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Sober House TV Show

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Does anyone watch this? Ok, I know, I know it is pure cheese wrapped in a big recovery bow, but still I am hooked!

Did anyone see it where Amber-the model, went to the party and got drunk and slept with that guy? I was watching and wanted to jump through the screen and yank her out of that hell hole!

I use to go to parties like that for years-tried to attract attention by dressing sexy and get all "crazy" drunk-hook up with some loser...wake up in the morning, feel like crap, and do it all over again. It was life in the fast lane, and I felt like I was living large with the beautiful, cool crowd. Going to fab houses and apartments-trendy bars.

Such bs-that show last night really slapped me in the face of how many years I sat at parties getting wasted going nowhere fast...

Can anyone relate? Thoughts?
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No, somehow none of the beautiful drunk women find me enough of a loser to put me through such humiliating experience. I am so glad!
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Your memories are from yesterday, let them go. I'm not sure if it's the same show but I watch celebrity rehab. The people have lots of money, get straight for a couple of weeks, then go get stoned again and the cycle continues.
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(sigh)..No KK, I don't know the show but I can relate to what you're sayin. I once woke up alone in a very ritzy high rise (Elton John lived there) a long time ago and didn't have a clue how I got there (or with who). I had to go down to the lobby in my "club clothes" and ask the concierge where I was so my friend could pick me up!! Those were NOT the "good old days" by any means.
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oh my sherlock-be glad! And I don't mean to imply I was on the level of this "Amber" chick-but it had the same vibe to me. Empty, wasted nights pretending you having a great time and really just denegrating yourself-sickening really.
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It appears to me that on that show they're taking turns relapsing.

I think Rodney King is taking it very serious though.
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that reminds me of the scene in Forest gump, Where jenny wants to jump from the window !
never forget those days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thats the reason we go to meetings we have quick forgeters....great post!!
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holycrp-I know, they were not the good old days for me at all. I talk to friends about that time in my life and they think it was awesome! Now I am thinking THIS time of my life is awesome, finally! Being sober, having two little sniffling kids, staying home on a friday night with them cozied up next to me watching a Willy Wonka while I type away......eating popcorn, a little bored but content.
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You foxy chicks never gave me a second look at those parties!
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Did you bring the dope jacker ?
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I have seen the show before, not this one but I know what you mean.....going out all the time, it become what I did for so long, but then it moved past that, to drinking alone all the time...
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no kidding unclefunk--jacker you are a cutie but sheez, com on now! No dope, no cute chicks for you!
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Unclefunk (I can't call you Fred G. anymore..hee hee..) I can't watch that scene in Forrest Gump because it gives me a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach! Different era for me, but I can relate totally.
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I don't watch those shows watching people in sickness really makes me sad, it is no joke. I watched intervention a couple times and found it very sad.
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Mike it is sad. For me though- these kind of things remind me why I don't drink anymore. Seeing someone wasted-really an ugly site. Keeps me alert.
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I haven't seen Sober House, but I watch Intervention frequently. It's a good reminder of "what it was like before" (and could be again). I agree, Mike and KK, it's a heartbreaking show -- but highlights what I put the people who love me through, without ever even noticing.

I also like House, with the brilliant doctor addicted to painkillers. The idea of an addict-physician functioning at that level is ridiculous, but the enabling of the people around him strikes me as reasonably true to life. We enablers have our own selfish reasons for keeping the addict in his disease
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