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re: Anyone here in Alcoholics Anonymous IRL?
Posted on 8/7/23 at 7:27 pm to exiledhogfan
Posted on 8/7/23 at 7:27 pm to exiledhogfan
G.O.D. = Group Of Drunks. Let the meeting be your power if need be, group conscious is a lot better than a single alcoholics judgement.
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Posted on 8/7/23 at 7:52 pm to Arthur Bach
Yes. Almost 5 years now. I actually started a thread on my way to rehab 
I had to medically detox off of alcohol. I was fricking miserable and couldn’t stop. Didn’t want to drink but I felt too bad when I didn’t. I broke that cycle and got help. I go to my home group meeting every week and have close friends in sobriety today. I still hangout with my friends that drink, I just don’t anymore. I can’t do it like a normal person. I tried for years. Best decision I ever made. Saved my marriage, career and had my first and last child at 40.
I had to medically detox off of alcohol. I was fricking miserable and couldn’t stop. Didn’t want to drink but I felt too bad when I didn’t. I broke that cycle and got help. I go to my home group meeting every week and have close friends in sobriety today. I still hangout with my friends that drink, I just don’t anymore. I can’t do it like a normal person. I tried for years. Best decision I ever made. Saved my marriage, career and had my first and last child at 40. 
Posted on 8/7/23 at 8:04 pm to Arthur Bach
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Anyone here in Alcoholics Anonymous
Posted on 8/7/23 at 8:05 pm to Arthur Bach
Used to be
Posted on 8/7/23 at 8:16 pm to dukke v
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dukke
PJ, you don’t seem to post in the same manic posting style that you used to. It appears that quitting the bottle has given you more peace. Good for you man!
Posted on 8/7/23 at 8:29 pm to supadave3
This right here. Doing it now. I dont like groups AA is not for me.
If you suddenly change to vodka for no good reason, especially cheap vodka, your about to enter a whole world of hurt and bodily destruction.
If you suddenly change to vodka for no good reason, especially cheap vodka, your about to enter a whole world of hurt and bodily destruction.
Posted on 8/7/23 at 8:34 pm to Lefty Diego
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Doing it now. I dont like groups AA is not for me.
Court ordered?
Posted on 8/7/23 at 8:49 pm to jizzle6609
None of all this matters unless YOU want to stop. Do it for yourself and not for someone else. I’ve found out the hard way that when I was forced to stop it didnt work… I’m at 22 months now with zero meetings. For me it’s mind over matter. I quit this time for MY well being not to please someone else. Once the withdraws went away( about 2 months), the results of me staying sober started to unfold.. everyone started liking me again and it has saved my marriage and my relationship with my daughter and the grand kids… I thank the lord every night for giving me the strength to make it through that day sober. My life could not be better than it is right now. I’ve gained 90 lbs since I quit and am in great shape… for everyone out there, it’s fricking hard to do. I was drinking at 8 in the morning and was out of it by 3 and was unable to be there for my sick spouse. Now I am available 24/7…. Sorry post is do long…
Posted on 8/7/23 at 9:14 pm to dukke v
First, there are some really inspirational stories on here and thanks for sharing especially with the occasional OT a-hole comments. I practice addiction medicine now and AA can be very helpful but you might have to go to a few different meetings before you find the right one. An example is a 70 year old Lady started going to an AA meeting near her house and she said it was OK. We talked and she was going to the Project Lazarus on St Claude. Good Group but the majority are LGBQT so we found her one at a church a little farther away that she has done well in.
Posted on 8/7/23 at 9:24 pm to Lithium
AA beats OPP all day every day!! 
Posted on 8/7/23 at 9:26 pm to Lithium
There ya go LITH…. 
Posted on 8/7/23 at 9:27 pm to Mud_Bone
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Ummmmmm……..the FIRST RULE OF AA
“What you see here, what you hear here, let it stay here.”
Had a couple court-ordered meetings to go to in my early 20s. Made me realize quickly that I am not an alcoholic.
Posted on 8/7/23 at 9:29 pm to grizzlylongcut
Oh really???? Ok need details on why the court order.
Posted on 8/7/23 at 9:42 pm to Lefty Diego
I guess misunderstood. I’m doing cheap vodka. Not AA.
Posted on 8/7/23 at 9:59 pm to whit
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I had to medically detox off of alcohol. I was fricking miserable and couldn’t stop. Didn’t want to drink but I felt too bad when I didn’t.
I understand that. Did you go somewhere and get help, or do it by yourself?
Posted on 8/7/23 at 10:08 pm to gizmothepug
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I understand that. Did you go somewhere and get help, or do it by yourself?
I went to a 90 day treatment center.
Posted on 8/7/23 at 10:18 pm to lsunatchamp
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Binges = drink till you pass out, wake up and the first thing you do is drink some more whiskey
Vodka was my poison. 7 years sober this past June. A sip of alcohol would wreck my life in 3 days max.
Posted on 8/7/23 at 10:24 pm to whit
Ok. If it’s not to personal can you say where you went?
Posted on 8/7/23 at 10:32 pm to gizmothepug
I went to Palmetto in north Louisiana.
Eta: cabin 5
Eta: cabin 5
This post was edited on 8/7/23 at 10:35 pm
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