Alcohol self help thread II

gentlepurr

evening eddielass. its nice to see you on here again.

xx

Edinburghlass_2

gentlepurr wrote:

evening eddielass. its nice to see you on here again.

xx

I'm worried about the guinea pigs

Al_Mac

Edinburghlass wrote:

I'm worried about the guinea pigs

I'm not. Any one got any kebab sticks?

beer2006

Goodnight all

I'll see you tomorrow morning, when I hope all will be better and the guinea pigs will have found a new home, if it be on the bbq or somewhere else.

gentlepurr

you are one mean man al!

wot we gonna do with him eddielass?

xx

gentlepurr

good night beer, you take care, thinking of you,

see you tomorrow


xx

xx

gentlepurr

i'm signing off too, can hear the purr family getting decidedly rowdy downstairs, off to sort them out!

hugs to all

xx

No_self_control

Came back in, logged on and half expected the board not to be here!

Beer, just read you post.

I am so sorry having been through what you are going through I have a good idea of what you are feeling like right now. Take care hun and don't let this be the end of all your good work over the last few weeks.

If you need someone to talk to, pm me ok.

lidlest

beer2006 wrote:

We will never turn away someone who is in need, never try to talk down to that person, never treat them any differently to the way we ourselves would like to be treated, that is the way we are and it is the way we should be.

xx
Matt

I have to say, having been reading along, that the 'propping up' of alcoholics on this thread does the alcoholics no good. An alcoholic doesn't need sympathy when they crash and burn after not drinking for a couple of days they need a good prod up the backside. The needy alcoholic wants everyone to join them on their journey, and understand them, and ENABLE them.

I was and i guess always will be an alcoholic. The one thing that sorted me out was when I hit rock bottom, my friends didn't want to hang anymore and I could find no more enablers for my problem. Without enablers there is just a choice, I chose sobriety and never looked back.... I honestly feel this thread of people hugging and saying aww i'm sorry things didn't go your way does no good for the self confessed alcohol abusers on this thread.

I say this with all the hope that people will get the help they need, sound professional help, not a place to come to feel ok about being a current addict, not a comfortable safe haven to continue a downward spiral. You either want to quit or you don't, you will hopefully reach the day you want to quit. If you argue that you do want to quit, but its just so hard, I would counter-argue that you don't yet want it enough.

No_self_control

lidlest wrote:

I could find no more enablers for my problem

please excuse my ignorance but what exactly is an enabler? I've seen that word used loads of times on various threads but I've never been able to pin down an exact meaning.