I hit the 8 year mark yesterday!
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So pleased to read you post Myth, humungous congratulations on your 8 years! 🏆😎 🏆!
I'm another one to add to your list of SR members you've guided towards sobriety. I recall landing in SR Secular, with questions about AVRT and there you were, spreading your experience!
I'm another one to add to your list of SR members you've guided towards sobriety. I recall landing in SR Secular, with questions about AVRT and there you were, spreading your experience!
Congratulations! That's amazing xx
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Originally Posted by Tatsy 
So pleased to read you post Myth, humungous congratulations on your 8 years! 🏆😎 🏆!
I'm another one to add to your list of SR members you've guided towards sobriety. I recall landing in SR Secular, with questions about AVRT and there you were, spreading your experience!
I'm another one to add to your list of SR members you've guided towards sobriety. I recall landing in SR Secular, with questions about AVRT and there you were, spreading your experience!
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Thanks MoS.
That’s kind of scary, though, that it still sounds like you get urges. It shows our brains have been rewired in the past and will stay that way. I’m 21 1/2 months sober and get urges every week or so, but they’re minuscule compared to the monsters of old. The even scarier thing is if this brain rewiring won’t change, the triggers are still there waiting for a drink, even years later. If I drank a glass of wine right now, I’d be on a bottle a day within a week. It’s slightly cruel, but just avoiding alcohol is an easy way to fix that.
That’s kind of scary, though, that it still sounds like you get urges. It shows our brains have been rewired in the past and will stay that way. I’m 21 1/2 months sober and get urges every week or so, but they’re minuscule compared to the monsters of old. The even scarier thing is if this brain rewiring won’t change, the triggers are still there waiting for a drink, even years later. If I drank a glass of wine right now, I’d be on a bottle a day within a week. It’s slightly cruel, but just avoiding alcohol is an easy way to fix that.
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Originally Posted by MythOfSisyphus
Normally excitement/anticipation builds up in my mind for about two weeks before; this time it did too but I got busy yesterday and missed it.
So Congratulations.
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Originally Posted by Hodd
Thanks MoS.
That’s kind of scary, though, that it still sounds like you get urges. It shows our brains have been rewired in the past and will stay that way. I’m 21 1/2 months sober and get urges every week or so, but they’re minuscule compared to the monsters of old. The even scarier thing is if this brain rewiring won’t change, the triggers are still there waiting for a drink, even years later. If I drank a glass of wine right now, I’d be on a bottle a day within a week. It’s slightly cruel, but just avoiding alcohol is an easy way to fix that.
That’s kind of scary, though, that it still sounds like you get urges. It shows our brains have been rewired in the past and will stay that way. I’m 21 1/2 months sober and get urges every week or so, but they’re minuscule compared to the monsters of old. The even scarier thing is if this brain rewiring won’t change, the triggers are still there waiting for a drink, even years later. If I drank a glass of wine right now, I’d be on a bottle a day within a week. It’s slightly cruel, but just avoiding alcohol is an easy way to fix that.
Still, I wouldn't have regrets if I kept drinking because I'd be dead!
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