sometime slowly for me is me I started AA in april and just now am starting to get better I'v drank for so long to me any ways. I'm 29 now and been drinking since I was 9. I now that doesn't seem long to old timers. well any ways i'm haveing a hard time with the cravings but i am taking campral to help it something new my doc wants me to try it's not to bad it does seem to help the cravings and they are not as bad as they use to be. I try to go to meetings as often as possable but working second shift is not easy to make them. I'll wright more later I'm sure that some out there will get this and reply.
I too started young, around 13 or 14, I'll be 30 days sober 9/9, after 25 yrs of drinking. YOu're not alone............ sometimes slowly is right, but better slow than not at all.
Keep coming here. Lots of great folks with lots of wisdom and quality.....
Just for today........
Much love to you
Doll
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* We eventually realize that just as the pains of alcoholism had to come before sobriety, emotional turmoil comes before serenity. *
Welcome Jason, Please keep coming here, posting when you can. I'm glad you found us, I hope you can get to as many face to face AA meetings as possible. I understand that is one of the requirements to be on campral, to go to meetings.Hang in there, this is a one day at a time deal.
I had my first drink when I was 15, and managed to keep at it for another 35 years. Doesn't matter too much how or when we started, it's where we all ended up. During some of my drunks, I got so "tippled" that I couldn't walk too straight. I depended on a bunch of other drunks to help me stand up. Nothing in the world much sillier than a drunk trying to help another one stand up, and both falling all over in the process. Now I am depending on the ones who, like you and I, decided to get back on their feet, and stay on them.
Like they say at the meetings, the only requirement to be in AA, "is a desire to stop drinking"!
There are some really great people on this site and at face to face AA meetings, who will accept you, based on that single requirement. Hang on to that desire, and never give up on it. If you stumble, don't give up, but keep talking to others with the same goal.
Gotta quit for now, or my new found friends on this site will figure out that my real nickname should be "windy".
I started drinking in my 30's. In my experience my drunk buddies who I thought were my friends...in all reality...truly were not. We were all just drinking buddies. I tried to express numerous times to them I was worried my drinking was out of control. They convinced me I was o.k.!!!
The truth of the matter is (just my opinion) ...our drinking buddies want us to stay down where they are. Down in the gutter! I have also found they didnt want to admit they had a problem. When you are down on your luck you find out who your true friends are .Took me a long time to realize it!!!
In AA they say we need to change our playmates and playgrounds. As has been said you will find some wonderfull folks here. Stick around and see. If your feeling lonely, confused, or isolated...Sit down and post a message!!!
Get it off your chest. We tend to let things bottle up inside us. The bootle isnt the answer it only makes it worse.
Take Care
Nancy Jo
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WE ALL START BEING SOBER ON THE FIRST DAY AND WILL ALL STARTED DRINKING ON THE FIRST DAY. I DON'T KNOW WHEN I HAD MY FIRST SIP, BUT IT WAS AT A VERY YOUNG AGE. THE FIRST BIG DRUNK AND BLACK OUT I REMEMBER. I MUST HAVE BEEN 13 OR 14 AND DRANK EVER SINCE. HEY I'M 49 NOW, THIRD TRY AT THIS SOBER LIFE. DRANK A LOT OF YEARS AND HAD SOME GOOD SOBER YEARS TOO. YOUR NOT TO YOUNG AND IT SOUNDS LIKE U PUT YOUR TIME IN. WHEN U GET BEAT UP ENOUGH U COME HERE. NOBODY GETS UP AND SAYS THINK I'LL JOIN AA TODAY, THAT SHOULD BE FUN!!
, and please do come back again!