I i'm new here but have been around AA for a year or so. Would be grateful for a bit of advice. I recently came home from my 2nd detox and have been sober for 14 days. I am still having really bad cravings - I have tried to think about how that 1st drink will ruin my life and have seen what this terrible illness has done to other people, luckily I'm not there "yet" but when the urge for a drink comes it is terrible. Through AA i have made many friends and got lots of phone numbers but sometimes when I have a craving it's not practical to phone an AA friend.
members give you phone nombers for you to phone , i know when i came to aa i felt i couldnt phone (i dont know what to say )i felt that they gave me the nomber but do they really want me to phone . yes they do its important to there recovery your important to there recovery with your phone call it helps keep them sober another day, beleive me every feeling you have your jumbled thoughts yyour feers nightmares , the drinking so much you shouldd sleep for a week yet there we are awake in the middle of the night full of remorse fear ssometimes terror . walking the floor wondering did i say anything to upset anyone , where did i go after such and such a pub is the wife going to leave has she left , going into the room to see if she is there , not answering the doar , telephone , missing work. 9every one is to blame or this is to blame for last nights bing. then one day thers no one left to blame.you want to die but too scared to kill yourself, crying ,lonely no one cares. well we care thats wwhy you get the nombers we have all been there , maybe you havent done the same things or been the same places but inside your head , if your aan alcoholicc orr have a problem wwith drinkis just the same as mine and all other alkies, ssomeone of these nombers might just be struggling with something in his ior her lifes and be wishing someone would phone , sso give it a try you will be surprised at the results , i know i was god bless david b
Hey P Welcome! I know I struggled with the cravings for a while. Only by picking up the phone, hitting lots of meetings, sometimes three in one day, saved my butt! I dont know when or how the obsession left me but I do know praying for the strength somehow removed the cravings. What a dang miracle! For me a simple pray of, god take the obsession to drink away from me, worked!! Best of luck and keep on staying sober!
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"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. "
My cravings didn't just go away on their own straight away. But, as each day passed they got a little less and no I rarely have any cravings. The answer, for this alkie, was to get to as many meetings as I could, share how I was feeling, get a sponsor and start working the steps.
I was given so many 'phone numbers and didn't want to call anyone when I was first getting sober. But, now when I give someone my number I truly want her to call if she is having a tough time. Picking up the 'phone is a life-line. People don't give out their 'phone numbers if they don't want you to call.
Just hang in there and it really will get better.
Please keep posting and letting us know how things are going for you, won't you? We're all here for you.
Take care,
Carol
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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss
Do you realize just how much you would be helping somebody else by picking up the phone and calling them ? Also please read the Doctors Opinion in the big book of Alcoholics Anonymous for it will explain the phenomenom of craving there and possibly help you better understand the sickness of alcoholism. If you havent had a drink in over 2 weeks now, the craving is really a desire or obsession. The booze is most likely out of your system. A desire or thought is much diff than cravings. Read the book ,get a sponsor and work the steps. You wont be sorry you did.
