The plan

So don't think you're unloved.

Well, you've done it before, so you can do it again and you're not wasting people's time, people choose to post here. We can stop posting at any time, ignore threads or just go off for a break for awhile.

On that note I gotta crash, as it's just gone midnight here and I need to be up early tomorrow.

You are TOTALLY not wasting our time, you are quite welcome here.

I just replied to your question in the "Torture" topic, if you have any other questions, please do ask. I'm timeslicing quite a bit today, but I'll do my best to get back to you. 

i am currently sunning myself in the Maldives, so not much time yo write, but I still keep an eye on my friends on here.......you being one of them.

i really do hope you stay.

Pat.

Sometimes we are drunk, sometimes we are sober.

Please keep 'hanging on in there'.

Blessings On You,

Alonangel xx 🎇

Makes me think if you can do it so can missy and myself X

I am just going day by day... but it is a wonderful feeling to have some sense of achievement, instead of the relentless disappointment with every drink.

It truly does feel like a Miracle, for me.

I hope your Miracle is very near.

I have dried my tears...

Love from,

Smiling Angel  X  👼

Give yourself some credit for goodness sake!!

It isn't a miracle in any way, whatsoever.

It sounds like you have been working hard and putting lots of effort in.  That isn't a miracle.  YOU have changed something about your life, and about how you think, or maybe both and the broken that chain that WAS your prior drinking.

That is something to be proud of

And more importantly, rather than saying this is a miracle why not help others by telling us what you did?

If I knew exactly what I did ... I could make a fortune, marketing it !!

I don't have a blessed clue.

I just don't feel like having a drink... so, to me , that IS A MIRACLE !

Some people do like to believe in such things... I do !

Anyway, I often reflect on songs' lyrics... so...

" I believe in Miracles, where you from? You sober thing "

A bit of 'poetic licence', at the end !!!

Keep The Faith,

Alonangel 🎇 👼 😉

I think I was taking it for 9 weeks... I'll have to check.

On Tuesday, I thought I felt strong enough to try for an Alcohol-Free day.  So, no Selincro tablet.  I couldn't believe that I managed to do it.

Then, Wednesday, Thursday and today... the same.  I am amazed that I can continue this.  I hope, with all my heart, that it lasts. X

It's goal is to help you reach the point that you reached, but YOU put the effort into it too.  You hear me say a lot of times that it isn't a magic pill, but a tool and if someone uses that tool correctly then it WILL help you.

The work you put in to work with it to get to this stage is what you have changed - it's just wonderful.  You really need to give yourself some well-earned credit for that.  I am very, very happy for you.

As you go on, if you start to get a little craving to drink, then don't wait until you are really, really struggling.  If you wait too long, then you will struggle to maintain control of the cravings to overdrink.

Instead, you can trust that you can take the Selincro, wait the two hours and then drink mindfully.  I can promise you that if you do this, then you will work through that particular craving without losing control and you will be free enough to go alcohol free again.  This wouldn't be a failure in any way because the next time, you might be able to stay alcohol free without any cravings - or at least you will be able to extend the alcohol free time each attempt.

Well done, Angel.  As I say, I am really pleased for you that you have made the breakthrough.

I am so delighted to have reached this place.

Happy, flappy Angel. 😄

And this is what I meant - you being where you are right now isn't a miracle in any sense of the word.  It's science, and some hard work on your part!

Your brain has been changed by extensive alcohol use, and the reinforcing pathways that compelled you to drink were made stronger.

You used science (Selincro) to help start the process of stopping that reinforcement progressing any further, and then you used your own decisions to make better choices and take advantage of the help the Selincro is giving you.

Over time, the pathways in your brain will be reversed back to they were prior to getting stronger - as long as when you do feel you want/need to drink, you do so after taking the tablet again.

I know what its like when you try to help people, many of them, and you just don't seem to be getting anywhere. It is such a relief to see a bit of success.

Sometimes, it is necessary to help get someone out the mud, but I am very aware that it is sometimes uncomfortable for someone to hear what they NEED to hear, rather than what they WANT to hear.

And I also think that sometimes it might be difficult for those currently in hell to recognise that we were once there too, and we do know what it feels like.

But thanks anyway (I think!) 

It feels wonderful !  I can't believe that I just don't feel like having a drink !

So, no struggle..... yet.  We'll just have to wait and see how long it lasts.

If the need for alcohol returns, I will take my Selincro tablet, as before.

Thanks for being happy for me.

Alonangel 👼

 I feel 'over the moon' !

I hope you are doing well.

Flying Angel !!! 👼

I am wishing and willing you there, my friend.

Blessings,

Angel  xx and a big hug !