I'm drinking and I suck

[BurrCO]

I'm drinking and I suck

UrbanFool;827419 wrote: No, the worst is that I'll be without my dogs.

I feel for you. My dog is my best friend, and I don't mean a "man's best friend" way either. He's one of the reasons I'm helping myself. He's never done anything but love everyone, including myself, and enjoy life and when I drink I feel like I ignore him and forget about him. I'll give my dog a hug for you and yours everyday hoping you and all of us can get through this together. :l

[RedThread12]

I'm drinking and I suck

Hi Kelly: Maybe you're in treatment and won't get a chance to read this for a while, but maybe it's worthwhile for me to tell you about my own and a friend's experience with baclofen . . . I'm not promoting it over any other method, but it literally saved my life when I relapsed and felt like I would rather die than have to make my entire life be about not drinking every day. I did that for three years successfully, but really got very little else done . . . so can't say I was particularly sane or sober. Just not drinking. Baclofen has given me a "real life," as one of my friends observed to me.

The other story is that I was asked (by the family) to intervene for a young woman who was really, truly, deeply sick with alcohol - as I had been. She agreed to enter a brief (6-day) de-tox program, after which I helped her start the baclofen protocol. She was angry with her parents, angry with me and angry that she had to stop drinking or lose her children. But regardless of those things, the baclofen worked to keep her from drinking while she sorted additional ways to get the support she needs - along with the baclofen.

FYI, even though I knew the doctors at the de-tox facility and they knew of my success with baclofen, they would not even remotely consider a conversation about using it with my friend, much less other patients. I did it all "under the radar" after she was de-toxed and it was absolutely necessary to do it that way. I had been white-knuckling AF for a couple of weeks before I started baclofen, and I firmly believe that my friend's de-tox was really important for giving the baclofen a chance to work.

Maybe you've tried bac and all of this is irrelevant. But my very deepest and best wishes to you to find your health and balance are totally relevant. And I had to smile about your brother - last summer when I could barely make it past 11:00 am w/out breaking out the vodka I found a treatment center for my suicidally depressed sister. Amazingly enough, we're both doing great now, only a few months later. Oy. The weirdnesses of life!!!

Best to you. Beth

[rubywillow]

I'm drinking and I suck

UrbanFool;827419 wrote: No, the worst is that I'll be without my dogs.

Kelley, take pictures of them. It helps. Honestly, mine pined for me while I was gone, but they actually were calmer when I got home and the recognized I was different, they didn't have to worry over me like before. They KNOW things, right? If you can get mail, pm or email me your address, I'll keep you in touch with the sewing world! :H Really, baby, this can be great. I did the meetings, some crazy. But get EVERY BIT OF HELP you can from this experience. We'll be here when you come back.:l
Ruby