Alcoholism Recovery

20 Responses

1. bj:

   i want my life back

   Posted on September 6th, 2008 at 10:59 am

2. Stan:

   BJ

   You’ve made the first step - you actually have decided that you want your life back.

   But here’s a harder and much more productive question…

   Why do you want your life back?

   I didn’t begin to recover from Alcoholism until I decided why I wanted to fight for my life.

   So tell me - exactly WHY do you want your life back?

   Posted on September 7th, 2008 at 12:14 am

3. JH:

   Please help. I’m tired of living this way…

   Posted on December 11th, 2008 at 5:18 pm

4. cp:

   Iam sick of being sick help me feel normal again

   Posted on January 28th, 2009 at 7:11 pm

5. bmj:

   Today will be my third day sober. I’ve attended two AA meetings in the past two days. I’m having craving off and on. I listened to a neurological study by the University of SC and am SO encouraged that this addiction in the brain can be turned around and back to normal. I remember quitting cigarettes 10 years ago and I RARELY get a craving for them. But, I know I will need to “keep my seatbelt on” and keep “my loins girded” so to speak. I’ve been watching your videos for two days too and they are very helpful. Thank you SO much Stan for your selfless sacrifice to help others, me included

   Posted on February 20th, 2009 at 4:10 pm

6. SES:

   Hi Stan, found your site 3 days ago.Igave up smoking for 10 years and not a drop when pregnant.Can do this for other people but hard for myself.Black/White, good/bad no grey areas in between.More I think about not having a drink,the more I obsess about it and fall off the wagon.Same when dieting as a teenager,would eat MORE>
   I want to feel normal again!

   Posted on March 4th, 2009 at 2:27 am

7. KC:

   I just joined yesterday. Going to try not having a drink tonight…I’m already thinking about it. I already feel like I want a glass in my hand, but don’t even want the feeling of being intoxicated. I want this fog to go away and feel alive again. I want my life back. I want to be in control of my life.

   KC

   Posted on October 11th, 2009 at 3:21 am

8. Be:

   I just leave my husband a month a go… He is an alcoholic
   I feel so bad… I dont know anything about him since saturday… God!, I’m so afraid someting happen to him

   Posted on November 5th, 2009 at 3:04 pm

9. loris:

   i wish i could turn back time, so i wouldnìt start drinking,
   but i can’t always stop can’t i!? i’m so scared

   Posted on November 9th, 2009 at 12:33 am

10. Sharon barnett:

    I am so pleased I have found this website it has given me hope to stop drinking.

    Posted on December 28th, 2009 at 8:20 pm

11. sk:

    am sick and tired of myself due to alcohol addiction . hope to start a new life from tommorrow . god bless all of us .

    Posted on February 6th, 2010 at 2:05 pm

12. Melissa L:

    I am a single mother of 2 amazing children, I need to be there for them. I have never wanted to be sober until now. The problem I have is that every time I try to go a night without wine, I loose an entire night of sleep. I lost my job last year, so I don’t have insurance. Please help…

    Posted on March 17th, 2010 at 7:43 pm

13. ithurts2much:

    I don’t recall the exact moment in time that I crossed the threshold between drinking to solely drown away the memories and becoming a full blown alcholic… I think maybe it was gradual, but I couldn’t see it.
    Just 3 years ago I only drank socially 6-12 times a year, and never drank with the intentions of getting drunk; frankly I didn’t like how it made me feel and I was always aware and embaressed for the people around me who acted like ridiculous fools when they drank too much.
    2.5 years ago my heart was broken and I didn’t know how to cope, so I started drinking to drown the pain away, but to be perfectly honest I think that although that’s what I wanted to believe I was doing - “drinking to forget” most days I punished myself by “drinking to remember”, and that’s how I got here.
    I drink from the moment I get up and continue to drink periodically throughout the day and night, more or less depending on my work schedule.
    I shake, I sweat, and I am physically sick every morning (hence the drinking upon waking). Isn’t it funny though that the same thing that is making me sooo sick is the same thing that makes me better???
    I am in real danger here, not only of losing my life, but of losing my family and friends. I can be a very mean emotional drunk (depends on the day), but no matter what day it is I am not the same person the people closest to me remember and miss. I need help to figure out how to stop this sick cycle caraousel.
    Please any advice or information would be helpful.

    Sincerely,
    It Hurts Too Much

    Posted on May 7th, 2010 at 11:51 pm

14. Lisa:

    Hey Stan,

    I came across your video on youtube because I was looking for information on how to reduce anxiety but also on alcoholism. I just had a huge blowout with a friend of mine yesterday, I am not sure what happened there but he was so angry and drunk and I am not an angry drunk but this morning I woke to feelings of guilt and inadequacy but also to the fact that I had no idea why he was so angry. Now I know its not my fault he is an angry drunk, his poor girlfriend was crying, I remember that. But I can’t help feeling that if I had been sober maybe I could have talked him into calming down, right?

    A similar thing happened barely a few weeks ago, maybe one or two weeks ago, I went to visit my Dad and we had been drinking and somewhere in there my Dad got angry about something his friend had said or done and then blamed me for it. While trying to tell my Dad to calm down, my Dad got all mad and hit me. I called my brother to come get me and I cried in the taxi all the way to my brothers house.

    I don’t drink daily, I don’t have the shakes, I just think that my whole family likes to drink just a little too much. I have a wonderful son and an amazing partner who I know has been instrumental in me drinking way less than I ever did in the past. But I still have a hard time saying no to that next drink. Missing chunks of time are not uncommon when this happens. I have been known to homing pigeon it home, and its a phrase I coined to mean that I get home but I don’t know how I got there.

    I am not as bad now as I was in my younger days, back then I would be losing a mobile phone a month or worse, waking with bruises or cuts from having fallen but not remembering having fallen. That still happens to me now from time to time. It frustrates me that AA is someplace for alcoholics and somehow an alcohol abuser like myself may not be considered as having a problem because I don’t drink daily. I really want to quit drinking but its like I would be a social cripple within my family and in my mind if I give up.

    I need help, I need support, and most of all I need to know I am not alone here. I have tried to give up alcohol before and did just fine with it, but the scarier part is thinking of giving up alcohol for the rest of my life…it actually scares me to think of not having a drink ever again! But I also know I am not capable of having just one. I may not drink daily, but when I do drink, I drink to get drunk…and that can’t be a good thing, right? My Dad drinks the same way, my sister too, my brother too…can you help me find the strength to be the one person to give it up for good and to know that this shouldn’t scare me?

    Thanks…

    Lisa

    Posted on May 30th, 2010 at 12:37 pm

15. LH:

    Found you website and was such a blessing. I have been in denial for over a year. I have all the elements of an alcholic, I am!! I never was a drinker at all just special times, a few years ago I started drinking more socially and I noticed in the past year it seemed like I was drinking more and more. I had felt like I needed a drink just to make it through the day. Before I had started really drinking I was going through a depression, which happened during the time , I had an abortion and was feeling very bad, my business was going through financial problems, I was feeling oberwelmed and under appreciated and I was getting Married!! I had felt like I was having a nervous breakdown so I started going out to happy hour with friends after work and started drinking more at home snd events. I knew at that time something was different about me because I seemed to get more drunk than others and started embarrasing myself , (I have always been a conservitive person so it was odd to me as well as my husband). I starting getting more depressed and crying and arguing all the time with my husband concerning drinking. Still in denial my life was beginning to spiral out of control, blackouts, intoxicated at my business, lack of passion, ect. I had a defining wake up call when my husband said to me, that the person I am drinking Is not who I am and I was a bright, smart women, beautiful women that either wants to choose beautiful life and future and live my dreams, or drink and be miserable while life passes me by. At that time he did not know that I had admitted to myself that I had a problem and I choose to have the most amazing life, and that drinking was no longer an option ever. I did not even want to be in the fog anymore, I wanted Sunny days. Life brings you curve balls and I am going to do everything in my power to make sure alchohol is the ball the never comes back my way.
    Thank you,LH

    Posted on June 3rd, 2010 at 6:59 am

16. Brittany Niebyl:

    Thanks a lot for the article. I really loved the read.

    Posted on June 17th, 2010 at 3:47 am

17. Rocco Alwardt:

    Thanks for writing the blog post. I really loved the read.

    Posted on June 22nd, 2010 at 9:32 am

18. Dave:

    I’m thankful for the freedom of choice that God has given me. But like many people,When It Comes To Drinking I Exceed My Limits And Take More Than I Should. Most people are on their 2nd drink, and I’m already on number 6. Anyway thank-you for this web sight, and I will check in later.

    Posted on August 19th, 2010 at 4:07 am

19. Dave:

    Does anyone write on this blog? we are here to support each other. Come on guys

    Posted on August 20th, 2010 at 1:53 am

20. LS:

    Hi, just watched the videos, wow, thank you. I don’t want to be labelled an alcoholic, it scares me. I like to have wine at night, that’s a fact, I have two little children, I enjoy the feeling, but it’s happening every night and that’s not good. I wake up fine, but my husband is worried, so he should be. I am keen to blog and learn more.

    Posted on August 25th, 2010 at 10:19 pm