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Hello !
Hi Everyone
well after my last post a month or So when I was rock bottom (im sorry I didn’t reply ) I carried on with the drinking , completely out of control .
something just snapped a few weeks back and i just stopped , called the doctor and got some help finally admitting defeat
it’s been couple weeks now alcohol free , i can’t remember the actual day i quit to be honest , such a mess i was .
feeling really good at present , getting exercise , early nights - hence righting this at 5am 🤣- even enjoying work !
my tea drinking is off the scale mind but I can live with that !
anyway , getting to see mum and sister today - first time since March last year ...excited !
Thanks SR x
well after my last post a month or So when I was rock bottom (im sorry I didn’t reply ) I carried on with the drinking , completely out of control .
something just snapped a few weeks back and i just stopped , called the doctor and got some help finally admitting defeat
it’s been couple weeks now alcohol free , i can’t remember the actual day i quit to be honest , such a mess i was .
feeling really good at present , getting exercise , early nights - hence righting this at 5am 🤣- even enjoying work !
my tea drinking is off the scale mind but I can live with that !
anyway , getting to see mum and sister today - first time since March last year ...excited !
Thanks SR x
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Good to see you back rainyengland.
Hope visit with mum and sister went well.
Are you getting any additional support to help you maintain your sobriety?
Congratulations on making the decision to stop.
Keep posting.
Hope visit with mum and sister went well.
Are you getting any additional support to help you maintain your sobriety?
Congratulations on making the decision to stop.
Keep posting.
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It is about 6 a.m. here on the frozen tundra of Minnesota. I love my early mornings so much. One of the best parts of sobriety. Awesome to see you rainyengland. I hope you are doing ok my friend. A few weeks sober must feel really good. Hope your Saturday is going well.
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Well done, Rainy!
I drink buckets of tea a day. You drink all the tea you want.
i often wonder if my massive tea habit is related to my former alcohol habit. If I had a glass of wine, I’d gulp it down. No savouring at all. It’s fine with tea, but not so with alcohol. Anyway, Rainy, maybe we can do our PhD on this in a few months when you’ve got some quality sober time under your belt. For now, have fun with the family and even more tea
I drink buckets of tea a day. You drink all the tea you want.
i often wonder if my massive tea habit is related to my former alcohol habit. If I had a glass of wine, I’d gulp it down. No savouring at all. It’s fine with tea, but not so with alcohol. Anyway, Rainy, maybe we can do our PhD on this in a few months when you’ve got some quality sober time under your belt. For now, have fun with the family and even more tea
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So happy to see you, rainy.
That's kind of how it was for me - something just snapped. I was fed up & disgusted with myself & all the messes I created when drinking. Where's the fun in it when all it brings us is misery? It never gives us the relief we seek from troubles or stress - only makes everything worse. Now you are convinced!
Congratulations.
That's kind of how it was for me - something just snapped. I was fed up & disgusted with myself & all the messes I created when drinking. Where's the fun in it when all it brings us is misery? It never gives us the relief we seek from troubles or stress - only makes everything worse. Now you are convinced!
Congratulations.
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Originally Posted by Hodd 
Well done, Rainy!
I drink buckets of tea a day. You drink all the tea you want.
i often wonder if my massive tea habit is related to my former alcohol habit. If I had a glass of wine, I’d gulp it down. No savouring at all. It’s fine with tea, but not so with alcohol.
I drink buckets of tea a day. You drink all the tea you want.
i often wonder if my massive tea habit is related to my former alcohol habit. If I had a glass of wine, I’d gulp it down. No savouring at all. It’s fine with tea, but not so with alcohol.
Sorry, that was off topic, welcome back RE. Cold England today!!
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Hi rainyengland! Nice to meet ya, nice to have ya here, and very very warming to hear your upbeat report and check-in.
I remember the boomerang cycle of those days when I was seeking to enter sobriety but making ongoing choices to tangle with alcohol. Those days are thankfully long behind me now and never will I have to endure the misery of alcohol again.
Though I do presently have a similar scenario with marijuana. That's been a glaring reminder of my reality. I am a 'zero or a thousand' type fellow. I either DO things.... or I DON'T things.... I'm not really wired to moderate things. Though I seem to have better luck with that in things that are good for me.... lol.
Anyway, all that simply to say that I'm here for you. And I thank you for your sharing because it's given me another reminder and another lens to look at myself through and to realize two things:
1) Marijuana is - for me - just another facet of addiction and will inevitably destroy me and the things I care most about just like alcohol. Perhaps even worse given its more subtle and chronic approach to how it unravels life (as compared to the drastic and obvious and awful methods of alcohol).
2) Marijuana is - for me - just a sneaky, sneaky way for my inner addict to subtly seek to wrest back control of my life and pull me back into madness. It's certainly not a long jump from using marijuana to deciding "hey, alcohol wasn't THAT bad, I'm healed after all...." - or some equally ridiculous 'logic'.
Anyway, welcome. And thank you. And keep it up!
I remember the boomerang cycle of those days when I was seeking to enter sobriety but making ongoing choices to tangle with alcohol. Those days are thankfully long behind me now and never will I have to endure the misery of alcohol again.
Though I do presently have a similar scenario with marijuana. That's been a glaring reminder of my reality. I am a 'zero or a thousand' type fellow. I either DO things.... or I DON'T things.... I'm not really wired to moderate things. Though I seem to have better luck with that in things that are good for me.... lol.
Anyway, all that simply to say that I'm here for you. And I thank you for your sharing because it's given me another reminder and another lens to look at myself through and to realize two things:
1) Marijuana is - for me - just another facet of addiction and will inevitably destroy me and the things I care most about just like alcohol. Perhaps even worse given its more subtle and chronic approach to how it unravels life (as compared to the drastic and obvious and awful methods of alcohol).
2) Marijuana is - for me - just a sneaky, sneaky way for my inner addict to subtly seek to wrest back control of my life and pull me back into madness. It's certainly not a long jump from using marijuana to deciding "hey, alcohol wasn't THAT bad, I'm healed after all...." - or some equally ridiculous 'logic'.
Anyway, welcome. And thank you. And keep it up!
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