If you are someone that has been addicted to alcohol for some time, wouldn't it be wonderful to be able to break free of your alcohol demons?
I know from my own experiences with drinking alcohol that it is not as easy as many think it is, meaning those that don't have an addiction to alcohol, or those that don't drink alcohol at all.
I have heard it all in my days of drinking. Everyone thinks it is so easy to just stop drinking and forget about everything you have done in the past. Sure. it is easy for them to say that because they are not the ones that are suffering with this horrible addiction to alcohol.
They have no idea how these demons can run and ruin ones life. Breaking free of your alcohol demons takes a lot from you, as it did for me four years ago this month.
You need to first want to have sobriety back into your life, and not be forced into getting sober or being threatened by others. You need to want it for yourself first!
You need to have a positive attitude, and continue to tell yourself that you can and will get and stay sober. You have to have a strong desire and determination to change your life for the better.
You need to promise yourself that once you make this huge life change and quit drinking that you will never pick up an alcoholic drink for the rest of your life, and you MUST stick to that promise to yourself no matter what happens, good or bad in your future.
This addiction is not a game, nor is it something to mess around with, such as, stopping drinking, and then you think you are cured and take that one little drink of alcohol thinking that is all you will have. Well I am here to tell you, "It will not work!" You are about to torture yourself, and your body by thinking, Oh I have been sober for X amount of time so I should be okay to have one or two drinks. It won't work, believe me I have been there.
Don't give in and let those alcohol demons back into your life again. They are just waiting in your body for you to mess up, and have that one or two drinks, and if you do, they are back in and I mean in worse than when you stopped drinking the first time. Stand strong to your demons and your past addiction to alcohol.
Never give in, and always love and believe in yourself!!
Monday, October 14, 2013
Sunday, October 13, 2013
MY Warning Signs Of Getting Closer To Rock Bottom
Hundreds of thousands of people drink alcohol all over the world. Some drink to be social and relax after a hard days work, and then there are those, like myself, who just don't know when enough is enough, and when to stop drinking alcohol.
Some people that drink too much alcohol and don't know when to stop drinking begin to depend on alcohol everyday of their lives, as I did for many of years. It started as just a fun time out with the guys, to being full blown addicted to alcohol.
I couldn't go one day without alcohol in my system. It was now a huge part of my life, and the life I had before being addicted to alcohol was my dear family, my wife and my children. Those people were put behind my addiction to alcohol when alcohol finally took over me.
My warning signs of getting closer to rock bottom were getting clearer as each day and week passed. I asked myself, "why do I depend on alcohol so much?" "Why can't I go a day without drinking alcohol?" So in reality, deep down inside me, I knew I was doing wrong in my life, but just didn't have the willpower to say no more, and to just surrender once and for all. My demons have taken over me and wouldn't let me go until, October 27, 2009 when I stopped drinking forever.
This was getting frightening to me, and was effecting my family life too. I saw it coming slow, but sure, but I couldn't change my way of life all because of this addiction I now have. I was afraid to try and stop drinking alcohol because I didn't know if anything bad would happen to me regarding my health and getting sick from no alcohol in my body. Not only that, I wasn't ready to surrender to this addiction to alcohol I had. I loved the buzz alcohol gave me, although hated the hangovers in the morning, but once that first alcoholic drink was drank I was like a new man, or was I?
WHAT WERE THE WARNING SIGNS FOR ME HEADING CLOSER TO ROCK BOTTOM:
So, rock bottom for me was right around the corner, and if I didn't realize it when I did, I would have lost everything I worked so hard to have, and that includes my family.
Don't let yourself go to the point of being so close to rock bottom like I did. Catch it before it is too late my friends.
Mine you, I have NOTHING against anyone that drinks alcohol. I just wished I could drink socially, but that is impossible for me, so I just don't drink.
Drink alcohol and have a good time, BUT drink responsibly, and don't abuse alcohol or your body. You will pay for it in the end, so please be careful, and think before you drink and NEVER DRINK AND DRIVE!
Some people that drink too much alcohol and don't know when to stop drinking begin to depend on alcohol everyday of their lives, as I did for many of years. It started as just a fun time out with the guys, to being full blown addicted to alcohol.
I couldn't go one day without alcohol in my system. It was now a huge part of my life, and the life I had before being addicted to alcohol was my dear family, my wife and my children. Those people were put behind my addiction to alcohol when alcohol finally took over me.
My warning signs of getting closer to rock bottom were getting clearer as each day and week passed. I asked myself, "why do I depend on alcohol so much?" "Why can't I go a day without drinking alcohol?" So in reality, deep down inside me, I knew I was doing wrong in my life, but just didn't have the willpower to say no more, and to just surrender once and for all. My demons have taken over me and wouldn't let me go until, October 27, 2009 when I stopped drinking forever.
This was getting frightening to me, and was effecting my family life too. I saw it coming slow, but sure, but I couldn't change my way of life all because of this addiction I now have. I was afraid to try and stop drinking alcohol because I didn't know if anything bad would happen to me regarding my health and getting sick from no alcohol in my body. Not only that, I wasn't ready to surrender to this addiction to alcohol I had. I loved the buzz alcohol gave me, although hated the hangovers in the morning, but once that first alcoholic drink was drank I was like a new man, or was I?
WHAT WERE THE WARNING SIGNS FOR ME HEADING CLOSER TO ROCK BOTTOM:
- I needed to drink everyday, sick or not.
- I started to drink alone.
- I hid my alcohol from family and friends.
- I didn't want to ever eat with my family.
- I never ate anything until I had my fill of alcohol for that day.
- My appearance was getting worse as the weeks went by.
- I gained so much weight from the alcohol. (beer)
- I stopped wanting to go with my family to family affairs.
- I would never go anywhere unless I knew there was alcohol being served.
- If I went somewhere where alcohol WASN'T being served, I brought my own and hid it.
So, rock bottom for me was right around the corner, and if I didn't realize it when I did, I would have lost everything I worked so hard to have, and that includes my family.
Don't let yourself go to the point of being so close to rock bottom like I did. Catch it before it is too late my friends.
Mine you, I have NOTHING against anyone that drinks alcohol. I just wished I could drink socially, but that is impossible for me, so I just don't drink.
Drink alcohol and have a good time, BUT drink responsibly, and don't abuse alcohol or your body. You will pay for it in the end, so please be careful, and think before you drink and NEVER DRINK AND DRIVE!
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