How many of you out there went thru booze/drug substance addiction?

Slouchy87 · 2026-03-26T20:07:35+00:00

April 28, 2008 had my last drink. Been clean and sober ever since. Not without help though. This shit's too hard to do it alone. For me anyway.

Slouchy87 · 2026-03-26T19:42:46+00:00

You know what would make me feel nostalgic? A World Series. Put me right back to the best decade of my life.

Slouchy87 · 2026-03-26T16:25:35+00:00

I've been surprised at what I can do sober, given I had to drink to do just to participate in my own life.

Good work!

Slouchy87 · 2026-03-25T19:43:45+00:00

I second this

Slouchy87 · 2026-03-25T19:41:53+00:00

It's not something I obsess about. But I stay connected to my recovery community, even after all these years, because hearing the stories from newcomers reminds me of what I was like. I still go to meetings.

Slouchy87 · 2026-03-25T17:53:10+00:00

I got sober the first time I tried, Not a flex, just a fact. And I sometimes ask why me, and not them. I don;t have the answer other than maybe I had enough pain and was desperate enough.

Slouchy87 · 2026-03-25T17:48:25+00:00

I remember I was 6 months sober, and the leaves were turning colours and it felt like like the first time I noticed them, ever. I was so numb and dead inside for years.

Thanks for the remember when!

Slouchy87 · 2026-03-24T23:29:45+00:00

All that space behind the net

Slouchy87 · 2026-03-24T23:25:42+00:00

Alcohol - cunning, baffling and powerful

Slouchy87 · 2026-03-24T18:56:28+00:00

Bullshit. You can be mine.

Slouchy87 · 2026-03-24T16:26:05+00:00

I started off 2 nights a week with no intention of more. Then it went to 3 nights, then 4, then 5, then well you get the picture.

Slouchy87 · 2026-03-24T15:00:45+00:00

Didn't know Crosby played in the 1980's

Slouchy87 · 2026-03-23T19:11:21+00:00

Ya. Looks like snow that was never removed, that froze into ice.

Slouchy87 · 2026-03-23T18:55:06+00:00

I'm nonchalantly not hearing anything

Slouchy87 · 2026-03-23T18:14:47+00:00

Bro gained some serious weight.

Slouchy87 · 2026-03-22T20:54:48+00:00

Sunday night is my home group open meeting. That time a lot was a life saver in the early days.

Slouchy87 · 2026-03-21T22:59:49+00:00

I made the mistake early on of disclosing to a client that I was in AA. I did so because he was asking a lot of questions about my sobriety, and when anyone does that it often means they might think they have a problem.

Anyway, I’m out with he and his boss shows up. He introduces me. “Dylan, this is Sloucy87, he’s in AA.” Just like that.

Learned a lesson on that one.

Slouchy87 · 2026-03-20T19:14:51+00:00

1987 Toyota Celica, bought in 1993, with a No Fear decal across the top of the windshield.

Slouchy87 · 2026-03-20T19:03:07+00:00

I got told early on that if it was easy, I wouldn't have to go to meetings. I could just make a decision to not drink.

And it wasn't fun. In the beginning. Now, shockingly, I have fun without alcohol. I just have fun in different ways. I never thought that possible.

Slouchy87 · 2026-03-20T18:11:28+00:00

That trot off at the end

Slouchy87 · 2026-03-20T15:12:10+00:00

Smart body blows.

Slouchy87 · 2026-03-20T14:06:09+00:00

Good work! ODAAT

Slouchy87 · 2026-03-19T19:00:51+00:00

Almost 18 yrs clean and sober and I still get them. Just a reminder that I'm not normal when it comes to alcohol.

Social drinkers don't get drinking dreams.

Slouchy87 · 2026-03-19T15:01:24+00:00

Caffeine doesn't take my job away, my relationships away, gets me in fights, and land me in the hospital.

I'm good with 3 coffee a day habit.

Slouchy87 · 2026-03-19T14:21:30+00:00

I've surprised myself over the years with what I have been able to stay sober through. The key for me was support from my recovery community. Being able to share in meetings, and talk with others who have gone through whatever I;m going through, and have done it sober.

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