
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.

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I won't call my aa buddies because i feel like i am bothering them. Yes, i am unable to get my mind off my husband...poop. it is hard to focus on my real problem. if i didn't have this problem, i wouldn't EVEN know this man...it's crazy...
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I would say that calling the AA helpline is a good in between - you know that they are there aiting for callers, so I don't feel like I'm interrupting them, and usually I don't hav toface them aftrewards either!!
Here's some friendly advice who has 8 years of sobriety, and to everyone else, that phone sure is heavy ain't it ;o)
Who are you bothering, hey I get phone calls almost 24 a days, lately at 2-3:00 AM, they don't bother me, that's what I'm here for, remember what we always say "When anyone any where reaches out for help, for that I want the hand of AA to be there"
Also to me it sounds like you haven't really grasped the first step and are trying to push through all 12 at once, hey you have a life time to do this, get Step one first, the only one you have get perfect, remember it is in two parts not just one (notice the hyphen) We admitted we were alcoholics---That our lives had become unmanageable, I'm not going to bore you with all of the AA lingo.
Just tell you a little bit about me and my story, the full version would take days.
I was AA for a year taking up a chair that someone else could be using, after that first year and not doing any foot work, I too wouldn't call anyone, I didn't need to, I knew what to do hey I had a year.
After the I had made one year and they gave me my chip, I decided that now I knew how to drink, so, I went to the bar down the street, 13 years later, I literally came in on my hands and knees to a meeting, stinking from not taking a shower, lost about 100 pounds of weight, food got in the way of drinking.
After the meeting that night two ornery old men, grabbed me took me to one of their houses,let me sleep of my LAST drunk, when I woke up they had some clean clothes and had scrounged some clean clothes, they didn't fit but who cared, I took a shower for the first time in a long time, and they told me I was going to a meeting that night, hung over, wanting a drink, the shakes...you know the story, they threw me in the back of their car and off we went, Today one of those mean old men is my sponsor and the other one was his sponsor, I call him everyday, and since he retired he's 73 I'm 45, we go to lunch on Tuesday's ( the old fart don't even knock ;o) His sponsor passed on a couple of years ago with 28 sobriety, I cried harder that day, than I did when my own mother died, my sponsor and I go to at least two meetings a day, sometimes three, I can't work because of Parkinson's so that gives me a lot of free time for meetings, we just hop in the car and go, I've been to meetings all over almost the whole United States and am getting to be great friends with everyone, some of them all we hear is OH NO here come those two again 'friendly laughter'
So this is this short version, if it wasn't for those two grouchy old men, I would be the undertakers best friend right now.
So let's see you had time to write here (which is great at least you are willing to ask for help) But in those short few minutes, the phone dials just as fast.
YOU'RE NOT BOTHERING ANYBODY WITH A PHONE CALL, in fact we love to get a phone call from a newcomer, it shows us that the program really works.
Right now I know you are all thinking, who is this old grouch to tell me what to do. I'm not telling you to do anything, just making a suggestion.
Let me know if I can be on anybodies friends list, and I do answer all. I've buried too many friends, and I hate suits, so please take my advice and call or even go to their house, bet they have a coffee pot, and won't care.
Love all of you, thanks for listening to some advice,
Yours in sobriety,
DougC
Here's something for thought:
I wish that I would never see, a drunk as pitiful as me, with blood shot eyes and ruddy face, living one step out of God's grace, and should I see him on the road, trying to carry this heavy load.
May my sobriety make me see, how the "lack" of alcohol has set me free.
And may I take him by the hand, to his feet so he may stand, and in conscientiousnesses or moment fleeting.
BRING HIM TO AN A.A. MEETING
Please pass this on to your sponsors, and keep a copy for yourself.
Also if you can't hit your knees in the morning to ask your HP for help, throw your shows under the bed, then you have no choice.
DougC
Scared of who? All people have their little doubts and Big ones too. Just be brave. All people have something inside them that makes them doubt themselves in some way. so think of that. They are just as scared as you are. Reach out and touch someone.
I have also gotten phone calls at 3am... I have gone out to help a friend at that hour. Trust me, anyone who says they have no time for you, lose their number.. those who have time, keep theirs... those numbers will come in handy. And the phone is not really that heavy and our arms are not broken.