Never heard that expression and I am hoping it is not accurate!!! Behavior change takes at least six weeks to even start to feel normal, but a total mental change....??

I heard that saying in AA. So if your not using AA as your primary path to recovery you wouldn't have heard it. My bad for not being clearer. I wish they had a modify post feature after posting. Or do they?

Zachary I felt real better real quickly...almost exactly 5 years later I know there is still plenty of room for improvement :)

Some things happen quickly some take time...but its nice to be on a road and travelling I think and not be caught up in the destination

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Never heard that expression and I have been to hundreds of meetings.

My guess is that there is a direct relationship between the length of time that it takes and how open the mind is to new thinking.

I just erased my reply! Grrr!! I have never heard of that; but depending on how long you drank and how it physically affected you there are lasting side affects. I am on Xifaxan with lactulose for Hepatic Enceleopathy. I know that is spelled wrong, but google it. HE for short. You may already be familiar.

I had three Grade 4 episodes before diagnosed. Nobody picked up on it and I had textbook symptoms that I was giving to all my doctors. Yet, I had never heard of HE. It nearly killed me. Makes you forget, irritable, confused and slow to think, messes up your sleep patterns. I had a hard time consolidating cereal one night from two boxes that were mostly empty into one bowl. I then collapsed and was life lifted out to UNM.

Just a thought. Do you have liver damage? Trapped toxins in the liver cause the HE.

Yes!!Soo So funny the replies....if yah can't be rattled awake through your own disposition you cannot hear anythin but yourself talking:)) Oh yes I heard that little nuggett...my reply was I'm fine thanks....scrambled eggs our over easy... hehe :)
Billy

No, never heard that expression at all. Everything changed for me through the journey of the 12 Steps - a matter of weeks - and some years later I still learn new things every day. I will never outgrow this path I have chosen and I like that.

Actually I remember being really irritated when I heard people say things like it took them 5/10 years to realise how messed up they were...what kind of hope was that to be giving out?? Godamned loonies :) And they could speak for themselves thankyou very much...I was doing pretty good :)

Benefit of hindsight I was doing pretty good. Not drinking, not messing my shorts and I even had the dregs of a job to hang on to that was progress. Maybe I had low expectations and maybe I didn't know any better yet.

I have never regretted stopping drinking or starting the journey. I sometimes regret my own stubborness...the part that makes me prefer to rest halfway up the mountain and pretend to myself I have done all the climbing I need to do

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Never heard that expression either. Does remind me though that many of us are sicker than we think, and just putting down the drink doesn't make us instantly well again. I know I made much better choices after five years than I did after two...

Never heard of that expression, so I was able to get my brains back much much sooner.