Re: Join the Army Against Alcohol - April 2017
Hi Tony, sorry you are feeling this way. I can only speak personally and my years of failures have taught me a few things that seem to be working and have me believing things are different this time around. I am only a couple of weeks ahead of you so it is all very fresh and raw still and I can't afford to take my eye off of the ball for a minute. Now personally I have found that counting days has proven a hinderance to me in the past, it is a reminder rather than an incentive so I just mark the weeks and hopefully then it will progress to months, month 4 has just begun. Last week I had a wobble too, one minute I am full of strength and resolve and the next it hits home out of nowhere that I really want a drink but that is the nature of the beast and to understand that is helpful, none of this is unique to any off us but I am told it gets easier and less frequent with time. I am quite a visual person and I think of these massive cravings as my standing on a beach and seeing in the distance a high wave approaching, I stand there and let it come, it hits then washes over me but quickly passes. If I try to run away or fight it I could drown so I don't, I accept it for what it is and let it pass over, and it does. It is only in my head, it is an impulse and I don't need to act on it. I don't ever want to go back to drowning now I have a life jacket. Keeping busy is imperative, sitting and dwelling on the negative aspects will only lead us to the f**k it moment and back to square one and the aftermath that any instant hit that first drink brings. So maybe stop counting days and look no further forward or back than today, for the day will come when life gets back to something resembling normality or else why do we all bother?
Hi Tony, sorry you are feeling this way. I can only speak personally and my years of failures have taught me a few things that seem to be working and have me believing things are different this time around. I am only a couple of weeks ahead of you so it is all very fresh and raw still and I can't afford to take my eye off of the ball for a minute. Now personally I have found that counting days has proven a hinderance to me in the past, it is a reminder rather than an incentive so I just mark the weeks and hopefully then it will progress to months, month 4 has just begun. Last week I had a wobble too, one minute I am full of strength and resolve and the next it hits home out of nowhere that I really want a drink but that is the nature of the beast and to understand that is helpful, none of this is unique to any off us but I am told it gets easier and less frequent with time. I am quite a visual person and I think of these massive cravings as my standing on a beach and seeing in the distance a high wave approaching, I stand there and let it come, it hits then washes over me but quickly passes. If I try to run away or fight it I could drown so I don't, I accept it for what it is and let it pass over, and it does. It is only in my head, it is an impulse and I don't need to act on it. I don't ever want to go back to drowning now I have a life jacket. Keeping busy is imperative, sitting and dwelling on the negative aspects will only lead us to the f**k it moment and back to square one and the aftermath that any instant hit that first drink brings. So maybe stop counting days and look no further forward or back than today, for the day will come when life gets back to something resembling normality or else why do we all bother?
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