Welcome to DS! We are glad to have you!

We hope you can make a life long commitment to sobriety. I know that sounds like alot but we do it one day at a time. Not a good idea to think too far ahead ..

Are you quitting cold turkey or have you thought of a plan? Usually people need something to motivate them to get sober.

In any case, we hope you keep coming back here. You will find lots of great people who has success quitting in many different ways.

Good luck on your road to sobriety. May you find peace and better health along the way

God Bless

Welcome to the group :) you can and will find those things if you are committed to your sobriety. Please keep coming back.

welcome to group and congrats on your decision for a new life. stay in touch!

I had that early morning anxiety before I quit drinking. Spinning my mental wheels trying to work out my problems in my head and never accepting that I was the problem. Exhausting. Now I sleep with dreams that are guides to my new lifestyle.
I often wake up in the morning amazed at how the healing I can accomplish during the day can keep going in my subconscious.
It’s the opposite of anxiety. It’s solving the issues not adding to them.
Bobs right about shifting the thinking to a lifelong change while working it one day at a time. When I accepted that alcohol couldn’t be a part of my life anymore it was easier to let it go. Kind of like when a relationship gets so bad that both people know it’s not working. It makes the breakup gentler. Because it’s the best choice.
Bests. Let us know how your doing

Welcome to this great group! I wish you the best on your journey!

I remember a night being so hellish as I fought not to drink once. Long story short it ended with me drinking someone else's rum, on the rocks, thinking heaven had just wrapped it's arms around me by doing so. I think I passed out face first on my kitchen table.

The harm was, a loved one witnessed the whole thing, and I think that convinced them that I really was a real alcoholic and hadn't been shit for so long because of it directly.

That night was a night I never want to repeat, even though the rum felt like heaven, the deeper knowledge that the whole event was traumatizing for my family member, reminds me how pervasive alcoholism is, and ultimately hurts others just as much as it hurts the alcoholic.

Make a long story short, a couple months after that night, God removed the obsession or the need for me to drink, but I was left with untreated alcoholism, that played a role in me then vandalizing property after not getting my way and took me into a system that had very unfavorable characters inside it to say the least.

When I got honest with my "help" they did get me into a rehab, where someone came in and offered to help me treat my alcoholism through Alcoholics Anonymous and behavioral therapy, and my life has never been better since.

The breakthrough moment for me was admitting to a very sweet counselor that I had hoped the diagnosis was incorrect, and that admission allowed the buried grief inside of me I was holding onto because I was a born alcoholic and very embarrassed by it to flow out and go somewhere else.

I then went to meetings daily, read and wrote daily, said prayers daily, talked to a sponsor long enough to finish the steps, and became committed to a life where I no longer determine what will be done and do what I am asked to do unselfishly.

I've never had more money, more interest, more respect, and more confidence in my life since I decided to treat my alcoholism and get serious about it being a reality in my plan and life going forward.

I do not share it freely in the world, but treating my alcoholism, through a relationship with a higher power, is the core of all my joy and achievement in life now, and although very challenging at times, was well worth the effort and time given towards.

I wish you the best and please do not hesitate to ask for help on this end if you need to.

God Bless