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.

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Gr8ful
Gr8ful
When I first put the drink down I spent a lot of time telling people why things did not work for me because I was different and they just did not understand.

I could list the reasons off why things would fail for me as easy as I drew breathe.

The truth though was I was scared that what was being suggested would not work for me, or as I had not experienced what they were talking about then it could not be true.

Even today when people talk about experiences I have not had I think they are full of it. I need to remind myself that because I have not had that experience does not mean it is not true.

It was not till I decided to give it a go and started to have some of the experiences that I realised that the only person I had been deceiving was myself.

Today I now try to take the outlook that no matter what is suggested if I give it a real go then if it does not work I have really lost nothing but if it does work I have found I have gained a lot.

G8
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deleted_user
Yes, and my experience is my experience. Just because someone cannot fathom that and tells me it couldn't be so, doesn't mean it didn't happen. That person cannot conceive what I had told them because they didn't experience it.

I have really learned to trust my gut and not doubt myself.
billwfriend
billwfriend
ah yes as they said in the big book....seems that some have never the need to go as low as those who began this program because they have raised the bottom and are merely people with a chance of being an alchoholic.... (paraphrased of course from big book idea about the raising of the bottom in newer alcoholics coming into AA)

some may have experiences involving mental hospitals...which are in my story....and some others may have stories involving jails....which are their stories not my own....but truth be known we all will share eventual ending in death but at least for me I strive to have an infinity coin in my hands at the funeral parlor visitations when I am gone rather than people who are talking about how I was unable to stop my drinking which has lead the pathway to death....

so of course Jails, Institutions and Death are things we find to be true of alcoholism and Death in sobriety beats the hell out of frikkin death due to untreated alcoholism!
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