Day one. Yet again. I’m so agitated. Please say this

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#21

Life doesn't get easier but we get better at handling life if we take the appropriate action that is suggested to us.
At least that's the way it has always worked in Alcoholics Anonymous.

They tell us to get phone numbers and to use them before you pick up a drink. They tell you to go to meetings everyday for the first 90 days.
They tell you to get a sponsor and start taking the 12 steps.

When we take the suggestions, the promises start coming true in our lives.

Nothing changes if nothing changes.

And by the way, the reason that you picked up again is because you Keep On Believing the big lie that alcohol feeds us; that this time, everything will be okay. But it never is.

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#22

It does. Keep going to meetings when you are feeling this way. surround yourself with people who want the best for you. Try a newcomers meeting. Get a list of names and numbers and get to those meetings. :blush:

#23

Let me ask first and foremost what exactly you're agitated about. Are you even sure yourself? Is it the remorse of relapse? Is it the thought of living sober? Is it the lack of control over addiction? In the beginnings all of these get knotted into a huge tangle and we find ourselves angry, resentful and remorseful but can't really unravel the why behind it. Start taking the moments to identify these things and you'll begin to learn what makes you tick. Tread through those lessons long enough and you'll start to discover who you are and how to live sober.

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#24

Day one here as well…day two is on the horizon.

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#25

. I have a tendency to just give people the same thing all the time. Most of it comes from AA. But I like the way you put all that together.

Great advice

#26

Mandy
Let me give you something else to think about. This comes from the Big Book of AA in a chapter entitled The Doctor's Opinion. It can apply to drug addicts also. Alcohol is a drug.

See if you can relate.

“Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol. The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is injurious, they cannot after a time differentiate the true from the false. To them, their alcoholic life seems the only normal one. They are

restless, irritable and discontented

unless they can again experience the sense of ease and comfort which comes at once by taking a few drinks—drinks which they see others taking with impunity. After they have succumbed to the desire again, as so many do, and the

phenomenon of craving develops,

they pass through the well-known stages of a spree, emerging remorseful, with a firm resolution not to drink again. This is repeated over and over, and unless this person can experience

an entire psychic change

there is very little hope of his or her recovery.”

The psychic change is acquired by going to AA meetings and taking the 12 steps. When you do this eventually the promises start to come true for you in your life.