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[Bella]

Hello there Modders.....I generally moderate my intake quite well...well I did until recently! Anyway, yesterday I went to the pub with my husband and had 2 pints of lager...I was fine and we left....I had no desire to carry on drinking and behaved rather like a 'normal' person!!! lol But the other day when I had a few drinks..I had a mind-set of 'I need to get drunk' and I was behaving like the problem-drinker I seem to have become. Why are some days so different to others?? Do any of you have this total mental confusion? I go through my life thinking.....I am fine, no probs and the next...I'm downing alcohol like my life depends on it!!!! It does my head in....Bella XXXXXX

[Cinders]

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Bella,

I don't know the answer but back in the day when I was in early alcoholism, it worked that way. Some days a couple was fine, others there was never enough.

As I progressed, and strangely as I tried to quit, I got to where no day was a "normal" drinking day. All were bad.

I sure hope you can get a handle on this, Bella. The place I ended up was really really dark.

Love,
Cindi

[vlad]

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Bella - I know exactly what you mean. Some days I feel quite happy just to have my 2 beers, then on another occasion I feel I want to blow it all. And it hurts so much when I know I can't. But as time goes on, that pain has become less. We just need to be on our guard.

[vera-b]

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Hi Bella,

I'm with Vlad - those days of wanting to drink and drink can come up from time to time, but that's when we use every trick in the MWO book to avoid giving into it. And the "pain" of having to deal with it does indeed become less and less if we stay on guard. The brain can be quite irrational at times, so I've given up trying to figure it out! But if we keep practicing our good habits, they're a lot easier to hold onto. I hope you keep posting - it really helps all of us.

Vera-b

[nancy]

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Yes this seems to be a problem.

I usually can trace the difference back to an emotion or feeling of deprivation about alcohol or day of the week. Some days of the week, weekends, make you feel like you should drink more and you have more control. More often though, it's having a feeling you can't deal with and then you just want to get drunk to get rid of it.

Even when you change your patterns, this can come up after a long time! It's dormant.

[gyco]

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hi bella,good thread,i think tht is quite normal,i no when i stop,i have the same feeling when i dont drink,i go 6 to 10 months and it drives me nuts thinking if i can or cant,since i come here, now,and at times to online AA,it gives me a different sense of values,i found when i confront people,at a meeting,or listen to there stories online,if i dont like it,i just shut the program down,in drinking now this is somthing ive found also,the idea to me is,as problem drinkers,which will always be,stopped or started,you have to lern to say enuff is enuff,enjoy a few,or drowned your self in to many.we no the out come of tht,for me i ended in a sanitarium,as i prefer to call it,hope this helps gyco