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Rick posted a new activity comment 7 years, 10 months ago
Thank you for sharing. I’ve spent 30 years in the military and drink alcohol was the social. No one cared about how much you drank as long as you’d show up to work on time. You’d never think about getting help because of the fear that self-identifying would be detrimental to your career advancement. I am retired now and have decided that I do…[Read more]
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Rick posted a new activity comment 7 years, 10 months ago
Thanks Omar… Since this post I have joined an online chat group and attend my first AA Meeting. Been sober for 9 days (ODAAT)
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Rick posted an update in the group
Alcohol Recovery Group 7 years, 10 months agoHello I’m Rick and I’m an alcoholic . My friends and family don’t believe that I am, but I have no doubt. I’ve been trying stop drinking for many years on my own and through prayer,but I keep slipping. A week or two of abstinence followed by a week or three of straight binging. I’m tired of the guilt.
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Osmar, alcoholic…Rick, been there done that! You’re in the right place as I’m sure you’ve heard many a time…ahhhhh the hideous Four Horsemen that our Big Book talks about on pg 151; “Terror, Bewilderment, Frustration, Despair. Unhappy drinkers who read this page will understand!” All I can say is that this disease is the only one that is…[Read more]
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Thanks Omar… Since this post I have joined an online chat group and attend my first AA Meeting. Been sober for 9 days (ODAAT)
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Rick,
Congratulations! I used to minimize my sobriety thinking that I had to have lots of time to feel “a part of”, rather than “apart from”…truth is that if you’re as alcoholic as I am, one day…make that one hour, is an absolute miracle! I remember attending a sobriety countdown meeting and our guest speaker was an elderly couple with 30/31…[Read more]
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hi rick,
I’m an alcoholic from an alcoholic family. they didn’t want to think I was an alcoholic because of stereotyping. since I was still functional at the end, I didn’t fit the type; which is, homeless, autoless, jobless and worthless. sleeping in a cardboard box and using a shopping cart for transportation was the picture of an alcoholic…[Read more]-
Thank you for sharing. I’ve spent 30 years in the military and drink alcohol was the social. No one cared about how much you drank as long as you’d show up to work on time. You’d never think about getting help because of the fear that self-identifying would be detrimental to your career advancement. I am retired now and have decided that I do…[Read more]
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Rick,
Congratulations! I used to minimize my sobriety thinking that I had to have lots of time to feel “a part of”, rather than “apart from”…truth is that if you’re as alcoholic as I am, one day…make that one hour, is an absolute miracle! I remember attending a sobriety countdown meeting and our guest speaker was an elderly couple with 30/31…[Read more]