2007-11-11 14:27:14 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
Some good answers, thanks.
2007-11-11 14:35:30 · update #1
When I stole money from my mother so I could buy some pain pills from a friend. I've never been so ashamed. I stopped about a week later. Clean, 6 years.
2007-11-11 14:30:17 · answer #1 · answered by Eraserhead 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I've been in recovery since September 12, 1980 and like all other recovering people, that's when I hit MY bottom. People don't get into recovery because they want too, they do it because they have too for one reason or another. Some because of health, financial, legal or family/social problems, they figure out that every time they use they have some kind of these problems. Mine was legal and health. I also don't know any alcoholics or addicts that wouldn't continue to use if they didn't suffer all of the negative consequences.
2007-11-11 14:35:10 · answer #2 · answered by seniorchiefretired 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Got tired of playing the game and wearing the mask. Asked GOD to help me- Got pregnant @ age 40! Would never harm an unborn child. Now a Co-Facilitator for a Support Group. 6 years clean! GOOD FOR ALL WHO HAD TO HIT ROCK BOTTOM AND FINALLY SEE THE LIGHT! That is what happened to me- modified version.
2007-11-11 15:03:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
never, i was one of the fortunate few. i didn't drink often, or a lot, i just couldn't stop completely. i checked out AA meetings, and realized, i am an alcoholic. after years of hearing the life stories of some of the other alcoholics i sponsor, i realize how lucky i was, to get out, before hitting bottom.
2007-11-12 00:21:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not a recovering alcoholic. I think I am teetering over the edge into alcoholism, though. I know this because I only enjoy things if I am drinking.
2007-11-11 15:13:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
When I woke up in the admit ward of a funny farm, with some felony charges hanging over my head, diagnosed as suicidal and homicidal. Five years later, I became an RN and began to help other guys to clean up their act.
2007-11-11 14:38:01 · answer #6 · answered by oldsalt 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
when i almost lost my job and i was broke and i most importantly i was in danger of loosing my child and didn't even realize it. once i was squatting over a toilet that was too nasty to sit on in a house that didn't have real furniture and a roach crawled across the toe of my $300 boots. we had been waiting for hours on dope to come through. i knew at that moment that i was at the bottom but it still took me a little while to crawl back up...i had started to HATE the way they made me feel
2007-11-11 14:33:44 · answer #7 · answered by mp3 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I did not get struck sober at my first meeting. It took three suicide attempts in the three days before I came into my last first AA meeting to get my attention. The last time I introduced myself as a newcomer, nobody clapped. I will celebrate 23 tears of borrowed time next Monday.
2007-11-11 15:10:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
i hit rock bottom when alcohol started to take over my life, and when i was drinking i was making a fool out of myself and hurting myself. when i had let alcohol take over me to the point that i couldnt even recognize who i was and had given such a bad impression of me
2007-11-11 14:30:16 · answer #9 · answered by Kika 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
the nite i was arested i in truth hit it befor that i just could not see it do to the fog i allmost lost my house twice in one year i never paid my bills on time i had the shakes evrey morning it goes on for every but now i am clean and sober thankes to AA and my higher power
2007-11-12 03:59:59 · answer #10 · answered by irish_matt 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋