Oh so this is where my people are :)
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Oh so this is where my people are :)
Hi everyone.
I successfully quit drugs on my own 15 years ago and have never looked back. I've been struggling with alcohol lately and am now ready to quit that. I've been reading some of the science links on here and going through the posts- you are my people and I'm so glad I found you. I'm on day 2 right now and struggling a bit with some physical symptoms but I know I can do this. I quit smoking crack for pete's sake. Now I am done with alcohol for the LAST time. Done.
I successfully quit drugs on my own 15 years ago and have never looked back. I've been struggling with alcohol lately and am now ready to quit that. I've been reading some of the science links on here and going through the posts- you are my people and I'm so glad I found you. I'm on day 2 right now and struggling a bit with some physical symptoms but I know I can do this. I quit smoking crack for pete's sake. Now I am done with alcohol for the LAST time. Done.
March7...what a great idea to use your sobriety date as your user name.
My first week was pretty dodgy too. Now, a little over eight months later, it's a heck of a lot easier!!!!
It gets quiet around here sometimes, but the door is always open
Murray
My first week was pretty dodgy too. Now, a little over eight months later, it's a heck of a lot easier!!!!
It gets quiet around here sometimes, but the door is always open
Murray
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Welcome to the secular side of SoberRecovery (SR) March7.
Yea I quit a raging Meth addiction some 6 yrs ago yet alcohol addiction has proved to be quite the challenge to quit.
I hope the SR forums help you as they have helped me in recovery.
Yea I quit a raging Meth addiction some 6 yrs ago yet alcohol addiction has proved to be quite the challenge to quit.
I hope the SR forums help you as they have helped me in recovery.
I quit meth, coke/crack, and alcohol all at the same time about a year and a half ago. If I'd kept drinking there's no way I'd stay clean so they all had to go at once.
So welcome to the secular side. It's great, you kinda have experience in quitting (we're all a bunch of quitters here, after all) and that will certainly help you this time around. Good job, good luck, and good to meet you!
So welcome to the secular side. It's great, you kinda have experience in quitting (we're all a bunch of quitters here, after all) and that will certainly help you this time around. Good job, good luck, and good to meet you!
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Cocaine and then crack took a year and a half of my life (a long time ag) and one day I got up and just said to myself- WTF, this isn't me, this is disgusting- and I walked away from everything associated with it. I literally moved, never looked back, never again spoke to anyone I was associated with while doing it, and started my life over. I went to college and nobody I know to this day even knows I ever did that. It was a part of my life I was able to squish and repress. It's not A's easy with alcohol. People don't smoke crack at networking events or weddings or corporate dinners. But these are all things I will have to participate in. Alcohol is legal and socially acceptable which is why I feel like it is harder for me to quit than coke was, even though the physical addiction is not A's severe, supposedly. Anyway, day 3 is over. Yay.
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Hi March7,
It's March 24, curious how you're doing. Just read your initial post (as Murray said, it gets quiet around here sometimes, I don't check in often myself,) though when I read your post I felt compelled to comment. What you wrote about moving forward and never looking back, starting over with living more in the direction you wanted to live, putting to rest the ways you did not, really is the way to proceed. When I realize I'm living in some way I prefer not, I remind myself it doesn't need to be that way. I can choose a different path. As abrupt as that. We have more power and control than we realize, if only we take the power and act. It comes down to a matter of what you really want. Once we decide what we want, and choose to take action, things fall into place. Not necessarily easily, but they do. I found checking in here invaluable a few years back during that period of initial changes toward recovery (when things were delightfully active here.) I'm happy to see increased activity here at Secular again.
It's March 24, curious how you're doing. Just read your initial post (as Murray said, it gets quiet around here sometimes, I don't check in often myself,) though when I read your post I felt compelled to comment. What you wrote about moving forward and never looking back, starting over with living more in the direction you wanted to live, putting to rest the ways you did not, really is the way to proceed. When I realize I'm living in some way I prefer not, I remind myself it doesn't need to be that way. I can choose a different path. As abrupt as that. We have more power and control than we realize, if only we take the power and act. It comes down to a matter of what you really want. Once we decide what we want, and choose to take action, things fall into place. Not necessarily easily, but they do. I found checking in here invaluable a few years back during that period of initial changes toward recovery (when things were delightfully active here.) I'm happy to see increased activity here at Secular again.
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