i can’t stop drinking alcohol and i dont know if i wanna stop!? helppp?
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 at
5:50 pm
did AA, detox center and tried the rehab thing but hated it so left after a day….. longest i been sober is 2 weeks…..my partying ways is ruining my relationship w my fam but i cant quit nor am i motivated to wtf helppppp
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no one can force you to do anything you dont want to do, so YOU HAVE TO BE THE ONE TO MAKE THE DECISION. Give it up before you ruin your life. Alcohol is a very dangerous drug. i know what it can do.
if you dont want 2 stop then u wont stop u have to want 2 stop its as simple as that
but dont worry ur stop in a few years when ur livers packed up and ur layin in ur casket as ur family come to ur funeral (thts if u have any family left tht care about u after u wudnt give up drinkin) then ur b dead and buried jus like all other alcholics that refused to stop.
have a nice day ( not like your remember it )
You can ask the doctor to help you, doctor may give you advice, give you pill, medicine.
One best way is u must have a time to think to others think, not always thinking the alcohol.
You take the time to do some thing like, cooking, spa, reading, sports, talking to your friends, and do you like etc, what is you hobbies, like some hobbies is good for you like reading, listing to the music, and think what hobbies you can do it. Take this all hobbies do it when you try to think drinking alcohol.
I understand this, really. But I’ve been hospitalized too many times because of alcohol. Don’t get me wrong, I still love it…but I don’t use it as a crutch anymore.
I wrote something that I read in front of my AODA group on my 90 day graduation:
I once watched a show in which an extremely obese man described his addiction to food. He said that curbing his habits was harder for him than for other addicts because people have to eat daily to survive. As if alcoholics don’t crave the burn with every sip of something as innocent as water. As if crackheads don’t wish they had one more fix every time they see that lighter. As if heroin junkies don’t itch for their next high every time they get a flu shot. We all live with addiction. Whether you’ve been sober for 60 years or 60 minutes, you will ALWAYS be addicted. You will always want ‘just one more’. The key to beating the addiction before it beats you is knowing when to stop. Knowing that every stupid thing you did when you were fucked up is another reason to quit, not to get high enough to forget again. Knowing when to say “never again will that be me”. You can’t let addiction fuel your fear of living again.
HI im a addictions counselor. Of course you hated rehab. I dont know one client i have ever had in my years and years of being a counselor that just loved the idea of rehab.. Not one walked in the door with excitement and joy. Detox OHHH whooo hooo shakes, nightmares,sweats and vomit what fun . …..Ok so i read you post and you have already said it #1 you left after 1 day.. #2 you said the words”i can’t quit nor am i motivated” …..you were motivated enough to post this ..that is a start. and the word CAN’T whats that all about…YOU CAN HOWEVER YOU CHOSE NOT TO!…..”helppppp”… you have been offered help.. from your own words it seems alot of help. help you tried and help you refused proly because it was not your way. no offence.. truly i have been doing this for to many years to guess wrong at this point …..soooooo if it is not YOUR way of help well you are just not going to do it RIGHT?… and of course as we see your way of life has worked so well for you it has ,put you through the ringer upset your family and ohh i shouldnt dare list the many ramifications of what did you call it, your “partying ways” that sounds nicer than alcoholic.
OK here is where the real deal comes in …..YOU CAN STOP it is just NOT EASY OR FUN. IT DOWN RIGHT SUCKS!!! ITS HARD AND YOU END UP FACING ISSUES AND PROBLEMS AND ALL KINDS OF OTHER CRAP YOU DONT WANT TO FACE but you can stop. the not motivated part…. that is because you are scared. the BULLpucky part of recovery…that is the part that is trying to RETEACH you how to live life and how to rethink . it is just teaching you in ways you dont understand yet.
You want your family? You want your sanity?You want a future? Do You even know who you are ? i have to many questions and to many comments for this post
BOTTOM LINE .. YES YOU CAN IF YOU CHOOSE…. BUCK UP AND BE HONEST WITH YOURSLEF…. i mean more honest than you are trying to be on this post ….THANK YOU FOR POSTING IT IT IS AT LEAST A SIGN A FLICKER OF MOTIVATION
I haven’t had a drink for 26 yrs. Fortunately there were not many rehabs around when I got sober and I remember visiting a place as a guest speaker and loathing the environment, insensitive patronising of the counsellors most of whom were ex-addicts and would have been better receiving counselling, rather than getting their jollies by giving it.
But that still leaves you with your problem. Even if you don’t understand it, if you are open to it, you can come to understand this. That you may need help and support, but you are the cavalry. No matter what anyone does to you, imagined or real, you have the ability to say no to a drink. Maybe after the first one you lose a bit of control, but the first one is down to you.
and maybe take a look at smartrecovery.org
The fact that you are asking means that at least a part of you wants to stop, I am a recovering alcoholic and quitting drinking is SCARY, I know because it is the way that we deal with everything in our lives that are hard or uncomfortable. I had gone to AA years ago and didn’t like it because I wasn’t completely ready to give it up, finally I hit my bottom and knew I had no choice but to quit so I went to treatment and back to AA and sat through the uncomfortable feelings for a little while cause I didn’t want to die, I have been sober for 18 months now and am a very active member of AA (even though I thought it would never work for me) My life is amazing today, I have a sponsor and work the steps and I can’t even begin to tell you happy I am. Of course we all still have our days but life is great!!! Good luck and Ihope you will get help, it’s hard but worth it!