I'm praying for you today.....and giving you hugs!!!! Don't lose hope!

Keep it simple I am praying for you too. Try inner body awareness with eyes open to the abdomen. enlightenment. it is comforting and leads to higher consciousness. sustained times of it. It is a practice that I look forward to getting back to as soon as I stay sober enough.

I have no idea what your talking about... right now all I want to do is get drunk, plain and simple.

No one can stop you from drinking. If you want help stopping, we are all here, and there are resources like AA, etc. we live in a society rich with support if we want it.

sorry. I am living out the way alcohol is too. going to try to stay
without it today and remember this too shall pass. benedryl does
help with the detox symptoms of wanting more. again sorry.

If you want to drink yourself to death then you can, there is nothing anyone can do to stop you. The trouble is that you think you're special and different, anyone can get sober but if you want to be one of the statistics of death through alcohol go right ahead!

Oh my God!!!! This sounds just like my son. He is always making excuses about why he can't get sober. He doesn't need excuses to drink.....he drinks fr any and all reasons. He already has psorosis of the liver at the age of 28 but he keeps drinking. He says he is afraid he will go into seizures if he doesn't drink but he refuses to go to detox and get professional help. There is so much help out there for addictions. Why are some people so stubborn? I'm looking at it from the other side of someone living with an alcoholic. I went through it with his father (my ex) and now I am going through it with my son. GET HELP.....YOU CAN'T DO IT ALONE.....I will pray for you like I am praying for my son But bottom line is YOU HAVE TO WANT TO GET HELP.....why would anyone want to die drunk and alone or attached to machines?

ever been depressed to the point of suicide? well that's where I am and where I have been. its no secret I hate life and I want to die...

do you go to psychiatrist about depression? I used shrink a long time before I got sober and I know it helped to develop a new me...I suffered suicidal thoughts and trust me tried twice to off myself with pills...that is why I needed a shrink...Any other thing you do including drinking is self medicating the depression and is worthy of nothing less than getting drunk and wanting to stop getting drunk....which in itself is a redundancy circle of self medication....getting drunk is about as effective as a band aid on a gun shot wound when drinking to drunkeness is to help depression....alcohol is a depressant drug....

hope you will seek help from a professional....mine took me to new life....hopefully so will yours....hugs bill

Hi keep it simple. Depression is HELL I went down that road of numbing myself with drink. With a lot of help. And I mean a lot of help I have surfaced again. For now. I never take it for granted that I won't end up there again. All I can say is one day at a time, baby steps, antidepressants and AA.

Yes, I have been depressed and at the point of suicide. Yet you continue to live don't you - isn't that odd? There is something probably deep within you that wants to live. I tried to kill myself 7 times and each time I either didn't do it right, or I got scared or someone rescued me. I feel that something deep inside (possibly my soul or spirit) that wanted to live and so here I am 15 years later and I am enjoying my life, even though it is really hard. I am over 19 years sober and I am so glad to be alive!!

This is why I tell you that it is possible to recover!!

Lyn

I echo what others have said. It is perfectly possible for you to drink yourself to death but it is equally possible (with some effort) to be sober, even when faced with serious depression. I have been suicidally depressed when drinking. But I have also been able to stay sober through some periods of terrible depression. I am several years sober now and still have mental health issues that have to be dealt/coped with. No part of how I deal with them today involves alcohol.

You can drink yourself to death but you are no different to those of us that are sober. It is possible for you to be sober. Drinking yourself to death is not inevitable or without choice on your part. You could choose life and to give everything to sobriety and mental health recovery.

I see a mental health counselor, I told her a few days ago whats been going on. she told me if I don't get clean they will force me into treatment... well good luck with that notion because I wont be forced into anything...

If you are at risk of harming yourself you will go to treatment.

Sounds like the best thing for you right now.

Been there my dear. It only gets better little by little (for me) and day by day. I have down days still-after 6 years of no booze-but never are they anywhere NEAR as horrible as it was when I was drinking. Life is hard-and if you are suffering from depression and trying to drink it away I guarantee it won't work.

But you know that.

Please get help. I know life is hard. Believe me, I have gone through hell and back, but nothing and nobody is worth dying for. Whatever you are going through, it will pass. Don't give up hope. Go to your doctor and get some anti-depresants. If you can't afford a Therapist or Counselor you can talk to a Priest, Minister or Rabbi for free. Go to AA and get a Sponsor. There is always something or someone you can talk to. Call the Hospital and talk to a Crisis Nurse. There is help out there. If you are suicidal you need professional help. Please don't do anything drastic. I will be praying for you. (((((Hugs)))) Mary