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A good day and I still want to drink?

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Hi everyone,
So okay I am not sure here...I have been having one of the better days I have had in a while and yet here I am sitting wanting to drink so badly. I was doing great, having a great day and still am but then it was like I got hit with at ton of bricks and just wanted to drop everything and go drink. Does anyone else have this happen to them? I am sorry but I am just starting to understand this whole drinking problem, cause in the past if I wanted to drink I did. I never really gave myself the time to think about it, or how i felt. I just did it. Tonight I usually go to church, and I just want to stay home and drink, or go out with friends and drink. I have no desire to even go to church. i just dont want to be around people. Ahh....this sucks!
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I hope you don't drink, it doesn't really help and if it does its always temporary.take care and god be with you.
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your not alone and its not easy im not a man of many words so please bare with me .
what brought light and change in my life was one powerful word INSANITY the definition is DOING THE SAME EXACT THING REPEASTEDLY AND EXPECTING A DIFFRENT RESULT. once i could finally understand that i started to ralize in so many ways what i was doing to myself and how. Hang in there it gets worse before it gets better like anything in this wourld if you want it bad enough you can have it good or bad step one a choice which has a result do i choose insainity and get the same result or do i lean not on my own understanding and try some thing new which for a alcoholic is not drinking. try in diffrent ways during the day to say know to your self practice that because when you can say know to yourself you can say know to anyone and anything. keep the faith and move forward never backward but it will happen and when the back steps happen remember that the sun has never failed us yet and not only try again but learn from it and stop the insainity Love CHAVEZ and im a man of few words sorry :) I pray i helped you so you can help me or someone elese in the struggle power to the people
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How new are you to sobriety? I didn't expect it to be as difficult as it was once the physical cravings go away. Have you thought about AA? Its really helping me.
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I'd suggest to read chap 3 in the big book. For the alcoholic the mental obsession is the problem. It can occur 2 ways, 1 we constantly obsess over booze or 2 we get hit with the strange mental blank spot that says its ok to drink. Both are almost impossible to defend against in my exp and the BB says impossible to defend against if one is alcoholic unless one has the psychic change. Good luck with this I had to go to AA and do the steps for that to change. I wish you well
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hell for me any reason was a good reason to get ripped.i got to the pointi never went anywhere, just stayed home and drank.just don't drink..you will feel better for not doin' so
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Sweetie, you are exhibiting all the signs of a good alcoholic. I have been sober 19 years and still some times I want to isolate from the world. Today I know that is my disease telling me I am okay. I am not okay when I am isolating.

One of the tricks that really works for me in these situations is to close my eyes and with all my heart and soul, I ask my higher power to get me off my butt and get me where I need to go (whether it is church, a meeting, a phone call, whatever). The minute I get outside of myself, the insanity that Chavez talked about begins to go away.

I don't know if you are in recovery, but there is a wonderful story in the BB call the Jaywalker. It is on page 37. This is a great description of the insanity we face. Let me know if there is anything I can do for you.
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