I don’t know how to stop myself from binge drinking

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#1

I don’t know how to stop myself from binge drinking. Every day I wake up telling myself I won’t drink but I find myself in places and around people that drink. Of course I can’t blame the people or the places.

It’s almost 1 year since my dads passing and most of it has been spent sober but the last month or so I’ve drank every single day. I woke up and my liver hurt the other day but I still went back and drank more. It doesn’t seem like a big deal when you’re drunk but when sober you can see the seriousness and the self destructive tendencies.

What helped you?

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#2

For me it was realizing I was about to lose everything I know. I spiraled fast.. so fast I didn’t realize until it was almost too late. I called a friend I knew was in the program and that day was my first meeting. If you truly want to be sober, get to a meeting, work a program, get help. We can not do it alone.

#3

Binging was easy to do while drinking when I started and I still need to be mindful in sobriety about eating. Meditation, journaling, and watching my thoughts helps !

#4

Pancreatitis. I almost died because I didn’t listen to my body. Try some meetings, try not to frequent those places that make you drink that much. Easier said than done I know. Good luck to you.

#6

I was in this exact same pattern for my last 3 years of my drinking career. I could have chose any one of those days as a bottom but I did finally have a bottom. I was defeated, humiliated and was ready to admit defeat and surrender the fact I was alcoholic and was going to die. I was willing to do anything to save my life and I knew I was the only one that could. I tried AA and said I would do the famous 90 meetings in 90 days and if that didn’t work I’d do a long term in patient recovery. I put everything I had into those first three months and thankfully it has kept me sober now three years and a couple months. I now have a good life, I’m still very active in AA and have grown to live the program. It takes a lot of work but mostly going after sobriety like your life depends on it is the key to my sobriety