it’s been a rough go, but you really CAN change your life. We are in your corner.
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You can do it sweetichick! I'm on day 6 and was tapering down before I stopped completely.
Hang in there and post here often!
Hang in there and post here often!
Last edited by Plure; 09-18-2018 at 06:25 AM. Reason: actually on day 6 not 5!
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Sweetichick. I hope cutting down is a way to sobriety for you. I was rubbish at cutting down. I think my best 'only an alcoholic would think that was a good idea' plan was to switch to drinking just Guinness, because I didn't really like Guinness very much so thought that would help me moderate. Of course I soon got to really like Guinness. It all made perfect sense to me at the time
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As Dr. Silkworth put it so admirably in the Doctor's Opinion, "The only relief we have to suggest is entire abstinence."
With me, to drink is to die. It's that simple and yes, that dramatic.
I hope you can make the decision to stop. We do it one day at a time.
With me, to drink is to die. It's that simple and yes, that dramatic.
I hope you can make the decision to stop. We do it one day at a time.
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