5 years!

Open Letter to Beer

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Year 5

Congrats dude, I am 1 week and 5 days today after a relapse, which occured after 3 months of sobriety.

I did that a few times myself./

congrats, honestly!

i have the opposite problem, i have some nice belgian beers in my fridge that i keep forgetting to drink, and a bottle of tanqueray and some tonic in the cupboard that needed to be finished long ago

That open letter is fantastically witty and I enjoyed it.

congrats edgey... 6.5 months myself...

  sneaksta303 said:

congrats edgey... 6.5 months myself...

How the fuck do you do that without going to meetings? Is your head in a really good space or something?

Congratulations, dude!

I think I'm going to start limiting myself to a couple beers when I go out from now on. The other night a friend and I got really drunk and I fucked up my leg, arm, and back. They're all sore. Plus we got stopped by the cops, but nothing happened, so I'm taking it as a sign that I need to take better care of myself.

  abusivegeorge said:

  sneaksta303 said:

congrats edgey... 6.5 months myself...

 

How the fuck do you do that without going to meetings? Is your head in a really good space or something?

You don't need meetings, you just need to recognize if there's a pattern of behaviour that is having a negetive impact on your life, and whether the impact is strong enough that you need to change that behaviour.

congrats man good skills

  EDGEY said:

  abusivegeorge said:

  sneaksta303 said:

congrats edgey... 6.5 months myself...

 

How the fuck do you do that without going to meetings? Is your head in a really good space or something?

You don't need meetings, you just need to recognize if there's a pattern of behaviour that is having a negetive impact on your life, and whether the impact is strong enough that you need to change that behaviour.

i think I personally do need meetings, just to keep that "recognization (made up word idunno)" fresh. abusivegeorge - i talked to my sponsor yest and we're going to a meeting tomorrow. honestly, if i don't get back in the game a relapse is no doubt iminent. i can feel it coming in the distance.

  EDGEY said:

  abusivegeorge said:

  sneaksta303 said:

congrats edgey... 6.5 months myself...

 

How the fuck do you do that without going to meetings? Is your head in a really good space or something?

You don't need meetings, you just need to recognize if there's a pattern of behaviour that is having a negetive impact on your life, and whether the impact is strong enough that you need to change that behaviour.

So are you actually an alcoholic, or did you just stop drinking?

Because a true alcoholic will eventually relapse, even if it takes 25 years (I take it you've read the AA book, if your an alcoholic?) not one man has ever stayed clean without doing necessary things to help him stay that way, "higher power" etc.

  sneaksta303 said:

  EDGEY said:

  abusivegeorge said:

  sneaksta303 said:

congrats edgey... 6.5 months myself...

 

How the fuck do you do that without going to meetings? Is your head in a really good space or something?

You don't need meetings, you just need to recognize if there's a pattern of behaviour that is having a negetive impact on your life, and whether the impact is strong enough that you need to change that behaviour.

 

i think I personally do need meetings, just to keep that "recognization (made up word idunno)" fresh. abusivegeorge - i talked to my sponsor yest and we're going to a meeting tomorrow. honestly, if i don't get back in the game a relapse is no doubt iminent. i can feel it coming in the distance.

Really good to hear that man, the mental obsession starts to return if you don't keep it up doesn't it? I bet he/she was glad to hear from you. They always say the last part of the relapse is picking up the drink, it all starts long beforehand up in the head.

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Really good to hear that man, the mental obsession starts to return if you don't keep it up doesn't it? I bet he/she was glad to hear from you. They always say the last part of the relapse is picking up the drink, it all starts long beforehand up in the head.

this is true. i found myself in bed the other night thinking that i could get away with getting drunk "every now and again". That kinda thought is straight sickness. Granted, alcohol is far from my drug of choice (heroin-benzos), but i'll bet that if my inhibitions get low enough, and the situation was right, i'd do a shot. i, like you, am lucky to be alive right now. i od'ed 3 times in the 1st part of '08.

just have one. go on. it feels so good. one won't hurt

  sneaksta303 said:

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Really good to hear that man, the mental obsession starts to return if you don't keep it up doesn't it? I bet he/she was glad to hear from you. They always say the last part of the relapse is picking up the drink, it all starts long beforehand up in the head.

 

this is true. i found myself in bed the other night thinking that i could get away with getting drunk "every now and again". That kinda thought is straight sickness. Granted, alcohol is far from my drug of choice (heroin-benzos), but i'll bet that if my inhibitions get low enough, and the situation was right, i'd do a shot. i, like you, am lucky to be alive right now. i od'ed 3 times in the 1st part of '08.

Fuckin hell! Once is bad enough. Thats the thing though with this illness, we put down our drug of choice and simply substitute for another, I have no doubt that if your head is telling you its ok to get drunk, you would eventually end up an alcoholic. Like me for example, my head tells me to take coke or smoke crack, because the main reason I can't drink is my liver, but neither of those harm the liver so I tell myself it'll be alright, luckily we are responsible for our second thoughts and not our first.

  LOL Alzado said:

just have one. go on. it feels so good. one won't hurt

lol fuck.... i wish that were true

  abusivegeorge said:

  sneaksta303 said:

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Really good to hear that man, the mental obsession starts to return if you don't keep it up doesn't it? I bet he/she was glad to hear from you. They always say the last part of the relapse is picking up the drink, it all starts long beforehand up in the head.

 

this is true. i found myself in bed the other night thinking that i could get away with getting drunk "every now and again". That kinda thought is straight sickness. Granted, alcohol is far from my drug of choice (heroin-benzos), but i'll bet that if my inhibitions get low enough, and the situation was right, i'd do a shot. i, like you, am lucky to be alive right now. i od'ed 3 times in the 1st part of '08.

 

Fuckin hell! Once is bad enough. Thats the thing though with this illness, we put down our drug of choice and simply substitute for another, I have no doubt that if your head is telling you its ok to get drunk, you would eventually end up an alcoholic. Like me for example, my head tells me to take coke or smoke crack, because the main reason I can't drink is my liver, but neither of those harm the liver so I tell myself it'll be alright, luckily we are responsible for our second thoughts and not our first.

I don't think that's so much the case.. I think the "alternative fix" will just likely lower your inhibitions just long enough to roundabout to your drug of choice... Abstinense is the key.

  EDGEY said:

  abusivegeorge said:

  sneaksta303 said:

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Really good to hear that man, the mental obsession starts to return if you don't keep it up doesn't it? I bet he/she was glad to hear from you. They always say the last part of the relapse is picking up the drink, it all starts long beforehand up in the head.

 

this is true. i found myself in bed the other night thinking that i could get away with getting drunk "every now and again". That kinda thought is straight sickness. Granted, alcohol is far from my drug of choice (heroin-benzos), but i'll bet that if my inhibitions get low enough, and the situation was right, i'd do a shot. i, like you, am lucky to be alive right now. i od'ed 3 times in the 1st part of '08.

 

Fuckin hell! Once is bad enough. Thats the thing though with this illness, we put down our drug of choice and simply substitute for another, I have no doubt that if your head is telling you its ok to get drunk, you would eventually end up an alcoholic. Like me for example, my head tells me to take coke or smoke crack, because the main reason I can't drink is my liver, but neither of those harm the liver so I tell myself it'll be alright, luckily we are responsible for our second thoughts and not our first.

I don't think that's so much the case.. I think the "alternative fix" will just likely lower your inhibitions just long enough to roundabout to your drug of choice... Abstinense is the key.

Yeah thats true, have a few drinks and you'll start to think fuck it and do the other stuff as well.

  EDGEY said:

  abusivegeorge said:

  sneaksta303 said:

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Really good to hear that man, the mental obsession starts to return if you don't keep it up doesn't it? I bet he/she was glad to hear from you. They always say the last part of the relapse is picking up the drink, it all starts long beforehand up in the head.

 

this is true. i found myself in bed the other night thinking that i could get away with getting drunk "every now and again". That kinda thought is straight sickness. Granted, alcohol is far from my drug of choice (heroin-benzos), but i'll bet that if my inhibitions get low enough, and the situation was right, i'd do a shot. i, like you, am lucky to be alive right now. i od'ed 3 times in the 1st part of '08.

 

Fuckin hell! Once is bad enough. Thats the thing though with this illness, we put down our drug of choice and simply substitute for another, I have no doubt that if your head is telling you its ok to get drunk, you would eventually end up an alcoholic. Like me for example, my head tells me to take coke or smoke crack, because the main reason I can't drink is my liver, but neither of those harm the liver so I tell myself it'll be alright, luckily we are responsible for our second thoughts and not our first.

I don't think that's so much the case.. I think the "alternative fix" will just likely lower your inhibitions just long enough to roundabout to your drug of choice... Abstinense is the key.

that's what i meant

you do still drink wine right?!

i don't know which is more impressive, that you've been sober for 5 years or that you're still regularly maintaining a livejournal.

either way, congratz, dude!

Congratz,

The one on the right is in a permanent state of sucking cock.

  catsonearth said:

i don't know which is more impressive, that you've been sober for 5 years or that you're still regularly maintaining a livejournal.

 

either way, congratz, dude!

hah!

good on ya, edgey. i cant seem to go more than a week without booze, and usually binge-drinking. how do maintain any kind of a social life though? what do you do when everyone else is drinking?