Try to be of help and service to other alcoholics. It reminds you of where you came from and will help keep you humble.

I fell in to that trap. I got to where I thought I was better than everyone else and started drinking again. Now THAT cut me down to my knees. Jacker's right, go back and look at where you came from. You've done well so far, but remember, even people with 30 years sobriety have gone back out and died from this disease.

l have not done any meetings till now. i wonder that is this the right time for mettings. i am doing power yoga, gym, aerobics, learning Maya software. i also noticed that my sexual impulses are going hay wire. i want to take every woman i see in bed. is this a transtion phase or something.

Go to a shelter kitchen and volunteer to work the food line or kitchen.
Put on some dirty, ragged clothes and spend a night under a bridge or on the street. Spend a day with a cup or a can, begging, then give the money you made to another beggar when you go home.

Burn those images into your brain, and associate them with drinking.

Please clarify. "i want to take every woman i see in bed". Do you mean that you want the women to want you, sexually, for a lovemaking experience - or that you desire to "take them", literally?

"Go to a shelter kitchen and volunteer to work the food line or kitchen.
Put on some dirty, ragged clothes and spend a night under a bridge or on the street. Spend a day with a cup or a can, begging, then give the money you made to another beggar when you go home.

Burn those images into your brain, and associate them with drinking"

I think u are right. Now is time to recall ll the terrible things that happeded when I was drinking.That would keep my head on my shoulders.

i want to have sex with them.

If you've had mood disorders in the past,and been on mood stabilizers...you may need to take them again.

As you well know, there is a fall after the high! And not all mood stabilizers have terrible side-effects. I have been on Risperidone for many years and have no side-effects whatsoever.

Your sobriety may be in jeopardy if you don't tackle this monster. Sexual inclinations of the sort you have mentioned, arrogance, a sense of grandiosity, taking on many things at once all sound like a classic manic episode.

While it may seem to feel great, we both know that you will come crashing down. I do recommend that you get some help before you are no longer lucid enough to think it's an option.

Think of it like this...your sobriety is worth it. There are meds out there that can help, and are well worth it. You are worth it.

i was a binge drinker mainly. used to drink normally for a week or 2 then go on a binge. this continued for many years. The doctors i saw gave my tegretol, saying that my binges were result of mod swings. I also started believing this. Thats why it took me so long to accept i am an alcoholic. i used to think that my binges were a result of mood swings, and with the medicines i would one day be able to drink normally. i am an ALCOHOLIC. i now believe that the unstable moods were alcohol induced and not the other way around. i think i am highly just highly sexed and will need to control my sexual impulses.

It occurs to me that you may still be living the life of an alcoholic (but without the booze).......you're looking for things that give you a temporary rush or pleasure.

I'm a big advocate of exercise and I do a lot of it BUT if you rely on it and on the feeling it gives you, it can be dangerous. What if you get injured and you're out of the game for 3 months? It can happen; would that send you into a downhill spiral? Would you want to drink? You need to find something deeper to draw strength from. For many of us, that is a relationship with God and some people find it through other practices - I guess it all falls under the catagory of a spiritual experience.

Sex can be similar to drinking - especially if your sleeping with multiple partners. It's all about that euphoric experience that lasts for a short while, and then you're on to the next pleasure or the next woman.

All I'm saying is that you need to think about what you're relying on for strength.

i do get a high from exercise & workout vigoursly every day. u re right about getting injured etc., a month back i was dioganised with hernia and advised to go easy on exercise. i was very upset and i am sure that had it not been for antabuse i might have relapsed.
i did not bother about the doctors advise and still am working out, even more than before. fortunately the hernia is not so bad right now.
about sex, i love sex, and used to take pride in getting girls into bed and being charming and rich i used to manage quite easily. now i konow it was Pride In Reverse. It was actually an inner sense of insecurity that i tried to overcome. i dont do that anymore, have one steady girl friend, but the sexual impulses do come. Now that i am sober i know these flaws and am working on them.

Well, you're aware of your issues so that's a good thing. You're speaking to an avid runner here, and I broke and tore my left ankle a few years back. It was about a year and a half before I could run again, and took months to get back to any level at all. That knocked the wind out of me for awhile.

were u upset or depressed that u could not run. did u start drinking more?
are u also highly sexed.

Hypersexuality is one of the classic symptoms of a manic episode. As one dx'd with bi-polar, esp mania, I would suggest you continue with your mood stabilizers.

I was still drinking at the time anyway, but I drank more during that period and with no way to work it off, the effects were aweful.

My sex drive was lousy when I was injured, because I was so depressed. On the good side, I really appreciated it when I was able to hobble around without crutches - the small things become much more important to you at that point.

Sex drive? Yes it's high - this may be the case with most healty men and I think it's just important not to dwell on the idea too much. Sex has it's time and place - you can't let it control you, just like you can't let drinking or overeating control you.