Welcome. Glad you reached out and maybe your ready to get honest. If your a real alcoholic and you get back to the meetings so you can get with someone experienced in the solution and start implementing the solution ( steps ) with them, it will suck less. If you do nothing but talk about it and you are one of us, it wont get betterr it will suck on a scale you cant imagine, if you dont die first. Read the big book, go to meetings, live the steps. Trust God, clean house, help others.
-- Edited by billyjack on Monday 3rd of September 2012 08:30:29 PM
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Since it cost a lot to win, and even more to loose, you and me gotta spend some time just wondering what to choose.
Hello everyone..my name is Jeremiah. I am new to this forum. This is only day 5 and this sucks. I tried the meetings a few years ago but i wasnt really ready...i continued to lie to myself and everyone else. i guess i just wanted to say hello and vent a little
I went to my first meeting back when I was in my early twenties. I thought, no way, this isn't for me. About twenty years later, when I was sick and tired of being sick and tired, I went to my second meeting. I have been going for sixteen months now and it is one of my greatest joys. In the rooms I find people like me, people who are working on not just getting sober but who are taking the steps to make awesome changes in how they think, live, love and relate to the world. I have a fellowship of friends that I delight in being around and who support me and allow me to support them in return. Life is certainly better now that I am sober... but it's richer because of the meetings.
Best of luck to you whatever you decide. There are lovely people here who will cheer you along your path. :)
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I think there's an invisible principle of living...if we believe we're guided through every step of our lives, we are. Its a lovely sight, watching it work.
You are absolutely correct ... early sobriety does suck ... your mind races from one thing to the next and you can't seem to slow it down for sh!t .... You start wondering how the hell you let yourself get in this position to start with ... and your mind, body, and soul cry out for a drink ... Is this a great life or what? ... I didn't even know what life was! ...
I, too, tried many others ways to stay sober, but AA was always there and they had a plan, a program ... and it worked as long as I worked it ... they had some coffee to offer me ... they said drink as much of that as you want and if you get jittery, walk all you want ... just don't drink and come back to some more meetings ... I said Coffee is not what I need, and walking just makes me tired ... finally, I did what they suggested ... and I've got a few days sober now and feel good and think clearly ...
God Bless, Pappy
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'Those who leave everything in God's hand will eventually see God's hand in everything.'
thanks everyone....i didnt mean to sound like i was dismissing the importance of meetings..i was just admitting that this was my second time trying. yes yayo it seems to suck alot right now. the stomach cramps,,nervousness,,anger,,restless,, this has been a pretty rough day. hope tomorrow is better
