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03-09-2021, 07:40 PM

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Steely

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Join Date: Dec 2015

Location: NSW - Australia

Posts: 14,582

Welcome Cathy.

Lots of really good people here.

03-09-2021, 07:52 PM

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P51Dmustang

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Join Date: Jan 2021

Location: US Northeast

Posts: 40

Quote:

Originally Posted by ALcathy

For some reason this is terrifying. I’ve been wanting to stop drinking for some time now, but my head keeps telling me “maybe if you just drink once a week.” That never ends well. I drank yesterday so this is day one...again. I will probably spend much more time here just reading. Looking for inspiration. I may sneak out of my shell occasionally. ☺️

I just made a new thread that should tell you everything you need to know.

Anyone who find their way to this forum does so for a reason. If you think you might have a problem with alcohol, you probably do. And for us alcoholics there is one hard lesson we all must learn: there is no moderation for us. We can't do it, try as hard as we might. Sometimes it takes years to admit it even to ourself, let alone to anyone else. I didn't accept that I was an alcoholic until years after I was one, and I didn't admit it to anyone else until very recently.

There is no once a week for us. There is no "I'll stop in a couple days". Accepting that and figuring out ways to live life without alcohol is all you can do.

I taught myself that lesson again this week the hard way. I thought I could cheat just one time. Nope. The same old cycle is just trying to start again. I decided to cut it short.

03-13-2021, 05:31 AM

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DriGuy

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Join Date: Nov 2018

Posts: 5,169

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Originally Posted by least

Take advantage of all the support and useful info here. We understand cause we've been in a similar position.

Even my normie friends, some of which I now realize were early stage alcoholics, would always tell me, "All you have to learn to do is control your drinking." Alcoholism is so poorly understood among the general public. That's why groups of recovering alcoholics like this can help. It's not like we are all geniuses. We all have our faults, but when it comes to alcoholism, we know what it's like. We know the head games involved, and we know what we have to do.