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My experience is one of denial but a gradual realisation...

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My experience is one of denial but a gradual realisation and necessity to accept that the "demon" is slowly killing me!

I would be interested to know how many introverted people outhere use it as a tool to become "normalised" and to realise their dreams of being a karaoke star, superstud, court jester, best mate etc!

I tire of being this inadequate, oddity wanting to be myself, but requiring a Dr Jeckyl potion in which to be me, a revelation by night and a Hideousness(pardon the pun), in the day's light!

I am intelligent enough to know all about enzymes, billirubin, bloodclotting disorders, oedema, the end game (cirrhosis).But don't know how to play it with a sceptical audience that doesn't suffer fools gladly. MR Alcohol guides me and shows me the way and I feel so comfortable with him by my side.

Forget the potions you have to change from within but not all can do that!

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  • Guest
    Guest

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    i can totally relate to what your saying ive had all those disillusions and more but finally im sober and hoping to stay that way it took me months of hell withdrawing but i got there and its the best thing ive ever done , mind you the temptation is still there i just keep reminding myself of my childhood i grew up wiyh an alcoholic mother and it was an awful childhood i dont want to put my kids through that because if they think of me what i think of my mother then i know i have failed as a parent, im a single mother i think i drank through loneliness,but now i just live each day as it comes and each day just gets better and better im focusing on things now im learning to drive, just passed theory test, im living for my kids now not for drink. i hope you too can find some sort of inner peace in yourself with a little patients and determination it can be done. i wish you well.

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  • Guest
    Guest

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    Read Allen Carr's Easy Way to Control Alcohol and then go to his one day clinic. I am a cynic and did not believe it could work. I have been drinking for 30 years and every day for 20! I have not touched a drop since going to the above, but the best thing is I have not wanted to!!

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  • finn
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    Hi I've been drinking increasingly heavily for about 13 years. I used to drink a lot when I was younger then stopped before trying (successfully) to get pregnant. I tend to drink wine at home and I think a lot of it's out of boredom. I can really relate to the 'denial' thing - especially as I don't 'get drunk' easily - ie no-one would be likely to know I'd had a bottle of wine to myself. I don't know about you, but I don't feel OK about going to local groups for one reason or another and have been trying to find an online advice/support group. Any ideas?
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