Well, had a slip and started over! 17

Recovery
#1

Well, had a slip and started over! 17 days!!!! Woohoo!

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#2

Nice to have you back !! Keep up the Great work !!

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#3

Keep up the amazing work! So proud of you.

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#4

Congratulations on 17

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#5

We don't have Slips. We make a conscious decision. . Relapse doesn't have to be apart of your story anymore. TRUST the process and you will have your RECOVERY.. TIME... things I must EARN TIME

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#6

Good job! I binged drinking and am now suffering the detox consequences. I don't know why I can't stop.

#7

You can IF you want to. No excuse. Regroup start over, reach out. There really is no good excuse to use when we mess up. This has to be what you want. Not for anyone else but yourself. You got this.

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#8

It's so hard when you're completely alone in this world. :pleading_face:

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I know. I have my family not talking to me because I don’t drink. So I get the lonely. My own daughter didn’t talk to me for 5 months. Thank god we got that fixed Monday. I just know that an alcoholic death is brutal I watched it first hand so I just fight fight fight keep reaching out here sobriety is better than death :pray::pray::pray::heart::heart:

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#10

This site is great too

#11

I watched my mom drink herself to death at age 46. We tried everything. I still deal with the guilt of not calling my grandparents when the end was near. She had lost control of her urinary and bowl functions. I told her she was going to die if she didn't to a hospital. I gave her an ultimatum. I told if she picks up the phone and calls me, chooses life, I would drop everything and take anywhere she wanted and I walked out. She died about seven days later. :sleepy:

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#12

Oh my so sorry. My brother 33 died yellow in the hospital and my dear friend was found dead in his car. He bled out from alcohol. That’s why I was so mad at myself for doing the same thing. My brother was the color of a lemon. :sob:. So are you sober now

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#13

I'm so sorry to hear about your brother and friend. I had a friend that bled out too. I heard it was pretty gruesome when they found him. Yes, I'm sober now. Using some drugs to help get through the detox. There are absolutely no inpatient programs that take Medicare. You have no idea how much I appreciate you talking with me Nancy. I'm painfully shy so it's near impossible to make friends.

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Where are you from. They took Medicare here. That’s crazy. I love helping people. I plan on going to school for recovery coach at some point.

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I'm in Portland Oregon. I've been on the phone all day with people trying to find some place.

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Doug, you got this! WE can do this

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#17

SLIP = Sobriety lost its priority! No judgment it’s what we alcoholics do. We don’t shoot out wounded. You gave us the honest open truth and that’s also courage!

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#18

I hope you find something soon. Chat again good night.

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#19

Our wounded. I relapsed for much long and you had the good sense to get back up! We drink because it’s an addiction. That’s why it’s called alcoholism not alcoholwasm. Remember, I can’t we can!!!

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#20

Thank you Tony. As I’m sure you know, I was t being honest with myself… the old “I can have just one” NOPE… no I can’t and I proved that really good :woman_facepalming:t2: