HI HOW IS EVEYONE. IM TRYING SO HARD TO STOP DRINKING. MAN ITS SO HARD. I HAVE TRYED TO TAKE IT DAY BY DAY. BUT ITS NOT WORKING!!!!!!!!!!! CAN ANYONE HELP ME
USAGirl, seems sort of quiet out here tonight, but be assured your question is not being ignored. I hope you can take the time to read through the messages out here, you'll find so much encouragement. Just wanted to respond, because you aren't alone in this!
USAgirl,
I too, like Wonders Why just wanted you to know that you are not alone. Yes it is hard. Quitting drinking is the biggest pain in the a** that most people face. You can do it. Part of quitting is stumbling now and then, so just start over again. A million mile march begins with one step. There are countless posts on here that will help you. Everyone here is so nice, never judgemental. Welcome! :)
Peace and Sobriety,
Valarie
I too, like Wonders Why just wanted you to know that you are not alone. Yes it is hard. Quitting drinking is the biggest pain in the a** that most people face. You can do it. Part of quitting is stumbling now and then, so just start over again. A million mile march begins with one step. There are countless posts on here that will help you. Everyone here is so nice, never judgemental. Welcome! :)
Peace and Sobriety,
Valarie
USAGIRL,
It took treatment for me to quit drinking. I knew that I could not quit on my own. At treatment I rediscovered my higher power, God. Faith in a higher power and lots and lots of prayer will help you more than you'll ever know. Get to some AA meetings. When I was in treatment I had to go to meetings and now I love going to them. When you go to meetings, don't hold back. Say whatever your heart feels. Those people all want to help you as they want to help themselves. I have been clean for 99 days and I feel better than I have in 12 years. Getting clean and sober is a great feeling, staying sober is even better. Take it one day at a time, one hour at a time, 10 minutes at a time if that is what you need to do. DON"T PICK UP! You can do it. Good Luck.
Lovin'Life
It took treatment for me to quit drinking. I knew that I could not quit on my own. At treatment I rediscovered my higher power, God. Faith in a higher power and lots and lots of prayer will help you more than you'll ever know. Get to some AA meetings. When I was in treatment I had to go to meetings and now I love going to them. When you go to meetings, don't hold back. Say whatever your heart feels. Those people all want to help you as they want to help themselves. I have been clean for 99 days and I feel better than I have in 12 years. Getting clean and sober is a great feeling, staying sober is even better. Take it one day at a time, one hour at a time, 10 minutes at a time if that is what you need to do. DON"T PICK UP! You can do it. Good Luck.
Lovin'Life
Lovin'life: Wow! 99 days! That is awesome. You are an inspiration.
Valarie: The board is kinda quiet tonight but keep posting. There are so many people on here with such good advice and a lot of encouraging words. I have never had a drinking problem, but I have a brother that drank for about 15 years. He has been clean for a little over a year now. His life is so different now. Much better. It took a lot of hard work and a lot of meetings to get him here.
I will pray for God to give you the strength you need to get through this.
Good luck,
Joy
(If you ever need to talk to someone of the board, you can email me at joyjonkat2@hotmail.com)
Valarie: The board is kinda quiet tonight but keep posting. There are so many people on here with such good advice and a lot of encouraging words. I have never had a drinking problem, but I have a brother that drank for about 15 years. He has been clean for a little over a year now. His life is so different now. Much better. It took a lot of hard work and a lot of meetings to get him here.
I will pray for God to give you the strength you need to get through this.
Good luck,
Joy
(If you ever need to talk to someone of the board, you can email me at joyjonkat2@hotmail.com)
Welcome USA Girl! There is hope and there is a solution. The key is willingness, for me at least, once I surrendered and was willing to go to any length to stay sober did I get and remain sober one day at a time. Nothing changes if nothing changes. Best of luck to you.
Lovin' Life, Triple digits tomorrow, wooohooo!
Lovin' Life, Triple digits tomorrow, wooohooo!
Thank you for congratulating me on the 100th day that I am now working on.
USAGIRL, I hope that you will see that there are people on here that are willing to help you to. Since treatment and meetings writing on this board has been like a meeting when I can't get to one. It is good to talk to someone. Anyone and there are people from all over on this board.
The first step in recovery is admitting that you are powerless over alcohol and your life has become unmanageable. It goes a little something like this:
Hi my name is Jake and I am an alcoholic. I knew that I was an alcoholic long before I did anything about it. After 9 years of daily drinking that had progressed into morning drinking and having withdraws when I would wake up, I thought it was over. When I realized that I had blown through over 4,000 dollars in six weeks to feed my addiction, I had hit rock bottom and put myself into treatment.
I had tried meetings before but it wasn't until I was in treatment that I saw "how it works." Getting an understanding of the steps and getting back in touch with my higher power, who I call God (and his son Jesus), saved my life. I don't know if I would have lived 100 days to talk about it. I feared my physical health as well as my mental health and personal safety. When you can't control your drinking your life is unmanageable. Alcohol controlled my life . I would only go places and do things where I could drink. I passed on a 2 week family vacation because I didn't know how I would go that long without drinking. I isolated myself in a college town where drinking was normal and acceptable by most. I lost (or gave away) a lot of what I had worked all my life for. Many material possessions, relationships, jobs, and my family. The only person in my family who I could really talk to was my father because he knew where I was and what I was doing to myself. He was very proud of me the day I called to tell him that I was going to treatment for 28 days. Quitting drinking was the smartest thing I have ever done. Now I have my family back, some of my friends, and I have money in my pocket. I am not where I would like to be and I am not who I want to be, yet. But after 9 years of lying, stealing, and cheating so I could stay drunk, 100 days is not going to bring me what I want. I know that if I obstain from picking up that first drink things will continue to improve and I will get the things out of my life that I truelly desire. I cannot get these things if I am drinking.
So USAGIRL, what do you want from life? Is sobriety one of them? I would hope so. You wouldn't be a member of this board if you didn't want to clean up. If you want to talk on a more 1 on 1 level, chefjake27@yahoo.com. Feel free, I can only keep what I have by giving it away.
Jake
USAGIRL, I hope that you will see that there are people on here that are willing to help you to. Since treatment and meetings writing on this board has been like a meeting when I can't get to one. It is good to talk to someone. Anyone and there are people from all over on this board.
The first step in recovery is admitting that you are powerless over alcohol and your life has become unmanageable. It goes a little something like this:
Hi my name is Jake and I am an alcoholic. I knew that I was an alcoholic long before I did anything about it. After 9 years of daily drinking that had progressed into morning drinking and having withdraws when I would wake up, I thought it was over. When I realized that I had blown through over 4,000 dollars in six weeks to feed my addiction, I had hit rock bottom and put myself into treatment.
I had tried meetings before but it wasn't until I was in treatment that I saw "how it works." Getting an understanding of the steps and getting back in touch with my higher power, who I call God (and his son Jesus), saved my life. I don't know if I would have lived 100 days to talk about it. I feared my physical health as well as my mental health and personal safety. When you can't control your drinking your life is unmanageable. Alcohol controlled my life . I would only go places and do things where I could drink. I passed on a 2 week family vacation because I didn't know how I would go that long without drinking. I isolated myself in a college town where drinking was normal and acceptable by most. I lost (or gave away) a lot of what I had worked all my life for. Many material possessions, relationships, jobs, and my family. The only person in my family who I could really talk to was my father because he knew where I was and what I was doing to myself. He was very proud of me the day I called to tell him that I was going to treatment for 28 days. Quitting drinking was the smartest thing I have ever done. Now I have my family back, some of my friends, and I have money in my pocket. I am not where I would like to be and I am not who I want to be, yet. But after 9 years of lying, stealing, and cheating so I could stay drunk, 100 days is not going to bring me what I want. I know that if I obstain from picking up that first drink things will continue to improve and I will get the things out of my life that I truelly desire. I cannot get these things if I am drinking.
So USAGIRL, what do you want from life? Is sobriety one of them? I would hope so. You wouldn't be a member of this board if you didn't want to clean up. If you want to talk on a more 1 on 1 level, chefjake27@yahoo.com. Feel free, I can only keep what I have by giving it away.
Jake
Hey USAGirl it's even harder to keep drinking keep posting, try meetings, talk to like minded people whatever you do believe in yourself and the will to suceed.
Light and love Zac
Light and love Zac
welcome to the boards usagirl.
read some of the threads and posts there's some great info there. read the "I will not drink today" and "today I'm grateful for." threads... they are great.
read some of the threads and posts there's some great info there. read the "I will not drink today" and "today I'm grateful for." threads... they are great.
