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.
Until I was 18, I did not drink... period. When I turned 18, my best friend died... after which, I tried alcohol as a coping mechanism and liked how it made me feel.
After the initial part of the grief stage - about a year after the incident - I stopped drinking.
When I turned 21, I started drinking recreationally and started to like it more and more. I was able to keep my drinking to a minimum and only drank when I went out with friends (about once every 2 weeks, many times less than that).
When I turned 24, I began my slow and steady descent to the bottom. Everything was changing and I felt like I had not done anything with my life. I went from having a drink a couple times a week to having a few drinks every other day.
6 months ago, I reached the very bottom. I did not have any support in anything I did, so I turned to alcohol. I hated it (still do hate it), but it is the only place I can find solace. I have become dependent on it... so much so that I have not been able to go a single day in the past 6 months without getting trashed to the point of passing out or, even worse, blacking out. My best friend and I went separate ways about 3 months ago; my youngest brother (the closest person to me in the whole wide world) stopped talking to me a month and a half ago; my other younger brother stopped talking to me 3 weeks ago... my life has just gone to shit and I just cannot find my way out!
I would try local support groups, but the only groups close to me are in very bad neighborhoods, and I do not have transportation to go to better locations and have lost all of my friends that would have been willing/able to take me...
I have reached the end of my rope and am at my wit's end.
Any support or ideas would be awesome right about now! Even just a pen pal to chat with, someone to have to e-mail at any point in time if I need a motivational word to keep me from turning back to the bottle... anything, really...
I need help...
After the initial part of the grief stage - about a year after the incident - I stopped drinking.
When I turned 21, I started drinking recreationally and started to like it more and more. I was able to keep my drinking to a minimum and only drank when I went out with friends (about once every 2 weeks, many times less than that).
When I turned 24, I began my slow and steady descent to the bottom. Everything was changing and I felt like I had not done anything with my life. I went from having a drink a couple times a week to having a few drinks every other day.
6 months ago, I reached the very bottom. I did not have any support in anything I did, so I turned to alcohol. I hated it (still do hate it), but it is the only place I can find solace. I have become dependent on it... so much so that I have not been able to go a single day in the past 6 months without getting trashed to the point of passing out or, even worse, blacking out. My best friend and I went separate ways about 3 months ago; my youngest brother (the closest person to me in the whole wide world) stopped talking to me a month and a half ago; my other younger brother stopped talking to me 3 weeks ago... my life has just gone to shit and I just cannot find my way out!
I would try local support groups, but the only groups close to me are in very bad neighborhoods, and I do not have transportation to go to better locations and have lost all of my friends that would have been willing/able to take me...
I have reached the end of my rope and am at my wit's end.
Any support or ideas would be awesome right about now! Even just a pen pal to chat with, someone to have to e-mail at any point in time if I need a motivational word to keep me from turning back to the bottle... anything, really...
I need help...
mommato2lilmonkeys
Believe it or not, the fact that you are reaching out for help puts you way ahead of most alcoholics. I can promise you that relationships will be repaired if you are patient and if you make sobriety your top priority. I know it's hard, but I think you'll find that it's not as difficult as you think. For us, fear is a huge problem and fear makes things a lot worse than they really are. This clich has been driven into the ground, but it's all we have, and it's all you need to worry about right now....."one day at a time." Yesterday is gone and tomorrow might not even come, so it's all about today. Do whatever it takes to not drink today.