I had over 4 months and snapped and relapsed for a couple weeks (I’m on probation that almost ruined everything) I’m just happy to be back in AA and have 9 days and that these apps exist. I hope you all have an amazing day! 
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Welcome back and Congratulations on your time !!!! You have an Amazing day too !!!!!
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Welcome back
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Welcome back! No recovery is perfect. This is your journey. Just glad you turned it around.
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Thank you
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Welcome back! We all stumble, just matters that you got back up.
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Welcome Back!!!! I know that from my experience it’s not easy.
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Glad you're okay. I've been around this thing a long time and I've known several people that went back out and never made it back.
You're probably not going to like these questions but I'm going to ask you them anyway because I don't screw around when it comes to helping people get their lives back on track in recovery.
And I don't want you or anybody else to be one of those people that doesn't make it back.
May I ask why you went back out?
Did it get any better for you?
Did you pick up the phone and call anyone before you picked up the first drink?
Have you been going to AA meetings regularly?
After 4 months of sobriety we no longer have the obsession.
People were straight with me many years ago and so I'm going to be straight with you like I am with everyone else.
When you relapsed after 4 months it's because you chose to drink rather than stay sober.
It's called believing the BIG LIE Taylor; that this time, everything will be okay. But it wasn't, was it?
We have to learn to play the scene forward. When you first picked up a drink you probably started to feel that ease and comfort that comes at once by taking a few drinks.
But then after a while you realized that it wasn't that great of a deal and you were also carrying around a lot of shame realizing that you were going to have to start all over again.
I screwed up so I may as well just get good and drunk!
Right?
I've been there!
Alcohol promises us so much and lets us down every time. We have to get this through our heads and the idea that we can ever drink like other people has to be smashed completely.
The reason I'm a straight shooter is because I want you to experience complete recovery from alcohol and or drugs. There's a great freedom that comes from that and I have experienced it because I did what was suggested and I took the steps.
This app is great for support but it is definitely not a solution.
Relapse for me today is no longer an option.
Be grateful that your able to come back
Welcome back!!!!!!!
Just stay motivated, and move forward with your recovery. Thanks for sharing.
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Welcome back Taylor. I stopped thinking of them as setbacks and more as glitches in the Matrix. You still have everything you learned before this happened. The only thing starting again is your day count, and now you're super charged to multiply your previous record and go further.
A lot of helpful information here, but I don't think its fair to say "After 4 months of sobriety, we no longer have the obsession."
Yes, we are thinking more clearly but I think the obsession can linger significantly longer for many people. I just passed the 6 month mark and still ask my higher power to keep the obsession at bay every morning.
Post-acute withdrawal symptoms can present themselves for up to 2 years or more after stopping depending on the person, their experience and lifestyle, and PAWS can indeed trigger obsessive desires to drink or use.
Thanks Omar
You might be right. I guess it depends on what we've been doing in recovery.
I was trying to say after 4 months we are as sober as we're ever going to be. I couldn't get past one day without a drink. I was addicted and couldn't make that choice.
But after detox and 4 months, it really is a choice. Too often people think obsession means addicted and use that as an excuse for picking up the first drink.
I have been sober for nearly 9 yrs. I would love to pick up a drink but I'm not obsessed with it. I just know the deception and outcome. I will never be able to drink like a normal person.
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Keep pushing through it!
It's not how many times you fall, it's how many times you get up!!!!
Hang in there bro. Not the first time someones gone out .
Just come on back and take it one day at a time