Somehow i'll get a little time on me, go to meetings everyday and then one day i just click and i just go out and drink again. it gets worse and worse everytime i go out. I'm not sure if i should go back to rehab for the second time or not? The first time was in January, 2005....now i'm thinking i should maybe do it again.
Hi Jules...getting sober is not easy...and either is staying sober...Have you talked with your sponser? When you do go to meetings...Are you involved? Getting phone numbers, a sponser...working the steps...especially Step 1...Being involved in AA...really helps...and picking up the phone before a relapse also helps but I know heavy that phone can be...If you feel rehab would help...then do it...You do what you have to do...just remember though there is no magic cure...many of us have searched...it takes work...Be easy on yourself...and I think it is great that you have the awareness you need help...
Love Gina
Love Gina
Hi Jules...
Have you got a Big Book yet? For me, reading the first 162 pages really helped me to understand a lot about my disease...I used to feel after some time, that I was cured and I would keep relapsing so this time back, I decided to surrender completely and do things differently...I find for me, if I stay real involved and stay connected with those that have some time in the program, every day gets a bit easier....keep comin back...
Take care,
Stacey
Have you got a Big Book yet? For me, reading the first 162 pages really helped me to understand a lot about my disease...I used to feel after some time, that I was cured and I would keep relapsing so this time back, I decided to surrender completely and do things differently...I find for me, if I stay real involved and stay connected with those that have some time in the program, every day gets a bit easier....keep comin back...
Take care,
Stacey
Hey Jules keep posting and make use of the gratitude and didn't drink today threads also go back over your drink episodes and see what the build up or triggers were before each drink and work out a stratedgy to try and overide them when they appear again. I know a guy in recovery who even the oldtimers were calling relapse Rob and he has abot 9 years of sobriety now and he went to meetings every day like you and then one day he said it just clicked and away he went on his recovery journey, so don't give up and even if you have heard all the sharing 10 times over one day you might just hear the bit that matters.
Your seed of recovery is planted within you and given light and love it will surely grow......keep going to meetings and if you are able to do rehab again do it and be totally honest with yourself.
Light and love Zac
Your seed of recovery is planted within you and given light and love it will surely grow......keep going to meetings and if you are able to do rehab again do it and be totally honest with yourself.
Light and love Zac
They say "meeting makers make it" but that's only half true. There's a lot more to AA than just meetings. Recovery is in the Big Book. The meetings are just fellowship which is important but it's not complete recovery. Get a sponsor, work the steps, find a Higher Power. And don't pick up no matter what.
Hi Jules
I can so relate to your post - I've done a lot of that the last 5 months...but I keep going back to AA cause I know its where I need to be.
Hey do whatever you need for your recovery, if you think rehab will help what have you go to lose? go for it. You won't be the first person to back up to rehab more than once.
keep posting, keep working on your recovery
Idgie.
I can so relate to your post - I've done a lot of that the last 5 months...but I keep going back to AA cause I know its where I need to be.
Hey do whatever you need for your recovery, if you think rehab will help what have you go to lose? go for it. You won't be the first person to back up to rehab more than once.
keep posting, keep working on your recovery
Idgie.
