Comments on: Beat Alcoholism with Positive Thinking

By: Azriels Requiem

Azriels Requiem — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 19:41:02 +0000

I agree to a certain point. I gave up habitual, excuse finding drinking for a while. I was given a glass of wine at a christmas do and given my previous abstinent attitude I drank it and I am back to drinking 1 month later and for the past 7 months I drink 1/2 to 1 bottles of vodka every 3 days. Please tell me what you can do for me that I cant

By: TRINA

TRINA — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:53:51 +0000

Hi im Trina i have been drinking on and off since 17 years old im 34 now going on 35. for the past few years i have been binge drinking and can no longer control myself when i drink. Half of the time i feel conscious of what im doing and the other half i dont know what ive done or feel like i dont care what i do. Its like something inside me is forcing me to destroy myself with alcohol or behavior. I have gone to rehab but as soon as i feel better i get this incredible urge to drink. This time i will beat it. i have been sober for 11 days now and im doing it on my own. For me its more empowering i believe. I think it helps to look at alcohol like its a disease or an entity that is trying to get you in any way. Trying to make its way back into your life to rear its ugly head. If i look at it like that im competitive so i will win. I also pray for help and strength from God during the time i feel so helpless and so triggered to drink. I know i will be able to drink normally again. but for now i have to go over the bringing down my tolerance and dependence and deal with issues that im hiding from sober. Because lets face it people Everyone drinks to alter their feelings some for good feelings, some to hide bad feelings, and some to escape from themselves. I do like this site and hope people will continue to share we all suffer from a disease that we will all beat. COME ON LETS DO THIS LETS BEAT IT. ARENT WE TIRED OF THE UGLY GUILTY, SAD, FEELINGS THE NEXT DAY YET. I AM

By: shirl

shirl — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:04:14 +0000

I feel so for you. I know the feeling that your husband gives you, but you must remember there were good qualities you married him for. I’m sure he has issues, but hopefully you can learn to change what you can and accept what you cannot. I am married to a pessimist and someone that critisized me all my married life for not living up to standards of some sort. Don’t know exactly what that was, lol, but I’ve tried hard to learn to get past that. I’m sure I’m not easy to live with, but for 34 years he’s stuck by me, right or wrong. I try to look at that. And, yes I’m alcoholic. Worst i’ve ever been last five years. Your story moved me. I hope the best for you because I see myself in your description of your life. Good luck.

By: ShannON

ShannON — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 16:40:36 +0000

H, I am 41 has been a binge drinker for awhile. I started a treatment center and started taking naltroxene and it helps however my 10 year old is hurting from the past. Yes stll have a bottle a wine once aweek but i dont get drunk., and i feel so bad for my son. Before i would start and couldnt stop until was drunk now i can have one or two but my son is still hurting.I think he is afraid if have one I may get drunk. if anyone is in same stuation pls let me know

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:27:31 +0000

Go CJ ;O)

By: CJ

CJ — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:26:08 +0000

feeling much more positive about everything now. the past has happened- ther is nothing you can do about the past.
but the future is upto me and it’s upto you as well.
I’m not going to make alcohol the demon in my life controlling me. anymore.

By: CJ

CJ — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:29:21 +0000

For the past 6 years, I have struggled with alcohol. I don’t wake up feeling like I need a drink, so I never faced up to the fact that that doesn’t mean I don’t have a problem with it. I have nights where I don’t rememeber anything. At uni, this was the norm and it wasn’t unusual behaviour- everyone seemed to be doing it… but I would act so stupidly, the next day I would still hit major depression and hatred of myself. I would have good nights out where I feel I can handle the drink, I’d come home with good stories and everything feels alright. then the next night I would have one (or more) drinks too many and I’d turn into a completely different often horrible horrible person. I have alienated many friends but have always couselled myself that they mustnt have been real friends to start with. I’ve pushed them away because I feel too guilty to be around them. I hate who I become when i have too many drinks and the worst thing is I don’t remember so I can’t stop myself when i go too far. Every year on my birthday I resolve to be more sensible around drink, “another new year, I will act better, i will be better” and then when I fail at this I feel even worse. This year, 2010, I was doing really well… i would watch what I would drink. But a few weeks ago, I went out with an old friend of mine- who likes vodka- and i was drinking heavily but having a good time… next thing I know I wake up with bruises over my knees, elbow, sore head and it felt like i had broken my thumb (i hadnt but it was really sore) and I didn’t remember a thing. So i stopped drinking. I hated myself for what had happened, for not remembering, for drinking too much. I was ok for 2 weeks, but then i went out with another friend, having a good time and I really thought I was doing ok with drink, only having a few pints. Next thing i know I wake up and my boyf tells me i acted like a complete idiot, I turned into a complete b*tch. I cried in his arms and he forgave me. But I fell into a saddness again and have tried to pick myself up again. I feel more resolved now to kick this. I don’t want to drink anymore but i am really scared of failing myself again. For 6 years, I have kidded myself I don’t have issues with drink, that I can just hav a few and I am fine. Which some of the time I am… but i can’t risk losing what I have in my life and pushing more people away. How can I make myself strong enough to live life without drink? The whole world is drinking, I see people drinking on tv, in the pub next door and i think to myself, how can they be ok and I can’t? Why do I have to act like I do? My boyf said he can’t trust me when I drink… I think if i fail again, he will leave me and I really will not be able to deal with that. I need to feel stronger in myself.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:32:08 +0000

I have just stumbled accross this website and can’t explain how it feels to be in the same boat as others.
I have been drinking for 4-5 years at every opportunity and really try to stop it.
My way of dealing with it at the moment is to run out of money on purpose so I can’t buy the poison.
I am waiting for cognative theoropy which cant come to soon.
I have lost my partner of 7 years and little boy partly because of lieing over drinking.
There is nothing worse than lieing to yourself!..Beleive me I know

By: Maria

Maria — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:30:45 +0000

This is a wonderful subject that goes into the very core of the concept of being successful and happy. Positive thinking is positive information that can takes us wherever we want to be. Our possibilities are endless if we turn off our fears and doubts and start thinking constructively. We need to visualize our dreams and they will come true.

By: Ezra

Ezra — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:55:15 +0000

I became a binge drinker after trying to stop heavy daily drinking where I was always a bit drunk but never unaware of what was going on around me. Since I started bingeing, mainly to drink as much as I can and as quickly as possible secretly, things have become very difficult; I lost my driving license and my job within 2 days of each other. I had hypnotherapy and stopped altogether for about 9 months and recently started again to see if stopping had helped; I pretty much failed completely and have spent most of the last month an a bender somwehere. I wondered if anyone had found a reliable way to limit drinking or whether when you’ve ‘crossed the line’ your drinking days are truly over?
I have taken Kudzu for example but after about a day of drinking forget to take anyway.