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.
Can't stay sober for more than a day:( Why is that?
Just try to take it by the hour. Don't drink for the next hour. Support is here.
If you are an alcoholic there is a very simple reason why you cannot stay sober for more than a day and once you understand and accept that reason you will have laid the foundation for recovery.
The problem is partly in the mind and partly in the body. There are various words used to describe the mental aspect but the word obsession is a good description. An active alcoholic is a person who has become obsessed with drinking. All sorts of excuses (some call then triggers) will be found in order to justify taking a drink and those excuses will make perfect sense to the alcoholic even though other people will often find them to be senseless and absurd. An obsession may be described as an idea that overcomes all other ideas and therefore, In order to recover from alcoholism it is necessary to find some means of removing this mental obsession for drinking.
The second aspect of the problem is that the alcoholic develops an abnormal physical reaction to alcohol. This is due to a failure of the body to fully break down the alcohol into water, sugar and carbon dioxide. The result is that a certain amount of a chemical called acetone is retained in the body and because of this, when a small quantity of alcohol such as one drink is taken, the body develops a strong craving for more alcohol. Each drink increases the craving and it becomes extremely difficult to stop.
The good news for the alcoholic is that if the first drink is avoided, the craving for more cannot develop. Therefore, one day at a time or one hour at a time, if you avoid the first one you will not have the tenth.
If your mind is telling you to drink even though you have decided to quit, you are in the grip of an obsession. Being around other people who have overcome the same problem can be a big help and one place where you will find such people is at meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous.
It's awful.
But when we learn to cope with it, without alcohol, we grow.
Are you in a big city?
What was it about meetings that you didn't like?
And know you all are going to say minute by min, hour by hour, day by day. But this is a terribly empty lonely feeling.
I'm an isolation drinker.
Ashamed, hurt, scared.
30 years been my medication.