Beating addiction and alcohol

Posted by heartbeatz22 @heartbeatz22, Feb 7, 2022

Today is the day to beat this!Got meds to stop my cravings for alcohol that a start!Everything else will fall in place.

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@diverdown1

One more thing...I am grateful to be alive today. I shouldn't be by all rights, and as I am sure many of us have, lost many friends to this disease.

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I lost the most important person...me..#tryingtomakeitback..yes we have another 24 under our belts...I've found so many excuses to pick up..then I remember also..things I did ..never hurting anyone...so I thought...not physically anyway..I see everything i have to live for...then..I have everything to stay sober for..your a wise woman diverdown1 ..inspiring

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@jeffroatenberry

I lost the most important person...me..#tryingtomakeitback..yes we have another 24 under our belts...I've found so many excuses to pick up..then I remember also..things I did ..never hurting anyone...so I thought...not physically anyway..I see everything i have to live for...then..I have everything to stay sober for..your a wise woman diverdown1 ..inspiring

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Indeed the gem in your post is at the end, " I see everything i have to live for..."

It is also the panacea for almost every trouble in our personal lives: To remember that each day we are given 24 hours as if finding them at our pillow as we wake up, with No Conditions attached.
That is the reason why the second of the two beers that I bought some days ago still Had not Trumped the Pleasure from my other alternative uses of time.

And the pleasures are many -- and most important are also the most unavailable: supportive, enjoyable human connections. I wonder if it's the Close Connection of fellow 'addicts' that provides the healing and control over one's life -- that makes for the absence of need to reach for alcohol.
Or indeed Any other addiction -- from illicit drugs to over-consumption of foods and mindless spending to problem gambling and... the list is long.

In other words, live as if you have all the control over the days of your life. It's The Rule. What other rule would make any sens?

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Breathe, sleep if you can, say a prayer and go to a meeting tomorrow. So happy you are here

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