The giving up/cutting down alcohol support thread! Part 3

jo1972

BHB, if you can get there, then go, it is a great source of support.

I don't go purely because no one in my household knows I drink so I don't know where I would say I was going for an hour or two a couple of times a week!

Pippilongstocking

barshamhillbilly wrote: »

Good Luck 115K.

Go for it ......115K :T:T:T .

Best Wishes
xx

And from me - but you might want to not call yourself 115k good luck if its any consolation I am pretty angry too. (not at you, at the not being able to drink 'normally')

jo1972

barshamhillbilly wrote: »

Feel sick again ..... Mr T's Finest Swiss Chocolate with Caramel pieces ..... just after a double Bounty _pale_

I should be about 14 stone ... not 11 .

You're as bad as me

jo1972

fayjmck wrote: »

And from me - but you might want to not call yourself 115k good luck if its any consolation I am pretty angry too. (not at you, at the not being able to drink 'normally')

and me.....very angry :mad:

jo1972

Just 1 week off the choklit and you could get this special chocoholics annoymous keychain.....it's edible, just peel the foil off....

RecoveringAlcoholic

I have been going to AA meetings for four years.
I just sit in the back row and listen.

Just like this thread, pick up on the similarities, not the differences.

115K

Thank you people for the good wishes.:A There is a meeting on Wednesday night and Saturday morning, I can't make it for that time tomorrow so I don't know which one to go for or I could do both.

There are loads of meetings in London. Heavy drinking is a big problem obviously.

barshamhillbilly wrote: »

I have been contemplating it myself. There is literally a meeting 3 doors down from me. (3 doors .... half a mile :rotfl:). I have never been brave enough to attend. I should really, but as you say it's getting over that first hurdle and getting your backside through the door initially. It doesn't help that I'm social phobic anyway. Sort of doubles the worry .

I am socially phobic as well. I think that Dutch courage from drinking has helped me cover up my shyness. I am going to a meeting out of my local area as well so I hopefully won't see anyone I know!

RecoveringAlcoholic

I am socially phobic as well.

And me.
I think that they now call it "Social Anxiety Disorder":D

115K

RecoveringAlcoholic wrote: »

I have been going to AA meetings for four years.
I just sit in the back row and listen.
Just like this thread, pick up on the similarities, not the differences.

That is what the man on the phone said to me, he said just listen and see what stories you can relate to. How many meetings do you go to a week/ month if you don't mind me asking you RA? I read on another forum that some people go to 6 meetings a week.

I'm feeling quite positive about the whole thing at the moment. There does seem to be a lot of help out there as long as you are in the right place mentally to be able to access it.

RecoveringAlcoholic

115k
When I was in rehab we had daily AA meetings.
I now do one meeting a week to remind of the depths that I have been to.