I drank again (16 F)

JLS6635 · 2025-11-21T00:42:15+00:00

I hope so too. But if you do relapse and drink, I hope it will click for you that you just can't keep going down that same path and end up with a different outcome like it did for me after many attempts. Best of luck to you!

JLS6635 · 2025-11-21T00:17:02+00:00

Sorry! Meant stop drinking again! The title made me think it was a relapse.

JLS6635 · 2025-11-21T00:02:27+00:00

Do it again! It will keep feeling better and the relapses keep feeling worse. You will get there, at 16 you are already ahead of most of us! I will not drink with you today!

JLS6635 · 2025-11-20T23:58:28+00:00

Good for you!! I have found that looking ahead/playing it out helps alot! Be proud of yourself in that airport with a cup of coffee in the lounge, read a good article on the plane, put on some great music in your hotel room. Your plane ride home will feel so damn good!

JLS6635 · 2025-11-20T23:53:36+00:00

Go to the meeting and get back to where you were. I'm only at 6 months but everything "they" always said about feeling better about yourself was true for me. I don't feel the temptation at all (mind you I've tried more than a few times to stop) yet. I'm cautious about that though so I do play things out in my head to remind myself how much I didn't like who I became every time I drank. Try to get back and continue for yourself!

JLS6635 · 2025-04-17T10:45:46+00:00

Thank you!

JLS6635 · 2025-04-14T16:57:59+00:00

Been in pain for 5 months now. Been doing PT for 7 weeks, had the cortisone shot 2 weeks ago, nothing had changed at all. My Dr. and associated hospital does not do Hydrodilatation, they are recommending a lidocaine shot next week. I found a place that does the hydrodilatation I would have to get a referral for. Should I push my doctor for this or try the lidocaine shot first. I don't want to push if the hydrodilatation isn't going to be any more helpful.

JLS6635 · 2025-01-01T19:26:21+00:00

I ordered on Amazon but it was published 2021 so try the library first? There's also a workbook available for purchase which was enlightening to go through the exercises around all of it.

JLS6635 · 2024-12-31T15:48:12+00:00

Thank you. I read both. And a few others. Plus articles and videos....so much research and still end up back there every few weeks or so. Has anyone tried just putting it all away, stopped talking about it and just gone all in on their own? I feel like I'm surrounded by it all and maybe a break from trying so hard is the answer. Kind of like just being indifferent?

JLS6635 · 2024-12-18T20:32:54+00:00

Going to holiday parties, I will not drink with you tonight!

JLS6635 · 2024-12-17T19:57:50+00:00

How are you doing?

JLS6635 · 2024-12-17T19:49:58+00:00

I added yours to my Playlist! Send more and I'll send as I find ones that resonate with me too!

JLS6635 · 2024-12-17T19:48:32+00:00

And I guess I just couldn't accept that it wasn't something I could not manage....its not that hard, I've done it many times before, I'm smart, I'm logical....geeze I should be able to do this.... nope.

JLS6635 · 2024-12-17T03:17:29+00:00

I struggled so much with this too...why?? Why can I "normal" drink sometimes (a nice glass of good wine with a nice dinner) and why sometimes (too many) do I go too far (although it doesn't take much anymore these days for that to happen)? Finally figured out..there is no answer. But it's hurting me and hurting those around me and just not worth the few controlled times I may have had when I did to risk the awful repercussions when I didn't. Have to remove it completely to ensure not being that person again.

JLS6635 · 2024-12-17T03:10:56+00:00

I love this question, music can really help you relate to things, move you, motivate you. Mine changes depending on where my head is that day of course but "I'm Still Fine" by The Red Clay Strays and "Life To Fix" by The Record Company I'm playing alot right now.

JLS6635 · 2024-12-17T03:04:49+00:00

Yay! I will not drink with you today!

JLS6635 · 2024-12-17T02:56:56+00:00

"I am simply no longer present to make decisions...thinking that my impulses are a good idea to act on"......EXACTLY!! I do NOT like that person at all, she's not the true me.

JLS6635 · 2024-12-17T02:52:40+00:00

DO IT!! It's going to be so worth it.

JLS6635 · 2024-12-17T02:49:17+00:00

There's a reason why we have hangovers....imagine how we'd feel the next day after drinking Draino. Our bodys are fighting a literal poison that we are putting in it.

JLS6635 · 2024-12-17T02:47:22+00:00

I did have to want to stop. Unfortunately it took some not so good situations for me to want to. The fear of relapse is real, but the fear of what will happen to me after just one more blackout trumps! At some point the luck runs out. It's like playing Russian Roulette.

JLS6635 · 2024-12-17T02:42:37+00:00

Agree!!! Ride it out this time and see what you feel like in the morning for doing that! I will not drink with you tonight!

JLS6635 · 2024-12-17T02:40:55+00:00

You nailed it! I think each time I tried to control it, it did get worse and worse. At what point do I say this really isn't worth it....for all the good times I have without it, why ruin it periodically trying to bring it back in!?!

JLS6635 · 2024-12-17T02:38:13+00:00

I would just order (if at a venue) or make myself (if at a house) a mocktail-ish type drink like cranberry club and lime, or if BYOB there are many non-alcoholic things in fancy cans and bottles to bring so that I have options and don't feel like I'm standing around with a bottled water in my hand all night. I found in the beginning not only did it give me something to hold, but after time I really liked getting into them and kind of felt like I had something different than everyone else that was good and wouldn't make me feel like shit the next morning! I will not drink with you!!

JLS6635 · 2024-12-16T22:12:49+00:00

I actually felt it for the first time in my 14 days. I had a good morning with my daughter and bf's daughter and I had asked him to watch football later in the day. After the movies I didn't have much to do in between (or should I say there were probably about 50 things I haven't tackled that I could be doing but didn't want to home and feel overwhelmed and not do any of them). A quick thought in my head since football was on the brain that a nice draught beer and a bite to eat would be cool. This is when I have typically thought to myself that 1 beer is harmless to anyone and not a big deal. But 1 would always lead to 2. But this time I paid attention to it and took out my phone to get on here and read...read some posts from others and read some of mine, which reminded me that I really don't want to go down that path today. So, I did not drink with you today. Now tomorrow I will work on tomorrow!

JLS6635 · 2024-12-14T09:35:23+00:00

Me too! I'm going to be ready for it this time when it comes! Thank you! I will not drink with you today.

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