I am well into my second year of being sober and as I say often, am conscious of being vigilant and self-aware of what would happen should I drink again. It would be a slow decline into the abyss for me - not an intense binge - because thats the way I am. Since my mountain climbing skills are not so good as I get older I have no intention of slipping back down there!
Questions folks - and add new ones as they come up. I am interested here in responses about your experience and thoughts - not so much what the 'experts' and studies say.
After really great long-term sobriety and embracing a positive AF life - what caused you to relapse? Was it a sudden awful crisis? Slow build up of a crisis or tension?
Were you bored? Complacent?
Thought you could just have a few? (actually I doubt that many long term abstainers would think that).
Cravings came back? Why this time after so long?
Or what stopped you from the relapse?
Or Did you 'dust off' and get back into sobriety quickly?
How did you deal with the shame - because I see that as a serious consequence - that can lead to the slip becoming a return to drinking long-term?
(I won't ask if it was fun and of no consequence as I don't want to enable.
Looking forward to a stimulating discussion that I hope will be productive.
It worries me when I read of folk who have put so much AF time in - and then start drinking again - or have to deal with cravings that are causing them lots of pain.
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