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Re: Alcoholics Anonymous (Come and share thread) [Re: Thayendanegea] * 8
    #23096277 - 04/08/16 08:42 AM (7 years, 9 months ago)

Hi all!

Shane - sorry you're not in a good place. It's not permanent - I promise! :hug:

Today is day 90 for me.

3 FREAKING MONTHS!

Tomorrow, day 91, will be the longest I've gone without alcohol in almost 20 years.

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Alcoholics Anonymous * 6
    #22559523 - 11/22/15 12:50 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Online copy of the AA Big Book: http://www.aa.org/pages/en_US/alcoholics-anonymous


Let us open the meeting with a moment of silence to do with as you wish followed by the Serenity Prayer:

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot
change,
Courage to change the things I can, and
Wisdom to know the difference.

Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience,
strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to
recover from alcoholism.
The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking.
AA is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution; does not
wish to engage in any controversy; neither endorses nor opposes any causes.
Our primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety.

How It Works

Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path. Those who do
not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this
simple program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being
honest with themselves. There are such unfortunates. They are not at fault; they seem
to have been born that way. They are naturally incapable of grasping and developing a
manner of living which demands rigorous honesty. Their chances are less than average.
There are those, too, who suffer from grave emotional and mental disorders, but many
of them do recover if they have the capacity to be honest.

Our stories disclose in a general way what we used to be like, what happened, and what
we are like now. If you have decided you want what we have and are willing to go to
any length to get it — then you are ready to take certain steps.
At some of these we balked. We thought we could find an easier, softer way. But we
could not. With all the earnestness at our command, we beg of you to be fearless and
thorough from the very start. Some of us have tried to hold on to our old ideas and the
result was nil until we let go absolutely.

Remember that we deal with alcohol – cunning, baffling, powerful! Without help it is too
much for us. But there is One who has all power – that One is God. May you find Him
now!

Half measures availed us nothing. We stood at the turning point. We asked His
protection and care with complete abandon.
Here are the steps we took, which are suggested as a program of recovery:

The Twelve Steps
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our
wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure
them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we
understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that
out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message
to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Many of us exclaimed, “What an order! I can’t go through with it.” Do not be
discouraged. No one among us has been able to maintain anything like perfect
adherence to these principles. We are not saints. The point is, that we are willing to
grow along spiritual lines. The principles we have set down are guides to progress. We
claim spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection.

Our description of the alcoholic, the chapter to the agnostic and our personal
adventures before and after make clear three pertinent ideas:
(a) That we were alcoholic and could not manage our own lives.
(b) That probably no human power could have relieved our alcoholism.
(c) That God could and would if He were sought.


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Re: Alcoholics Anonymous (Come and share thread) [Re: JustForToday] * 6
    #22560432 - 11/22/15 04:27 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

remove the GOD and it might be a useful thread to some. I have wanted to go to some AA or NA meetings before but I will never for the simple fact that they

throw GOD at you.


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Re: Alcoholics Anonymous (Come and share thread) [Re: TheFakeSunRa] * 6
    #23992095 - 01/08/17 10:48 AM (7 years, 21 days ago)

Day 365

I could not have done this without you guys. I am so so soooooo grateful for each and every one of you.

Bunny hugs to all!!!!

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Re: Alcoholics Anonymous (Come and share thread) [Re: Apostle] * 5
    #24523930 - 08/02/17 12:27 AM (6 years, 5 months ago)

Today I have one year sober :heartpump::sunny:


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Re: Alcoholics Anonymous (Come and share thread) [Re: TrippieHunter] * 4
    #22560999 - 11/22/15 07:06 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Quote:

TrippieHunter said:
remove the GOD and it might be a useful thread to some. I have wanted to go to some AA or NA meetings before but I will never for the simple fact that they

throw GOD at you.




Thanks for sharing. I am not trying to push a God agenda. 2nd step specifically states you got to have a power greater than yourself to restore you sanity. Call it whatever you want. There has got to be something out there greater that will help relieve a person of their alcoholism. Sometimes people just say the universe. The universe is in fact greater than all of us. And we don't even understand it. 3rd step says, We made a decision to turn our will and lives over to the care of God AS WE UNDERSTOOD HIM. That last part is underlined and emphasis because most of us who come into the rooms of AA didn't come to find God, THANK GOD!


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Re: Alcoholics Anonymous (Come and share thread) [Re: Anonymous #3] * 4
    #23066863 - 03/31/16 11:28 AM (7 years, 9 months ago)

Use whatever your conception of a power greater than yourself is...Some call it God, one of my friends calls it Gus...Great universal spirit.

AA is in no way a religious program....it is, however, a spiritual one. Some people use Good orderly direction...G.o.d. as a start or "group of drunks" even as a power greater than themselves.


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Re: Alcoholics Anonymous (Come and share thread) [Re: Thayendanegea] * 4
    #23097063 - 04/08/16 12:59 PM (7 years, 9 months ago)

Just wanted to share I am sober 2 years today



Before sobriety and after!!


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Re: Alcoholics Anonymous (Come and share thread) [Re: Thayendanegea] * 4
    #25733777 - 01/09/19 11:48 AM (5 years, 20 days ago)

3 years Alcohol Free today!!! Also 2 years amphetamine free!


:snowman:

Couldn't have done it w/o you guys - especially at the beginning!

Still find my early posts in this thread talking about how I was going to be able to moderate my drinking hysterical :rolf:


Sobriety rocks!


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Re: Alcoholics Anonymous (Come and share thread) [Re: Thayendanegea] * 4
    #25793180 - 02/05/19 04:03 PM (4 years, 11 months ago)

5 months today. Been pretty easy this time around. Maybe i'm just over it.


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Re: Alcoholics Anonymous (Come and share thread) [Re: TheFakeSunRa] * 4
    #25875500 - 03/15/19 10:05 AM (4 years, 10 months ago)

March 14th, 1999 was the date of my last drink. I was shaking in a jail cell after just having got out of jail 2 weeks before.. and had that moment of clarity that they talk about. I wanted to stop drinking and I was willing to go to any length to do it.....finally.
This was the day that I first asked God to help me.
I don't normally celebrate anniversaries because I am a firm believer in the fact that (all any of us have is today)but this is 20 yrs without a drink for a hopeless drunk...

AA really does work but you have to put up your end.:sunny::peace:


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Re: Alcoholics Anonymous [Re: vinsue] * 4
    #26700441 - 05/27/20 08:58 PM (3 years, 7 months ago)

Hi friends!

I haven't been checking in here very often but I have been staying sober! I now have 4 1/2 years free of alcohol, and about 3 years clean from hard stimulants. I hope that everyone has been staying as safe and healthy and sane as possible.

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Re: Alcoholics Anonymous (Come and share thread) [Re: Asante] * 4
    #27290336 - 05/02/21 12:13 PM (2 years, 8 months ago)

Thursday was twelve weeks without alcohol for me. It's the longest I've gone without the sauce in a decade.


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Re: Alcoholics Anonymous [Re: JustForToday] * 4
    #28517649 - 10/25/23 11:33 AM (3 months, 2 days ago)

I drank, often heavily, for about 25 years or so.
I had my last drink in 2016.

Officially I have not quit. If I want a drink I'll have one but the idea disgusts me and I found that was the case well before I had my last beverage. So unofficially I'm done with it. I hated what it did to my ability to make intelligent choices. I hated how it affected my judgement and my relationships and health and bank account.

I hated how it clouded my mind to the point that I thought people who I was drinking with were allies or friends and I didn't realize that we were fellow addicts using one another to justify choices that we all knew, individually, were bad for us and those around us.

I really enjoyed some aspects of it. Brewing my own beer, for example, was something I love and I respect the art and science it involves still today.

I was doing temp work in Idaho a few years back and was assigned to a distillery and I found that after a couple of shifts that I just wasn't comfortable working for them. It felt like I was in a meth lab working on making something that exploits human weakness. The distillery kept calling me and trying to hire me permanently. I declined. The people who worked there all seemed pretty nice though, I like that. They were like a family.

Many of the people I know and even some I live with drink. We often have alcohol in the house but I remember that life and I also remember that I can't remember all of it because of blackouts I had. Too often I needed to ask people who were with me what I did. Nothing bad happened but I was very uncomfortable with not having memories of what I was doing when I drank.

Drinking took away the best parts of me from my loved ones during the most important times in our relationships. It messed up my being a father and it harmed every single relationship I ever had. I could not be there for anyone because I was there for the alcohol and though I thought it was there for me, it wasn't. I was a slave who thought that the very thing that was enslaving me was liberating me. It did tremendous damage to my ability to understand myself, those around me and what was actually important. I missed or failed to appreciate a lot of my adult life and am deeply ashamed of that on a personal level.

I started thinking about my drinking and realized I had a choice. I could keep going down the same path and let it continue to corrupt my heart and mind and body until I died or I could stop choosing to drink. I started drinking less to avoid the shakes and then got to the point that I stopped getting them altogether. I haven't bought or had a drink since.

I used to attend meetings and listen, before I quit.

I knew people who went pretty often as well and they would tell themselves and others that to quit drinking everyone needs supernatural help. None of these people I went to meetings with actually stopped drinking. Some of them, now, have already drank themselves to death and are no longer with us. All of them tried to stop and made it for days, or weeks, or months sometimes, before they made the choice to drink again. Often out of this idea that they will be triggered into drinking, that they should expect it to happen and that it was all part of the process of recovery. I have yet to see this approach have good success rate in the people I know, though I understand that for many people this is the only approach they know to try to deal with their addiction. I wish them luck.

As I mentioned above, in my mind I have the option of drinking still, in my head I have not actually quit but I am also well aware that drinking is not something I want to do. I also know that I am the kind of person who rarely stops at one drink. Sure I was able to have a drink or two a day at many points in my life, but most of the time I would get off of work and then drink until I passed out of worse I blacked out. I also partied a lot with other people who drank, often, with no real purpose other than finding a reason to drink.


I've faced other addictions as well.
I used meth for awhile.
I was addicted at one time to cocaine.
I was addicted to opiates as well.
During the height of some of that addiction I went to several NA and AA meetings. The message there was the same, that I can't stop unless I have paranormal help. I even believed it to be true at the time but just kept using.

I haven't touched any addictive drugs, other than caffeine, for several years now. I don't miss any of it or the lifestyle, nor the culture that addiction tends to involve.

Looking back on my past doesn't make me miss these drugs or their effects. It deeply saddens me that I gave so much of who and what I was to alcohol and drugs. I lost so much potential and opportunity because of my choices to use and the choices I made when I was using. I am now the sad shadow of the person I could have been. 

I think drugs should be legal and that it is immoral to criminalize addiction and drug use. I know that the war on drug addicts, which is what the war on drugs actually is, approach doesn't work and it causes tremendous harm to society, to addicts and to their loved ones. It just makes things worse and escalates the harm exponentially. It is also a way that the justice system makes money by exploiting addiction using fines and through the confiscation of drug money and valuable property. The system promotes drug use with one hand, including with informants who sell drugs with legal immunity, so that a steady supply of addicts can be targeted by the system with the other hand. This approach in not new either, the East India Trading company also sold opium while it profited from criminalizing it and enforcing laws against it. This two faced war on drugs approach we have today is thus not a new problem, it is one that is several hundred years old. Rehab is also a multi-billion dollar industry. Drug use and addiction are exploited for profit by those who claim to oppose it.

I think that sometimes approaches which are known to have very low success rates are used in rehab and people are sent to them by court order because it is known that many of them will return and continue to stay in the system and be a source of income to rehabs and the justice system. I think it is a rigged system concerned with profit... not recovery.

But this is just is my experience, observation and opinion formed from them. I know that there are people for whom such rehab and recovery services have worked for and there are those who clearly benefit from attending them. I am not one of those people and I know that quite well from experience.

Still... I am proud of anyone and everyone who can face their addiction and work towards sobriety and recovery, no matter what approach they take.

But I admit... if you tell me that I cannot quit using without help from a higher power it makes me want to slap you in the face and call you certain names. I haven't had a drink in 7 years. Believing in myself is a huge part of that.

Sorry about how personally offensive this might be to some people.
That is not my intention.
I wanted to share my experience with addiction and recovery and now I have.


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Re: Alcoholics Anonymous [Re: TheFakeSunRa] * 4
    #28530933 - 11/05/23 05:17 PM (2 months, 21 days ago)

Just wanted to let y’all know today I have 1 year, 9 months and 18 days.

I spent a decade on heroin, shit was killing me and I have a new lease on life. I made so many mistakes but I have the chance to make some of them right.

I’m always here if anyone wants to talk about sobriety.

Shoot me a pm. :pm:


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Re: Alcoholics Anonymous (Come and share thread) [Re: Roostertail] * 3
    #22604524 - 12/02/15 03:03 PM (8 years, 1 month ago)

Mark, alcoholic.
I think Shane did a nice job setting this up. This program saved my life and made it worth living....that is the absolute truth.
I try to live the steps to the best of my ability ("try" being key) on a daily basis.
I stay active in AA and institution work...I figure...If someone came to see my sorry ass in jail, I could return the favor.
I got sober in march of 99 and can't say life has been a gem through the years...life is life, good and bad..but with AA, i can navigate the storms rather than avoiding them with drugs and alcohol.
I love what I have today and cherish that above anything money could buy.....I have "peace of mind". If anyone questions whether AA is for them or not....it's simple...lol..Have you tried everything else yet?..AA is usually the last house on the left, so to speak...because it requires actual change in thinking and in behavior. None of us want to let go of that.

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Re: Alcoholics Anonymous (Come and share thread) [Re: Thayendanegea] * 3
    #23015887 - 03/17/16 08:27 AM (7 years, 10 months ago)

Just found this thread, right on time, too.
:congrats: on 17 years.
This will be long (kinda a Step 5 thang) so :goodmorning:

Happy St. Patricks day, a holiday that's mostly about getting shitfaced these days.
This will be my 3rd one in a row without the drink.:irishtoast:
Before that, I was that guy, wearing lot's O Green, already :faded:,
with pints in every pocket at 10AM on my way to the NYC parade.
I've taken off work, without pay, to drink on this holiday.
This is me 15? years ago. (I found that sweatshirt on a demo job site, FTW:rockon:)


I'm Vince, an alcoholic and drug addict, though I don't really admit to the addict part,
reason justification excuse  being that
I quit :syringe:heroin, coke, most pills back when I was 25 or so,
and I don't use psychs much, I was just a beer drinking pothead:hippie:and I kinda like Kratom lately.

I was drinking at 6 or 8, Pops always had a case of

Parents had lots of card party's and by helping fetch or clear drinks,
I could score free sips.
In 1969 I found my brothers pot stash. I was 12.Started huffing stuff, too.
I quickly learned that by dealing drugs, my drugs were free, plus
the money, then the power then the bitches.:pimp:
Had a pharmacist hook up for anything, he loved the pot.:smirk:
I searched my PDR for new pills and placed an order.:grin:
I've had pharm coke right from the bottle.
I'll leave the junkie stuff out, but I'm  still kinda proud of not ODing, in some wierd way.
This was happening when John Belushi ODed.

Alcohol was always there, though especially during the dreaded pot droughts, lol.
I ran hard until I went to prison for 13 months for slingin' meth.
( I love that word 'slinging', thats some newskool shit)
24 years old. I lost my 6 year Union job with Amtrak.:ashamed:

Found work doing Asbestos removal right when that industry was starting.
Was married 7 years, then divorced.
I drank every day throughout my 23 year career, weed was always there,
plus a lot of coke. I was a successful supervisor. Not much drug testing then except Fed. jobs.
I could still be working for CDI (imploding buildings)if not for the drink.:facepalm:


Injuries, knee and foot surgery and I stopped working and really started drinking last 10 years or so.
Here's my first feeble attempt.
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/22255012#22255012

My sober last drink was Jan. 3,2014, right before I left for 28 day rehab/detox. Wife said go there or GTFO:crankey:
I was done, beatup, sick, pitiful really, plus I had to be sober 6 months to even start any hep C treatment,
something that really needed attention.

I got on medicaid, got multiple doctors and dentists fixin' me, and am now virus free(that 1 anyway:uhoh:),
still feel like shit most days, but I know a drink won't fix that.

I recently quit (ran out of) kratom(1 year use), quitting tobacco off and on, cutting back on(running out of) the pot.
My head's been really off lately...had a panic attack over nothing, crazy mood swings,
hyper sensitive to light reflections, shadows, certain sounds and smells.
I actually got a psych referral from my doc 'cause I've just been feeling way too crazy lately.
(1st available date is Cinco de mayo, another drinkin' holiday) :doublefacepalm:

I have almost ALL the symptoms of PAWS, which I haven't had in over a year,
and sometimes it's pretty bad/strong/whatever.:wtf:
Even my last few 3g. trips were kinda meh...:shrug:

I know I've sacrificed some brain cells along the way,
especially some of the developing ones before I went to jail.
I always liked to over do it.

The wife( who has experienced my insanity throuh good and bad 20+ years:heart:)
actually just refilled an old script she had for prozac so I'm trying that until I see my shrink.
Most important thing is, even with all this BS, I didn't reach for a drink.
I thought about it a few times, but I couldn't throw out 2+ years.

I'm gonna go put on some bagpipe music now and cry a bit(a good cry) and then maybe some Poughes...:irish:
Stay sober my friends especially today, maybe do something kind today...:hug: . . . :peace:


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Re: Alcoholics Anonymous (Come and share thread) [Re: Capybara1] * 3
    #23081761 - 04/04/16 09:09 AM (7 years, 9 months ago)

Well made it 5 days so far taking THayendanegeas advice and just focusing on one day at a time. Went to a meeting yesterday it wasn't bad I'll try and go back next Sunday. I can't believe how good I feel


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Re: Alcoholics Anonymous (Come and share thread) [Re: starsky7] * 3
    #23150461 - 04/24/16 03:18 PM (7 years, 9 months ago)

I'm an alcoholic named John,
I haven't gotten on the shroomery in months but I'm sittin outside and thought I'd get on here and try searching "alcoholics anonymous" cause i remembered seeing JustForToday's posts, and then this thread popped up! Pretty cool.

I'm 34 days sober today, my third round in AA in the past 9 years. I had a sponsor and worked the steps both times before, made it almost 3 years then almost 2 years. The last few months of sobriety each time I started trying to run the show again and stopped going to meetings. Then the "good ideas" came along and I kept them too myself. The first relapse started with the idea I could just smoke pot, a week later I was getting black out drunk. The second relapse I thought "well I'm turning 21 maybe I can drink a beer or two like a normal person now" that turned into nearly 4 years of daily drinking.

My last night drinking I closed out a local bar and got some limes from the bartender to make some tea. Being real drunk I threw in a little more PE than I usually would and split the tea with two buddys. I passed out on the come up, came to around 3:30am and got back to drinking. I used shrooms frequently to extend my drinking or allow me to drink more. That night they gave me a moment of clarity around 4:30am, I was fucked up but didn't feel any better. The void was just as empty as it had been that morning when I got started. I cracked another beer but didn't want to drink it. I woke up the next morning and took one more hit of weed. Then after walking around a park for a few hours I hit a meeting. Since that first meeting back I've haven't had to drink or use, one day at a time, thanks to the program, fellowship, and primarily my HP.

I've been going to as many meetings as I can, at least one a day but 3 or 4 if I have the day off work. I got my old sponsor back and got a service position at a ypaa meeting. I'm so fucking happy to have another chance at sobriety, I was so used to waking up hungover that I forgot what it's like to wake up energized and happy! I know I'm on that pink cloud but I'm diggin it.

During some of the loneliest periods of my drinking I would sit on the shroomery for hours reading grow teks, reading funny threads (homeboy who did an a/b on his piss and smoked it haha) and occasionally posting some shit. This site and you other members helped me not feel so alone. It's really cool to see other people in recovery on here. Thank you for starting this thread Shane, I'll definitely be visiting more often!


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Re: Alcoholics Anonymous (Come and share thread) [Re: ReposadoXochipilli] * 3
    #23722271 - 10/09/16 01:34 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

I finished my taper, although I could have been more aggressive with it and finished earlier. I've got 3 days sober now!


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