When was the day for you, when you truly committed?
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July 17th of 2022. I was tired of being tired . Exhausted with myself and life .
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And for you ?
I was on my way to rehab, having my final drink at the airport. I snuck some rum and coke into the empty bathroom stall so no one could see me. As I was mixing, I thought to myself… what the F am I doing..
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Summer just before covid had began.
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I’m so tired, of being tired. Sitting at a brewery watching my previous life in front of me, my 20’s having so much fun, my 30’s with my kiddo when they don’t understand. My early 40’s, getting more and more sad, and the defeated guy in his 50’s next to me. It was very much laid out in front of me tonight.
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Everybody's bottom looks different but it's a fact we all have one. Life is so much better without the drink and drug.
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Congratulations on a year🙏
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Thankyou very much
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A sudden moment of clarity of your reality can be the bottom you’ve needed to make the decision to move forward. From my experience, you must hold that moment close to you and make that decision ODAAT. This saying is so overstated, but it’s also often forgotten. Once we start feeling a little better, we forget about the pain and our commitment. Write down on paper how you felt at that moment. Read it to yourself every morning. Make that decision to choose a different path just for today
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I was shooting H/fentanyl due to pain and had only been doing so for 2mo. I was living_working out of state and it had been a few weeks since I had spoke to my kids. I wanted to call them but couldn't, knowing I would likely be dead within a year. I called the VA and demanded that they put me in rehab. While waiting to go to rehab, my brother in law died of an overdose. We were supposed to attend NA together the next week.
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July 3rd, 2021. Spent the 4th struggling to "right myself" physically, couldn't do anything, but didn't drink. Marked the 5th as the date, never looked back.
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May 24 2019, I overdosed and had my first spiritual awakening.
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October 3, 2020 If I do it again I lose everything.
Sorry for your loss
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I am so proud you you SoberinSoFloLee.
When I got released from the hospital that I was in because they realized I was only there for food and a place to sleep and I guess once I stepped outside, some sort of higher power came over me and told me to walk to the Salvation Army and Trenton , and that is the day I truly surrendered. I have not had a desire to drink or drunk since July 5, 2017.
When I OD’d on my dads birthday in county jail in 2021 I knew I had to do something different so sick of doing well for so long just to screw up one time one little time to bring all my good work crumbling down glad to be past that got a good routine and solid support group
09.21.2016. Still take it 1 day at a time. IT WORKS!!!!
Vital organs were in shutdown, my brain said "keep drinking, you don't need a functioning heart, liver, or kidneys... alcohol will fix it"...but the decay inside of my body was attracting flies in January... and I didn't want my dog to be stuck in my house with a dead body...so I called a friend and asked her to drop me off at a hospital for detox. Last drink? Nope...but it was the start to almost 2,000 days without alcohol, as of today. It's a daily choice, today.
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