Just coming back from a bad relapse. Lost my job. No family or friends. So I heard about Loosid as a great place to come build a support system. I am feeling pretty scared and alone right now.
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Glad you’re here! There are many supportive people on here. If it makes you feel less alone, I just had a bad wake up call too.
Crashed my car due to drinking and it’s a total loss, so no car.
Had to bounce back, now 6 days sober
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Welcome, there are a lot of good people here. Even though I’m 3 years sober I’m still lonely, I totally understand. Joining a group helped me a lot.
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Hey Shannon, I'm new here too. I've only got a few days under my belt after a nasty relapse. It feels good to have another support system like Loosid just to connect with people and help pick me up. If you ever want to chat or whatever, please don't hesitate. I too can use all the help I can get right now.
You got this!!! addicts/alcoholics are the strongest people on earth I think.
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I am so sorry to hear that. If ya need a friend to talk to just let me know. I am glad to meet you.
Hello. I am glad your back and it’s very nice to meet you!
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Welcome 
this is a great place !!
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Happiness is difficult to find within oneself. But it’s impossible to find it anywhere else until one finds it from within. One thing I realized was that I’m willing to risk being the loneliest person on Earth if it means maintaining sobriety. Watch a comedy, listen to music, find joy with something that no matter what just makes you smile. And build with that.
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Hi Shannon. I’m newly back I’m my sobriety. I find this app to be really helpful. Here as a friend!
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So glad you’re here Shannon. 
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Shannon welcome this place has kinda saved me
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I am so very glad you came here. There are so many people in the same position you are in. We can give you support and love and hope and a place to vent. Use us 
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I’m right there with ya, feel so alone
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No one is alone if you are on this app. We understand and will support. Just pick yourself up, dust off, learn from mistakes and carry on.
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Best piece of advice from an old timer. The person who wakes up earliest has the longest period of sobriety. Each day is an opportunity to improve. Relapse happens
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The good thing about your desire to bounce back is that you’re not giving up.
My SUD psychologist told me that unfortunately, relapse is part of recovery. Have some grace hang in there
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Been there many times. I used to be the relapse King. I'm glad you're okay. So what is your game plan now? Do you know why you picked up a drink?
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I’m giving myself a few weeks to stabilize and get through the physical withdrawals. Get grounded back into recovery and then start looking for another job.
Whatever you try I hope it works and I want to say that I'm glad that you are no worse off than you are. It can definitely get bad. You name it, I woke up there and didn't have a clue in the world how I got there. I tried getting sober through the years by doing it my way and then sometime in 2002 I had had enough and I really wanted to get sober.
Given enough time, alcohol beats us into a state of willingness. I'd like to give you something that I give to lots of new people because I believe in it is the key to understanding our problem and how to solve it. It comes from a chapter in The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous entitled "The Doctor's Opinion."
Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol. 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 once again experience the ease and comfort that 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
sets in, they pass through the well-known stages of a spree, emerging remorseful with a firm resolution to never drink again. This is repeated over and over and unless this person can experience an
entire psychic change
there is very little hope for his or her recovery.
This psychic change that is talked about in this reading is acquired by taking the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. Through it we are transformed into a new dimension and the obsession to drink is removed.