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

maz123_2

jo1972 wrote: »

Would love to visit Fay in Orkney, hope she don't mind us all setting up camp in her garden :rotfl:

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I bet the shower blocks are decent as well!

barshamhillbilly

Keep on chipping away Jo - we will get there eventually

Go get some choklit

winebox

budget_babe wrote: »

39 - Winebox IS BACK :T Actual af days 2

budgie I am on 3 days, I can appreciate this is hard to believe.

Yesterday was NOT AF, didn't think I had too much but boy I've got a headache today! Back to catching up on all the posts.

winebox

Caught up now; looks like I'm on my own on here! Jo hope tonight is OK for you, for God's sake don't put BBC1 on this evening (anyone) that really will drive you to it.
Have to go now & will be back tomorrow, still on the bench tonight but AF tomorrow, have a good Sat everyone (apart from BBC1)

40somethingmum

winebox wrote: »

Caught up now; looks like I'm on my own on here! Jo hope tonight is OK for you, for God's sake don't put BBC1 on this evening (anyone) that really will drive you to it.
Have to go now & will be back tomorrow, still on the bench tonight but AF tomorrow, have a good Sat everyone (apart from BBC1)

Have a good day winebox. Whats on BBC tonight then . Oh just realised Eurovision:eek: or should it be Europe's NOT got talent ?:rotfl::rotfl:

40SM

Pippilongstocking

40somethingmum wrote: »

jo1972 wrote: »

Would love to visit Fay in Orkney, hope she don't mind us all setting up camp in her garden :rotfl:

Great I'll dig out my wellies:rotfl:

40SM

Ok theres two camping areas - and this is a part of it (the garden that is - we are looking after about 1 1/2 acres

So when are you coming - and who's turn is it to mow the lawn



PS yes having trees in very unusual up here !!!!!!!!

PRICE_IS_RIGHT_2

OMG - it must be amazing living there. I'm here in suburbia, a garden like that would be full of Barratt houses by now ...

40somethingmum

fayjmck wrote: »

40somethingmum wrote: »

Ok theres two camping areas - and this is a part of it (the garden that is - we are looking after about 1 1/2 acres

So when are you coming - and who's turn is it to mow the lawn



PS yes having trees in very unusual up here !!!!!!!!

Put the kettle on Fay - I'm on my way

Pippilongstocking

PIR waves hello and 40 s mum

Your post earlier just about described mine chained to a computer (no tennis here though) not seeing anyone - yeah its lovely here we moved into town last august - from the sticks, so its like living in the sticks outside but then we are also in town.

House is cold, and old fashioned and we have two rooms to let to help pay the rent but otherwise I want to stay here til we leave orkney - but I think thats probably not an option

But what we have here more than anything is space and lots of it - tis why i love islands - its just a long way from everyone

graemecarter

jo1972 wrote: »

Beautiful words Fay (the poem bit I meant )

My entire life has gone down the pan and someone's come along and flushed it, nothing has happened, I've picked up a drink that's all and it makes me feel as though everything is wrong. I'm not depressed, I've got nothing to be sad about, in fact I'm fine but I keep doing it to myself over and over again, drinking then feeling like the world has come to an end when I wake up. I wish it would stop, I wanna get off now.

Budge, sorry, can't update you on the numbers cos I have no recollection of how many days I've been drinking for, I think you have me as 14 which could be right, or might not be, I'll have to trawl through the 47 pages of thread later to add it up. Could you scrap my target as it became unachieveable a week or so ago and just makes me sad looking at it. I'm happy with the days I've notched up though, my liver must get all excited then think 'oh booger' when I chuck the next onslaught down my neck!

Right, a new day, new resolve, I need someone to take me away to a place where there's no alcohol and no temptation.

Sorry for the depressing post

xx

I knew (towards the end of my drinking) that when I picked up and had a drink, my past became my future. Nothing changed with me drinking, apart from my life would get a little worse. Eventually I got sick and tired of being sick and tired.
By not drinking and a lot changes - I have decisions to make for the first time ever. I have money in my pocket. I have a clear head (and skin!). I have a freedom I never had when drinking.
I keep this and hold it dear to me, and don't want to drink again.

Unfortunately there isn't a place where there is no alcohol, and no temptation.
The change has to come from you, from within, to manage this illness of alcoholism. Changing your circumstances doesn't work. You cannot run away from your own head and your own thinking (for it is thinking that makes you pour a drink down your throat, no-one is doing it for you).

Many people only change when they have to, when they are desperate enough. That may mean lost jobs, families, houses, etc.
As long as you are alive, there not a reason why you cannot change, but fear holds many of us back.

I could stop drinking easily, I just could never stay stopped. A few days and I would be back on it.
So, if things aren't working, change them. If you are unable to stop drinking, you have to change what you are doing. If this thread doesn't work for you, try something different. If that doesn't work, try something else.
Everyone has the capacity to stop, one just has to need it and want it enough