Brain Damage

tara-nirvana28 · Newbie

Brain Damage

Tanin · MIP Old Timer

Glad you're here.

Continuing to drink only makes your life worse.

Have you gone to an AA meetings before? It would probably help you to go to one ASAP, while you are open to stopping. Find a meeting in your area and go to it.

There are online meetings too, such as at aaonline.net

Next meeting there is in two hours, at 6:30 PM ET.

Tell us more about yourself if you'd like. We've all been through your situation.

2granddaughters · Senior Member

When you got out of rehab did they not tell you to go to AA meetings ??

If you want to get sober you go to the meetings ... often !! http://www.aa.org/assets/en_US/p-10_howitworks.pdf

All the best.

Bob R

tara-nirvana28 · Newbie

Yeah they told me to go to AA meetings, but there are not many around me so I think I will try the online one. I am just really worried about my health but its so hard to stop I feel so ashamed that I just went back, I felt like I would be able to control drinking like everyone else around me but I guess I really can't. I just feel so lost.

tara-nirvana28 · Newbie

I think I will go to the online 6:30 one, I have to see if it will work on my computer though and I feel so shy lately that I am kind of scared to.

Tanin · MIP Old Timer

tara-nirvana28 wrote:
I think I will go to the online 6:30 one, I have to see if it will work on my computer though and I feel so shy lately that I am kind of scared to.

OK, that's a good start. Go to the 6:30.

The meeting is anonymous. And people will welcome you. They understand because they are the same as you. They have done the same things. Be open to stopping. They all stopped.

davep12and12 · MIP Old Timer

To answer your original question, YES, of COURSE it is possible for someone with a serious drinking problem to develop wet brain, even if they are young. We can also develop all sorts of other equally horrible problems if we keep drinking.

All the more reason to not screw around with half measures and get your butt to a AA meeting as often as possible, like every day. I'm certain that your treatment facility made this quite clear to you, about what people like us need to do once we get out of treatment, didn't they?

Ask yourself - how much effort have you been willing to go to in the past to get alcohol? If you really want to solve this problem, you need to start putting as much effort into getting sober and staying sober as you were willing to do to get drunk, and you need to do it NOW and you need to do it every day.

Of course this choice is up to you, which is why I included "If you really want to solve this problem". Do you want to solve this problem?

tara-nirvana28 · Newbie

yes I do want to solve this problem but now I am really scared.

Pythonpappy · MIP Old Timer

Welcome to MIP Tara, ... glad you found us ...

Yep we've all been in that place where we were scared to death ... I was scared to stop and scared to keep drink'n AND scared to be seen with alcoholics in the meetings ... most of the folks in the meeting don't bite ... LOL ...

If you can admit to yourself that YOU are powerless over alcohol, and that your life has become unmanageable, then you have just completed Step 1 of the 12 steps ...

Love ya and God Bless,
Pappy

davep12and12 · MIP Old Timer

tara-nirvana28 wrote:
yes I do want to solve this problem but now I am really scared.

Well, two things about that. First, if you were scared of going to a doctor, but you had a broken leg, would you decide to just not go to the doctor and never get your leg fixed because of a fear of doctors? No, you would go anyway, scare or not, and you would probably do it without even considering the 'option' of never going to the doctor. It's just not a reasonable option. So we do things that are necessary, regardless if they might be scary. Because the alternative is not a reasonable option.

Second, although this may be hard to understand right now, there really is nothing to be scared of regarding going to an AA meeting. It's just a bunch of other people, just like you, and like me, and like everyone else here. They just happened to get there a little sooner than you did. And they will be more than happy to help show you how people like us stay sober and live satisfactory lives without needing or wanting a drink. Going to AA was the best thing I ever did, and AA is full of people who will tell you the same.

Go on. Get to a meeting. I encourage you to get there a few minutes early (it can be more comfortable than walking in after it has started). Sometimes it helps people to feel comfortable by staying busy by offering to help set up chairs or whatever. Be sure you tell some people that you are new to AA and get a meeting schedule and some AA literature, and ask some people what other meetings they go to so you can go to the same meetings and see some familiar faces there. Then come back here and tell us about it. Go!

Tanin · MIP Old Timer

tara-nirvana28 wrote:
yes I do want to solve this problem but now I am really scared.

Good. It helps a lot to desire sobriety. Did you get to the online meeting? Can you get to a meeting in your area soon?

Are you on any meds for the other issues you mentioned?

Zoomtopz · MIP Old Timer

Tara N 28. Welcome to MiP.

Tara , from what I have been told . BY Experts I D&A field .

Every alcoholic Has a brain injury . Yes brain injury . AS we continue to

drink , we injure it More .

STAY Stopped NOW & you may have a chance to recover & live a normal life .

That is what I was told also , over 28yrs ago . The exact words .

"If you are alcoholic & you continue to drink . ALL the things you her that happen

to alcoholics , I promise . WILL happen to you . If you give this a go (AA) there IS

a chance you May get well" Tara N 28 . I took that chance , and Today I have Not

had a drink One Day at a time since then .

Tara , what has intrigued me about your post . I had an Undiagnosed "Serious Acquired

Brain Injury" - I had a steel bar through my face , I got treated for a "smashed cheekbone"

2yrs into recovery , I had an "unusual turn" , saw my GP , she thought it may be a tumour

forming from the "bump to my head" , got me to have a 'cat scan' , which revealed the

damage . What do I do - revert to a life of a person with a "serious brain injury" or continue

to lead a "normal life" which I had been doing for over 2yrs , excpt , I did not drink .

Tara N 28 . I am an Interstater . I drive 55yd , 120ton Road Trains in Australia .

I am NOT a Dr . Looking at what You have written . Do You want to predict , your future .

Join US in AA . You too may have That chance to live a normal life without alcohol as well .

Your own experiences Will Tell you What happens in the other direction .

Just for Today Tara N 28.

pinkchip · MIP Old Timer

Tara - prayers for you. You received good suggestions. You can do this. Going to AA is the best thing I ever did in my life. It is to hard for the great majority of us to do this on our own. Keep us updated.

Jerry F · MIP Old Timer

Feeling shame and guilt doesn't really work against a disease Tara...might if it was a moral issue yet what we have is a disease of the mind, body, spirit and emotions. We have a compulsion of the mind and allergy of the body...does that work for you? We don't think our way out of this one because our thinker is under the influence of a mind and mood altering chemical which has been altering us humans for thousands of years. I learned I couldn't get sober with the same brain I was drunk with because alcohol and alcoholism is much more powerful than the organs it affects. Get as much information about the chemical you are addicted to and how it controls you. "Under the Influence" is a great lecture for that in paper back. AA meetings? Be afraid and go anyway as was said you will find others there that are exactly like you with the exception of that many of them will have solutions that you don't have yet.

Alcohol doesn't care how old you are or even how concerned you are about being your age and being a drunk. Alcohol doesn't think yet it creates a craving that you think can only be satisfied by it and when you try it gets worse and worse. Lots of dead young and younger than 21 people as a result of being addicted to alcohol.

Come live alcohol free. ((((hugs)))) smile