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10-18-2012, 09:55 PM	? #1 (permalink)
Member ? Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Honolulu Hawaii Posts: 9	This is going way to easy... 24 days down... And the last two or three I haven't even thought about drinking. it's kind of messing with my head.. It seems deceptively easy at this point. If anything I feel liberated. Crazy these mental stages you go through when you stop...
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10-18-2012, 10:08 PM	? #2 (permalink)
Member ? Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: North Jersey Posts: 152	I had that too. And then suddenly in the span of about an hour I was in the danger zone. Now I go to meetings, for me it helps because if I get lonely the first place I go is the bar. So I'm just saying, for me, that is my safety net. Congratulations on 24 days! That's amazing! __________________ "The things you take for granted, someone else is praying for."
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10-18-2012, 10:23 PM	? #4 (permalink)
Member ? Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Honolulu Hawaii Posts: 9	That's exactly what's been floating around my head "maybe I'm not that bad". I know that's b.s.. 24 days ago I was suicidal in the nut house and detoxing from a cocaine & jack Daniels binge.. And that doesn't happen to people who "aren't that bad".
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10-18-2012, 10:32 PM	? #6 (permalink)
Member ? Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: South East England Posts: 1,817	I went 7 weeks at first and it was pretty straightforward compared to what I read from others posts. Then I had a bad day at work, and my brain seized. I had bought a bottle of vodka and drunk it before I'd even rationalised it in my brain. Scary. I am determined never to get complacent again. That urge to drink is patient but deadly. Stay away from unhelpful thoughts that whisper it will be ok to drink again. They lie..... Good luck on your journey x __________________ 25th May 2012 was the last time I took a drink. I will never forget it. I don't EVER have to feel like that again.
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10-18-2012, 10:48 PM	? #7 (permalink)
Member ? Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Honolulu Hawaii Posts: 9	Quote: im on day 20 and its been pretty easy for me too. I hope I dont get tempted into going to halloween parties when the time comes.. Yeah that's one thing I've avoided so far is putting my self in social situations where temptation might occur.. That will be the true test though.. Being in a drinking environment and not drinking..
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10-18-2012, 10:49 PM	? #8 (permalink)
SR Moderator ? Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Seas Posts: 53,506	Quote: That's exactly what's been floating around my head "maybe I'm not that bad". I know that's b.s.. 24 days ago I was suicidal in the nut house and detoxing from a cocaine & jack Daniels binge.. And that doesn't happen to people who "aren't that bad". I'm *really* glad to hear you're thinking that...don't forget that... that will keep you grounded Islandboy way to go D __________________ It is never too late to be who you might have been. George Eliot
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10-18-2012, 11:34 PM	? #11 (permalink)
Member ? Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Winston-Salem NC Posts: 2	Every time I think its going easy, I start to figure I've got it licked. Or wasn't that bad to begin with. So I go out and remind myself how bad I really am. An oldtimer used to talk a lot about the pink cloud. It was his name for this time in early sobriety when life is getting better every day, you don't feel sick and you start having money in your wallet when you wake up and maybe even your loved ones don't hate you, because you're a lot better behaved. Compared to what we were enduring a few weeks prior, life seems easy. It ain't. Soon enough the stresses of 'sober' life will arrive. That's when we need the people and program that all too often we began neglecting when that first 30 day chip was too easy to get.
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10-18-2012, 11:53 PM	? #13 (permalink)
Member ? Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Winston-Salem NC Posts: 2	Thanks. I need to be here. I wonder how I've never found this place before. I've always needed a recovery space that was available when I got off work at 12:30 or 1am. When the bar is open (and I'm already there) but AA meetings are over.
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10-18-2012, 11:54 PM	? #14 (permalink)
Member ? Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Vancouver BC Canada Posts: 253	I agree convictedchef , the improvements and changes in the early weeks will hit a wall. I get them at 30-60-90 days and well haven't been past 90 days in a long time if ever. I have a crew of old timers in my life and they are the people I will go to when the novelty of sobriety wears off and I face the reality of living life on life's terms. I am on better footing but the journey has hardly begun. __________________ ----------------------------------------------------- The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within There is more to life than increasing its speed Ghandi
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10-18-2012, 11:58 PM	? #15 (permalink)
Member ? Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Southwest Ohio Posts: 61	I know what you mean Islandboy, it does seem easy. My mom asked me today "is it really as easy as your making it out to be or are you pretending?" I think its just after all the abuse we have put ourselves through, the constant madness, a little bit of sanity feels really great and makes it easy, like convictedchef said. Still needs to be watched though. __________________ Hope is what makes us strong. It is why we are here. Its what we fight with when all else is lost.
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Yesterday, 12:09 AM	? #16 (permalink)
Member ? Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Honolulu Hawaii Posts: 9	Why should they hit a wall? And why? I'm going to be optimistic about this.. When I got out of the hospital I faced the most stressfull time of my life.. ALL I wanted to do was drink the stress away but I will powered through it. If I got through that with out drinking I can get through anything with out drinking.
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Yesterday, 01:11 AM	? #17 (permalink)
Proud NA Member ? Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: South East UK Posts: 327	Hey Island, I remember thinking that at various stages in my recovery. But like others have said it is not hard to go from a serene happy stage to the danger zone pretty quickly. It's just about not becoming complacent. As you move further along in your recovery your mind seems to balance out. Well at least mine has to some degree....lol __________________ I didn't get my life back in this program...I got my life for the first time. Sobriety date: 05/05/2012. Whilst I am sitting in a meeting my addict is doing press-ups in the carpark.
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Yesterday, 04:03 AM	? #18 (permalink)
Self recovered Self discovered ? Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Toronto Canada Posts: 1,833	Quote: Why should they hit a wall? And why? I'm going to be optimistic about this.. When I got out of the hospital I faced the most stressfull time of my life.. ALL I wanted to do was drink the stress away but I will powered through it. If I got through that with out drinking I can get through anything with out drinking. Islandboy, it sounds to me like you really do have this thing figured out. Do you really and truly accept that you can't drink, you must not drink, and you won't drink? It can take some pretty heavy sober thinking to get to that place in your mind and that place in your life. There will be those times, as you've been told, when the stresses of sober life will loom pretty large, but those stresses are easier to deal with when you are sober and can bring your full faculties to bear. You can get sober if you believe in yourself and have the confidence in yourself to do what you need to do for yourself. There are folks who do exactly this and you can be one of them. Onward! __________________ AVRT has shown me how to never drink again and to never change my mind.
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Yesterday, 05:20 AM	? #19 (permalink)
Member ? Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: North Carolina Posts: 24	I stopped in March and I have not had a craving since like month one. Now I very seldom think about it and when I do it's just a fleeting thought with no cravings. I just got it in my head it's a non factor in my life. I can't tell you how much I wish I had done this years ago. How much more I could have done with my life. Now I look forward to doing the things I always wanted to do but was too lazy because of drinking all the time. Good riddance I say.
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Yesterday, 06:06 AM	? #20 (permalink)
Member ? Join Date: May 2012 Location: London, England Posts: 553	I've had times when it's been easy, and times when it's been a lot less so. And it's not been all one way. Overall, it's got easier as time has gone on. But on a day to day basis... no, it hasn't. For me, the first time I got to about 28 days, I was feeling pretty good. Not thinking too much about drinking, and when I got the urge, I'd pick up the phone and talk to someone. And then at about 35 days, it wasn't so easy. I can't give a good reason why, but it got harder. So much so that on about day 40 I found myself buying a bottle of vodka I never went in for. [I'd gone in for a carton of milk, and nearly managed to just get that.] So yes... enjoy it being easy. But don't let it make you think that you can drink like ordinary folks... That's an easy way to slip.
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Yesterday, 11:31 AM	? #21 (permalink)
Member ? Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Honolulu Hawaii Posts: 9	One thing that will help keep me from slipping is the fact that I'm on anti depressant medication and it doesn't mix well with alcohol.. Honestly though, half my life I spent drinking and never once seriously tried to stop, and now that I've distanced my self from it this long I've got this "been there, done that" kind of feeling.. I'm just over it. All it did was drain me.. The party is over, time to grow up and get things done.
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