I have been trying to get sober for years now… I keep relapsing and getting in trouble with the law. I want to quit. I want to be done. I need help so bad.
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To each their own, different strokes for different folks. All that to say, AA/NA is helpful. I still attend occasionally. Celebrate recovery is my home group HOWEVER, we're it not for what I learned in SMART Recovery I believe I would have struggled with relapse much more than I have.
Check it out, even online. The tools they provide alongside the psychology driven approach have helped me and others I know tremendously.
I don't feel the need to go to SMART any longer but I really should attend from time to time just for the tools, as I still have so much to learn.
Hannah, you have the desire. Take that desire and put it into action. Keep putting it in action. Starting the counter over sucks until you get over it and not a second longer.
You Got This!
Every time I pick up I breakout in handcuffed. It is a progressive disease in only gets worse over time.
The sobriety lasts one day at a time. The use of these slogans take on a new meaning..all we have is now, not yesterday, not tomorrow..My downfalls became numerous; DUI’s, 5 of them. I relapsed and knew I had to get to AA. I firmly believe my 6th DUI was just around the corner. This time I’d go to jail. Plus I loathed myself. It wasn’t fun. It was daily drinking right off the bat. I tried to enjoy it. From the very start, I hid bringing alcohol into the house. Normal drinkers don’t hide the booze. I was new in the neighborhood..no one knew me. It lasted 9 months. For 5 months I drank and went to AA. I didn’t go to meetings under the influence. That’s not what I meant. I have 5 1/2 months alcohol free..I couldn’t believe the level of disgust I had with myself. That was my bottom this today. I got in there before I went the DUI route..I’m too old (66) to be getting locked up. Before I relapsed, I had 13 years.