Functional Alcoholic Signs
It’s so tricky to diagnose that I had friends telling me I couldn’t be alcoholic, even though I knew I was.
It’s so tricky to diagnose that I had friends telling me I couldn’t be alcoholic, even though I knew I was.
When I first quit drinking, I had a friend in AA that would wish ‘pitiful and incomprehensible demoralization’ on his drinking buddies.
Some people just naturally know what their NRT is. Do you?
How do you define ‘unmanageable’?
What do you want?
WHICH WAY?
Sick of the sprees (alcohol, drugs, food, sex, spending, gambling, etc) and wanting something other than defeating obsessions and thoughts of suicide…
I’m not loving you if I try to brush aside your tears
If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live…
There are many ways to lose yourself, many different paths promising a sense of euphoria, comfort or peace. They’re usually some form of spree…
A five-year-old’s birthday party set me on the path of spiritual destruction…
You don’t have to be an addict or even know one to take the 12 Steps
In fact, my lack of emotional sobriety happened long before the first taste of alcohol.
I no longer feel I have to ‘prove’ anything to you or to me
After cleaning out my wheelhouse I find I’m a little lonely…
December 31, 2012 Dear Me, I probably know less about you than some people and more than the casual observer, but I do know a few things: You love to […]
The visible me was a lie. The shadow me was reality.
There’s a lot of ‘holding’ going on during the last three points.
Can you find something that weighs on your mind?
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When I was drinking I drank to feel better. The trouble with that is: I could never just take one drink and be happy. Normal social drinkers can do that. […]
When I first got sober, and was recognizing my character defects of Step 4, one of the other women told me, You don’t have to put on a sandwich board […]
This is in response to the Normie question from my Saturday post. Most alcoholics have a desire to be unique. I thought I was unique because I was suicidal or […]
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