2006-09-26 17:36:53 · 7 answers · asked by Paul S 2 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
I did and I thank God everyday. I just turned 40 and I am coming up on 3 years sober. I will not preach AA to you, but that was my start over 13 years ago when I came back from Desert Storm.
I struggled for 10 years with sobriety, in and out of AA and treatement facilities. I learned to blame the war, the army, my family, my 2 ex-wives, and anyone else but myself. losing everything twice didn't help either. Finally on December 5, 2003 I was laying in the Phoenix VA and that night I decided that I no longer wanted to live this way. I don't know why or what happened but something clicked, I guess I was ready. For some of us it takes time and it's too bad that the ones we love don't want to stick around and fight this battle with us.
Anyway, I went back to AA and learned a little more about God. Things that the Catholic church hadn't taught me in all these years. I have really gotten involved with my church, I'm still a devout Catholic, I went back to school and just graduated with my degree in education. I am currently teaching 4th grade.
Contact me if you can.
Peace my brother!
2006-09-26 17:54:35 · answer #1 · answered by cavdoc_3 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I stopped drinking as I got older. I really stopped surprisingly when I moved out of my parents house into my own. I think I've learned or feel a greater since of responsibility to myself now that I am 30 and I don't really drink anymore, not even sociably. I'm glad I stopped drinking because I noticed a change in me mentally and physically. I battle depression less frequently and I have stomach problems less often too. I feel really good about my decision and have no plans to take up my old habit again. I don't think alcohol is evil or anything, its just that...well....our love affair is over, but I still have my memories.
2006-09-27 10:58:01 · answer #2 · answered by Fairy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I still have the occasional drink with my mates, but don't go out and totally get on it like I used to. I got so sick of waking up the next day, burning with humiliation at all the things I did or said wrong.
Like the time I nearly got into a fist fight with my mates dad at his (my mates that is) engagement party...
Like the time I threw up all over the bouncer at a local bar when he tried to wake me up, after I passed out on the table, after getting on it for my mates birthday... (different friend by the way)
Like the time I picked up my friend's four month old baby, after I'd had about 5 glasses of wine, and I was stumbling all over the place while holding her...
All recent stories of embarrasment. That aside, I suffer from really bad hangovers, so I now just have the occasional few, but generally give big drinking nights a miss.
My friends have kind of picked up on my lack of social behaviour, but I couldn't be bothered to explain it all to the people who aren't that close to me, so I just tell them I'm having a break from drinking to save money, as opposed to what i'm really doing - trying to salvage my dignity!
2006-09-27 00:52:49 · answer #3 · answered by the_fatmanwalksalone 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I guess I wasn't thirsty anymore and so I stopped drinking and I am glad because I could have exploded or something.
2006-09-27 00:49:25 · answer #4 · answered by the_wire_monkey 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The mind is everything we have; it is our life.
Why throw a mokeywrench into it ?
I drank alcohol for many years without any issue or problem, but came to the conclusion that it simply did not support the person I was becoming & wanted to be.
I took a vow to not take intoxicants more than 4 years ago & have never looked back.
;-)
2006-09-27 00:49:04 · answer #5 · answered by WikiJo 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i am 24 i started drinking when i was 14 years old it was like an everyday thing with me and one of my bestfriends until we got drunk with these guys in my sisters apartment building and i started throwing up something that i had never done it turns out that they had slipped the date rape drug into my bottle and they had planned on having themselves a good time this is when i was seventeen every since then i have nevered touch alcohol no matter who i am with
2006-09-27 00:50:17 · answer #6 · answered by thecinnamon1 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was so angry with the whole world. that I drank myself to death all in one night. I passed out where no one could wake me and my dear, dear friend called 911, my heart stopped twice that night and they had to shock me twice before they got me to the hospital. They filled me with charcoal and pumped my stomach. I have not had a drink since.
2006-09-27 00:47:25 · answer #7 · answered by mysticideas 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋