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Why is it so difficult for some people to stop drinking alcohol ?

I know all the scientific information.  I know all the medications.  I know the success and failure rates.  I just don't know how to stop !

I am truly sick of trying to beat this ... too many battles, in a never-ending war.  I am going around in circles... getting nowhere.

Nothing seems to work for me.

Cheers !

Alonangel 😩

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  • nicole36330
    nicole36330 Sober_As

    Posted

    I have no answers Angel as I'm in the same boat but you have the support of us in here x
    • Sober_As
      Sober_As nicole36330

      Posted

      Thanks, Nicole.  I am just so sick of the fight.  I want to win... but ...but...f n but !!!
  • BK522
    BK522 Sober_As

    Posted

    Oh Alon, I am in the same boat. I've been absent from the forum lately as I've split up from my boyfriend of two years so having a really difficult time. I haven't made it an excuse to drink myself senseless though. Ive kept it below a bottle and a half of wine, rather than my normal 2 bottles. But wish I could just quit and have one drink free day. Helpless at the moment, depressed, and every day look forward to drinking wine after work just to take the pain away... It's a nightmare. Hope you're doing better than I am.

    BK x

    • Sober_As
      Sober_As BK522

      Posted

      Oh BK,  many of us are in the same boat... and it is sinking , at the moment.  We need to think of things to encourage each other... because we can't seem to help ourselves. 

      I hope you get over things soon.

      Boyfriend, schmofriend, ...move on girl...be strong !

      Blessings,

      Alonangel🎇

      P.S. I am crying about rubbish... life can be so rubbish...I need to grow-up before I die !

  • Misssy2
    Misssy2 Sober_As

    Posted

    Same boat....I'm giving up again...I  haven't drank...and reading these sad replies and your original posts...tells me DONT DO IT..

    But the need for ESCAPE is powerful.

    Then when I DRINK..I can't take the hangover...so I drink again.

    Your right never ending battle.....never ending fight.

    • Sober_As
      Sober_As Misssy2

      Posted

      Oh Misssy, keeeeeep strong !  You are doing well, just now.

      I am weaker than I think I am

      So... here I am... nowhere... drunk ... sick schmuck ! 

      Feck it all !

    • Sober_As
      Sober_As Misssy2

      Posted

      Misssy, don't drink... please... you are better now... keep going. XX
    • Sober_As
      Sober_As

      Posted

      I don't know if I misunderstood your last post.

      Hey, ho... I am sorry.  

  • steverz
    steverz Sober_As

    Posted

    :-/  I sympathize Alonangel.  You take the words right out of my mouth.  I also feel actual physical and emotinally exhausted all the time, "in a never-endinging" war.  When I manage to make it even just three days without drinking - I think "this is it, maybe I can stay dry" - but before I know it I have a drink in my hand, drink, dry, repeat.

    I take a small amount of comfort in that my attempts are slowly, painfully slowly, yielding some results - such as dramatically less volume a day than a year ago (before I admitted to my doc I was an alcoholic and he right away prescribed me Revia - it saved my life).

    I drink so dang much green tea and coffee in a day these days, to always have a glass (has to be a tea-glass or it doesn't help me trick my brain into thinking im taking  asip of liquor) of tea/coffee in front of me at all times - even if I have a glass of liquor beside it.  It mostly just helps with volume of liquor I drink.

    The fact you feel this frustrated and like you are in this war, is probably a hopeful sign that you are determined to break free from this awful prison of alcohol we're in.

    Be well.  Don't beat yourself up. This group is a great group of people I found when I only recently joined, come back and get things off your chest when you're feeling like this. We're all in the same boat, or have been.  We can help each other paddle.

    • Sober_As
      Sober_As steverz

      Posted

      Thank you for your kind words.

      I just cannot cope with anymore of this.

    • Kelly2727
      Kelly2727 Sober_As

      Posted

      I feel the same way you do.  Today is attempt #100 (or what feels like it) in the past year to quit drinking.  I don't feel as confident as I usually do.  But, I know this IS my last attempt and I'll have to go into rehab.  If I could get a few weeks away from LIFE my success level is higher.  I know that as I did 18 days in rehab back in 2002 and made it 11 years.  I also had kids involved in sports to keep me busy.  Now, I'm lucky if they'll ever give me grandchildren.  It's like my life is so boring.  Trying to keep in mind the things MIssy said - like we have to keep busy doing things we don't normally do.  That's where I mess up.  

      Missy - stay a role model for others please!

      And Alonangel please don't give up.  We are all in the same boat here.  Some ahead of others but still the same insane minds.  Blessings!!!!!!

    • Sober_As
      Sober_As Kelly2727

      Posted

      Hello Kelly.  I am touched by your kindness.  I am in bed, today. It is 3.15 p.m.  I just can't cope at all.  The tears are running down my face.  I hate my life.  I hate myself.  

      I wish you the very best with your battle.

      I can't do it.

      My heart is broken.

      Alonangel

    • Kelly2727
      Kelly2727 Sober_As

      Posted

      I can't say stop crying.  I can't say don't give up.  I totally understand how you feel.  Hold out for a "sorta" positive day and try again.  We all have those days where we feel we can try again.  For us we have more negative days where we feel we just can't go on.  

      I felt this way for the past 2 weeks.  After I tried the Naltrexone I had so much hope and then the side effects hit me.  I felt like it was the end of the world!  After a 2 week binge drinking spree I got sick and tired of it.  It's he** to drink and it's he** to try to quit.  Sometimes I feel like if I end it all I don't have to try anymore.   I know it's insanity but so is all this crap!

    • Sober_As
      Sober_As Kelly2727

      Posted

      I am inspired by your new attempt to quit the booze.  I hope it is your final one... that you totally succeed.

      I have been taking the Selincro/Nalmefene for ages, now.  The drinking level subsided... then I had 2 weeks Alcohol Free.  Since then... I am all over the place... drinking level UP !  I know I have to quit too.  I also know that I am not strong enough, just now.  I am freaking freaked by it all.

      I hope your new Alcohol Free Day One is going well.

      All Power To Your Will !

      Alonangel XX

    • Kelly2727
      Kelly2727 Sober_As

      Posted

      Thank you.  LIke I said the Naltrexone is great for some people.  It just didn't work for me.  My doctor will not prescribe anything else for me until my appointment at the end of the month.  Nicole just reminded me of the baclofen as I've had success from it before.  Maybe just low doses til I see my doctor and ask about Campral.

      I figured I'd try to quit on an unlucky day 06-16-16.  Lucky numbers were not a success.  Trying to keep my sense of humor which is tough right now.

      Have you tried Baclofen?

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