Alcoholism Support Group
Alcoholism is the continued consumption of alcoholic beverages, even when it is negatively affecting your health, work, relationships and life. If you think alcohol is causing you to lose control, it's time to seek help. Our group is a safe place to vent, check in, get back up if you fall, and reach sobriety.
Hi I am fuzzy and I am an alcoholic. I am writing this to those of you out there who are on the edge about going to AA meetings. I share this experience in the hope that it may be of help to someone
I am manager in a Fortune 500 company. I never missed a day because of alcohol, but was less than productive on numerous occasions. I never got a any tickets, but drove drunk most every day. I am married 3 kids 2 dogs and 3 cats, living in suburbia
My drinking was out of control..... my wife gate an ultimatum. get sober or get out. I had tried myself on numerous occasions and realized I needed help
AA is the most widespread organization, I read up on it, speed read the big book and the twelve steps. My first impressions was "an awful lot of Gd BS" but to appease the wife I went to a meeting. It takes a lot of courage to walk through that door the first time, I must have circled the block two or three times before going in... but I did
I was welcomed and they changed their regular meeting to a beginners meeting where they went round the table and shared their alcoholic experience. I don't remember much of what was said only my thoughts. Initially they were " Who are these people", "They are nothing like me", "They don't know what I have been through"... But they were nice and they kept hammering "come to 90 meeting in 90 days", so I set that as a goal to myself.
I probably managed about 75 meetings in the first 90 days. The fog started lifting after about a month and I made many new and true friends. And I learned what we had in common, we all had been to that point of alcoholic despair and we needed a way out.
I tried many times to do it alone but always failed. I could always stop drinking for a while, but in order to stop for longer I needed to change mySELF. These AA meetings showed me how to do that through long hours of listening and practice
Fast forward: Now 5 years, still married, working, kids ect. Still go to AA one a week, still get the occasional urge for a drink... hey its 5 years I deserve one .... NOT.. I now see the world through different eyes, it really is a neat place
Fuzzy
I am manager in a Fortune 500 company. I never missed a day because of alcohol, but was less than productive on numerous occasions. I never got a any tickets, but drove drunk most every day. I am married 3 kids 2 dogs and 3 cats, living in suburbia
My drinking was out of control..... my wife gate an ultimatum. get sober or get out. I had tried myself on numerous occasions and realized I needed help
AA is the most widespread organization, I read up on it, speed read the big book and the twelve steps. My first impressions was "an awful lot of Gd BS" but to appease the wife I went to a meeting. It takes a lot of courage to walk through that door the first time, I must have circled the block two or three times before going in... but I did
I was welcomed and they changed their regular meeting to a beginners meeting where they went round the table and shared their alcoholic experience. I don't remember much of what was said only my thoughts. Initially they were " Who are these people", "They are nothing like me", "They don't know what I have been through"... But they were nice and they kept hammering "come to 90 meeting in 90 days", so I set that as a goal to myself.
I probably managed about 75 meetings in the first 90 days. The fog started lifting after about a month and I made many new and true friends. And I learned what we had in common, we all had been to that point of alcoholic despair and we needed a way out.
I tried many times to do it alone but always failed. I could always stop drinking for a while, but in order to stop for longer I needed to change mySELF. These AA meetings showed me how to do that through long hours of listening and practice
Fast forward: Now 5 years, still married, working, kids ect. Still go to AA one a week, still get the occasional urge for a drink... hey its 5 years I deserve one .... NOT.. I now see the world through different eyes, it really is a neat place
Fuzzy
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You mention meetings; and I love them. I try to go to 3 a week. The recovery isnt in the meetings for me though, so much as its in the program. And I take that program out into the world with me everyday. So yep, seeing things through a different lens now too. Very very grateful.