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.
I am almost 32. After my daughter was born in 2010, I started drinking. I drank here and there before I was pregnant, but I was in control. Once the post-partum depression kicked in, the medication didn't help, I started drinking more often.
The father of my child is the most amazing man ever, and he proposed to me 6 months after she was born. When she was a year and a half, we relocated for his work. The depression and anxiety hit HARD. I was in a new town, no friends, not knowing how to deal with change for a kiddo...I drank more and more.
Now, most days, I drink myself into a stupor because my daughter is in the "terrible twos". Every day that I tell myself it will be different, I am fine until I pick her up from daycare and she's a holy terror. No, I'm not blaming my alcoholism on my kid...but I am blaming myself for not being able to tolerate her.
My husband and I got married about a week before we moved here. I hate the oil country. I hate my life. I want to survive this place until we move on to the next oil field. :(
Please someone tell me that I don't HAVE to drink right after work until I pass out. I can't function like this anymore. :(
The father of my child is the most amazing man ever, and he proposed to me 6 months after she was born. When she was a year and a half, we relocated for his work. The depression and anxiety hit HARD. I was in a new town, no friends, not knowing how to deal with change for a kiddo...I drank more and more.
Now, most days, I drink myself into a stupor because my daughter is in the "terrible twos". Every day that I tell myself it will be different, I am fine until I pick her up from daycare and she's a holy terror. No, I'm not blaming my alcoholism on my kid...but I am blaming myself for not being able to tolerate her.
My husband and I got married about a week before we moved here. I hate the oil country. I hate my life. I want to survive this place until we move on to the next oil field. :(
Please someone tell me that I don't HAVE to drink right after work until I pass out. I can't function like this anymore. :(
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I drank seriously for decades almost everyday. You can do this too. {hugs}
Today I know that all the geographicals I did (house moves), all the jobs I had and all the relationships I had were not due to alcohol....it was due to my dis-ease, my using alcohol as a solution to my emotion. Not until I surrendered to my disease of alcoholism, until I knew I could not do it any more, could I ask for help.
For me, that took me to reach my 'bottom' and for me to get a new solution to life. I walked into the rooms of AA and thought to myself 'I really have reached the lowest of the low' and thought there would never be any smiles on my face again!
What I found in those rooms? Wow, powerful stuff. The room was filled with hope, with smiley people, with people laughing and it had been ages since I had done that.
Today I have a new solution to life. I haven't had a drink today...I haven't even thought of a drink. That is a miracle for this recovered alcoholic :)
I did it for YEARS and it was the drinking that made my life suck, not my circumstances. This is not going to get better unless you stop drinking. Continue drinking and your life will spiral down more and more into hell.
Also -- do you really think you are a good parent while you are drinking? What if she gets hurt and you are drunk and have to drive her to the ER? What if she is sick and needs you and you are passed out?
You do not HAVE to drink right after work until you pass out. Stop now, while you can. If you can't, then you need to look at your options to quit -- AA, Rational Recovery, Women for Sobriety, whatever works for you.
You have a serious problem, and unless you act it WILL get worse.
Go to a meeting, end the cycle, live again.
If I can do it so can you