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    #1

    Hello

    Hi everyone. I guess I'm posting on this site because I know I'm a heavy drinker and I want to live a little bit longer!!
    As soon as work is done (6pm), I can't wait to get home and have my whiskey (typically half a bottle a night). I know this is very bad for me, but I can't seem to stop. [I] realise that that this sounds pathetic, but there you go. In a way, I don't care, but then I panic when I realise the damage I'm doing to myself...does this sound familiar, or is it just me? I have a great job and earn great money....so I know it's not that. Is it habit...is it my childhood....I just don't know why I have ended up like this?!
    So really, I'm looking at this site as a hope....a hope that I can help myself and a hope that others can also help me...otherwise.....I shudder to think!
    Thanks for reading this and please feel free to add.
    Emjaysee :new::thanks:
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    Hello

    :welcome: Emjaysee!

    You have found the right place for help. As you start to read thru all the threads, I think you will realize that you are not alone and there is bound to be others who's story is very similar to yours! Admitting you have a problem is the first step - working out a plan is next! You will probably here from others as well but for me, it was really important getting thru 30 days without any alcohol. I think you will be amazed at how you see things without AL being in your system. I drank every day as well - every single day and knew it was not doing good things to my body as well as hurting my relationships and severely lowering my self esteem, hurting my wallet - the list just goes on and on.

    We are a caring and supportive bunch here - you may want to hope over to the just starting out thread and join in the newbies nest - you will be made to feel very welcome and get lots of advice and support.

    Looking forward to hearing more from you!
    Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

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      #3
      Hello

      Hi Emjaysee , i can't put it any better that Jolie so just to say welcome and hope to read more of your posts
      AF 5/jan/2011

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        #4
        Hello

        Em-- When I drank I was a high functioning alcoholic-- there was no reason that I drank except to medicate irrational anxiety and to combat boredom. Nothing bad per se had ever happened to me when I drank-- however at some point I realized that I was hurting myself not just physically but that my anxiety was being exacerbated by the alcohol-- worrying about stopping, wondering why I could not etc.-- even one drink would have me up at night with my mind going like a hamster on the wheel. I decided that whatever reason I drank was not good enough to justify the feelings of shame and failure I felt afterwards-- when I feel weak I just thunk about how I will feel laying in bed wracked with guilt-- it helps. Good luck!

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          #5
          Hello

          Em,

          Does it sound familiar...are you kidding? Read our posts!
          You are in the right place! Some of have been there, some of us ARE there. Stay with this site and you will find amazing people that have conquered amazing, I mean amazing, shit! (sorry that is the only word that came to mind


          I look forward to hearing from you!


          Lady
          The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

          *Don't look where you fall, look why you slipped*

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